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I was in an automobile accident. What should I do? Ten Tips For Hawaii Drivers

Posted on September 14, 2009
What you should do when you are in an automobile accident varies from state to state but there are some basic things that apply everywhere. Below are 10 steps that will help you get started. At the outset, you can find an attorney to talk to on the telephone where you live by doing a Google or Yahoo Search using the terms: Injury Board Honolulu...

Is Obama Caving In To Insurance Companies on Tort Reforn In Health Care Negotiation?

Posted on September 14, 2009
The AP (9/14) reports, "President Barack Obama began a week that will dwell heavily on overhauling the health care system, declaring himself confident Congress will pass 'a good health care bill' even though some Republican opponents were trying to kill the measure for political gain...

Tatiana Beasley Now Believed To Be Driver of Truck In Fatal Moanalua Crash

Posted on September 14, 2009
Rob Shikina of the Honolulu Star Bulletin reports that it appears that Tatiana Beasley was driving the car that crashed on Moanalua Freeway on July 19, 2009. Ms. Beasley was found outside of the truck that crashed into a concrete barrier near Ole Lane overpass...

Bad News Hawaii Motorists! Highway Bill Passage This Fall Is Unlikely

Posted on September 12, 2009
JOSH MITCHELL of the Wall Street Journal writes that federal funding for interstate highways across the country is in trouble: Highway-Bill Passage This Fall Is Unlikely. Recent articles have highlighted the importance of Congress funding these desperately needed repairs at increased letters...

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Obama opens door to tort reform in healthcare speech.

Posted on September 10, 2009
The AP (9/10) reports that in his speech before a joint session of Congress last night pushing his ideas for healthcare reform, President Obama said "that he wants to look at a 'range of ideas' to 'put patient safety first and let doctors focus on practicing medicine...

Deteriorated Interstate Highways And Roadways In Every State Add To Fatalities

Posted on September 10, 2009
One of my pet peeves is potholes. How about you, readers? Any of you like potholes? Catch a 6-inch deep 2 foot wide pothole at 45 mph and you'll feel $45 slip out of your wallet on car maintenance expenses during the rest of the year. Tires, alignment, shocks ...

Hawaii Child Passenger Safety

Posted on September 09, 2009
Aidon Ng, 5-years-old, is dead today. I sadly wrote about his death in an article yesterday: Was the Death of 5-Year-Old Aidon Ng Due To A Seat-back Failure? KITV News reports today that: "[c]ar collisions are the leading cause of death of children over the age of 1, according to national statistics...

Hawaii Highway Chronicles: Are Our Roads The 4th Worst in the Country?

Posted on September 09, 2009
I just read the report, 'Future Mobility in Hawaii: Meeting the State's Need for Safe and Efficient Mobility,' and it does not bode well for those of us who use Hawaii Highways and rural roads. Hawaii ranks 4th from the bottom because of deteriorating roads and high incidence of fatal accidents on rural roads...

Second Circuit chief judge rules no requirement of "bad faith" finding for attorney fees reward.

Posted on September 08, 2009
Law.com (9/8, Wise) reports, "A finding of 'subjective bad faith' is not a prerequisite for an award of attorney fees in a dismissed market manipulation case subject to a 1995 law designed to curb frivolous securities claims, a unanimous federal appeals panel in Manhattan ruled Wednesday...

University of Tennessee and NFL Player Jesse Mahelona Dies In Kailua-Kona Crash

Posted on September 07, 2009
Jesse Mahelona Football season has just started and Hawaii is football paradise. I'm a football fan and follow the talented local athletes who play in College and the Pros. Today we all are sad to learn that one of the great ones is gone, long before his time...

Trailer Hitch Failure Leads to Death of California Man in Kona on Sunday

Posted on September 07, 2009
Deadly automobile accidents continue to plague the Big Island roads. Our condolences go out to the family of a 49-year-old California man who was killed on Sunday in a freak accident on Queen Kaahumanu Highway near Makala Boulevard. The Star Bulletin reports the story in Monday's on-line edition...

