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Chrysler Bankruptcy Update: Car Giant To Accept More Product Liability Claims.

Posted on August 28, 2009
The AP (8/27) reported, "Chrysler Group LLC said Thursday it will accept product liability claims in a broader number of cases than originally planned in its reorganization under bankruptcy protection. The automaker said it will now consider product-related lawsuits from consumers involved in accidents that occurred after Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy protection in June that involve vehicles manufactured by the old company...

Death and Injury On Interstate Highways Increase With Higher Speed Limits

Posted on August 28, 2009
Most of us don't become angry because the driver ahead of us is driving the speed limit. Some do. They are dangerous people. That make high risk choices. They probably drink a lot. Let me indulge in my Honolulu H-1 Interstate Highway major irritation: If you live and drive in Honolulu you know what I mean...

Myths About World Health Care By Big Insurance

Posted on August 27, 2009
T.R. Reid a former Washington Post reporter and author of "The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care," to be published this week writes on Sunday, August 23, 2009 about 5 Myths About Health Care Around the World‎...

Soldier's family petitions SCOTUS to reconsider Feres Doctrine.

Posted on August 27, 2009
WJXX-TV Jacksonville, FL (8/26, Weeder, Wax) on its website reported, "The death of Petty Officer Nathan Hafterson is being used in a petition filed with U.S. Supreme Court asking the high court to allow active duty military personnel to sue the government...

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Hawaii Freeway Chronicles #1: What Are The Danger Points On H-1, H-2 and H-3?

Posted on August 27, 2009
Today I write about the Interstate Highways in Hawaii. No confusing numbering system here on Oahu: H-1, H-2 and H-3. There you have it. So it should be simple you'd think to identify the locations along those three short freeways where car crashes happen the most often...

Tort Reform Shows the Connection Between Big Insurance and the Republican Party

Posted on August 26, 2009
Do you love your insurance company? I'm not talking about the friendly Agent who sold you the policy and sends you a pocket calendar on your birthday each year. I love my agent. He is a great guy. But the insurance company? They are all bad. The take our premiums and deny our claims...

Andra Kimp Sentenced to 20 Years For Dui Death On Oahu in 2003

Posted on August 25, 2009
Minna Sugimoto (bio | email) of KHNL TV News covered the Court story in Honolulu of Andra Kimp who is now behind bars serving 20 years for a 2003 DUI crash that killed his passenger. The deadly crash on the H-1 Freeway resulted in a one year jail term for Kimp...

Medical malpractice reform debated.

Posted on August 25, 2009
The Buffalo News (8/22, Zremskie) reported, "Dr. Richard Vienne of Amherst (NY) and many of his colleagues nationwide say there's one thing missing from the great debate over health care reform: any effort to ease the minds of doctors so they wouldn't keep wasting money on tests out of the fear of getting sued...

Can We Afford NOT To Build More Bike Paths in Honolulu?

Posted on August 25, 2009
What is a life worth? How much do bike paths cost? What is a life in a wheel chair with a brain injury worth? How much does a good crosswalk warning light system cost? Health, injury death and money are three apples and one elephant. That is what I was thinking as I read the excellent article "Honolulu has plans, lacks funds to add 40 miles of bike paths - No funds available now, but backers remain hopeful" by Mary Vorsino Advertiser Urban Honolulu Writer...

Interstate Highways From Michigan to Iowa to Hawaii

Posted on August 25, 2009
Devon Glass from Church Wyble, P.C. and Steve Lombardi from The Lombardi Law Firm are experimenting with a joint project about highway safety. They are looking at trends and tendencies of accidents and injury or death on the interstate highway system that exists in their states, Michigan and Iowa respectively...

Obama Administration only supports medical error reporting for infections.

Posted on August 25, 2009
Hearst Newspapers (8/24, Dunham) reported, "While the White House acknowledges that hospital medical errors are 'a big and serious problem,' a senior administration official says President Barack Obama does not favor a mandatory reporting system for all medical mistakes, just for infections...

Death Of A Child In Hawaii

Posted on August 24, 2009
Hawaii like most states witnesses teenage death and serious injury most frequently because of suicide and car crashes. A new study shows that Hawaii _ which used to be the safest place for Keiki is now not so safe for kids. When I first came to the Islands in 1967 I was blown away by the Keiki - kids...

Experience Matters! People Over 40 Now Have A New Resource In the Job Market

Posted on August 24, 2009
Putting meat on the bones of the old phrase "experience matters", a group of seasoned entrepreneurs and administrators are creating a place for people over 40 to learn how to avoid the job scrapheap. I blog'd recently on a lawsuit against AT&T for age discrimination - AT&T Charged With Age Discrimination in Lawsuit By Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) - and that put me in touch with a n interesting gentleman named Jeff Winters from the Silicon Valley Area...

Bicycle Riders Face Grim Statistics Of Injury Or Death In Hawaii

Posted on August 24, 2009
Hawaii is a great place to ride a bicycle. Great weather and beautiful scenery. We have many biking events like The Ironman Triathlon in Kona and many other events that fill the roads with bicycles and encourage healthy physical exercise with bikes. But there is risk in bicycle riding...

Proposal To Fix The Economy By Lowering Retirement Age To 55

Posted on August 24, 2009
Thom Hartmann has a proposal to fix the economy that is at first glance odd but on second thought makes some sense. His proposal to fix our economic woes? Lower the retirement age to 55. Mr. Hartmann (thom@thomhartmann.com) is a Project Censored Award-winning New York Times best-selling author, and host of a nationally syndicated daily progressive talk program The Thom Hartmann Show...

Another Hit-and-run on Oahu

Posted on August 23, 2009
About six hours after a 68-year old Ewa Beach woman was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver on Fort Weaver Road in Ewa Beach a young boy on a bicycle was struck by a hit-and-run driver on Lanikuhana Street in Mililani, who ran over him and kept going...

