Simple Statistic, A Simple Scenario
In 2006, there were over 8,000 accidents involving tractor-trailers in Missouri and over 16,000 in Illinois. With the population of the U.S. increasing every year and the roadways becoming more crowded, the likelihood of having one of these encounters will increase as well. Just imagine, you and your loved ones are taking a leisurely Sunday drive or you’ve just packed up your car and started out on a family vacation. Then suddenly, your life changes forever. Your family sedan was t-boned by a tractor-trailer. The truck driver was just on his way back from a delivery and had decided to not stop and sleep for the length of time required by federal laws. He simply wanted to get home and you simply wanted to enjoy the rest of your life with your loved ones. Now, because of the truck driver’s negligence, you and your loved ones are dealing with massive amounts of medical debt because the injuries sustained in the accident have prevented you from going back to work. You can’t pay your credit card bills or house payment and are risking foreclosure. The phone calls from concerned family members and friends have steadily become outnumbered by phone calls from bill collectors and creditors concerned about their money. The insurance company involved with your claim has offered you a negligible sum of money for compensation and it doesn’t seem like it is willing to negotiate. You feel like you’ve reached the end of your financial and emotional rope and then…someone offers a helping hand: Castle Law.
Castle Law: Caring Professionals
The attorneys at Castle Law entered the legal profession with a common purpose: To provide the type of help to people that only lawyers can provide. Our overriding goal is to fight for our clients’ rights and obtain the type of relief that will enable them to begin piecing their lives back together and have been providing this service to the citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, Memphis, Tennessee, and Illinois for over 15 years. We realize that our clients are victims of someone else’s negligence and that it simply isn’t fair for everyone else to live normal productive lives while you are left to deal with the greed of automobile insurance companies.
There is one very simple fact that must be understood about insurance companies: They are only interested in protecting their shareholders profits. This means that insurance companies will do anything to deny you, or anyone, the just compensation that they deserve as a result of their accident. The companies will use their financial strength to wait your claim out – potentially a matter of years – until you cave in and take a low settlement. The automobile insurance companies know you need the money and will employ bad faith practices to make sure you get as little of it as possible.
At Castle Law, our attorneys courageously battle against the bad-faith tactics of insurance companies. Our attorneys are skilled litigators and are comfortable in the courtroom. We are familiar with the strategies of insurance companies and will fight to the bitter end to ensure that your rights are preserved and that you receive the just compensation that you deserve. As members of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, we are committed to justice and fairness and will see to it that your claim is given the time and attention that it deserves. Many larger firms treat their clients and cases like they are mere numbers, but at Castle Law we strive to ensure that you feel comfortable with your legal representation.
Do you feel like you’ve been through enough pain and suffering? Are you tired of waiting on the insurance company to offer the settlement that you deserve? Do you feel like you have been vulnerable long enough? Are you ready for change? You should be, because it is time for change. Whether you live in St. Louis, St. Charles, Jefferson County, Creve Coeur, Breckenridge Hills, the state of Illinois, or Memphis, Tennessee, you can team up with Castle Law and take the first steps to getting your life back! Call now for a free consultation.
What is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books.A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them Ñ colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.
About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into "reading" books.
To archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world, multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then transformed into text using "Optical Character Recognition" (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched. The problem is that OCR is not perfect.
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because most OCR programs alert you when a word cannot be read correctly.
But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct.
Currently, we are helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive and old editions of the New York Times.