THE INJURY LAWYER DIRECTORY BLOG

Approximately 96,000 Jardine cribs were recalled today due to product defects that have endangered the safety of babies using the cribs. The recall covers seven crib models, which are sold at Toys R Us and Babies R Us. It is the third crib recall for the company this year.

The defective cribs have been recalled due to the fact that slats have been breaking, creating a gap large enough to trap or strangle small children. Currently, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has received 31 reports of defects related to broken slats. Only two of the cases involved children getting trapped. Ten cases occurred because the baby broke the slats from inside the crib.

Last June, Jardine recalled 320,000 cribs. They recalled 56,450 more in January. Both of those recalls dealt with similar product defects. Due to instances such as these, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has been drafting new rules that will improve the safety of cribs. It may take another year before these rules take effect.

The recalled cribs were available for sale between September 2005 and April 2009. You can contact Jardine at 800-646-4106 to receive a credit for a replacement crib.

It is important to consult an experienced product liability lawyer if your child has been injured in a defective Jardine crib. You may be entitled to receive compensation for your child’s damages.

If you have a product liability claim in the West Palm Beach, Florida area, please contact the Law Offices of Craig Goldenfarb, P.A. today to schedule a consultation.

A tour bus carrying French tourists overturned on a California highway yesterday. At least five people were killed and many others were seriously injured in the bus accident. The bus was the only vehicle involved in the crash.

The bus crashed into a guard rail on a two-lane overpass headed southbound on U.S. 101. The accident occurred about 100 miles southeast of San Francisco. Four passengers were ejected from the bus. One flew over the side of the road and landed on railroad tracks 60 to 70 feet below the highway.

There were 36 passengers on the bus, and all but two were French tourists. Four of the injured passengers were children. Injured victims were transported to 8 local hospitals for treatment.

The fatal bus accident closed the highway in both directions for several hours. The bus was headed to Los Angeles, where the tourists were going to fly back to France.

Bus accidents often result in catastrophic, life-altering injuries. It is important to consult an experienced bus accident attorney if you have suffered serious injuries in a bus accident. You may be entitled to receive compensation for your damages.

If you have been involved in a bus accident in the Mobile, Alabama area, please contact the Law Offices of Long & Waite, P.C. today to schedule a consultation.

A Denver pain management doctor currently faces two lawsuits — one for medical malpractice and the other for wrongful death. In both cases, his errors led to cardiac arrest in the patients. One woman died, while the other suffered brain damage.

Dr. Daniel Brookoff administered trigger point injections of a pain medicine called Marcaine to both patients. The injections caused both women to experience a lack of oxygen to the brain. One woman suffered a heart attack and died. The other had a seizure and a heart attack, but ultimately survived. She suffered permanent injuries, including a brain injury that has affected her memory and multitasking abilities.

The lawsuit claims that Dr. Brookoff did not have the personnel, oxygen, cardiopulmonary resuscitative equipment, or defibrillators necessary to handle either situation. Furthermore, the plaintiffs have argued that Brookoff did not possess the proper pain management accreditation and did not make full use of the facilities at the hospital where he works.

In the medical malpractice suit, the victim is seeking compensation for loss of income, past and future medical expenses, and non-economic damages. It is uncertain how much compensation the deceased woman’s widower is seeking in his wrongful death suit.

If you have a medical malpractice or wrongful death claim in the Denver, Colorado area, please contact the Law Offices of Burg, Simpson, Eldredge, Hersh, & Jardine, P.C. today to schedule a consultation.

The district attorneys of nine California counties have asked the court to bar 74 vitamin manufacturers from selling their supplements until proper warnings are placed on the products. Currently, there is no warning that these products contain lead, a highly carcinogenic substance.

Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. filed the original complaint, which argues that the vitamin manufacturers have not provided the warnings required by the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. The Attorney General is also asking the courts to impose a $2,500 a day penalty for each company that continues to violate the policy.

