Posts tagged Bodily Injury

• Hawaii Legislative Alert! Why The Low Policy Limits On Automobile Insurance Coverages?

  Wayne Parsons | July 06, 2009 1:57 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Hawaii legislators think that $20,000 is enough Bodily Injury Coverage: What mandatory auto insurance laws exist in Hawaii? In Hawaii, all motorists must carry minimum levels of...

• What Car Insurance Should I Buy?

  Wayne Parsons | July 04, 2009 3:15 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  1. PIP (personal injury protection): PIP is what pays for your medical care and wage loss if you are injured. PIP coverage is cheap. Make sure you get the maximum that they will sell you. Your agent...

• Insurance Industry Wealth

  Wayne Parsons | October 19, 2008 3:59 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The insurance industry gets $1 trillion in premiums each year, has $3.8 trillion in assets which is more that Gross Domestic Product of every country in the world except the U.S. and Japan.

• Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Insurance - The most valuable insurance that you know nothing about

  James Kramer | June 05, 2008 2:44 PM | 0 CommentsFort Dodge, IA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Underinsured and Underinsured Motorist Coverage is essential insurance coverage because of the number of financially irresponsible drivers on the roads.

• Victims of Hurricane Katrina file lawsuit against Army Corp of Engineers

  Bruce Roberts | May 21, 2007 4:08 PM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX Category: Miscellaneous
  

  With the deadline approaching for filing claims against the United States government and the Corps of Engineers more than a quarter of a million people have filed personal injury and property damage claims against the court demanding compensation. These lawsuits claim that the Corps of Engineers was negligent in designing the waterworks that go throughout New Orleans and the surrounding...

• California Moves to Ban Flavoring in Popcorn Linked to Workers' Illness

  Bruce Roberts | May 17, 2007 4:47 PM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Since 2001 academic studies have shown causal links between bronchiolitis obliterans, a rare and life-threatening form of restrictive lung disease and the chemical used in artificial butter flavoring called Diacetyl. Flavoring manufacturers have already paid out more than $100,000,000.00 in personal injury lawsuits by people sickened by what is now known as "popcorn workers' lung" over the past...

• JURY AWARDS PARALYZED COLLEGE STUDENT $11.7 MILLION

  Bruce Roberts | April 11, 2007 10:29 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A Fulton County, Georgia jury awarded Joshua Coleman, a 19 year old Piedmont College freshman $11.7 million for a spinal surgery that left him paralyzed from the waist down. The surgery, in 2003 was to relieve chronic back pain. But after the surgery, Coleman ended up in a wheelchair paralyzed. Coleman's attorney blamed his paralysis on a medical mistake by his surgeon and a team of doctors...

• OSHA TO DOUBLE REFINERY INSPECTORS

  Bruce Roberts | April 09, 2007 10:23 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Occupational Health and Safety Administration announced that it would double the number of workers trained to perform safety inspections at oil refineries. The announcement came only after a report by the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board chastised the agency's inspection of British Petroleum's refinery in Texas. An explosion at the Texas refinery in 2005 killed 15 workers...

• AFTER LAWSUIT LABOR DEPARTMENT FINALLY ACTS TO REQUIRE EMPLOYERS TO PURCHASE SAFETY EQUIPMENT FOR EMPLOYEES

  Bruce Roberts | April 07, 2007 10:04 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The United States Department of Labor has finally issued a set of rules detailing an employer's responsibility for the purchase of workers' safety equipment. Although the Occupational Health and Safety Administration issued proposals a little over seven years ago the Labor Department had never adopted it in final form until two months after a lawsuit was filed by the AFL CIO and the United...

• Harris County, Texas jury finds County not liable for inmate's death.

  Bruce Roberts | April 04, 2007 10:26 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The estate of a former inmate at Harris County Jail filed suit against Harris County, Texas for violating his civil rights during a 20 day jail stay. The inmate died hours after being discharged from the jail. According to the lawsuit, the inmate, Jimmie Lee O'Neal died of congestive heart failure within hours after being discharged from the county jail. The lawsuit claims that the county...