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Reducing Alcohol Related Vehicle Crashes – May 20, 2013
On average, every hour that passes in America, one person is killed and twenty more injured in an alcohol related vehicle accident. This amounts to an annual toll of almost 10,000 people killed and over 173,000 injured. What is also noteworthy is that while total highway fatalities have generally been...
Read MoreDeath on the Job: The Toll of Neglect – May 17, 2013
The AFL-CIO has recently released its 2013 edition of Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect. The annual edition reports on the state of safety and health protections for America’s workers. While workplace safety and health conditions have improved since the passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act...
Read MoreTragic Weekend Accidents Kill Three, Injure Six – May 12, 2013
A woman from Troy, Missouri was killed this past Thursday evening in a head on collision in Lincoln County, Missouri on Highway C at North Shore Lane near Moscow Mills. Six others were injured, including five children under the age of twelve. According to the report filed by the Missouri...
Read MoreTrial Approved for Treatment of Spinal Cord Injuries – April 30, 2013
InVivo Therapeutics has announced that the Food and Drug Administration has approved human trials for a device intended to reduce damage after a spinal cord injury. The device is called a biopolymer scaffold product and the company will begin a trial of the device in the next few months. The study...
Read MoreTruck Driver Charged in Death of Illinois Motorcycle Trooper – April 23, 2012
The truck driver that struck and killed a Illinois State Police motorcycle trooper last November, was formally charged on Monday with reckless homicide and operating a tractor-trailer in violation of his commercial driver’s license by a Montgomery County grand jury. The truck driver, Johnny B. Felton Jr. 52, has claimed...
Read MoreFertilizer Plant Explosion Causes Reexamination Of Safety – April 20, 2013
The massive explosion at the West, Texas fertilizer plant has authorities still trying to determine the cause of the explosion and has caused others to wonder about the safety of fertilizer plants. Authorities are now estimating that as many as 45 individuals have been killed, with more than 200 others...
Read MoreWindow Falls and TBI – April 8, 2013
As we wrote in our last blog, thirty five percent of traumatic brain injuries result from falls. Roughly 475,000 children suffered TBI last year. With the warmer weather approaching and the natural tendency to open our windows to get some fresh air, please remember that falls from windows can be...
Read MoreTraumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month – April 1, 2013
This past month, March of 2013, has been Brain Injury Awareness Month. Unfortunately, within this past month roughly 140,000 people in the United States will have suffered some degree of traumatic brain injury (TBI). These injuries have ranged from mild concussions to comas and death. The Brain Injury Association of...
Read MoreThe Dangers & Prevalence of Retained Surgical Items – March 26, 2013
Surgical errors resulting in “retained surgical items” can have drastic consequences including death. In a story published earlier this month in USAToday, the extent of the problem has been brought to light. While government data indicates an estimate of roughly 3,000 of these incidents per year, other research suggests that...
Read MoreActos Bladder Cancer Lawsuit Goes To Trial – March 18, 2013
In the first of over 3,000 Actos lawsuits to go to trial, opening statements revealed that Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. failed to warn doctors of the bladder cancer risks associated with the drug. The Takeda sales representative visited the plaintiff’s doctor’s office over 195 times, yet never warned him of the...
Read MoreThe Warning Signs of Nursing Home Abuse
As nursing home injury lawyers, Padberg Corrigan & Appelbaum has become increasing involved in litigation regarding a disturbing trend: physical injury, death or abuse to loved ones while in the care of resident care facilities. Roughly 1.6 million elderly people live in nursing homes in the United States and that number...
Read MoreThree Critically Injured in Steel Plant Explosion – March 7, 2013
The American Steel Foundries Plant in Granite City, Illinois experienced a blast this morning, injuring at least 10 people with three listed in critical condition. The explosion took place in the cleaning and finishing department where workers were operating a grinding machine. According to the Granite City Fire Department, apparently...
Read MoreTractor Trailer Rollover Accidents
In Oregon a few days ago a tractor-trailer truck was negotiating a curve when the truck’s load shifted, causing the driver to lose control and the rig to roll. Fortunately in this case no one was injured and motorists were only slightly inconvenienced with the road closure. Tragically, a man...
Read MoreTraffic Safety Recalls And The Role Of Our Legal System – Feb 17, 2013
Safety on America’s roadways is a common topic on this blog and we often write about some of the more newsworthy recalls that may affect traffic safety. Just today, BMW announced that it is recalling roughly 504,000 cars in the United States and 65,000 automobiles in Canada because a battery...
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