Head & Brain Injuries

• ABC Iraq War News Journalist, Bob Woodruff, to Discuss His Severe Head and Brain Injuries in Prime-Time

  Michael Phelan | January 11, 2007 10:53 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  A little over one year after suffering severe head and brain injuries that he sustained while covering the war in Iraq, ABC news journalist, Bob Woodruff, has agreed to tell his story in a prime-time television program entitled, To Iraq and Back: Bob Woodruff Reports. Mr. Woodruff and his wife are also publishing a memoir which will discuss how they and their family were effected by his severe...

• Brain Injury Victims Need Cognitive Rehabilitation

  Michael Phelan | January 08, 2007 11:18 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  Today's edition of the Wall Street Journal features a front page story disussing the benefits of cognitive rehabilitation to victims of traumatic brain injury and the difficulty most victims have in getting their health insurance companies to pay for such crucial treatment. This article coincides with the publication today of a position paper from the Brain Injury Association of America...

• A Hospital Is No Place For A Sick Person

  John Cooper | October 13, 2006 12:16 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  We have all heard a similar joke, even from health care providers, that the last place you want to be if you are sick is the hospital.Hospitals are dangerous places. In addition to infections, there are many other dangers of injury and death posed by hospitals that are preventable. An independent agency has determined that nearly a hundred thousand people die each year because of medical...

• The Effects of Brain Injury

  Staff Writer | July 05, 2006 11:22 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  In my practice, I see the effects of traumatic brain injury. Unfortunately, many times certain symptoms of brain injury have gone completely undiagnosed by the attending physicians. Initially, emergency and rescue is usually called to the scene to treat life threatening conditions that may be present. Then, the injured party may be taken to the hospital, where they are treated for certain...

• House Bill to Protect Manufacturers of Defective Products

  Staff Writer | May 01, 2006 8:03 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives is considering a bill which would protect manufacturers of defective products from lawsuits by persons injured by those products. HR3509 would completely eliminate the rights of workers covered by workers' compensation to hold the sellers and manufacturers of this equipment accountable when they are injured by a defective product that is...

• New Court Decision Holds Hotels Liable For Many Criminal Attacks

  Rick Shapiro | March 26, 2006 7:35 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  It is reasonable for the law to impose upon the innkeeper, and on the common carrier, a duty to take reasonable precautions to protect his guests against injury caused by the criminal conduct on the part of other guests or strangers if the danger of injury by such conduct is known to the innkeeper or reasonably foreseeable...." In March, 2006, the Virginia Supreme Court announced a...

• Electricity, Gas, Explosions--Special Rules Apply to Extremely Dangerous Activities

  Rick Shapiro | March 05, 2006 10:09 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Virginia follows some special tort rules when it comes to blasting, electricity, explosives and gas. Any person who is involved with explosive products or blasting activities must use use a high degree of care, corresponding to the dangers involved, to prevent injury to others. If this is violated, there is "strict liability" on the person or company involved with the explosives. The law...

• Common Questions About Head and Brain Injury

  Rick Shapiro | March 01, 2006 9:33 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  While there are pesonal injury cases where head or brain injury is diagnosed immediately, the more common scenario involves diagnosis through specialists well after the injury occurs. Some of the common questions are answered below.What is a traumatic head/brain injury?A traumatic brain/head injury is an injury to the brain caused by an outside force, which results in an impairment of a...

• New Brain Injury Imaging Method Introduced

  Staff Writer | February 17, 2006 7:23 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Bruce Stern over at the Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog notes that a team of doctors at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a new technique for Traumatic Brain Injury imaging.Bruce summarizes that the testshows just what the brain does when the skull accelerates. Test subjects heads were placed in the soft netting. They were then asked to raise and lower their heads about an inch...

• Virginia Legislators Are Inconsistent in Trying to Reduce Insurance Rates

  Staff Writer | February 13, 2006 2:11 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  I put myself through law school by selling Harley Davidson motorcycles in Virginia Beach, Virginia. At the shop, I would regularly hear riders complain about restrictions and helmet laws. They even wore tattoos that said "Live Free or Die". However, motorcycle helmet laws continued to be enforced and provide safety protection for riders. This past week, we saw a Virginia delegate continue to...