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P.I.S.S.D. -- Personal Injury, Social Security Disability

The title of this blog reflects Bob Kraft's attitude toward those government agencies and insurance companies that routinely mistreat injured or disabled people.
By Robert Kraft

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Last Entry: May 06, 2009 at 17:44:22

Editorial: Safety vs. Car Weight Issue Seen As Largely Ignored

Posted on April 17, 2009
In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Sam Kazman, general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writes, "The super-high efficiency minicar has become the Holy Grail for many environmentalists," but an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) study found that minis offer "significantly less protection for their passengers" during two car crashes...

Editorial: Lawmakers Should Correct Texas Supreme Court Workers' Compensation Decision

Posted on April 17, 2009
The Austin American-Statesman ran an editorial today speaking out on a really bad decision by the pro-business Texas Supreme Court. The case is a little complicated, but boils down to allowing property owners to avoid liability for negligence if the owner declares itself to be a general contractor and buys workers' compensation insurance for the actual contractor...

Report Indicates Drugmakers Spent Over $2.9 Million on Vermont Physicians to Market Products

Posted on April 16, 2009
The AP reports, "The nation's pharmaceutical makers spent more than $2.9 million on Vermont's doctors, hospitals and universities to market their products in the last fiscal year, according to a report issued Wednesday by the state attorney general's office...

FDA Suspends Clinical Trials Firm

Posted on April 15, 2009
The New York Times reports that, "under pressure from the Food and Drug Administration," Coast Independent Review Board of Colorado Springs "got a dose of reality" when it "agreed to temporarily suspend approving federally regulated medical studies or enrolling new patients in ones currently under way...

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Network News Covers Microcars' Poor Safety Rating

Posted on April 15, 2009
Television coverage of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's poor rating given to microcars during crashes with large vehicles followed the print reporting yesterday. All three major networks ran segments on the story. NBC Nightly News (4/14, story 6, 2:05, Williams) reported, "Saving money, saving the environment, by driving one of the tiny new cars, the kind that have been all over Europe for years but are just now starting to catch on here...

Better Answers Needed in Debate Over Vaccines and Autism

Posted on April 15, 2009
In her U.S. News & World Report column, Bernadine Healy, MD, wrote about the debate over vaccinating children, saying, "Less than a year ago, the National Institutes of Health put out a call for expanded research on vaccine safety that contains many of the very things that parents are asking for: examination of the way the immune system handles different vaccines, the impact of nonvaccine components (like mercury and aluminum), and better understanding of susceptibility to vaccine side effects...

Long Distance Care Givers Receive Help

Posted on April 14, 2009
This guest article is from the National Care Planning Council: Living in a different city or state -- miles from aging parents -- can be very difficult. Keeping in touch by telephone and making long trips to help parents or aging relatives with their needs can be time consuming and not nearly as effective as being available full time in person...

GM Recalls Cars Over Possible Fires

Posted on April 14, 2009
CNN reports, "The possibility of engine fires has prompted General Motors to recall nearly 1.5 million passenger sedans manufactured between 1997 and 2003" under GM's Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac brands. "The affected vehicles have naturally aspirated 3...

Recession Causing Lawyer Layoffs at Big Firms

Posted on April 14, 2009
The AP reports, "The recession is taking a steep toll on the legal profession, an industry long seen as immune from the ups and downs of the economy. Trying to weather the financial crisis, the nation's largest law firms are laying off attorneys and delaying hiring...

Pacifiers Recalled As Choking Hazard

Posted on April 14, 2009
The West Virginia State Journal reports, "Forty-thousand Zoo Pacifiers by Healthtex have been recalled because they failed to meet federal safety standards. The nipples can separate from the base easily and pose a choking hazard." From the American Association for Justice news release.

New Technologies May Improve Social Security Disability Process

Posted on April 13, 2009
An article in the Lufkin Daily News by Daniel Bowline, the district manager for the Social Security Administration in Lufkin, Texas discusses what may be a significant improvement in the way the Social Security Administration will obtain medical records in the future...

New York Law Firm Offers Associates One-Third Pay to Take Year Off

Posted on April 13, 2009
In an article on its front page, the New York Times reports, "Looking to cut costs like everyone else, but not prepared to lay off employees," law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom "has chosen instead to offer all of its associates - about 1,300 worldwide - the option of accepting a third of their base pay to not show up for work for a year...

Novel Uses of Botox Raise Concerns

Posted on April 13, 2009
The New York Times reported on the front page of its Sunday Business section that "some health advocates worry that doctors are widely adopting novel uses for Botox" even before "clinical trials and government approval have established safe doses for new indications - and without definitive proof that the new treatments work...

Friday Fun

Posted on April 10, 2009
Here's a collection of funny road signs from around the world.

Obama Nominates MADD Top Official for Administrator of National Highway Safety Administration

Posted on April 09, 2009
The AP reports, "President Barack Obama has chosen a top official with Mothers Against Drunk Driving to lead a Transportation agency that oversees safety and fuel efficiency requirements for automakers." Obama nominated Chuck Hurley "to become administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...

