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• Two Single Car Accidents Remind Us That Winter Driving Requires Extra Care

  Mike Bryant | December 02, 2009 9:47 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  Wednesday night, two separate collisions in northern Todd County were reported. Todd County Sheriff personal believe that snow played a role in both incidents.: Around 7 am a eastbound pickup...

• Managing Brain Injury - new Guide now available from the National Rehabilitation Hospital

  Doug Landau | December 02, 2009 12:26 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  In his continuing efforts to help those with traumatic brain injury and disabled from head trauma, Herndon Reston lawyer Doug Landau receives and reviews materials from the National Rehabilitation...

• Holiday Toy Dangers

  Paul Thomson | December 02, 2009 12:01 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  WPTV recently reported that hazardous toys are lurking on store shelves this holiday season. Despite increased safety standards and recalls, the Public Interest Research Group found sixteen...

• Truck Hours of Service Case Settlement a Step in the Right Direction

  Bret Hanna | December 01, 2009 10:33 PM | 2 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  A recent press release from the Truck Safety Coalition highlights an hours of service case settlement that has resulted in the Obama administration agreeing to reexamine the rule that is supposed to...

• Tiger Woods crashes within a golf shot of his Florida house; Most car accidents occur close to home.

  Doug Landau | December 01, 2009 10:25 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  Even superstar athletes hit ditches, sand traps, cars and fire hydrants close to home. Car crash lawyer Doug Landau notes that many of his injured clients were struck by another motorist with a few...

• Toyota Still Can't Fix the Problem

  Paul Thomson | December 01, 2009 9:16 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The Detroit Free Press reported in this article that Toyota is still trying to figure out the problem behind their runaway vehicles. Toyota continues to mention properly securing or removing...

• Database of Medical Malpractice Unavailable to the Public

  Paul Thomson | December 01, 2009 9:13 PM | 7 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Tulsa World reported that there is a national database of medical malpractice data that the public is unable to fully access. The database is maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and...

• Long Island Father of Two Dies in Hit and Run Motorcycle Crash

  Paul Napoli | December 01, 2009 8:35 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  December 1, 2009 Nassau police continue to search for a hit and run driver that killed a motorcyclist in Franklin Square on Sunday morning. John Deike, 46, was driving his Honda motorcycle...

• Study Finds Uninsured Trauma Patients 80% More Likely to Die

  Paul Napoli | December 01, 2009 8:32 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  November 30, 2009 In a new study published in the November issue of Archives of Surgery, Harvard University and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston researchers found trauma patients without...

• Cribs are not the only dangerous product- Cords on window blinds can choke or strangle a child

  Claude Wyle | December 01, 2009 7:38 PM | 1 CommentSan Francisco, CA

  I wrote last week about the recall of Stork Craft cribs. That recall was prompted by the four infant deaths from suffocation caused by a badly designed product—the drop side crib. While I...