{"id":404,"date":"2015-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/here-we-go-again-another-snowstorm\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:29:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:29:27","slug":"here-we-go-again-another-snowstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/here-we-go-again-another-snowstorm\/","title":{"rendered":"Here we go again. Another snowstorm."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought that winter hasn&#8217;t been so bad with regard to snow, a major winter storm is bearing down on our region and threatens to bring at least a foot of snow before all is said and done on Tuesday. Indeed, we have had our share of snow this season, but since the last major snow storm before Christmas, things have been relatively light.<\/p>\n<p>That said, officials are telling people to stay off the roads, and <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/thousands-flights-canceled-ahead-major-winter-storm\/story?id=28481024\" target=\"_blank\">thousands of flights<\/a> across the northeast have been cancelled. Also we have written about safe travel in snowy weather as well as how to avoid ice missiles after a storm. With this post, we venture into the area of &#8220;Good Samaritan&#8221; laws.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, &#8220;Good Samaritan&#8221; laws are statutes that provide legal immunity to those who stop and help someone in distress. Normally, a person does not owe a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/car-accidents.html\">legal duty<\/a> to help someone (who is hurt or trapped, for example) absent some type of special relationship between the person in distress and the rescuer (i.e. a parent and child). However, once a person proceeds to rescue someone, he or she has a duty to continue, or to do so in a reasonable manner that would not put others in danger.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/here-we-go-again-another-snowstorm\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Here we go again. Another snowstorm.\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought that winter hasn&#8217;t been so bad with regard to snow, a major winter storm is bearing down on our region and threatens to bring at least a foot of snow before all is said and done on Tuesday. Indeed, we have had our share of snow this season, but since the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-accidents","tag-car-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Here we go again. Another snowstorm. &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; January 27, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here we go again. 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