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Personal Injury and Social Security Disability Blog

The purpose of this blog is to provide information to people who have been injured due to negligence, and to those who have filed for Social Security disability benefits, or who are considering filing for Social Security disability benefits.
By Robert Kraft

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Last Entry: August 13, 2012 at 06:06:00

Friday Fun

Posted on August 27, 2010
Six Things From History Everyone Pictures Incorrectly

Texas to Require Insurers to Justify "Unreasonable" Premium Increases

Posted on August 26, 2010
Will Texas really start to crack down on insurance company abuses, or is this just more empty talk from the Texas Department of Insurance? An article in the Dallas Morning News this week quotes state officials as saying they will...

Compatibility of Hospital Tubes Creates Danger for Patients

Posted on August 25, 2010
I just wrote yesterday about hospital errors causing injuries and deaths needlessly. Now an article from the New York Times brings up a point that most hospital patients would never even consider ? you can die because a nurse or...

Preventable Errors Killed 32 Patients in Oregon Hospitals Last Year

Posted on August 24, 2010
This article from OregonLive.com is specific to Oregon, but I have no doubt that it would apply to the entire country, probably in proportion to the number of hospital beds in each state. Hospitals are trying to improve their safety...

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Circuit Breaker Model is Defective and Potentially Dangerous

Posted on August 24, 2010
Here is a very short summary of a very important article from the Dallas Morning News. If you live in an older home in North Texas you need to check your circuit breaker box to make sure it's not a...

Bill Introduced to Provide One-Time $250 Payment to SS Recipients

Posted on August 23, 2010
The Chairman of the House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee, Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND), has introduced H.R. 5987, The Seniors Protection Act of 2010, that would provide a one-time $250 payment to retired and disabled Social Security and SSI....

Friday Fun

Posted on August 20, 2010
One of the few consumer product categories that seems to be resistant to inflation is technological devices, such as computers, music equipment, etc. Or to put it more accurately, you now get more for your money than in the old...

Featured Link - Dallas County Criminal Background Search

Posted on August 19, 2010
Are you a little suspicious of that guy who just moved in across the street from you? There are several Web sites where you can do a criminal background search for a small fee, but now in Dallas County you...

FDA Raises Safety Concerns About Potential Fibromyalgia Drug

Posted on August 19, 2010
Wall Street Journal reports that the FDA revealed safety concerns about Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s potential fibromyalgia drug Rekinla (sodium oxybate), which faces a review on Friday from the FDA's arthritis and drug-safety advisory committees. The drug is currently approved to...

TxDOT Debuts New Travel Information Line

Posted on August 17, 2010
The Texas Department of Transportation has just set up a travel hotline to give drivers real-time information on traffic conditions throughout the state. The phone number is 800-452-9292. The system is based on interactive voice response, in which the caller...

Featured Link - Crohn's and Colitis Foundation

Posted on August 17, 2010
Our Social Security disability department sees a lot of Crohn's disease and colitis cases. There is an excellent resource site for people suffering from these diseases, by the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation. Here is a description from the site: About...

Study Puts Cost of Medical Errors At $19.5 Billion

Posted on August 16, 2010
Medical errors and the problems they can cause ? including bed sores, post-op infections and implant or device complications ? cost the U.S. economy $19.5 billion in 2008, according to the Health Blog of the Wall Street Journal, which cited...

Drug Company Efforts to Outmaneuver the FDA Disturbingly Common

Posted on August 13, 2010
Time Magazine reports that the FDA panel's recent decision to recommend keeping Avandia (rosiglitazone) on the market is "a move worth billions of dollars to GSK but that also may have put millions of patients at risk." The move is...

Consumer Groups Ask FTC to Force Rental Companies to Fix Recalled Cars

Posted on August 13, 2010
Here's one more thing for you to worry about on your next vacation or business trip ? car rental companies are apparently not bothering to repair vehicles that have been recalled for safety defects. As reported in the "Wheels" blog...

Friday Fun

Posted on August 13, 2010
I never imagined that working in a steel mill could be made to look beautiful. Magnitka. Camera man's cut. from Sasha Aleksandrov on Vimeo.

