Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

• Game on for the Great Pithy Python Florida Everglades Hunt; Python Pet Owners Pray for their Prey Who Will Rue this Day in the Not-So-Sunny Florida Everglades

  Steve Lombardi | July 19, 2009 9:22 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  The State of Florida got the nod from the Feds to turn trappers and bounty hunters loose in the Florida Everglades looking for the unnatural Burmese Python that can breed like a rabbit; 100 eggs...

• Each Year 43,000 Children Are Injured In Bathtub Slips and Falls

  Chrissie Cole | July 15, 2009 4:48 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  A new study published in the journal Pediatrics confirms slips and falls are the most common source of bath injuries. According to the study, more than 43,000 children are injured each year in...

• Teen threatens to sue for falling in sewer while texting

  Danny Feldman | July 13, 2009 9:13 AM | 2 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  This is the kind of headline that tends to aggravate reasonable people. Apparently, a New York teen fell into a sewer while she was texting. See story at:...

• ATV Crash Reminder of Need for Safety

  Fred Schultz | July 09, 2009 4:41 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  Southern Indiana is full of ATV's. I grew up in the country, and often drove one, myself, when I was younger. However, today's news that three 12 year old boys were injured while all riding on the...

• Trampolines - An Orthopedist Dream

  Jeremy Thurman | July 09, 2009 3:04 AM | 1 CommentOklahoma City, OK

  Trampolines are very dangerous. I once had an orthopedist comment to my father that he could fund his entire practice based solely on trampoline injuries. I’m sure all our readers know of a...

• Foreclosed Homes, Abandoned Swimming Pools: A Growing Hazard to Neighborhoods

  Lawrence Egerton | July 08, 2009 4:24 PM | 5 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  With the number of foreclosed homes continuing to rise each day, more and more community pools are being left unattended. Those that are left undrained become stagnant, algae-filled breeding grounds...

• Customer Wins $3.2 Million for Injuries at IKEA

  Randy Appleton | July 04, 2009 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC

  A $3.2 million verdict was returned for a shopper by a Fairfax County jury for a crushed pelvis she suffered when a stack of countertops fell on her in 2006. The customer apparently incurred $75,000...

• If I slip or trip and fall and get hurt, what am I entitled to?

  Danny Feldman | July 02, 2009 12:11 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  The short answer is that you are entitled to be put back into the position that you would have been in had the incident not occurred. Unfortunately, no matter how good your lawyer is or how sorry...

• Young Girl’s Swimming Death Reminds Us to Maintain Vigilance at the Pool

  Lawrence Egerton | June 30, 2009 11:40 AM | 3 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  The girl pronounced dead after being found unconscious at a public pool Friday June 26th in Winston Salem was just six years old. She was supposed to be under the watch of 2 adults and 8...

• Another Judge in Texas Indicted

  Steve Lombardi | June 25, 2009 11:12 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Ever wonder how Judges get in the news? Watch this video tape that the news reports is a Texas State Court Judge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Xxasf2alE He was allegedly indicted last...