Safety and Health Reporter
- Product Liability-Batteries
- Posted on January 25, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Product Liability-Batteries
Lithium-ion batteries are almost universal. You find them in cell phones, laptop computers and a host of consumer devices. The primary reason that Smart Phones are as thin as they are is because of these types of batteries. There are believed to be more than 4 billion such batteries ...
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Posted in Product Liability
- Wrongful Death Grief
- Posted on January 24, 2013 by Brien Roche
- The element of grief in a wrongful death action is important. Aside from whatever financial losses the survivors may have suffered from the death of the loved one, the most overwhelming component of damage may well be what is known as grief and solace.
The Washington Post on January 15, 2013 ...
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Posted in Wrongful Death
- Food Poisoning-Personal Injury
- Posted on January 20, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Food Poisoning-Personal Injury
On January 5, 2013, The Washington Post reported that the Federal government is promulgating new rules for food producers and manufacturers. The intent is to prevent food-borne illnesses.
Over the last several years there have been several instances of wide-spread illnesses due to contaminated food including peanut butter, spinach, ...
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Posted in Personal Injury, Product Liability
- Cardiac Conditions-Medical Malpractice
- Posted on January 19, 2013 by Brien Roche
- There are a host of tests that can be undertaken to deal with potential or real cardiac conditions. Cardiac conditions most often are manifested initially by chest pains.
The various treatment options consist of but are not limited to the following:
Cardiac Stress tests
Echocardiogram imaging
Holter Monitors to track heart function over a ...
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Posted in Health and Medicine, Medical Malpractice
- Settling Personal Injury Claims
- Posted on January 18, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Settling Personal Injury Claims
The concept of cyber settling personal injury claims is not new. An attorney by the name of James Ring from Boston has come up with a website that is, in part, based upon game theory with the idea of trying to eliminate all of the back and forth ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Heart Attack-Medical Malpractice
- Posted on January 17, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Heart Attack-Medical Malpractice
A heart attack occurs when there is a lack of blood flow to the heart muscle. That can occur for a number of reasons. Most often the reason is a clogged vessel that is preventing blood from flowing to the heart.
A common emergency means of dealing with such ...
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Posted in Medical Malpractice
- Hair Samples
- Posted on January 6, 2013 by Brien Roche
- A December 23, 2012 article in the Washington Post discloses dramatic flaws not only in the use of hair samples in criminal cases but what appear to be outright misrepresentations by forensic scientists as to the reliability of hair samples. Hair samples are frequently a component of proof of a defendant's ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Process
- Posted on January 5, 2013 by Brien Roche
- A recent unpublished decision from the First Circuit Court of Appeals in New England sets forth everything that a lawyer or party should not do in terms of serving process on a defendant. Process is the complaint initiating of a lawsuit along with the summons that tells the defendant what ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Injury Attorney-Police Abuse
- Posted on January 4, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Injury Attorney-Police Abuse
The Washington Post on December 30, 2012 published an editorial dealing with an incident at the University of Maryland. On March 3, 2010 after Maryland’s basketball victory over Duke there were prolonged and rowdy street demonstrations in College Park, MD. The Prince George’s County Police Department was called ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Medical Malpractice-Plastic Surgery
- Posted on December 8, 2012 by Brien Roche
- Medical Malpractice-plastic surgery cases are difficult cases under the best circumstances. Jurors tend to have a certain bias against people who elect to have vanity surgery.
A couple of areas where these types of malpractice cases should be closely scrutinized is in regards to whether the patient is even an appropriate candidate ...
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Posted in Medical Malpractice
