After a long “investigation,” Toyota has finally announced that a recall of about 2.3 million Toyotas that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says pose a serious safety issue. According to the NHTSA website, the problem is that “the accelerator pedal may become hard to depress, slow to return to idle, or, in the […]
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Reducing the number of sports-related head injuries remains a goal and a passion for the lawyers at HensonFuerst. I recently ran across this list of the sports with the highest number of head injuries treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms in 2008 (as reported by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission). We urge all parents
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Medication errors cause at least one death every day, and injure approximately 1.3 million people annually in the United States, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A new alert system designed to inform hospital and health system pharmacists, physicians and nurses of dangerous or life-threatening medication errors hopes to reduce such errors. For more
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NFL football legend Scot Brantley took a lot of hard hits in his eight seasons as a star linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 1980s. Brantley is 51 now, and the hits are still coming—he believes his two strokes are the result of the concussion he suffered as a college senior. The NFL
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While driving my son to school each morning, I regularly see children who are not properly restrained in their seats. Practicing simple safety every trip–no matter how short–can save a child from serious injury in the event of a car accident. Here is a quick refresher (from www.buckleupnc.gov): ? Drivers of covered vehicles are responsible
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January 14, 2010 The Times-News reported that a recent Durham truck accident injured a woman. The woman was driving her sport utility vehicle down the road when she was struck by a tractor-trailer. The impact of the North Carolina truck accident caused the SUV to flip over onto its side. The woman was trapped inside
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Head injuries in football and hockey dominate the discussion of traumatic brain injury these days. However, skiing and snowboarding should have their place in that discussion as well. Don’t be fooled by the perception that snow is soft and therefore cannot cause a head injury. First, snow on slopes is often packed down, and therefore
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The media has recently placed a major focus on head injuries in sports, and particularly football. However, parents of girls who are cheerleaders should pay close attention as well. Aerial maneuvers and extreme acrobatic techniques are on the rise, but injuries in cheerleading are often catastrophic because of the forces and trauma involved when something
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I came across this editorial regarding head trauma and it reminded me of how often that we, as parents, think a bump on the head is no big deal. As a lawyer who deals with clients who have suffered the consequences of brain injury every day, I am probably more paranoid than most. However, many
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A Brooklyn nursing home will have to fork over nearly $19 million in damages to the family of a 76-year-old patient neglected so badly that he left with more than 20 bedsores. To read the full story please click: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581276,00.html
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