Was the Death of 5-Year-Old Aidon Ng Due To A Seat-back Failure?

Posted on September 07, 2009
Why do people die in car crashes? Some answers are easy. Some are hidden from view. I imagine myself tonight with the Ng family in Waimea. Three family members are dead. My wife died last year. I understand. Let me stop and catch my breath and pay respect...

Zonulin Research Key To Cures For Autoimmune Disorders Like MS

Posted on September 07, 2009
Make a note: zonulin _ a mysterious human protein _ is a molecule in the human body called haptoglobin 2 precursor. According to a science news story University of Maryland researchers have found that Zonulin is an immature state (or precursor) to another molecule - haptoglobin 2 - That may lead to cures for a variety of autoimmune diseases including multiple sclerosis...

Why Are Fatal Traffic Accidents in Honolulu Concentrated In Downtown and Iwilei?

Posted on September 06, 2009
Let take the off ramp on the H-1 Interstate Highway and cut through Downtown Honolulu over to the Iwilei area and Nimitz Highway. For the past wek a group of Injury Board affiliates across the country have be participating in a series of articles on interstate highways and underinsurance coverage (UM) and so i take a short detour to look at some particularly dangerous areas for fatal car crashes in Hawaii on the roads of Oahu and the streets of Honolulu...

Dialysis Risk: Does Your Doctor Know About Warfarin Causing Strokes?

Posted on September 05, 2009
Warfarin (also marketed as Coumadin, Jantoven, Marevan, Lawarin, and Waran) first hit the market in 1948. Back then, though, it was not an anticoagulant; it was rat poison. It didn't take long for scientists to uncover its therapeutic effects, and by the 1950's it was prescribed by doctors to patients at risk for strokes...

Number of implicated Chinese drywall manufacturers may be about to jump sharply.

Posted on September 05, 2009
I wrote extensively about the Chinese Drywall defects in homes throughout the Southeastern United States when the story broke earlier this year: Drywall From China Causes Concern Over Sulfur Odor In Homes The Sarasota (FL) Herald Tribune (9/4, Kessler) reports, "The number of Chinese drywall manufacturers responsible for corrosion and potential health problems plaguing U...

Risky Drivers Don't Just Drive Drunk and Speed - They Often Don't have Insurance

Posted on September 03, 2009
Today I am looking at the drivers who cause the injury and death that plagues our interstate highways from Hawaii to North Carolina and everywhere between. Getting inside the head of the bad drivers is the first step to preventing them from doing the harm they do...

Whistleblower suit accuses Toyota of concealing evidence in hundreds of accidents.

Posted on September 02, 2009
The Los Angeles Times (9/1, Hennigan) reports, "Toyota spent years concealing evidence from victims of hundreds of rollover accidents that resulted in death and injury, a former top lawyer for the automaker says." Dimitrios P. Biller of Pacific Palisades, "a former managing counsel for Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc...

Health Care Reform: Each Generation Has to FIGHT For their Own Freedom!

Posted on September 02, 2009
Now is our time to fight for our freedom. Freedom from the CFO's of Big Insurance. Feedom from the rich and politically corrupt medical establishment. Every time I think about that I wonder why more honest doctors don't speak up. They know. President Obama reveals the truth about health care: I and many others have spoken the truth about the absolute need in the U...

Twelve Tips To Prevent Avoidable, Fatal Medical Errors and Infections in Hospitals

Posted on September 02, 2009
A New Hearst Investigation Reports 200,000 Preventable, Fatal Medical Errors and Infections in Hospitals Each Year. 12 Tips to Prevent Them. By Martine Ehrenclou, MA No doubt you've heard about the frightening number of deadly medical errors that occur in hospitals nationwide...

