Personal Injury Law

Traumatic Brain Injury - More Common Than You Think

Posted on March 19, 2009
  LEARN MORE True Fit Web site Centre for Neuro Skills Safe Kids Worldwide Web site    IMAGE SOURCE:  True Fit Web site  Following the death of Natasha Richardson from what initially appeared to be a minor head injury, some frightening statistics remind us that trauma to the head, if you survive, can be long lasting...

Richardson Death - Blunt Impact To The Head

Posted on March 19, 2009
  Quebec ER Docs Called For Helmet Law Three Weeks Ago LEARN MORE Brain Injury Research Foundation - On Winter sports BIRF- On ski helmetsCentre for Neuro Skills  Safe Kids Worldwide Web site    IMAGE SOURCE: Skiier with helmet/ Wikimedia commons/ author: Florian Lindner   Following the shocking and quick death of British actress Natasha Richardson, Quebec is considering  making helmets mandatory on the ski slopes...

Students Travel To Mexico Despite Travel Alert

Posted on March 19, 2009
LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Vacation Safety News U.S. Department of State Travel Alert IB Partner, Steve Lombardi, Des Moines, Vacation Safety: Mayhem in Mexico Mexico Country Specific Info...

Prostate Cancer: What's A Man To Do Following Conflicting Reports?

Posted on March 19, 2009
  LEARN MORE Prostate cancer - U.S. National Cancer Institute Guidelines - U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, on prostate screening NEJM studies, U.S. study NEJM study, U.K. study  NEJM Discussion - Benefits outweigh risks    IMAGE SOURCE:  Wikimedia Commons/ prostate/ Author: National Cancer Institute   Two studies, published in the New England Journal of Medicine have men in a quandary when it comes to prostate cancer screening...

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Michiganders Fight Drugmaker Immunity Law

Posted on March 18, 2009
Dianne and Joe Hargrove Michiganders Left Behind By Levine (Continued from Part 3) LEARN MORE National Association of Manufacturers  Prednisone IMAGE SOURCE:  Joe and Dianne Hargrove, Courtesy: the family "Republicans have to be a little nervous about this...

Obesity Shortens Life Span

Posted on March 18, 2009
LEARN MORE The Lancet 3/18/09 Calculate your BMI CDC on Obesity InjuryBoard on Obesity InjuryBoard Obesity News IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons / waist circumference / author: Pharos, FDA Dietary Guidelines A new study in the March issue of the medical journal The Lancet suggests, being obese can take years off your life and in some cases it may be as dangerous as smoking...

Mistrials - Blame It On The Web

Posted on March 18, 2009
LEARN MORE Model Civil Jury Instructions, Michigan Electronic Freedom Foundation, defends rights in digital world  IB Partner, G. Cusimano, Gadsden, Current Trends in Jury Awards  IB Partner, R. Blanchard, Pensacola Jury bias affects outcome    IMAGE SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons/ To Kill A Mockingbird, film 1962, Gregory Peck / author: Moni3    A judge admonishes jurors during a trial  - "Don't watch any television news reports and don't read any newspaper accounts...

Do Helmets Help Prevent Traumatic Head Injury On the Slopes?

Posted on March 18, 2009
LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Help Center - Head and Brain Injuries  InjuryBoard- Help Center - Ski Resort Liability  Huffington Post story on brain trauma  National Ski Area Association Web site    IMAGE SOURCE:  Entertainment Weekly, Natasha Richardson from Web site    When she bumped her head on a bunny slope, no one immediately knew what happened to actress Natasha Richardson...

AIG Locks Doors Following Death Threats

Posted on March 17, 2009
LEARN MORE IB Partner, Mobile on AIG accountability, March 16, 2009 IB News- AIG and structured settlements, September, 2008 Injuryboard on structured settlements  AIG  American International Group  AIG statement to policyholders    IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ AIG banner    Security guards are outside the suburban Connecticut offices of AIG, American International Group, following death threats and angry letters from the public outraged over bonus payments to executives as part of a federal bailout...

