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GAO to CPSC: Get A Better Plan To Protect Consumers

Posted on August 18, 2009
Cecelia Prewett of the American Association of Justice has written an interesting and informative article about the (lack of) effectiveness of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) at its job of protecting consumers. New GAO Report Concludes CPSC Needs Better Plan to Protect Consumers...

New York Indictments In Largest Ind entity Theft Involving 130 Million Credit/Debit Card Numbers

Posted on August 17, 2009
In a news release from Reuters to by Daniel Trotta the largest identity theft scam in U.S history was busted with three indictments today in New York City. Hold your breath: 130 million credit and debit card numbers are involved! Hot on the heels of Bernie Madoff and AIG, along comes another blockbuster involving hacking of corporate data...

Wiihabilitation Comes To Honolulu!

Posted on August 17, 2009
In 2007 Nintendo got the good news that its innovative Wii video game had been acknowledged by physical therapists as a tool in the health and rehabilitation of their patients. Nintendo Wii Adopted By Physical Therapists for Patients Despite all the stories that claim video games are corrupting our children, plenty of good news regarding video games is also surfacing lately, much of due to Nintendo's charge to expand its market to non gamers...

Maui Motorcycle Crash Leaves Lahaina Man In Critical Condition

Posted on August 17, 2009
I have written at length about the increasing statistics of death and injury to motorcycle riders in Hawaii. Motorcycle Deaths Skyrocket On Oahu Today a Lahaina man is fighting for his life after a motorcycle crash at Wainee Street and Dickenson street...

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Mail Scam Asks For Bank Account Information From Hilo Man

Posted on August 17, 2009
The arrived in the mail. The old fashioned mail not e-mail. It asked a Hilo man for bank account information and said they were looking for heirs in connection with a transfer of $15 million. The KGMB 9 report is quoted as saying: The letter asks the recipient to provide an account number...

Death Or Injury From Misdiagnosis Stories

Posted on August 16, 2009
I have written about the news story that is shaking the country: DEAD BY MISTAKE. Kudos to Hearst News for telling the truth to the public! Here are the stories behind DEAD BY MISTAKE. Mother wants her daughter back. Sharon Moore Trevor Nelson. I cannot add to these tragic stories...

Doctor Misdiagnosis Results In Alarming Number of Avoidable Injuries And Death

Posted on August 16, 2009
Cathleen F. Crowley and Eric Nadler have published a blockbuster expose entitled DEAD BY MISTAKE that exposes the truth about what is wrong with American health care and it isn't doctors being sued for frivolous matters. It isn't lawsuit abuse, a fraud perpetrated by the insurance industry and the American Medical Association...

Construction Worker Jobs Are the Most Dangerous In Terms of Injury and Death

Posted on August 15, 2009
What is the most dangerous job? The construction industry ranks first as the most hazardous occupation in the United States. I have written about construction site personal injury before in the context of scaffolding collapse. Austin, Texas Scaffold Collapse Results In Three Deaths At 21 Rio Condo Project Construction Site U...

Whiplash and Headaches - The Most Common Personal Injury In Automobile Accident Cases in Hawaii

Posted on August 15, 2009
In the 1950s the medical profession did not recognize whiplash as a medical condition. It was through attorneys seeking explanations of injuries from treating doctors that stimulated medical insight into the most common result of automobile accidents...

Big Island Man Dies Thursday After Single Car Crash in Pahoa on August 5, 2009

Posted on August 15, 2009
A sad report on Friday in the Honolulu Star Bulletin on-line edition notes the 14th traffic fatality this year on the Big Island: a 58 year old man from Pahoa who was a passenger in the car that crashed off the road on August 5th. This time the crash occurred in beautiful and peaceful Pahoa...

Suit says hospital staff wrongly declared infant dead

Posted on August 15, 2009
The news story is pretty frightening. Incompetence comes to mind. The staff at a Charleston, South Carolina hospital informed them the parents of a baby born that the child died. Can you imagine? The bereft parents learned later that their son was alive...

Misdiagnosis and Wrong Diagnosis by Doctors Cause 40,000 Deaths Each Year

Posted on August 15, 2009
Why don't doctors talk about this statistic? Forty thousand patients dead _ each year _ because of a medical error. Does America have the finest health care system in the world? We have a lot of wealthy doctors. Tort reform and medical money to politicians has given doctors freedom from worrying about making a mistake...

FDA finalizes rules allowing patients greater access to experimental drugs.

Posted on August 15, 2009
Bloomberg News (8/13, Randall) reports that new regulations posted on the FDA's website Wednesday will grant seriously ill patients "greater access to experimental drugs." The FDA said the rules "let drugmakers give or sell experimental medicines to patients who have no other options, including in emergencies...

Bank of America Stops Forcing Arbitration od Disputes on Customers

Posted on August 14, 2009
The AP (8/13, Freed) reported, "Bank of America Corp. said that as of Thursday it will stop requiring that disputes with its credit card holders and banking and lending customers be settled by binding arbitration, opening the door for class-action and other lawsuits to push up the bank's legal costs...

Mistakes Made in Medical Care are the Top Cause of Accidental Death in America.

Posted on August 13, 2009
Let me start with the facts. 98,000 Americans die from preventable medical errors each year! 99,000 Americans die from preventable hospital acquired infections each year! The cat is out of the bag. Its all over the news. How many of you have read or heard about the massive expose of the death toll from careless doctors and poorly run hospitals in DEAD BY MISTAKE? As reported in Hearst Newspapers across the country the story starts with Richard Flagg: Richard Flagg drowned in his own blood...

GIFT15 - Is A Cure For Multiple Sclerosis On The Horizon?

