Personal Injury News Articles
Simplicity Baby Crib Recall
Simplicity, Inc. announced a voluntary recall of about one million baby cribs made in China. The cribs' drop-side can detach from the crib, and create a gap that increases the risk of suffocation to infants.
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Class Action Lawsuits
One advantage of a class action lawsuit is that individual parties who could not otherwise afford the legal bills involved in seeking redress for a grievance can participate as plaintiffs.
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How Safe are U-Haul Trucks and Trailers?
An LA Times year-long investigation found that many of U-Haul's trucks had high mileage and that safety checks were often overdue.
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Bassettbaby Crib Recall
On November 8, 2007, Bassettbaby and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) jointly issued a press release announcing a voluntary recall of nearly 9,000 cribs sold exclusively at Babies "R" Us.
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Merck HIB Vaccine Recall
On December 11, 2007 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a recall of one million doses of Merck & Co.'s PedvaxHib and COMVAX vaccines.
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Recall of BAXTER HEPARIN Sodium Injection and Lock Flush Solution
On February 11, 2008, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Public Health Advisory to alert the public about reports of serious adverse events in patients who had received bolus injections of heparin sodium manufactured by the Baxter Healthcare Corporation.
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Dog Bite Laws in the USA
Laws covering dog bites are made up of a unique combination of case law (legal precedence resulting from specific lawsuits), state statutory law, and city and county ordinances.
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Defective Medtronic Defibrillator Leads
Implanted defibrillators are supposed to give an electric shock in the even that a patient's heart stops beating. Recently, these devices have been plagued with a number of deadly defects leading to recalls and restriction of sales.
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U.S. State Lemon Laws
Are you driving a lemon car, truck, SUV, motorcycle or boat? The state lemon laws could help you get rid of that lemon!
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Defective Products from China
Tainted and defective imports from China have been in the headlines all year, and the problem seems to be growing, or at least becoming more publicized, rather than improving.
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U.S State Seat Belt Laws
Most everyone would agree that protecting lives with seat belts is at least as important as a broken tail light or littering.
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U.S State Helmet Laws
Starting in the 1960s, the federal government began requiring states to implement motorcycle helmet laws in order to qualify for specific federal funding. Nearly all states enacted helmet laws by the early 1970s.
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Bicycle Defects
Bicyclists have small profiles on the road, travel more slowly, and are more exposed than other motorists. This makes bicyclists harder to be seen by drivers of other vehicles and more likely to be involved in a collision or accident resulting in serious injuries.
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SSRI Lawyers
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are a class of antidepressant medication prescribed for treating depression, anxiety disorders and some personality disorders including obsessive-compulsive disorder and eating disorders. These drugs are designed to elevate the level of the neurotransmitter serotonin. A low level of serotonin is one of several neurochemical symptoms of depression. Because serotonin is necessary to metabolize stress hormones, low levels of serotonin often result in anxiety disorders. SSRIs were first thought to be significantly safer than other anti-depressant medications; they were also thought to have fewer and less strong side effects and adverse interactions with other drugs.
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FDA Requests A Recall of Shelhigh Medical Devices
On April 17, 2007, U.S. Marshals seized all medical devices and components at Shelhigh, Inc.’s Union, New Jersey facility, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested that Shelhigh recall its products voluntarily after claiming to have found considerable deficiencies in its manufacturing processes.
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Police Chase
High-speed police pursuits pose an inherent risk of catastrophic injury and wrongful death. The number of police pursuits along with the number pursuit-related deaths and injuries are on the rise. As such, police chase accidents constitute an important public safety and law enforcement issue.
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Chemical Spills / Hazardous Material Releases Caused by Truck Accidents
Over 70 percent of tanker trucks on our highways are transporting hazardous materials such as gasoline, oil and radioactive chemicals. Even small accidents or other incidents involving these vehicles can cause immeasurable damage, including injury and death to other drivers and passengers, pedestrians, and residents nearby.
