Litigation
Sep. 6, 2013
And like that, a new cause of action
Taking the dangers of texting while driving to a new outer limit, a panel of judges in New Jersey ruled that a person who sends a text may be held liable for resulting damages. By Jacqueline Goodman
It's timely. It's sexy. Everybody's doing it. In a recent survey by AT&T, almost half of adults (49 percent) admitted to texting while driving, compared to a slightly smaller number of teens (43 percent). What this study illustrates is that about half of all survey subjects are liars, with teens edging out adults by a small but significant margin.
Texting while driving is the subject of a buzzing documentary: "...
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