Safety and Health Reporter
- Construction Accident Litigation Discussed By Construction Accident Lawyer
- Posted on April 10, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Construction accident litigation typically involves a claim of an injured worker against the contractor on a job site who is not the Plaintiff's direct employer. Most states have an absolute bar against claims against employers. Some states allow claims against the direct employer in circumstances where the employer's conduct was ...
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Posted in Construction Site Safety
- Electrical Injury Wrongful Death
- Posted on April 9, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Electrical Injury Wrongful Death
In June of 2009 Carrie Goretzka was fatally injured when a energized power line fell on her. That power line had set trees on fire in her back yard and then eventually fell on her as she went outside to get her cell phone to call 911.
The ...
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Posted in Wrongful Death
- Damage Caps Discussed By Personal Injury Lawyer
- Posted on April 4, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Several states across the country have been reviewing recently damage caps that have been imposed both as to compensatory awards and also punitive awards.
The challenges to these caps on damages come in several different forms. The legal challenge may involve separation of powers, i.e., that the legislature has no authority to ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Privacy Rights Discussed By Injury Lawyer
- Posted on April 3, 2013 by Brien Roche
- The scope of federal law enforcement surveillance imposes interesting questions as far as privacy rights. A device known as "StringRay" simulates a cell phone tower and enables law enforcement agents to collect the serial numbers of individual cell phones and then to locate where those cell phones are. ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Cardiac Arrest Discussed By Injury Lawyer
- Posted on April 2, 2013 by Brien Roche
- A physician from Stoney Brook University School of Medicine in New York by the name of Sam Parnia was recently cited in a Washington Post article of March 26, 2013 stating that there are available to medical practitioners means by which people who have suffered cardiac arrest and therefore arguably ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Anterior Hip Replacement
- Posted on April 1, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Every year approximately 300,000 people undergo hip replacements in the United States. Most of these hip replacements are what are called Posterior Hip Replacements, where the surgeon enters the hip joint from the rear.
A relatively new procedure however allows surgeons to enter the hip joint from the front and thereby ...
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Posted in Medical Malpractice
- Infections Can Be Good For You Says Injury Lawyer
- Posted on March 29, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Infections
In 1989 17,414 British school children were studied by an epidemiologist and he concluded from them that those who had grown up with more siblings and, thereby presumably more germs, were less likely to have allergies and eczema.
It is well-known to physicians and epidemiologists that our immune systems need bacteria ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Privacy Rights Addressed By Personal Injury Lawyer
- Posted on March 20, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Privacy rights were the subject of a recent decision from a federal court in northern California. The court was dealing with what are called national security letters. A national security letter is a letter issued by an FBI supervisor to obtain information typically from internet companies such as Facebook, Google, ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Contribution Discussed By Injury Attorney
- Posted on March 18, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Contribution is a common law concept that springs from equitable principles. Where one wrongdoer has been sued and has been made to pay a certain amount of money to the party injured, then that wrongdoer may sue other persons who are also conceivably liable to the injured party in order ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Fraud Upon Elders Discussed By Injury Attorney
- Posted on March 17, 2013 by Brien Roche
- There is a division within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that is designed explicitly to prevent fraud upon elders. That office is known as the Office for Older Americans.
During the recent financial crisis, Americans 55 and older lost approximately 40% of their net worth. Part of this was simply ...
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Posted in Intentional Torts
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