California law mandates that businesses provide a “clear and reasonable warning” when exposing consumers to substances that are known to cause cancer or reproductive harm. Lead, which is found in these vitamin supplements, has been proven to potentially damage the nervous system, especially in young children.

State officials discovered these violations last July when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released reports indicating that many multivitamin and mineral products contained excessive quantities of lead.

Manufacturers have an obligation to properly warn consumers about any hazardous or toxic substances in their product that may potentially cause harm. When they fail to do so, they are guilty of product liability and may be held accountable for their actions.

If you have a product liability claim in the Phoenix, Arizona area, please contact the Law Offices of Snyder & Wenner, P.C. today to schedule a consultation.

Unfortunately, for many people attending the Coachella Music Festival in California this year, the most memorable event of the weekend did not come from a performance on stage. It came from a disturbing act of police brutality that most likely left the victim nursing serious injuries.

To be fair, the victim was guilty of inappropriate behavior at the festival. He was clearly inebriated and in his intoxicated state, decided to remove his wizard costume and prance around naked. However, the action taken by police was undeniably excessive and inappropriate. The victim’s nakedness did not warrant the events that would ultimately transpire at the event.

At first, the three police officers on the scene were actually quite polite. Several times, they begged the man to put his clothes back on. They even handed him his wizard robe to make things easier for him. However, the naked wizard repeatedly made it clear that he did not intend to get dressed anytime soon. He kept throwing his wizard garb to the grass, shouting exuberantly that he would not get dressed to a rather large crowd cheering him on.

At some point, the police officers began to lose their cool. Once they put on their rubber gloves, the entire interaction took a turn for the worse. The police officers threw the naked wizard to the ground and proceeded to rough him up a bit. The naked man was not resisting, and he was naked. He was clearly not a threat to these officers. However, roughing him up, placing him in hand cuffs, and removing him from the festival wasn’t enough for these officers, whose egos seemed to suffer serious damage from the incident.

One officer took out his night stick, but to his credit, he refrained from using it. Unfortunately, his partner failed to exercise the same restraint with his taser and proceeded to use it on the naked man upwards of about 10 times. Throughout the tasering incident, the naked man lay motionless on the ground. The entire incident was witnessed by hundreds of festival onlookers and was caught on video.

The three police officers involved in the incident will most likely face a massive personal injury lawsuit to compensate the naked man for any injuries he sustained due to the police brutality. Hopefully, these officers will be fired and face criminal discipline for their behavior as well.

There has been growing evidence that tasers should not be used by police officers at all. Taser International, Inc. has already faced several product liability and wrongful death lawsuits over their stun gun technology. On several occasions, individuals have suffered severe injuries and even death from excessive taser use.

If you have a personal injury claim in the Denver, Colorado area, please contact the Law Offices of Burg, Simpson, Eldredge, Hersh, & Jardine, P.C. today to schedule a consultation.

This week, a Chicago jury awarded the family of Roger Czapski $13.7 million in a wrongful death lawsuit over his death in a 2004 auto accident.

Czapski was a 22-year-old car salesman at a local Chicago dealership. On August 4, 2004, he was sitting in the passenger seat of a BMW 530i that was being taken for a test drive by a customer. The customer was driving 95 mph, more than double the posted speed limit, on a busy suburban street when the vehicle hit another car.

As a result of the collision, the BMW was catapulted into a light pole, causing the car to explode. The driver and two backseat passengers survived the crash. Czapski did not. The driver was given a ticket for driving 40 mph over the speed limit at the time of the auto accident.

Defense lawyers for the driver of the BMW claimed that Czapski contributed to the negligent actions that led to his death by encouraging the driver to speed and allowing him to drive the car outside of the accepted test drive route. The jury did not feel the same way, and they ruled that the driver’s negligent and reckless actions warranted a rather large damage award.

The calculation of damages in a wrongful death lawsuit is very complex. Therefore, it is important to hire an experienced wrongful death attorney to ensure that you receive fair compensation for the loss of your loved one.

