Personal Injury Law

Suicide in Japan
Japanese citizens are committing suicide at an alarming rate. Here are some details from Paul Wiseman, Suicide epidemic grips Japan, USA Today, July 20, 2008: Approximately 34,000 Japanese citizens committed suicide in 2007...

Follow up to the Suicide Letter
My very first post was about a suicide letter I got from a client. You can read it here.So anyways, he survived that suicide attempt. He called me three weeks later, but didn't leave a contact number...

Tasteless Tabloid Story On Suicide Earns PCC Reprimand
The Press Complaints Commission has told the Daily Sport that it crossed the line by publishing an article on the UK's "top 10 suicide hotspots." Choose Life, a government program engaged suicide prevention, had complained to the PCC that the...

Mexico -- Assisted suicide and availability of suicide drugs
Assisted suicide (legal in the United States only in Oregon) is an increasing debated issue in Mexico. For example, in April 2008, the Mexican Senate voted to allow doctors to withdraw life-sustaining medicines in certain cases...

Does Singulair Cause Suicide
The FDA said yesterday it is looking into a possible association between Merck's allergy and asthma drug Singulair and suicide. The FDA has received reports of mood changes, suicidal ideation and suicide in patients who have taken Singulair...

Suicide Prompts Lawsuit Against Colorado Hospital
The parents of a gifted Japanese physics student have filed a lawsuit against a Colorado health center after the 30-year-old postdoctoral scholar committed suicide. Kiyoshi and Yasuko Nakata claim the Mapleton Center Behavioral Health Unit failed to properly supervise their daughter after she was admitted and placed on suicide watch...

Living Wills and Powers of Attorney
Laws effecting the elderly

Chantix Suicide
alleging the smoking cessation product is linked to increased suicidal behaviors.

Suicidal Payoff
Black Hawk County to pay $75,000 settlement to inmate who commits suicide.