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Our Minnesota lawyers have appeared on CBS News, Fox News, KARE 11, KSTP 5, WCCO 4, and other news programs throughout the United States. They have also been interviewed by The StarTribune, The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Lawyers USA and others.

We provide our clients with exceptional service and strive to obtain the best possible recoveries.  We have recovered millions for car accident victims.

Our founding partner, attorney Fred Pritzker, has been practicing law for over 30 years. He is listed in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America, has again been named a “Top 100 Super Lawyer” by Minnesota Law & Politics magazine, and is a member of the Million Dollar Forum because he has obtained several settlements and verdicts over one million dollars.  Attorneys Elliot Olsen and Eric Hageman have also been named “Super Lawyers” by Minnesota Law & Politics for 2010.  Contact a Minnesota car accident lawyer at Pritzker Olsen.

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Toyota and Lexus Floor Mats Pose Crash Risk Says NHTSA

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today alerted Lexus and Toyota owners about conditions that could cause the accelerator to get stuck open under certain conditions. The agency strongly recommends taking out removable floor mats on the driver’s side in certain models and not to replace them with any other mat, either from Toyota [...]

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Fatal Minnesota Car Accident on Highway 8

Fatal Minnesota Car Accident on Highway 8

On August 12, a Minnesota car accident near Center City resulted in the death of at least one person.  According to the Minnesota State Patrol, a Plymouth Voyager was heading northbound on Pleasant Valley and ran the stop sign on the corner of Pleasant Valley and Highway 8.  The Plymouth crossed Highway 8 and struck [...]

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Drunk Driver Liability in MN: DWI NightCAP Arrests Up in July

Drunk Driver Liability in MN: DWI NightCAP Arrests Up in July

If the driver’s alcohol concentration is .08 or more, the driver is in violation of Minnesota Statute, Section 169A.  If someone violates this law, it is prima facie evidence of negligence in a civil case (Minnesota Statutes, Section 169.96 (2006)).  When a drunk driver is involved in an accident, people injured in the accident and [...]

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Fifth Person Dies In Crash Caused By Drunk

A fifth person has died from injuries suffered in a Minnesota fatal car accident caused by a drunken driver. Carter Newell, 2, of Rochester, died Friday. He was the son of 19-year-old Heidi Newell, who died in the crash last Saturday, May 23. That leaves only one survivor from the mini-van that was broadsided in an intersection [...]

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School Bus Accident Kills Minneapolis Pedestrian

The Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office is reviewing police reports for possible charges against a school bus driver who ran into and killed a pedestrian who was in a crosswalk and had a walk sign. The victim of Tuesday’s school bus accident near downtown Minneapolis has been identified as Theodore Q. Larson, 81, of Coon Rapids. According to [...]

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Felony Charges Filed Against Drunken Driver

Several charges of  criminal vehicular homicide have been filed against a 25-year-old Winona man who had been drinking before hitting a mini-van in Olmsted County, killing the van’s driver and three passengers. It was the worst of at least nine fatal accidents that occurred in Minnesota over Memorial Day weekend. Together, 12 people died. The driver [...]

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Eleven lives lost in Memorial Day Weekend Highway Accidents

Felony charges of criminal vehicular operation are pending against a 25-year-old Winona man whom the State Patrol says was drunk when the vehicle he was driving broadsided a van, killing four people and critically injuring two others. The accident Saturday was the worst of eight Minnesota fatal accidents that took place over Memorial Day weekend. [...]

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Minnesota Car Accident Death Results in Criminal Charges

A 66-year-old man from Crosslake, Minnesota, has been charged with felony criminal vehicular homicide in the death of 3-year-old Jack Larson. According to the Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Department, traffic on County Road 3 in Merrifield had stopped for Jack and other boys and girls to cross the street on Saturday. Sherman Frederick passed the stopped vehicles [...]

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Pedestrian Injured Badly By Car

The Anoka County Sheriff’s Office and State Patrol are investigating a Minnesota car-pedestrian accident that left a 62-year-old Mounds View man seriously injured. WCCO-TV reported that the accident happened about 10:30 p.m. Saturday in Spring Lake Park. The man, James Miller, was walking with a companion on the side of a service road along the 1600 block [...]

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Minnesota Fatal Accidents Haven’t Slowed

If the current rate of motor vehicle fatalities in Minnesota holds, the state Department of Public Safety (DPS) is projecting 440 Minnesota road deaths for 2009. If true, the results would be in line with the number of  Minnesota traffic fatalities last year — 456. In a press release this week, DPS said 104 people have died [...]

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