When we are sick or injured, we expect the medical professionals who are caring for us to make protecting our health and safety a top priority. The North Carolina medical malpractice attorneys with HensonFuerst Injury Lawyers explain that unfortunately, mistakes happen in the medical field, and such errors may occur more frequently than you think. […]
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Sports-related accidents are one of the leading causes of brain injuries among young Americans today. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that each year, more than 173,000 children and teens under age 18 are treated in emergency rooms for a concussion or traumatic brain injury that was sustained while playing sports. Now, researchers
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To many North Carolinians, our property is one of our most important assets; however, our state’s laws allow the government to seize land if it’s deemed the property can benefit the public. This is typically referred to as eminent domain. There are loopholes in these laws though that can be used to unfairly compensate a
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If you own a Nissan, Toyota, Chrysler, Honda, or Ford, you’ll want to know about these new recalls. More Airbag Problems More than 2 millions Toyota, Chrysler, and Honda vehicles are being recalled because airbags may deploy suddenly even if there is no crash. This problem was supposed to have been fixed in an earlier
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North Carolina workplaces are apparently more dangerous that ever before, considering new data is showing the number of on-the-job fatalities last year doubled from the previous year’s total. The North Carolina Department of Labor (NCDOL) reports there were 44 workers who died on the job in our state last year. That’s a significant increase from
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Drivers of commercial tractor trailers face long hours behind the wheel and if you’ve ever driven for an extended amount of time, you know how easily fatigue can set in. Unfortunately, driver fatigue is too often listed as one of the causes of truck accidents. Fatigue was recently listed as the cause of a North
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It may be a new year in North Carolina, but the state is facing many of the same old problems—including drunk driving. Data from the North Carolina Highway Patrol shows more than 1,300 drunk drivers were arrested last year alone. The state is working to address the problem of drunk driving and the North Carolina
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United States citizens depend on fossil fuels for a majority of our energy needs, but some of the techniques that are used to procure these resources can put us in danger’s way. One of these techniques is fracking, and North Carolina is currently embroiled in a dispute over whether or not it should be allowed.
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The New York Times has reported on new research that links scores of earthquakes to fracking wells near a fault in Ohio. The research, published in The Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, says that fracking in Ohio built up underground pressures, which then caused earthquakes along a fault near the wells. According to
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HensonFuerst land condemnation lawyer Anne Duvoisin, who is based out of Boone, NC, is investigating a number of projects that will affect landowners in her immediate area of Watauga County in the coming decade. If you think you may be affected by any of these eminent domain projects, it’s not too soon to start learning
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