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• Students Burned in School Chemistry Accident Reach $1.8 Million Settlement

  Amy Rothschild | January 18, 2008 2:41 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  Calais Weber and Cecilia Chen suffered personal injuries when a chemistry experiment burst into a ball of fire at a private boarding school in Hudson, Ohio. The personal injury lawsuit settled for $18.9 million. Calais suffered burns over 46 percent of her body, and Cecilia was burned over 18 percent of her body. In addition to the intense pain, Calais also suffered deep depression. Calais...

• Luby's Hit With Lawsuit Over Parking Lot Injury

  Scott Kappes | January 18, 2008 12:13 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  On January 15 Kathy Addison of Port Arthur, TX filed a personal injury lawsuit claiming that a defect in the Luby's parking lot caused her to trip and consequently injure her elbow. The lawsuit alleges that Luby's Inc. was negligent in failing to maintain a safe premises. The suit claims that the parking lot posed an unreasonable risk and the obvious defect should have been repaired to create a...

• Finding An Attorney for a Serious Injury or Death Case

  Mike Schneider | January 18, 2008 12:00 PM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK

  There are many ways to figure out who is up to the challenge that these cases present. If you know judges, or people that work in the court system, they may be able to help refer you. Martindale-Hubbell is an organization that has provided the public and legal profession with peer-reviewed rating of attorneys for over 130 years. M/H's highest rating, AV, means that lawyers and judges think...

• Groundbreaking Cancer Specialist Dr. Judah Folkman Dies

  Amy Schauers | January 18, 2008 11:41 AM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  On January 15, 2008 the groundbreaking cancer specialist Dr. Judah Folkman passed away. Dr. Folkman was responsible for the cancer treatment known as anti-angiogenesis. Folkman had first theorized in the 1960s that blocking angiogenesis, the term given to blood vessel growth, would starve cancer tumors to death. The ideas were widely dismissed at the time, but came to the fore with the release...

• DRIVERS ON CELL PHONES SLOW YOU DOWN

  Rick Shapiro | January 18, 2008 10:10 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  Authored by: Randall AppletonAs a personal injury lawyer with a long commute from Nags Head, NC to Virginia Beach, VA each day, I was amazed at some news about cars and cell phones in the Virginian-Pilot newspaper. Recent studies have indicated that drivers talking on cell phones are making commutes longer. Motorists speaking on telephones move about 2 mph slower on congested highways and...

• 4 Serious Injuries in Last Quarter of '07 at Theme Parks

  Diego Madrigal | January 18, 2008 9:42 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  There were four serious tourist injuries in the last 3 months of 2007 according to state regulators. In addition to a widely reported death which occurred on Animal Kingdom's Expedition Everest ride, the Orlando Sentinel reports the other incidents were: a 34-year-old woman broke a vertebra in her lower back on Universal Studios' Revenge of the Mummy ride on Nov. 18; an 81-year-old woman...

• Health Insurers to Stop Paying for Medical Errors

  Dan Frith | January 18, 2008 6:48 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Medicare announced last summer that it would no longer pay for the extra cost of treating bedsores (decubitus ulcers), falls and six other preventable injuries and infections that occur when a patient is in the hospital. These changes start in October of this year. Next year Medicare will extend its "no pay" program to hospital acquired infections (think MRSA), blood clots in legs and lungs,...

• Tort Reform Leads to Poor Patient Care

  Jeanie Oliver | January 17, 2008 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsEl Dorado , AR

  Texas was used as the model child for the proponents of tort reform. However over the past few years Texas and other states that have enacted tort reform laws have been shown to have poorer healthcare systems.Research has shown that 69% of the states that put limits on patients' access to the courts to hold the medical profession accountable have the the poorest overall healthcare systems. It is...

• Lawsuit Stems From Involuntary Rectal Exam

  Scott Kappes | January 17, 2008 5:12 PM | 0 CommentsGalveston Bay, TX

  I came across an interesting and strange story today that I thought I would throw out there. A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of 38-year-old Brian Persaud in response to him being forced to undergo a rectal exam in a New York ER. Persaud was taken to the ER at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weil Cornell Medical Center, after sustaining an injury at a Midtown construction site. Subsequent to...

• Disclaimer

  Staff Writer | January 17, 2008 5:10 PM | 0 CommentsRockford & Moline, IL

  The information found on this website should not be construed as legal advice and is not a substitute for professional legal consultation. You should not base your legal decisions solely on the information found in this site and you are encouraged to seek the counsel of an attorney regarding your specific questions or situation.The information found herein may represent the opinions or...