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Overloaded and Overweight-Caused Truck Accidents
Overloading a tuck can affect its braking and steering, leading to potentially fatal accidents. An overloaded truck goes slower on upgrades, faster on downgrades, and when the brakes are forced to work too hard, they may fail. In addition to straining the brakes, the additional weight stresses the tires, suspension, drive train, and cooling system. And if the weight of the trailer is greater than that of the towing vehicle, there is a great likelihood of a loss of control, especially when traveling downhill.
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Jackknife Accidents
Truck Accident Lawyers
Jackknifing occurs when the trailer of a tractor-trailer truck loses control, swings out, and forms an acute angle relative to the cab. It is usually caused by adverse road conditions, improper breaking, or equipment failure and should not be confused with “trailer swing” or “trailer slew”, which is when the trailer skids to one side but moves back in line as the vehicle continues moving forward.
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Tanker Truck Accident Lawsuits
Tanker trucks transport much needed bulk items such as petroleum products, chemicals, beverages, sugar solutions, dry flour, paints, plastic pellets, cement and radioactive materials. Tanker trucks vary greatly in size and purpose. Some are equipped to carry “tanktainers” allowing for intermodal transport. A tanktainer holds the tank within a frame so that a tank can quickly be moved from a ship to a railcar and onto a tanker truck, for example.
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Tractor Trailer Underride Accidents
An underride accident occurs when a passenger car, usually its front, collides with a large truck or the trailer of a tractor-trailer and runs under the truck or trailer. The undercarriage of a passenger car is usually less then 30 inches off the ground, whereas the bed of a tractor-trailer is typically over 45 inches above the ground. In an underride accident, the passenger car can go under the trailer, sometimes shearing off the roof and killing the occupants inside.
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Truck Accidents & Driving Under the Influence of Drugs & Alcohol
Truck drivers with a commercial driver license (CDL) are subject to drug and alcohol testing, and motor carriers who employ them are required to have a testing program. Despite this, a study of truck driver fatalities conducted in eight states by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) revealed that 33 percent of the sample of fatally injured drivers contained alcohol or psychoactive drugs in their blood systems. In 34 percent of the remaining fatally injured drivers, at least one other type of drug was detected.
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Truck Driver Fatigue / Hours-of-Service Rules
Large trucks haul the majority of freight transported in the U.S. In 2003, large trucks (also known as big rigs, tractor trailers, semis, and 18 wheelers) hauled over nine billion tons with revenues totaling $610 billion. Trucking revenues are expected to nearly double by 2015. This makes for a strong financial motive for truckers to drive longer hours with shorter breaks.
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Hospital Infections / Nosocomial Infections
Two million people, or one out of 20 patients, get an infection in U.S. hospitals each year and approximately 90,000 die as a result. Some of these infections are unavoidable as the last stage in a long illness, such as in elderly patients and those with immune systems weakened by AIDS or cancer.
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Emotional Damages Are Not Taxable
In a recent landmark decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held that compensatory damages for emotional distress and loss of reputation are not taxable. [ More ]
Traumatic Brain Injury & Substance Abuse
There are many ways that substance abuse can play a role in traumatic brain injury (TBI). The victim of a TBI may have been abusing alcohol or drugs prior to the injury, the substance abuse may have been the cause of the injury, or the victim may have begun abusing substances after sustaining the injury, or as a way to deal with the resulting pain.
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Hurricane Damage Insurance Claims & Bad Faith Denials
As businesses, it is no secret that insurance companies are out to make money. Denying insurance claims is one way to cut costs and improve the bottom line. But insurance companies also have a reputation to keep in order to remain in business and a responsibility to the communities in which they operate. Because of these conflicting priorities, an insurance company’s duties in exchange for compensation need to be explicitly outlined in a contract. Such a contract just happens to be your insurance policy, for which the insurance company receives premiums from you.
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Rollovers & Roof Crush
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced in 2005 that after adjusting for the increase of cars and drivers on the roads, fatalities on U.S. highways have decreased since 1972. But despite these findings, deaths and injuries attributed to rollovers and roof crushes have increased in the last three decades. This is due in part to the popularity of SUVs, which have a higher center of gravity than passenger cars, making them more susceptible to single-vehicle rollover accidents.
