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• 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...

• Accident Victims and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

  Rob Curtiss | July 13, 2007 1:37 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Sometimes individuals who are involved in scary accidents develop a psychological condition known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.PTSD is a panic disorder that afflicts people who have been in a situation where they thought they were either going to be killed or very seriously injured. PTSD victims tend to replay the event that frightened them over and over in their minds in a...

• State Farm Reaches 2nd Agreement to Settle Suits by Katrina Victims

  Christina Cole | January 25, 2007 10:33 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co. said on Wednesday that they have reached an agreement to settle insurance claim disputes with over 600 Mississippi residents who sued for Hurricane Katrina damage.Previously, State Farm hadn't confirmed the settlement that was publicized on Tuesday by homeowners' attorneys that negotiated a separate agreement that would benefit as many as 35,000 Mississippi...

• The Spouses of Accident Victims May Also Have a Claim for Damages

  Rob Curtiss | November 20, 2007 4:15 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Often accident victims are so physically or emotionally incapacitated that they are unable to interact with their husband or wife the way they did previously. In situations like this the spouse of the injury victim has his or her own claim against the individual who caused the accident. The legal term for such a claim is loss of consortium. This means that the spouse of the injury victims has a...

• Halloween Hosts Are More Careful to Protect Trick or Treaters From Personal Injury

  Rob Curtiss | November 02, 2007 4:30 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  The street I live on in West Lebanon, New Hampshire draws a lot of trick or treaters. My best estimate is that last night my wife and I were visited by over 300 assorted ghouls, ghosts, goblins, etc. I notice that our neighbors, in an anticipation of the onslaught all made sure to have well lit walkways to protect the children and their families from falling and getting injured. I'm sure some...

• 40th Anniversary of Cog Railway Train Crash

  Rob Curtiss | October 05, 2007 4:52 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Several weeks ago, marked the 40th anniversary of the Mount Washington Cog Railway train derailment which killed 8 people and injured 70 others. Because of a systems failure, a train engine rolled off a trestle causing a passenger car to speed down the mountain until it jumped the tracks and flew into a rock.Ultimately, the Cog Railway settled a number of damage claims that were brought against...

• Man Struck by Bus and Seriously Injured

  Ed Van Dorn | October 03, 2007 9:46 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  A Concord man, John Smart, received life threatening injuries when struck by a Concord Area Transit bus while he was walking in a cross walk. While the accident is still under investigation by the police one thing is clear. Pedestrians walking in cross walks have the right of way. The business of our firm, Van Dorn and Curtiss, is dedicated to ensuring that personal injury victims recieve...

• Accident on Route 107 in Deerfield

  Ed Van Dorn | October 03, 2007 9:31 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Another avoidable accident occured the other day on Route 107 in Deerfield. According to police reports a Lincoln Navigator crossed over the center line of the highway and crashed head-on into a Chrysler Sebring sending 3 people to the hospital. There are many reasons why New Hampshire highways have so many accidents and collisions, but one thing is clear -- The vast majority of accidents are...

• O.J. Simpson Owes Victims' Families Over Thirty Million Dollars As A Result Of A Civil Judgment

  Rob Curtiss | September 27, 2007 3:55 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Many of us are aware O.J. Simpson is back in the news as a result of criminal charges filed against him in Las Vegas. Most of us also know that the former football star was acquitted at his murder trial. What fewer people realize is that the families of the murder victims, Simpson's former wife, Nicole, and Ron Goldman, brought a civil suit against him for money damages. This civil trial ended...

• Accident Related Worker Deaths

  Ed Van Dorn | September 20, 2007 10:08 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  In the year 2006, 5,703 people died while at work. Most of them died due to work related accidents. Most of these accidents could have been avoided. See the Bureau of Labor Statistics Website for more detailed information. The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor is urging legislation that will improve workplace safety. But we all know how Congress works. For every...