Posts tagged general personal injury

• Teacher Dies of Heart Attack While Getting Root Canal

  Amy Schauers | December 18, 2007 6:10 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Chicago elementary school Principal Georgette Watson died today while undergoing a root canal. It is reported that she died of a heart attack while under sedation. It is still unclear whether she was unconscious or was given anesthesia. Office staff tried to revive Watson before paramedics arrived but were unsuccessful. Two of the dentists have been on probation since July "due to...

• Utah's Largest Wrongful Death Verdict - 50 Million Dollars

  Brad Parker | April 24, 2007 4:19 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Wrongful Death
  

  My partner Jim McConkie and I, two Salt Lake City personal injury attorneys who have practiced together for almost thirty years, hold the record for the largest wrongul death verdict ever obtained in the state. We obtained the verdict in a federal court case we filed relating to the death of Rulon Allred. The case was tried in the Federal District Court in Salt Lake City before a jury...

• Couple Injured in Home Explosion

  Amy Schauers | February 13, 2008 1:06 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A couple in Sanpete Utah was seriously injured after their home exploded today. The cause of the explosion may have been snow or ice falling from the roof and hitting and damaging an exposed propane line. The leaking propane was ignited after potentially two days of leakage into the crawl space of the home.Officials advise that once a propane tank is installed they should always be checked for...

• Radon and Lung Cancer

  Amy Schauers | November 20, 2007 1:30 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Some Utah based researchers are urging people who live along the Wasatch Front to have their homes tested for Radon. This is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that can cause 10% of lung cancer even in those who don't smoke.Researchers say that it doesn't matter what the age of your home is. This is because many homes along the Wasatch Front are built on uranium-rich granite. Radon is a gas...

• Passengers at Risk of Catastrophic Accidents on Runways

  Amy Schauers | December 05, 2007 12:53 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to a report from the congressional Government Accountability Office, airline passengers may be at risk to catastrophic accidents of airline runway collisions. Collisions, which were narrowly or barely avoided, have occured about 30 per year since 2002.The FAA made significant progress with its 2002 national runway safety plan which dropped these occurrences considerably. This report...

• Search Continues For Trapped Utah Miners

  Courtney Mills | 2007-08-27T09:25:14 | 0 Comments Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The search for the six miners at the collapsed Crandall Canyon Mine goes on near Huntington, Utah, now trapped since August 6th. Families received some measure of satisfaction over the weekend upon discovery that rescue crews had decided to introduce a special camera-outfitted robot for surveying the deep underground.Rescue crews hope that the camera-robot, the same kind used at Ground Zero to...

• Strict Regulations Govern Coal Mining in Utah

  James McConkie | 2007-08-23T10:43:25 | 0 Comments Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Jim McConkie said today that strict regulations govern coal mining. Coal producers are required to obtain permission to mine from local, state, and federal regulatory entities. Companies are required to provide detailed information about how they intend to mine safely to avoid wrongful deaths and personal injuries to workers.For more information on this subject matter, please refer to the...

• Utah Rescuers Working to Free Trapped Miners

  Courtney Mills | 2007-08-13T09:47:20 | 0 Comments Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Rescuers in anguish hoped to find trapped miners by drilling a third hole and proceeding from that point, authorities reported at the scene. Rescue authorities have already drilled two holes to reach the miners in the collapsed Crandall Canyon mine, but were having trouble reaching their colleagues because of several seismic anomalies. The nightmare has gone on for several days and nights,...

• Toshiba Recalls Notebook Computer Batteries Due to Fire Hazard

  Courtney Mills | 2007-08-09T13:26:55 | 0 Comments Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in conjunction with Toshiba America issued a recall of approximately 1,400 computer notebook batteries on August 9th. The lithium-ion batteries used as a power source for these computers can overheat and catch on fire.Defective batteries manufactured by Sony were installed in Toshiba computers with model names such as Portege, Qosmio, Satellite, and...

• Cell Phones, Like Alcohol, Cause Wrongful Death

  Brad Parker | 2007-06-14T08:18:17 | 0 Comments Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Every year, Utah citizens suffer the tragedy of alcohol related wrongful deaths caused by drunken drivers. Though it is clearly illegal to drive under the influence of alcohol, and although the dangers of drunk driving are widely known, an alarming number of individuals still drive while intoxicated and each year lives of Utah citizens are unnecessarily cut short because of drunken driving...