Posts tagged law

• Most DePuy ASR Lawsuits Must Be Filed Before August 2012

  Joe Saunders | May 18, 2012 4:57 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  DePuy ASR hip implant patients in most states who do not file lawsuits before August 23, 2012 may lose their rights to compensation or to file a lawsuit. Every state has a law called the...

• Cruise Ship Law News Update

  Brett Rivkind | May 15, 2012 5:17 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Some recently interesting developments in the maritime law field. It was reported that there was a large settlement reached in the case involving a Philadelphia duck boat that was involved...

• Motorcycle Awareness Month Applies to All Motorists

  Orman Kimbrough, Jr. | May 09, 2012 8:59 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  I hear the same stories over and over again,” Jim Gladstone says in the video above. Gladstone is the president of West Coast ABATE of Florida, a non-profit organization that promotes...

• Parents Have the Power to Prevent Bullying

  Council Wooten | May 02, 2012 8:56 AM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  This is a trailer for the documentary “Bully,” which was released last month and has garnered much national attention. While many people have an understandable tendency to dismiss...

• Majority of Work Zone Fatalities are Motorists, Pedestrians

  Ed Normand | April 25, 2012 8:55 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This video from the New York Times was part of a December 2009 story about deadly accidents in highway work zones around the country. The segment above begins with the story of a 42-year-old...

• Aggressive Driving, Road Rage Have Similar Causes but are Different Offenses

  Council Wooten | April 11, 2012 8:57 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This video features a WPTV-TV report about a campaign by the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) to crack down on aggressive driving. While this story revolves around one phase of the campaign that...

• Hundreds of Parks, Thousands of Injuries Every Year in Florida

  Ed Normand | April 04, 2012 9:30 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  While last month saw far too many headlines across the nation involving school bus accidents, the video above is news footage of another type of incident that many of us never really think...

• DePuy Unloads ASR Hip Implant Inventory After Problems Were Known

  Joe Saunders | March 22, 2012 11:05 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  In 2009 after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration raised questions about the safety of the DePuy ASR Hip Implants Johnson & Johnson decided to sell all the hip implants in its inventories...

• Today’s 24 Hours Dedicated to Injury That Occurs Every 21 Seconds

  Council Wooten | March 21, 2012 9:52 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  March is Brain Injury Awareness Month, and today is Brain Injury Awareness Day. As noted in the video above from the traumatic brain injury (TBI) information website Brainline.org, somebody...

• Families Struggle to Provide for BPI Victims While Insurance Companies Struggle to Understand BPIs

  Ed Normand | March 14, 2012 9:16 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  This video from the United Brachial Plexus Network (UBPN) highlights some of the mistakes made during childbirth that can cause a brachial plexus injury (BPI). The Mayo Clinic defines the...