- Claude Wyle | October 26, 2007 2:39 PM | San Francisco, CA
Category:
Defective & Dangerous Products
The CPSC has issued several Safety Tips to Help Prevent Hidden Halloween Dangers, encouraging parents to integrate "Safety into Celebration". When it comes to children's safety, there is no trick. Hidden dangers associated with dangerous or defective costumes, unclean treats, and hazardous decorations can be easily prevented. Accidents and personal injuries to children happen each year, however,...
- Claude Wyle | September 05, 2007 4:27 PM | San Francisco, CA
Category:
Head & Brain Injuries
Astoundingly, 1.5-2 million people a year sustain traumatic brain injury (TBI) from motor vehicle accidents such as automobile accidents and motorcycle accidents, as well as bicycle accidents and pedestrian accidents and falls, sport injuries, and other traumatic events. 500,000 of these TBIs are severe enough to require hospitalization, and 50,000 people die from complications of head...
- Claude Wyle | July 23, 2007 11:35 AM | San Francisco, CA
Category:
Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
The mother of the 4-year-old boy who recently drowned in a Great America pool blames lifeguards for not spotting her son until it was too late to save him, but was not in the pool herself at the time of the drowning. Great America now requires all children less than 4 feet tall wear life jackets while in its pools. Will this new rule save lives? Or will it only provide a false sense of...
- Claude Wyle | July 23, 2007 11:20 AM | Oakland, CA
Category:
Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
After the recent drowning of a 4-year-old boy, Great America is now requiring all children under 4 feet tall wear life vests in its pools. The mother of the boy was not in the pool at the time of the drowning and blames lifeguards for not spotting her son until it was too late. Will the new requirement save lives, or will it simply provide a false sense of security? Perhaps a better rule...
- Claude Wyle | December 10, 2006 11:16 AM | Oakland, CA
Category:
Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
Slip and fall and trip and fall accidents and injuries have reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., particularly for persons over 65 years of age. Fortunately, there are several ways to help prevent slip and fall and trip and fall accidents, which are listed herein below. If you are injured due to another's negligence or because of a dangerous or defective condition on someone's property, you...
- Claude Wyle | November 06, 2006 3:28 PM | Oakland, CA
Category:
Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
Congratulations to my partner, George Choulos, for another great result on a trip and fall case. $500,000! This trip and fall case, filed in San Francisco, California, is particularly notable since Choulos' client "tripped and fell" over a raised threshold and into an untempered glass shower door in his own apartment, on his way to the bathroom. Broken shards of glass pierced the man's body...