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• Car Accidents and Personal Injury Law

  Ed Van Dorn | August 27, 2007 11:26 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  For thirty years I have been representing people who have been seriously injured in car accidents. This has not been the only focus of my practice. I also represent people injured in product liability cases, that is injuries caused by defectively manufactured or designed products, medical malpractice and the like. But car accidents and representing those seriously injured in them has been the...

• Toy Recall

  Ed Van Dorn | August 27, 2007 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  At the beginning of this month toy manufacturer Fisher-Price announced it was recalling 83 types of toys -- including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters -- because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead.You may think this is old news and why is this lawyer blogging on the topic almost a month later. Good question. The answer is that experience tells us that after a...

• CPSC Warns Of Rise in College Dorm Fires

  Courtney Mills | August 21, 2007 1:41 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a warning about the prevalence of fires in college dormitories, fraternities, sororities, as well as barracks. The CPSC referred to some stunning basic facts on fires in college dorms.According to CPSC Chairman Nancy Nord, "Going to college marks an important milestone, and the CPSC doesn't want that to be marred by a potentially tragic...

• Trapped Utah Coal Miners Continue to be in a Nation's Prayers

  Rob Curtiss | August 10, 2007 3:02 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Less than two weeks after the Minneapolis bridge collapse we are focused on another national tragedy, the plight of the coal miners trapped in the Crandall Canyon (Utah) mine. Presently the rescue effort is ongoing, aided hopefully by all our prayers.For me this tragedy makes me reflect again about the physical dangers that confront so many American workers daily. My father was a roofer who...

• So-Called "Soft Tissue" Injuries Can Be Hard On Car Accident Victims

  Rob Curtiss | August 08, 2007 4:05 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  People who have been injured in car accidents often count themselves lucky if they have no broken bones. Unfortunately, injuries to connective tissue, the fibrous tissue which connects muscle to muscle and or bone to bone are often just as debilitating. When connective tissue such as ligaments or tendons are strained, stretched or torn they heal by forming scar tissue. The problem is that scar...

• Rescue Workers Still Trying to Find Utah Coal Miners

  Jenny Albano | August 07, 2007 1:47 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Rescue workers worked all night to find the six coal miners that are trapped 1,500 feet underground after a coal mine collapsed on top of them on Monday, August 6 in Utah.So far, none of the rescue efforts have not been successful. Dangerous conditions and falling rocks stopped the first drilling effort on Monday night. Rescue workers spent time clearing a road outside the collapsed mine to...

• FDA Reminds Consumers Not to Use AMO Complete MoisturePlus Multipurpose Contact Lens Solution

  Jenny Albano | August 01, 2007 4:32 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  The FDA announced that many consumers may not be aware of the May 2007 recall of Complete MoisturePlus Multipurpose Contact Lens Solution manufactured by Advanced Medical Optics. The agency has continued to receive reports of consumers acquiring the Acanthamoeba Keratitis (AK) infection from using this contact lens solution. The FDA warns consumers who wear soft contact lenses to stop using...

• Avandia and Product Liability

  Ed Van Dorn | July 30, 2007 3:05 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Yet another drug has recently been found to cause more serious health problems than it is designed to treat. The drug is Avandia and it is prescribed as a diabetes drug. Unfortunatley it also appears to cause serious heart problems. Two of the most commonly used drugs for diabetes, which were taken by hundreds of thousands of mostly overweight people in the UK last year, are causing widespread...

• Botulism and Legal Liability

  Ed Van Dorn | July 25, 2007 11:26 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Yesterday I blogged on a recent discovery of botulism contaminated food products. Today's Washington Post has more on this story. Now there are 92 products manufactured by Castlebury Foods that should be avoided. The Post story leads with this warning.People should immediately throw away more than 90 different products, from chili sauce to corned beef hash to dog food, produced at a plant linked...

• Canned Meat and Botulism

  Ed Van Dorn | July 24, 2007 1:05 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Our firm regularly tracks news of consumer product safety concerns to pass information on that will be a benefit to public safety in our community. A recent development in consumer saftey involves botulism in canned meat. Botulism is a rare but serious paralytic illness caused by a nerve toxin that is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. There are three main kinds of botulism....