$50 Million Lawsuit Filed In Chimp Attack

Posted on March 17, 2009
LEARN MORE Injuryboard on organ transplant rejection  ABC News on French woman with partial face transplant  IB News - on facial reconstruction at Cleveland Clinic, December, 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: (top) Charla Nash Trust Web site  IMAGE SOURCE:  Alan Colmes Web site / image of Herold and Travis                                            Charla Nash A 55-year old Connecticut woman remains hospitalized with her faced ripped off after a chimpanzee attack last February...

New Aspirin Therapy Guidelines For Heart Health

Posted on March 17, 2009
LEARN MORE Annals of Internal Medicine 3/17/09 New AHRQ Recommendations AHRQ Press Release InjuryBoard on Heart Disease IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons / aspirin / author: Chaval Brasil A low dose of aspirin daily appears to be as effective as higher doses and safer at preventing heart attack and stroke, says U...

Is Michigan Ready To Challenge Drugmaker Immunity Again? - (Part 3)

Posted on March 16, 2009
LEARN MORE The Wiltjer Family   Michigan Sen. Wayne Kuipers, (R-Holland), from his Web site Michigan Citizen Action Web site  HB 4316  HB 4317 HB 4318 MichBio Web site Progress Michigan  Church, Wyble PC, law firm, Lansing, Michigan   IMAGE SOURCE:  (top) Sen...

Michiganders Left Behind By Levine (Part 2)

Posted on March 16, 2009
LEARN MORE Leslie Richter, YouTube video Michigan Association for Justice Web site Drug Industry Immunity Must End (DIIME)  Web site   IMAGE SOURCE:  Gov. John Engler, National Association of Manufacturers Web site Church, Wyble PC, law firm, Lansing, Michigan Charfoos & Christensen law firm, Detroit, Michigan Settlement Agreements Merck, Plaintiffs, November 2007 Michigan Com...

Study Offers Promise For Peanut Allergies

Posted on March 15, 2009
LEARN MORE Kids Health: Nut and Peanut Allergy School Safety - Peanut treats and Anaphylaxis Shock Food Allergies Among Children Surge Over Last Decade IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto / peanuts / author: billberryphotography Researchers from Duke University Medical Center and Arkansas Children's Hospital are one step closer to conquering deadly peanut allergies...

Michiganders Left Behind By Levine (Part 1)

Posted on March 13, 2009
LEARN MORE Diana Levine, March 4, 2009 IMAGE SOURCE:  NPR image of Diana Levine  IB News - U.S. Supreme Court decision on Levine, March 4, 2009 Michigan Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, fromYouTube video Michigan Association for Justice  Dr. Henry Greenspan, Univ...

Carcinogens Found In Several Children's Bath Products

Posted on March 13, 2009
LEARN MORE No More Toxic Tub (pdf) Toxic Tub: Product Test Results SAFE HOME 101 - Consumer Guide to Safe Shampoos IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto / little girl in the tub / author: Texxter The products you use to wash your children may contain harmful chemicals known to cause cancer and skin allergies...

Google Co-Founder Underwrites Parkinson's Trial

Posted on March 12, 2009
LEARN MORE 23andMe Web site National Parkinson Foundation Top questions about Parksinson's   IMAGE SOURCE: Times online. / Sergy Brin and Anne  Wojcicki   The co-founder of Google wants to know if he has a mutation that can lead to Parksinson's disease and is spending millions to underwrite a genetic study to be conducted with data collected online...

Ozone Levels Aggravate Lung Disease

Posted on March 12, 2009
LEARN MORE IB News - Air Particles Taking 10 Years off Californians Lives, May 2008 NEJM - Abstract  EPA- What is Ozone?  EPA National Air Quality standards, 1997 IB- Help Center on Air pollution   IB News - Pittsburgh Outpaces Los Angeles Air, May,2008   IMAGE SOURCE : WikiMedia Commons/ Pasadena Highway, Los Angeles, 2007/ author: Aliazimi    An 18-year study shows that even low-doses of ozone pollution are a killer in heavily polluted cities, such as Los Angeles and Riverside, California...

Low Levels Of Vitamin D Linked To Teen Health Problems

Posted on March 12, 2009
LEARN MORE American Heart Association News Release NIH on Vitamin D U.S.D.A. on Vitamin D Foods InjuryBoard on Sunshine and Vitamin D Vitamin D Deficiency And Cardiovascular Risk IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / art symbol for sun / author: Fred_DL Several studies have shown that adults who get too little vitamin D, also known as the "sunshine" vitamin, are at an increased risk for heart disease and diabetes...