Travel Tender Playpens Recalled Due to Rail Collapse Hazards

Posted on April 08, 2009
The Chicago Tribune reports, "About 25,000 Travel Tender playpens, made in China and imported by Simplicity Inc. and SFCA Inc. of Reading, Pa., have been recalled because one or more rails can collapse unexpectedly, posing a possible hazard to children...

Pistachio Recall to Expand, FDA Says

Posted on April 08, 2009
USA Today reports that the FDA "recall last week of 2 million pounds of pistachios because of concerns about salmonella contamination has been expanded, and federal officials say more recalls of foods containing pistachios are on the horizon." Already this week the recall was expanded "to cover Setton's entire 2008 crop, except for raw in-shell pistachios...

Removing Recalled Medtronic Leads Seen As Difficult By Most Experienced Surgeons

Posted on April 07, 2009
The New York Times reports that Sprint Fidelis, which is a heart defibrillator cable, was pulled from the market by Medtronic after "five patients who had the cables died." However, "in the next few years, thousands of those patients may face risky surgical procedures to remove and replace the electrical cable, which connects a defibrillator to a chamber of the heart...

After Large Donations From Device Maker, Lawmakers Pressed FDA to Approve Knee-Device.

Posted on April 07, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reports that according to campaign donation records, executives of ReGen Biologics Inc, a "small medical-device company, donated $50,000 in the 2008 election campaign to New Jersey Democrats who went to bat for the company's knee implant at the Food and Drug Administration...

FDA Warns 14 Drugmakers Over Misleading Ads

Posted on April 06, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reported, "The Food and Drug Administration warned 14 major pharmaceutical companies about brief Internet ads that accompany searches on Google and other search engines, saying the ads were misleading because they didn't include risk information...

EEOC Seen as "Laughingstock" Following Ruling

Posted on April 04, 2009
This scathing opinion piece in the New York Times really rips into the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after a report by an arbitrator finding the agency to be in violations of the laws it is supposed to be enforcing. Here is the short editorial: It sounds like a grim sweatshop joke, but the federal agency that?s supposed to enforce justice in the American workplace has been found in willful violation of its own workers? rights...

Friday Fun

Posted on April 03, 2009
Stunning collection of architectural and structural optical illusions.

Some Health Insurers Reject Patients for Taking Certain Medications; Buy Information Online

Posted on April 03, 2009
McClatchy reports that information used by some insurers who deny coverage due to the use of certain drugs like Seroquel and pre-existing conditions may be found on the internet "if you know where to look." Also, "you can discover that if you lie to an insurer about your medical history and drug use, you will be rejected because data-mining companies sell information to insurers about your health, including detailed usage of prescription drugs...

Motorcycles, ATVs For Kids Probably Not Exempt From Lead Law

Posted on April 02, 2009
An unintended consequence of the new Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act is apparently going to be allowed to stand. The law bans lead from products designed for children age 12 and under. It turns out that many ATVs and dirt bikes do have small amounts of lead in various components...

Some Physicians Opting Out of Medicare Due to Low Reimbursements and Paperwork

Posted on April 02, 2009
The New York Times reports, "Some doctors -- often internists but also gastroenterologists, gynecologists, psychiatrists and other specialists -- are no longer accepting Medicare, either because they have opted out of the insurance system or they are not accepting new patients with Medicare coverage...

March of the Blogs - Law Firm Web Strategy Blog

Posted on March 31, 2009
For the month of March, I am going to highlight blogs that I think are interesting and useful. Some may not be directly related to personal injury or Social Security disability law, but all of us who represent injured and disabled people occasionally need help in other areas...

Yamaha Recalls ATVs After 46 Deaths

Posted on March 31, 2009
Yamaha has finally recalled its Rhino ATVs. These vehicles have been the subject of a number of products liability lawsuits, and have been shown to be very dangerous. It's sad that Yamaha waited until there were 46 deaths from incidents involving the Rhinos, but at least they will be off the market for a while...

Study Finds That Consumers Overlook Over-The-Counter Drug Warnings

Posted on March 31, 2009
Bloomberg News reported, "Consumers overlook warnings about potential tampering on over-the-counter medications at least 80 percent of the time, suggesting packages and labels need to be redesigned to attract attention and improve safety, a study found...

FDA Announces Large Pistachio Recall Due to Salmonella Fears

Posted on March 31, 2009
NBC Nightly News (3/30, story 9, 0:30, Williams) reported, "A California nut producer is recalling its entire yearly crop of pistachios, over a million pounds of them. And a California processing plant is under investigation for a possible salmonella outbreak...

UnitedHealth to Face Senate Tuesday

Posted on March 30, 2009
The AP reports, "Sen. Jay Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, wants answers at a hearing Tuesday from the chief executives of UnitedHealth Group Inc. and its subsidiary Ingenix Inc., a claims database used by insurers nationwide to calculate out-of-network rates...

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