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Hospital Errors Endanger Patients

Posted on April 13, 2008
An analysis of 41 million Medicare patient records, released April 8 by HealthGrades, a health care ratings organization, found that patients treated at top-performing hospitals were, on average, 43 percent less likely to experience one or more medical errors than...

Medication Errors For Hospitalized Children

Posted on April 10, 2008
Our Atlanta based medical malpractice lawyers frequently handle cases involving medication errors in hospitals. Some of these cases result in catastrophic damages. A research study published in the April issue of the journal Pediatrics determined that medicine mix-ups, accidental overdoses...

Florida Court Suspends Allstate in Florida

Posted on April 08, 2008
On Friday, April 4, 2008, the District Court of Appeals, First District, State of Florida upheld the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation?s suspension of Allstate from writing insurance in the State of Florida. Allstate had been suspended weeks before for...

New Tactic By Defense Attorneys To Prejudice Claimants

Posted on April 05, 2008
Our Atlanta personal injury attorneys are constantly monitoring emerging rends in the legal field. Recently, a controversial test that is supposed to detect "malingering" is gaining popularity among defense experts in personal injury, workers' compensation and other cases...

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Federal Agencies Join Forces Against Consumers

Posted on April 03, 2008
If you think the prescription drug you took for headaches caused your heart attack, the Food and Drug Administration says you can't sue the maker for injury if it met agency standards. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) says you...

Home Defibrillator Study

Posted on April 01, 2008
A study released yesterday contained bad news for makers and buyers of portable defibrillators, devices that deliver electrical shocks meant to revive victims of sudden heart In the first major study of their use in household settings, researchers found no...

Police Use of Taser Kills Teenager

Posted on March 24, 2008
Many wrongful death lawsuits have been brought against the manufacturer of the popular police taser device but according to the manufacturer?s boasts which are in the public record, no such lawsuits have been successful. And yet, practically every week...

Imperial Sugar Plant Case Becomes More Complicated

Posted on March 22, 2008
Thirteen (13) people have died (and many more injured) as a result of burns and other injuries sustained in the explosion at the Imperial Plant in Port Wentworth, Georgia. Investigators have expressed the opinion that sugar dust ignited and...

Surgical Error Causes Removal of Healthy Kidney

Posted on March 20, 2008
Our Atlanta medical malpractice attorneys on occasion review cases in which surgical procedures are performed on the wrong side of the body. Last Tuesday there was a report of a wrong site surgery at a Minnesota hospital. Surgeons at the...

Contaminated Chinese Heparin

Posted on March 17, 2008
At least19 people have died, and hundreds became ill after being given heparin, a blood-thinning drug sold by drug manufacturer Baxter International. Baxter obtained the drug?s active ingredient from a Chinese manufacturer. A belated inspection of the Chinese plant found...

Surgery Patients Awake During Procedures

Posted on March 13, 2008
Many surgery patients report that they awake during surgery. They say it feels like being trapped in a corpse, unable to move or scream. Some remember hearing their surgeons talk, and a few recall feeling intense pain. Each year, as...

Another Police Chase: Another Tragedy

Posted on March 06, 2008
It seems that everyday our personal injury lawyers open the paper, we read about another wrongful death in the context of a high speed police chase. One such case occurred this past weekend in Augusta, Georgia when a Sheriff?s...

Another Innocent Victim Killed in a Police Chase for a Stolen Car

Posted on March 04, 2008
In February of this year, an active member of the military at Fort Benning, Sgt. Joanna Joy Ringer, age 21, was reportedly killed as yet another innocent victim in a police chase case. This time, the, innocent victim, Ms....

Atlanta School Bus Accident Raises Questions Concerning Bus Safety

Posted on March 04, 2008
Our personal injury lawyers read today about a serious accident case involving an overturned school bus which apparently lost control and overturned about 40 miles north of Atlanta near Canton, Georgia. It was traveling from one high school to a...

Doctor Charged Criminally

Posted on February 29, 2008
In 2006, a disabled and brain damaged man, near death, was taken into an operating room at a California hospital in order to harvest his organs for donation. Law enforcement officials contend that what occurred in the operating room was a criminal act...

New Supreme Court Decision Makes It More Diffcult For Georgia Lawyers To Sue Medical Device And Drug Companies In Product-Injury Claims

Posted on February 28, 2008
Last Wednesday the Supreme Court of the United States made it harder for injury and wrongful death victims to sue manufacturers of federally approved medical devices. This decision will also impact cases involving dangerous drugs. The issue before the Supreme Court was whether the Estate of Charles Riegel could sue a company under state law over a medical device which had previously been cleared for sale by federal regulators...

