Miscellaneous

• Focus Groups-Mock Trials-Jury Projects

  Jeanie Oliver | December 29, 2007 5:32 PM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  Jury trials are an essential part of the American legal system. You are guaranteed a trial and a jury of your peers in the U.S. Constitution. What you are not given an absolute guarantee for would be every single aspect of the lives and opinions of the final group of jurors who hear your case. Who knew that even with the best possible prep in voire dire, that a juror would spend so much time in...

• Zetia May Cause Liver Damage

  Frank Bailey | December 21, 2007 2:58 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  Are big drug companies hiding the results of unfavorable test in favor of profits? A recent article in the New York Times seems to indicate that is just what is happening. The New York Times writes:New evidence shows that the drug makers Merck and Schering-Plough have conducted several studies of their popular cholesterol medicine Zetia that raise questions about its risks to the liver, but...

• How Allstate Insurance Company Treats Its Policyholders

  Frank Bailey | December 19, 2007 4:25 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  Allstate Insurance Company continues to ignore a judge's ruling to turn over papers. Facing a $25,000 a day fine, Allstate continues to disregard a Missouri judges order to turn the papers over. Allstate told the judge they will not turn over the papers no matter how much he fines them.Last month the Missouri Supreme Court ordered the papers turned over. Allstate still refused.I wonder what...

• Trial Attorneys Can Help Victims of Spinal Cord Injuries

  Frank Bailey | December 19, 2007 1:06 PM | 0 CommentsEl Dorado , AR

  It is estimated that there are 11,000 spinal cord injuries each year in the United States alone and there are 247,000 Americans living with spinal cord injuries. In the past several decades there has been significant improvement in the treatment and care of patients with spinal cord injury. No longer do we believe that the central nervous system cannot regenerate. Stem cell research is...

• Strangulation Hazard in Hooded Sweatshirts

  Sach Oliver | December 10, 2007 1:56 PM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  What is more comfortable than a good soft sweatshirt. No work would get done in America on Saturdays without them. However, safety studies now show us that hooded sweatshirts can be one of the most dangerous of easy-living apparel. When consulted, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has guidelines for hooded sweatshirts because of the danger, especially, to children.In particular, sweatshirts...

• Tornado Bus Wreck in Ark. Killed 3

  Sach Oliver | December 05, 2007 8:17 AM | 0 CommentsEl Dorado , AR

  Will the victims of this horrible accident receive justice? It is a grave worry that because so many of the victims did not speak English, they will not be justly compensated for their pain and suffering. Police have now identified another victim in the wreck, Raul Lopez. The Tornado bus line crash also claimed the life of the driver of a pick up smashed by the bus when it crossed the center...

• Sexual Abuse on School Bus - Lawyer

  Sach Oliver | November 19, 2007 8:30 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  Our firm represents the family of a five year old girl who was sexually abused on her school bus on the way home from school in Marshall, Arkansas on November 8, 2007. On her ride home from school, two boys held down this young child and sexually assaulted her. Julie Munsell, a spokesperson for the Arkansas Department of Human Services said the State has yet to remove either boy from their...

• Is Cymbalta Safe

  Frank Bailey | November 16, 2007 4:17 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  Cymbalta, duloxetine hydrochloride, was created by the same Eli Lilly researchers that were behind Prozac. David Wong and Frank Bymaster first published the discovery of the novel drug, then known as LY227942, in 1988. The scientist wrote, "These findings suggest that LY227942 has the pharmacological profile of an antidepressant drug and is useful to study the pharmacological responses of...

• Aqua Dots Toy Contaminated with "Date Rape" Drug

  Sach Oliver | November 16, 2007 8:28 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  Baseball, apple pie, and Wal-Mart-how much more American can you get? Yet the All-American Wal-Mart just recently made a potentially killer toy, Aqua Dots, one of its list of 12 top Christmas toys. How can we as consumers know that toys we buy our innocent children are potential killers? Aqua Dots are just the latest in a list of Chinese produced toys to be marked by the Consumer Product Safety...

• Warning -Aqua Dots Toys Potential Killers

  Sach Oliver | November 16, 2007 8:24 AM | 0 CommentsEl Dorado , AR

  A Jacksonville, Arkansas toddler is among the children harmed by yet another recalled Chinese manufactured toy. The child was playing with the toy when the mother noticed him stumbling and vomiting. The child was rushed to Children's Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas when he began losing consciousness.The sudden illness has been linked to the chemical coating on the beads , which when ingested,...