Truck Driver Crosses Centerline in Ka'a'awa and Kills Pearl Harbor Sailor

Posted on August 23, 2009
A young Sailor is dead after being struck by a truck that crossed the centerline on Kamehameha Highway near Kualoa Ranch and struck his bicycle. Nothing can be more tragic than the death of a soldier. The risks of war are one thing but being hit by a driver who fell asleep at the wheel is disheartening and terrible sad...

Fort Weaver Road Hit-And-Run Claims Another Life

Posted on August 22, 2009
If you know anything about an older light colored van that hit and killed a 68-year old woman on Fort Weaver Road on Thursday please call the police. The woman was fatally injured when she was struck by the van while crossing Fort Weaver Road in 'Ewa Beach yesterday morning...

The Hawaii Pedestrian Crosswalk Chronicles: Prevention Of Death and Injury

Posted on August 22, 2009
Yes I am obsessed with crosswalk safety. I know that we as a community can reduce death and injury of pedestrians at crosswalks. The Hawaii Pedestrian Crosswalk Safety Chronicles: Innovative Solution for Crosswalk Safety Teen Killed In Yet Another Pedestrian Death On Oahu In an article about jaywalking titled Watch Your Step - Don't become a statistic - By Sarah Ruppenthal she talks about the costs in terms of tragic injury or death, as well as costly fines on Oahu and in Honolulu...

Genetic Link Between Physical Pain And Social Rejection Found

Posted on August 22, 2009
ScienceDaily (Aug. 21, 2009) reports on a discovery by scientists at UCLA that identifies a gene linked with physical pain sensitivity that is also linked with social pain sensitivity. The gene involves mu-opioids the most potent painkillers in or bodies...

Motorcycle Deaths of Soldiers Returning From Iraq Spurs Biker Training Effort By Army

Posted on August 21, 2009
Mari-Ela David (bio | email) of KHNL News reports on some of the most encouraging news regarding motorcycle riding in Hawaii this year in her story from Wahiawa today. I have written many articles on this Blog in 2009 about the increasing rate of motorcycle death and injury in Honolulu, on Oahu and on Maui and the Big island...

Scuba Diving And Snorkeling In Hawaii Are Wonderful Ocean Activities But Can Be Dangerous

Posted on August 21, 2009
Resorts around the world offer ocean activities that often include snorkeling and SCUBA diving. Fish can breathe underwater. People can't do that. Birds can fly. Okay, you get the picture. There is something amazing about SCUBA diving and snorkeling...

AT&T Charged With Age Discrimination in Lawsuit By Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Posted on August 21, 2009
The Washington Post (8/21, Whoriskey) reports, "The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against AT&T on Thursday, alleging that the telecommunications giant is discriminating against older workers. The centerpiece of the suit is the charge that by company policy, AT&T will not rehire workers who have previously retired from the company...

www.kuncinich.com

Posted on August 20, 2009
What the heck is www.kucinich.com ? Truth. Dennis Kucinich. No spin. Dennis Kucinich. No media. Dennis Kucinich. Smart. Dennis Kucinich. No sex and Rock & Roll. Not 100% sure about the Rock & Roll but he looks like a Tony Bennett fan. People...

Nationwide Crackdown on Drunk Drivers Targets Women

Posted on August 20, 2009
Event.observe(window, 'load', PG.updateRSSLink); Jon Schmitz, of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writes about DUI and women in his story DUI crackdown aims at women Nationwide campaign to begin tomorrow addresses trend . Watch for sobriety checkpoints, many police on the highways and streets throughout Hawaii and a major advertising campaign focusing on drunk drivers...

Public Plan, Public Plan, Public Plan!

Posted on August 20, 2009
The Republican - Insurance Industry attack on the Public Plan, Single Payer Health Care Plan is about as corrupt and shallow as politics get anywhere. The only hole low enough for them to stoop after this recent Town Hall Meeting scam of sending hired goons to disrupt meetings, is car bombs and terrorism...

Wiihabilitation Comes to Maluhia Nursing Home in Honolulu

Posted on August 19, 2009
Some days are better than others. Yesterday was a great day. I was at Maluhia Nursing Home in Honolulu where I donated two Nintendo Wii games to the facility. A raucous group of residents gathered in the recreation room to see what Wii-hab is all about...

News From Congress: You Don't Matter In The Health Care War

Posted on August 19, 2009
Look what happened while I and my staff was at Maluhia Nursing home in Honolulu on Monday donating two Nintendo Wii video games to the delighted residents as a part of the national effort by 60 law firms, who are part of the Injury Board, in 25 states to help bring some fun and exercise by the less fortunate in our Hawaii community? Wiihabilitation Comes To Honolulu! I was feeling great having seen the smiles on the faces of the mostly wheel chair bound nursing home residents and then came home to TV news that Big Insurance and corporate CEO's are stealing the hope for change that we all had in January...

The Potential Impact of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination on Hawaii Women

Posted on August 18, 2009
My preference for cancer is to start with what we know. Knowing something is not hearing something or reading something. It is understanding. Here are the facts about the effect of HPV vaccination on young girls. You should read it if you are serious about cervical cancer, as I am: The aim of this study was to determine the proportion of invasive cervical cancers attributable to human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 in a contemporary, cytologically well-screened UK population...

Hearst Newspapers Investigation Of Medical Malpractice

Posted on August 18, 2009
Joanne Doroshow has been telling us about it for years. If you care about health care I hope that you join the Center For Justice & Democracy (CJ&D). Doroshow is an American hero. Also praise Honolulu KITV NEWS. KITV has courageously run the story DEAD BY MISTAKE this week in Honolulu...

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