Head injuries constitute only 5-15% of all injuries from ski and snowboard accidents, yet are the primary cause of serious disabling injuries and death. There are approximately 10 fatalities per year in Colorado from accidents on the ski slopes, and among the fatally injured that we have studied head injury was the cause of death in 87.5%; none were wearing helmets. Wearing a helmet should be a...
Both the Federal government and state governments have implemented special laws that are in place to protect the health and safety of construction workers. It is important that both employers and employees adhere to these regulations in order to make the construction site a safer place to work. However, with so many hazards around it is hardly surprising that so many accidents and deaths still...
The Washington Court of Appeals established a new legal precedent in May 2005. It held that the state of Washington's medical malpractice standards are applicable to maritime cases brought in state court. While this ruling expands the claims that may be brought by an injured seaman, there is much more to the story. The legal ruling arose from a wrongful death case in which the family of a...
Two men from the Chicago area have filed lawsuits against Medtronics, the Minnesota-based manufacturer of defribillator implants.Randie Green and Anton Muller claim their defribillators had defective batteries, and they had them removed in 2005.According to the complaints, the models' defective batteries cause the defibrillator to short, resulting in an unpredictable loss of power without...
Did you realize that most of the improvements in safety in this country are the result of independant judges and citizen juries holding unscrupulous, reckless and often greedy people and corporations responsible for what they do? Ford Motor Company didn't recall the Ford Pinto even though the corporate executives knew that the gas tank would explode and kill people in low impact collisions....
Wayne Parsons grew up in Ypsilanti, Michigan, one of the many downriver communities south of Detroit where southern whites and southern blacks clashed and the auto production lines were made famous in the 40s and 50s and 60s. In World War II, Henry J. Kaiser created the B-24 bomber factory 3 miles from his home. A product of public schools he was the captain of the high baseball team and...
A woman and her best friend were killed just a couple of days before Christmas when the pickup they were riding in veered off the road and hit a tree. The driver of the pickup was treated for injuries, and it was discovered she was impaired at the time of the crash. The three were out Christmas shopping at the time.According to authorities, it was the second DUI for Yolanda Rivera, the driver...
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There must be a better training protocol then to have a deputy sheriff take a jolt from a Taser that ends his career. On the other hand, there must be a better way to disable a subject than to expose him to the same risk. Unfortunately, Deputry Sam Powers was unable to convice a jury that Taser International should be liable for his disability. From Court TV we get more of the details.After...
With thanks to Live Journal here is the letter of the season:DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.' Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?VIRGINIA O'HANLON.115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET.VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age....