Preliminary NHTSA Report Finds No New Defects in Toyota Electronic Systems

Posted on August 12, 2010
The Department of Transportation's preliminary findings from investigation into the data records of 58 Toyotas involved in unintended acceleration incidents received heavy media coverage, including over two minutes of airtime, total, between segments on all three major networks, as well...

Honda?s Recall Could Signal An Industry-Wide Problem

Posted on August 11, 2010
Honda Motor Company has announced a recall of almost 400,000 vehicles that have potential problems with their ignition interlock systems. The recall includes about 200,000 Accords and more than 100,000 Civics from 2003 and about 70,000 Elements from 2003 and...

Medicare's Private Eyes Let Fraud Cases Get Cold

Posted on August 10, 2010
The government is doing a poor job of policing the Medicare system for fraud. According to an article in the Houston Chronicle, Medicare investigators routinely take months before referring fraud cases to law enforcement, and in that length of time...

Featured Link - Disability.gov

Posted on August 09, 2010
The federal government has an excellent resource at Disability.gov for anyone seeking more information about disabilities or the laws and regulations applicable to disabilities. The site is pretty much a redo of the old DisabilityInfo.com, which I have mentioned before...

Friday Fun

Posted on August 06, 2010
What's your time perspective? This fun animation is described as "A fascinating 10-minute animated talk by Philip Zimbardo about the different "time zones" or "time perspectives" that people can have and how the different zones affect people's world views...

High Risk of Supplements Gets Exposed Again

Posted on August 06, 2010
It was disconcerting, to say the least, to read that Consumer Reports magazine, in its latest issue, labeled a dozen supplements as dangerous ? especially because I have taken some of those supplements myself. USA Today agrees with my concern,...

FDA Moves Toward Tighter Medical Device Oversight

Posted on August 05, 2010
The Food and Drug Administration has sometimes been a bit lax on regulation of medical devices, partly due to policy decisions and partly due to a lack of manpower at the agency. That situation may change soon, according to anAssociated...

Drug Studies Funded By Industry Are More Likely To Yield Good News

Posted on August 04, 2010
Did the headline of this post shock you? Yeah, me neither. But in a "dog bites man" story, the Los Angeles Times felt compelled to reveal the obvious ? scientists tend to favor companies that pay them money rather than...

Featured Link - Most Stolen Vehicles List

Posted on August 04, 2010
If you own one of the vehicles on this list of most stolen vehicles, you might want to be a little more careful and keep it in the garage at night.

A Tougher Car Safety Agency is Needed

Posted on August 03, 2010
A tougher National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is what's been called for in an editorial that ran in the New York Times a few days ago. The editorial is worth reading, and I certainly agree with the newspaper. Here are...

Toyota Recalling 400,000 Vehicles to Fix Steering Problems

Posted on August 02, 2010
Poor Toyota is still struggling with bad publicity. Now there's a new recall: Washington Post (7/30, Cha) reports that Toyota announced yesterday the recall of "412,000 Avalons and Lexuses for steering problems, bringing the number of cars recalled around the...

Friday Fun

Posted on July 30, 2010
The world's luckiest (and calmest!) bicycle rider:

Toyota Does an About-Face on Reliability of Black Boxes in Its Vehicles

Posted on July 30, 2010
The Los Angeles Times reports that Toyota has often dismissed the data collected by its event data recorders as "unreliable" and collected by "unproven technology. ... Now, facing continued claims that its vehicles are defective, Toyota appears to have done...

Tainted Food Sometimes Remains on Shelves Despite Recalls

Posted on July 29, 2010
Far too often, food contaminated during the manufacturing process is recalled, but word of the recall never reaches consumers or even the owners of grocery stores, according to an article in the Chicago Tribune. Here are some disturbing excerpts from...

Featured Link - American College of Gastroenterology

Posted on July 28, 2010
I've linked before to the American Gastroenterological Association. Here's a similar organization, the American College of Gastroenterology, with additional resources for those who suffer from digestive difficulties. Here's a description from the site: The mission of the American College of...

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