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Snowmobile Accidents
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, approximately 110 people die and over 13,000 people are seriously injured due to snowmobile accidents in the U.S. each year. About 40 percent of deaths are due to collisions with trees, bridges, wires and other snowmobiles. Other causes of snowmobile accident fatalities occur when the snowmobile enters water, usually while being operated on ice, or when the snowmobile rolls to its side in a ditch or stream, pinning the driver underneath.
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Spare Tire Recalls
Many of us recall the Ford/Firestone tire recalls of 2000 and 2001 after several SUV rollover injuries and deaths that took place in the late 1990s. The recalls were for Firestone Wilderness AT and Radial ATX tires primarily in Ford Explorers. Both Ford Motor Company and Bridgestone/Firestone blamed each other for the tire tread failures that resulted in the rollovers. By 2000, experts estimate that about 3000 catastrophic injuries and 250 deaths were attributable to the defective tires.
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Chemical Plant Explosions / Industrial Plan Explosions / Environmental Injury
Chemical plants and the chemicals they produce are generally much safer today than 22 years ago, when a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India released 40 metric tons of methyl isocyanate, killing thousands and injuring tens of thousands of people. The industrial accident, widely considered to be the worst in history, served as a wake-up call to the chemical industry worldwide. It was also an impetus for improving chemical plant safety, particularly in the U.S.
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False Arrest / Unlawful Detention
If you have been held against your will without a court order or without probable cause, you may be the victim of false arrest. Most false arrest cases are brought against retail stores and their security guards when they have detained someone for allegedly shoplifting. A law enforcement official, however, or for that matter anyone who unlawfully detains you against your will, can also be subject to a false arrest lawsuit.
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Warehouse Store Accidents
As warehouse-style superstores become ever more popular, they stack their merchandise ever higher. For both consumers and employees of these stores, this practice is often a tragedy waiting to happen and, in innumerable cases, has been happening for some time already.
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Brain Injury and Smoking Addiction
While scientists still know little about how specific parts of our brain affect our habits, a recent breakthrough in this area is revolutionizing addiction research and inspiring new ideas for addictive behavior treatment. The breakthrough involves a study in which stroke patients with an injury to a part of the brain near the ear, immediately and permanently broke their smoking habits.
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Sports Related Traumatic Brain Injury
Approximately 300,000 people in the U.S. receive concussions from sports injuries each year. About 25 percent of these concussions are suffered by high school students involved in contact sports. Over one third of college football players have had a concussion and about 20 percent have suffered multiple concussions.
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Brain Injury, Coma and Vegetative States
A severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is characterized by an object that is lodged in the brain for over 24 hours, or if the victim has lost consciousness for over half an hour. This article deals primarily with cases in which there is a state of prolonged unconsciousness or a coma that lasts for days, weeks, or months.
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Contaminated Food
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are about 76 million cases of food-borne illnesses in the United States each year. Most of these cases are mild and bring about symptoms for only a couple of days. But each year, food-borne diseases result in approximately 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths. The more serious cases tend to occur in very young or old people, in those with an illness that already compromises their immune system, and in healthy people inflicted with a high dose of an organism.
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How to Protect Yourself From Common Foodborne Illnesses
There are some simple precautions you can take in order to reduce the risk of contracting common foodborne illnesses when at home and when patronizing a restaurant.
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Common Foodborne Illnesses/Foodborne Diseases
The most widely recognized foodborne illnesses are those caused by the bacteria E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella, and Campylobacter, and by a group of viruses known as calcivirus, which are also called Norwalk and Norwalk-like viruses.
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For many of our personal injury clients, this is their first foray into the legal system.
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Farm Accident Injury Cases
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a national rate of 22.1 accident deaths per 100,000 workers, farming is among the top ten most dangerous occupations in the United States.
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Lemon Laws
Lemon law litigation can be complex in part because each case tends to be unique. An attorney who specializes in lemon law cases can help you determine if your case has merit.
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Castleberry Botulism Recall
On July 23, 2007, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advised once more that everyone check their kitchen shelves and throw out any of over 90 different canned goods produced at a plant linked to a botulism outbreak.
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