The mixed-up priorities of so many corporate stuffed suits can be astounding! CNN is reporting the expansion of a recall by JBS Swift Beef Company of Greeley Colorado. The initial recall last week…
Because of the confluence of many major interstates and highways in the Piedmont Triad area, our firm sees many cases where driver fatigue plays a part in an accident. Today’s accident on U.S. 29…
NC State junior linebacker Nate Irving suffered a broken leg and collapsed lung after a single car accident early Sunday morning. According to the Associated Press and ESPN his car ran off the road…
Almost every day you will see a news account of an accident resulting in death or serious injury caused by one or more motorists following too close. In the years that I have been doing auto-injury…
Coast Guard, Wildlife officials, ABC officers and others are out this weekend cracking down on drunken boaters throughout North Carolina and the rest of the nation. Operation Dry Water is “a…
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), is recalling DeWALT FRAMING NAILERS because the bump action trigger might be improperly assembled. An affected tool could eject a fastener…
Reports are emerging that Michael Jackson’s death may have involved overuse of prescription painkillers such as Demerol. It was widely reported that Michael first became addicted to…
Bunn-O-Matic Corp., in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), is recalling Bunn Single Cup Pod Brewers because they can unexpectedly open during a brew cycle, posing…
When Debbie Shank began working as a stock clerk at Wal-Mart, she joined the company’s health and benefits plan and paid her premiums as insurance against injury or illness.In 2000, Shank’s car was rammed by a semi, and she suffered a traumatic brain injury that caused her to be permanently disabled
A jury this weekend ruled that two ER doctors who treated actor John Ritter after he collapsed on the set of his sitcom weren’t at fault in his death.Ritter’s family had filed a multimillion dollar wrongful death lawsuit against the physicians, who treated Ritter for a heart attack, not the torn aor
Just 12 hours before he died in a reckless, high-speed crash, an 18-year-old Florida man logged onto an online forum for BMW drivers and asked for tips on driving his faster.Later that same night, Joshua Ammirato raced his 2008 BMW M5 off an airstrip and into a tree. He and four other young men from
I have to applaud fellow InjuryBoard member Jennifer Moore of Grossman & Moore in Louisville, Ky., for a great article on things patients can do to avoid hospital infections.She essentially provides a checklist for things you can ask and ask others to do if you must be hospitalized.I encourage you t