According to a report in the St. Petersburg Times Certified Athletic Trainers are set to become the latest safety improvement in athletic events and practices at Tampa Bay area high schools. Over the years I have investigated numerous injuries and some deaths occurring during physical education classes, team practices and events. In some instances it was obvious that delay in obtaining...
If an employer is accused of discriminating in violation of Title VII, a powerful source of adverse testimony can come from ex-employees. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has long held that "the testimony of other employees about their treatment by the defendant is relevant to the issue of the employer's discriminatory intent." Spulak v. K Mart Corp., 894 F.2d 1150, 1156 (10th Cir. 1990); see...
Clients often mention pre-existing conditions. They are concerned that things like degenerative disc disease may affect their recoveries. Insurance companies dwell on pre-existing conditions. But they can be effectively addressed by common sense and good lawyering. Many injured persons' medical records show degenerative disc disease, narrowing of the spinal column and or other issues. These...
The United States Food and Drug Administration has alerted the medical community and its patients of a potentially serious over infusion problem associated with the "Key Bounce" infusion pump. The defective pump is said to infuse as much as ten times the intended amount in patients who use the product manufactured by Alaris Products. For more information on the Alaris SE Infusion Pump Recall...
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Del Valle, husband of the now deceased Milena Del Valle, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston Tuesday after his wife suffered fatal injuries in a "Big Dig" accident. Mr. Valle was driving his wife to Logan airport when all of a sudden the multi-ton ceiling panel of a construction project fell on their vehicle killing his wife. The suit alleges negligence on the part...
Fellow InjuryBoard blogger Bob Carroll of Tampa Bay, Florida brought my attention to a rising number of concerns relating to certain antibiotics like Cipro that are in need of stronger warnings on its prescribing labels. Cipro and other similar antibiotics from the fluoroquinolone class have been linked to tendon injuries in the past but now as the use of these drugs grow in popularity, so do...
An employer accused of an Equal Pay Act violation may be held liable, without a showing of intent. If an employer pays persons of different sex differently and is alleged to have done so on the basis of sex, the employer must prove one of the following: 1) a seniority system; (2) a merit system; (3) a pay system based on quantity or quality of output; (4) a disparity based on any factor other...
A person was crushed to death under a Metro bus in downtown Seattle on Wednesday night. Police think the person was bumped into the road by a bicyclist. Wednesday's incident isn't the first time a Metro bus was involved in a fatality accident this summer. Stephanie Reynolds, 52, of Shoreline was killed June 1, run over by the rear wheels of a bus at Northwest Richmond Beach Road and 15th...