Harvard Heavyweights To Head FDA

Posted on March 12, 2009
LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News  - Dr. Sharfstein calls for OTC drug regulations, October 2008 Nuclear Threat Initiative   IMAGE SOURCE: Time Magazine, profile of Hamburg    While Dr. Joshua Sharfstein was the suspected front runner to head the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the drug lobby reportedly opposed the choice...

Runway Safety Needed At Busiest Airports

Posted on March 11, 2009
LEARN MORE Transportation Department's office of inspector general report Federal Aviation Administration    IMAGE SOURCE:  Wikimedia Commons/ Delta 757 taking off Reagan Washington Airport/ author: Carl Lindburg   A new report says that 11 major airports still do not meet federal safety requirements that give planes extra room to stop before ramming into passing cars...

Depression And Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death In Women

Posted on March 11, 2009
LEARN MORE JACC, March 2009 InjuryBoard on Antidepressants IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / depression / author: timeflight A new study suggests relatively healthy women with severe depression are at increased risk of cardiac death...

Nursing Home Arbitration Act of 2009

Posted on March 10, 2009
LEARN MORE H.R. 1237 Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act of 2009 Health and Human Services report  How to choose a nursing home - Medicare  Injuryboard Help center - Nursing homes  Injuryboard news on nursing homes    IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ elderly woman in wheelchair/ author: Mike Papas   Minnesota resident Dean Cole, 72, was suffering from dementia when his family decided he would receive the best care possible in a nursing home...

Warmer Weather Raises Migraine Risk

Posted on March 10, 2009
LEARN MORE Neurology, March 2009 InjuryBoard on Headaches and Causes American Headache Society MAGNUM: The National Migraine Association IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / headache sufferer / author: Kaisphoto A new study by Harvard researchers, appearing in the March issue of Neurology, shows that people are more likely to visit emergency rooms with migraines in warmer weather...

Recall: Fire Hazard Potential in 1.6 Million Refrigerators

Posted on March 10, 2009
LEARN MORE CPSC Recall notice  Maytag toll-free at (866) 533-9817 anytime Maytag Web site    IMAGE SOURCE:  CPSC   Maytag Corporation of Newton, Iowa is voluntarily recalling about 1.6 million refrigerators that could present a fire hazard...

Merck's Acquisition of Schering-Plough

Posted on March 09, 2009
LEARN MORE Merck statement on the merger   IMAGE SOURCE: Portland Tribune Web site/ image of Richard Clark CEO, Merck   After shying away from acquisition, Merck has announced plans to acquire New Jersey drugmaker Schering -Plough for $41.1 billion...

Hospitals Apologize To Lower Medical Malpractice Costs

Posted on March 09, 2009
LEARN MORE Injuryboard Chicago, on how hospitals reduce medical malpractice cases   IMAGE SOURCE:   Sorry Works Coalition Web site   Donald Platt just wanted an apology.  His doctor had failed to diagnose a tumor growing on his kidney. By the time it was properly diagnosed, the tumor had grown to the size of a baseball...

March Is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

Posted on March 09, 2009
LEARN MORE CDC on Colon Cancer InjuryBoard Colon Cancer Help Center American Cancer Society: Colon Cancer IMAGE SOURCE: Colorectal Cancer Awareness Ribbon March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and the American Cancer Society is promoting safe screening practices...

Going For An MRI? Take Off Your Drug Patch First

Posted on March 09, 2009
LEARN MORE FDA News Release InjuryBoard on Fentanyl Patch FDA: Proper Use of Fentanyl Pain Patches IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / MRI / author: LeaW...

Winston Man Dies Of Cancer, Lawsuit Pending

Posted on March 09, 2009
LEARN MORE Winstonman  Web site  Engle Trust Fund- Florida tobacco lawsuits  Injuryboard - Help Center- Cigarettes and Tobacco  Injuryboard News- Jacksonville- Hess case follows in Engle footsteps, December 2008   IMAGE SOURCE: Los Angeles Times    At one time he embodied the rugged individualist man who could defy the odds...

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