Posts tagged injury or death

• Scientists Uncover How Staph Infections Change Our Immune System

  Wayne Parsons | July 17, 2009 3:33 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Attorneys handling personal injury and medical malpractice cases often get calls from patients who have contracted a Staph infection in a hospital and often after a surgery. Of course the patient is...

• Another Serious Pedestrian Automobile Accident In Laie Leaves 30 Year Old Man in Critical Condition Monday

  Wayne Parsons | July 16, 2009 1:22 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Another pedestrian is in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle in Laie according to news reports. The pedestrian was not in a marked crosswalk when he stepped into the road at about...

• Ocean Personal Injury Law - In A Jones Act Injury Case What Does It Mean To "Arrest the Ship"?

  Wayne Parsons | July 16, 2009 12:25 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  How do you make Jones work you? If you are a “Jones Act” Seaman and you have been injured while working then the first step is file a complaint with the State or Federal Court for your...

• Honolulu Health Chronicles: International Study of H1N1 Pandemic Virus Shows Great Danger

  Wayne Parsons | July 14, 2009 3:37 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The filamentous shape of H1N1 shown budding from infected cells Image: courtesy Yoshihiro Kawaoka - University of Wisconsin The prestigious science journal Nature felt so strongly about the...

• Is The Conservative Attack On Sotomayor A Double Standard?

  Wayne Parsons | July 14, 2009 3:08 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I am using the term conservative rather than Republican to describe the current confirmation hearing squabbles over Sonia Sotomayor. Many Republicans support her because of her obvious...

• Pesticide Residue In Kitchen Floors

  Wayne Parsons | July 11, 2009 5:22 AM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Toxic Substances
  

  KHNL reports that your kitchen floors - the ones that your kids are crawling around on as you read this, are laden with the worst cancer causing chemicals. Don't trust KHNL? Try the EPA and those...

• Wrong-way Drivers Contribute To Automible Accident Death and Injury

  Wayne Parsons | July 10, 2009 1:01 PM | 2 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Since the creation of the interstate highway system in the 1950’s, wrong way driving on freeways has been a constant traffic hazard to motorists nationwide. Although there have been years...

• FDA Less Careful With Bottled Water Than EPA Is With Tap Water.

  Wayne Parsons | July 09, 2009 2:05 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Toxic Substances
  

  In a story that generated a great deal of media interest, congressional hearings today focused on two separate reports that concluded that the EPA regulates tap water more carefully than the FDA...

• Sad Day For Americans: Judge Allows GM to Escape Payments to Victims of Injury and Death From Defective GM Cars

  Wayne Parsons | July 08, 2009 12:33 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  If the damage done to the American economy, American workers and all of us by the inept and perhaps crooked management at General Motors (GM), The U.S. Treasury and now a federal judge have told...

• Judge approves GM asset sale, clearing way for restructuring.

  Wayne Parsons | July 06, 2009 2:29 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  On the front page of its business section the New York Times (7/6, B1, De La Merced) reports that US Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert E. Gerber approved a plan by General Motors late on Sunday to...