Truck Accidents from Driver Fatigue Increasing

Posted on February 26, 2008
Truck driver fatigue is a factor in a significant number of truck accidents involving deaths and other injuries, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the government agency generally in charge of promoting trucking safety. Consistent with the Bush administration?s continuing policy of protecting the interests of big business (at the expense of the public), in 2004, the federal government catered to the trucking industry and its lobby by changing the rules concerning hours that a trucker may drive...

Atlanta Police Chase

Posted on February 25, 2008
Atlanta TV stations are reporting that this afternoon, a car veered into a bus stop during a police chase and struck four pedestrians. The incident was near Metropolitan Parkway and University Drive. According to reports, the Atlanta Police were chasing three juveniles in a stolen vehicle when the car ran into the bus stop...

Dangerous Drugs--Who Is The FDA Trying To Protect?

Posted on February 25, 2008
In January of this year, the FDA issued a proposed rule which directly contradicts Congress? expressed intent when it passed the Food and Drug Administration Amendment?s Act of 2007 (FDAAA). Unlike the FDA?s proposed rule, Congress intended the duty to warn customers of a drug?s hazards rests with the drug company, who is in the best position to warn about problems associated with the drug...

Trasylol Heart Drug Dangers Hidden By Manufacturer

Posted on February 21, 2008
Two studies have concluded that heart surgery patients are more likely to die if given the anti-bleeding drug Trasylol. The drug has been widely used for the last 14 years to treat hundreds of thousands of heart bypass patients each year. Drug manufacturer Bayer AG ceased sales of the last fall, after a Canadian study was halted because of deaths among patients taking Trasylol...

Medical Device Manufacturers Receive Protections

Posted on February 20, 2008
This Wednesday the Supreme Court issued a major anti-consumer opinion, making it harder for consumers to sue manufacturers of federally approved medical devices. In an 8-1 decision, the court ruled against the estate of a patient who suffered serious injuries when a catheter burst during a medical procedure...

Police Chase Indictment

Posted on February 14, 2008
Our police chase injury lawyers have handled many cases involving the deaths of innocent civilians due to police chasing suspects for minor crimes. We have previously written about police departments that have adopted restrictive policies limiting chases and decreasing the chances that innocent civilians and police officers can be seriously injured or killed...

Botox Danger

Posted on February 11, 2008
The U.S. consumer advocacy group, Public Citizen, has called upon authorities to require that Botox and a similar injections come with strong warnings following reports of 16 deaths and other serious problems after the botulinum toxin spread inside the body...

Drug Ads Investigated

Posted on February 11, 2008
We have previously written about controversial drug advertising that takes place in the United States. Once again, this practice has come to the forefront through Dr. Robert Jarvik, who is best known as the developer of an artificial heart. About two years ago, Dr...

FDA Circumvents Congressional Intent In Favor Of Drug Companies

Posted on February 11, 2008
Last year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a proposed rule which directly contradicts Congress? expressed intent when it passed the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA), an Act which encompasses the Prescription Drug and User Fee Act...

Truck Accidents Resulting In Death And Personal Injuries Plague Georgia

Posted on February 10, 2008
Our Atlanta personal injury lawyers know that truck accidents on Georgia?s freeways continue to leave a legacy of death, paralysis, closed head brain damage and other personal injuries for numerous innocent victims. I have read that almost 5,000 people are killed each year in truck-related crashes...

Georgia Car Accident, Truck Accident and SUV Roll-over Tips

Posted on February 09, 2008
There is a well-kept secret of the insurance industry - one unknown to most personal injury victims of car accidents, truck accidents, SUV roll-overs and other motor vehicle crashes: Namely, Georgia state law automatically includes ?uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage? (UM/UIM) in the typical auto liability insurance policy...

Sugar Refinery Blast Leaves Many Dead - Others Injured

Posted on February 08, 2008
Our Georgia injury lawyers are accustomed to seeing cases involving horrible injury and cases of death caused by all types of accidents but burn cases are at the top of the list. We were discussing the news accounts today in Savannah reporting that firefighters found three, and perhaps as many as six, bodies in the wreckage of a still-burning sugar refinery leveled by an explosion overnight...

Truck Accident Lawyers Consider Various Theories Of Liability When Representing Victims In Death Or Injury Cases

Posted on February 08, 2008
Truck wrecks occur more often than one would think in and near a busy city like Atlanta. When they do occur people often sustain very serious injuries and many such accidents result in the death of innocent people. The injury lawyers in our firm have ?seen it all? when it comes to the causes of these tragedies...

Georgia Serious Injury Cases: Frequently Asked Question Number 10

Posted on February 08, 2008
This blog will continue in our series of providing our readers with answers to frequently asked questions in the context of a serious injury case. This blog will address FAQ number 10: 10. Is my case likely to settle or will it go to trial and, if so, how long will the process take? Answer: Over 90% of all serious injury claims are settled by means of compromise...

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