Interstate Highways Are No Place For Drunk Drivers Over The Labor Day Weekend

Posted on September 01, 2009
As the Labor day weekend approaches police across the nation are cracking down on drunk driving. Those of us who see the tragic results of dangerous driving behavior support the police and hope that our phones ring silent next week. That's why 5 of us (Steve Lombardi, Devon Glass, Michael Bryant, Steve Lombardi and Rick Shapiro), all members of Injury Board, are writing about highway safety this month _ focusing on the interstate highway system...

Criminal Charges In Waimanalo Car Crash: Teenager In Critical Condition

Posted on August 31, 2009
A KITV News story reports that criminal charges face the driver of a car that crashed in Waimanalo early Sunday morning ejecting a young passenger. The teenager is in critical condition. Police said the driver faces criminal charges. Traffic investigators said the crash happened just after 1 a...

40th Anniversary of the Internet Raises Questions About New Barriers To Its Growth

Posted on August 31, 2009
I wonder if Len Kleinrock has a Blog? His team at UCLA began tests 40 years ago that resulted in the internet. It all began with a comic book! At the age of 6, Leonard Kleinrock was reading a Superman comic at his apartment in Manhattan, when, in the centerfold, he found plans for building a crystal radio...

Heart Attack Slide Show

Posted on August 30, 2009
Its Saturday and I am thinking about which of my weekend chores to take on first. Then I started thinking about people out in their yards and around the house doing the weekend chores and the fact that some will die of a heart attack today came to mind...

Another Pedestrian Death In Kona

Posted on August 30, 2009
The Honolulu Star Bulletin reports another pedestrian death, this time in Kona. The victim was 56-years-old and passed away after being struck by a car while walking along Route 190 in North Kona, at about 3:45 p.m. Friday according to the police.. The man was heading north on the mauka shoulder near Kalaoa Road when a Honda sedan traveling in the same direction drifted onto the shoulder and hit him from behind, police said...

Woman In Wheel Chair Struck By Hit-and-Run Driver on Bishop Street

Posted on August 30, 2009
Another hit-and-run victim _ a 55-year-old woman in a wheelchair _ is reported in the Star Bulletin today: A 55-year-old Mililani woman in a wheelchair was struck by a vehicle about 10:20 p.m. Friday in a crosswalk on Bishop Street, near Beretania Street, police said...

Continuous Streaming Therapy Using Dermastream Show Promise For Chronic Wound Care

Posted on August 30, 2009
Permanent wounds that never heal afflict over six million people in the U.S. The wound sometimes appear to heal but then return. Elderly nursing home residents see them as dangerous bed sores or pressure ulcers, and diabetics are susceptible to wounds caused by a lack of blood flow to the extremities...

Drunk Drivers Caused 40% of Traffic Fatalities In Hawaii In 2006

Posted on August 30, 2009
Alcohol Alert, a company that sells prevention devices to reduce drunk driving, and drunk driving injury and death report on Hawaii Drunk Driving Statistics: In Hawaii, the alcohol related deaths have declined by over 50% since 1982, from a high that same year of 103, to a low of 44 in 1999...

Pelagia Igne's Family Calls for Fort Weaver Road Hit-and-Run Driver's Surrender

Posted on August 29, 2009
The hit-and-run driver of a vehicle that struck and killed 68-year-old Pelagia Igne last week remains at large. The public is being asked to help bring the driver to justice. GEORGE F. LEE / GLEE@STARBULLETIN.COM Evelyn Arrocena held a picture yesterday of her mother, Pelagia Igne, who was killed last Friday in a hit-and run crash on Fort Weaver Road...

New Medical Device Allows Immediate Blood Analysis During Surgery

Posted on August 29, 2009
Timing is everything in surgery and blood analysis informs the doctors about the presence of disease. Now a team of British electronic professors and medical doctors has developed a new device to do it on the fly in the operating room. If successful _ and it looks like they are well on the way to mastering the engineering issues _ this will save lives and prevent unavoidable errors...

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