Posted on August 13, 2009
McGill University researchers in Canada have announced that _ in mice _ they may have found a way to treat and cure multiple sclerosis (MS). In animals they can reverse the devastating disease with a new treatment that suppresses the immune system and forces MS into remission...

New legislation could help homeowners sue Chinese drywall manufacturers.

Posted on August 12, 2009
We have a problem in the U.S. with holding foreign manufacturers responsible for harm their defective products cause here in the States. One example was the salmonella problem from Mexican tomatoes and currently the focus is on drywall manufactured in China...

Hawaii Consumer Alert: GM and Isuzu Truck Recall Raises Concerns Because Bailout Eliminates Product Liability Claims For Injury or death

Posted on August 06, 2009
In a report in U.S. News & World Report a pickup truck recall is initiated by automakers. A brake light defect in General Motors trucks could lead to an an accident. GM is recalling about 185,000 small Chevrolet, GM and Isuzu pickup trucks to correct the defect...

Merck, Schering agree to $41.5 million settlement of Vytorin, Zetia suits.

Posted on August 06, 2009
The New York Times (8/6, B4, Shih) reports, "Merck and Schering-Plough agreed Wednesday to pay $41.5 million to settle class-action lawsuits that accused them of withholding unfavorable results of a clinical trial of the cholesterol drugs Vytorin [ezetimibe and simvastatin] and Zetia [ezetimibe]...

Way to Go Bill: Imprisoned Korean Journalists Are Coming Home!!!!

Posted on August 04, 2009
Wasn't it just a month ago that we were all talking in Hawaii and death and injury from a missile attack from North Korea on Honolulu? Well there was a serious mood swing on that paranoia today. And my country took a step forward in showing what it takes to find peace in the world...

Banning Texting, Twitter and Cell Phone Use in Cars Isn't Enough __ Increasing Speed Limits Spikes Automobile Accident Death and Injury Toll According to New Study

Posted on August 04, 2009
Ever here the saying that "speed kills". Well its true according to a recent study of deaths on U.S. highways. But does this apply in Hawaii? Are Honolulu and Oahu roads in need of new lower speed limits? I will tell Hawaii residents and politicians that the new study did not include Hawaii...

House subcommittee finds elevated lead levels in D.C. children.

Posted on August 04, 2009
The Washington Post (8/4, Leonnig) reports that congressional investigators have found that "more than twice" the previously reported number of D.C. children were "found to have high levels of lead in their blood," which throws "into doubt assurances by those officials that the lead in tap water did not seriously harm city children...

House passes food safety bill.

Posted on July 31, 2009
The AP (7/31, Jalonick) reports that by a 283-142 margin, the House yesterday "passed a far-reaching food safety bill Thursday in the wake of the recent outbreak of salmonella in peanuts that killed at least nine people." President Obama "praised the bill soon after it was passed, calling it 'a major step forward in modernizing our food safety system...

The Conservative Judicial Activism Chronicles: Notice Pleading is No Longer the Law in Federal Court

Posted on July 28, 2009
Filing a lawsuit for personal injury, civil rights, employment disputes and all other cases has just become more complex in Federal Court. This article is for trial attorneys who might be caught by surprise by a motion to dismiss in the very near future...

Court ordered to preserve Pennsylvania youth offenders' records.

Posted on July 28, 2009
The AP (7/27) reported, "A federal judge was asked Monday to preserve thousands of juvenile court records in a Pennsylvania judicial scandal -- evidence of wrongdoing that the state Supreme Court has declared should be destroyed. The high court's plan to delete more than 6,000 records will prevent youths in northeastern Pennsylvania from pursuing federal civil rights claims against a corrupt judge and keep secret the extent of the judge's misconduct, lawyers for some of the children asserted in federal court...

Congress and Cruise Ships, Peepholes and Latches!

Posted on July 28, 2009
There you go again! Those are the memorable words of Ronald Reagan in a Presidential campaign debate. Those words came to mind as I listened to Congress brag about making cruise ships safer by passing a law mandating peepholes and latches. Here is what Senator Kerry said about his get tough legislation in 2008: 'Over the past year our organization and other victims of cruise crimes have met numerous times with cruise lines executives in an effort to have them voluntarily take the necessary steps as outlined in our proposals,' said Carver, President of International Cruise Victims...

Summer Water Safety Alert: Surf's Up On The South Shore! Be Careful

Posted on July 24, 2009
The waves in Waikiki look white and fluffy and the warm air and water beckon the just arrived tourists. I surf. Its great fun. But beware. Those waves are powerful. The surfers riding them are skilled athletes. Also the Boards are heavy and if one hits you the injury may be serious or even fatal...

Fatigue As The Result of Personal Injury

Posted on July 24, 2009
Everyone knows about broken bones, lacerations, traumatic brain injury, loss of vision, spinal cord injury and other physical injuries that follow automobile accidents, medical malpractice, construction site accidents and product defects. One often ignored after effect is fatigue that can become chronic: chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)...

Representative Kucinich Takes On The National Arbitration Forum and Forced Unfair Arbitration In Congress

Posted on July 24, 2009
Bloomberg News (7/22, Van Voris, Rosenkrantz) reported, "A congressional staff investigation into the biggest U.S. consumer debt-collection arbitrator found 'deeply disturbing' abuses, U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich said" yesterday at a hearing before a House subcommittee he chairs...

Justice For Sale: American Arbitration Association and National Arbitration Forum Rig The System

Posted on July 24, 2009
The alternative dispute resolution (ADR) craze was touted by supporters as a way to avoid the nightmare of court and jury trials. Well the nightmare was mainly one for big credit companies and other big corporations who didn't like their win percentage when a neutral judge or a jury looked at the facts and the law...

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