If you have a wrongful death claim in the Chicago, Illinois area, please contact the Law Offices of Barry G. Doyle, P.C. today to schedule a consultation.

A woman is still in the hospital after suffering a spinal cord injury on a flight over Texas last Friday night. The injury has left the woman paralyzed.

The woman was aboard Continental Flight 511 from Houston to McAllen, Texas. She went to go to the bathroom while the flight was experiencing considerable amounts of turbulence. She hit her head on the bathroom ceiling when the plane unexpectedly dropped due to the turbulence.

The woman spent the rest of the flight stretched out on the floor of the plane, waiting for paramedics to be able to treat her when the plane landed. She suffered a fractured spinal column and a fractured neck that has left her paralyzed from the chest down. She is scheduled to undergo a second operation to try and repair her condition. It is uncertain whether or not she will ever be able to walk again.

Continental Airlines asserts that the seat belt lights were turned on at the time of the injury. However, it is still unclear whether the light was turned on while the woman was in the bathroom or if she simply ignored the warning light and chose to use the bathroom at an unsafe time. Federal Aviation Administration officials are currently investigating the details of the incident.

If you have a spinal cord injury in the Beaumont, Texas area, please contact the Law Offices of Bush Lewis P.L.L.C. today to schedule a consultation.

The Department of Public Health extended Hartford Hospital’s probationary period while they continue to investigate a series of claims filed against the hospital for health violations. Inspectors have documented approximately 30 health code violations at the hospital during 2008, many of which are likely to lead to hospital medical malpractice claims.

During its time on probation, Hartford Hospital may receive unannounced visits from state health inspectors. Outside agencies have also been brought in to review conditions at the hospital. Investigators have noticed several improvements over the past few months, including a reduction in patient falls and bedsores.

However, there have also been events that demonstrate that the hospital is a long way from providing the high standards of health care that is required of a major hospital in our country. At least 5 out of the 30 health code violations last year were considered very serious. The most egregious violation came when doctors sent a patient home with a 13 inch surgical instrument inside his abdomen.

Currently, Hartford Hospital is required to provide the Department of Health with a corrective plan every time a new violation is registered.

Hospitals have an obligation to provide their patients with levels of care that meet the reasonable standards set forth by the medical profession. When a hospital fails to live up to this standard, it is guilty of medical malpractice and the negligent health care professionals may be responsible to compensate injured victims for their damages.

If you have a medical malpractice claim in the New York City area, please contact the Law Offices of Silberstein, Awad, & Miklos, P.C. today to schedule a consultation.

Faye Hall, a 40-year-old Memphis resident, was critically injured leaving Denny’s after breakfast this past Sunday. As she was exiting the building, a large sign detached from the side of the building, causing the 2 story wall to which it was attached to collapse. Hall was buried underneath the debris.

When Hall was rescued from under the rubble, she was conscious but in critical condition. She was taken to a nearby hospital for medical attention. Surgery was performed on her that afternoon. She currently remains in critical condition.

Police officers have blocked off the adjacent streets while they try to figure out if the rest of the building is safe. Investigators currently do not know what caused the building’s tragic collapse.

Property owners, including business proprietors, have an obligation to maintain safe conditions for guests on their property. When a property owner fails to take the steps to ensure a safe environment, he is guilty of premises liability and may be responsible for compensating you for any injuries you sustain.

It is important to consult an experienced premises liability lawyer immediately following your accident. These cases are often time sensitive, and your attorney will need to gather evidence from the accident scene before the unsafe conditions are altered by the property owner.

If you have a premises liability claim in the Jacksonville, Florida area, please contact the Law Offices of Hardesty, Tyde, Green, & Ashton, P.A. today to schedule a consultation.

Brittany Donovan, a 13-year-old girl from Pennsylvania, is suing Idant Laboratories, the sperm bank that provided her mother with the donation that led to her being born. Donovan was born with a genetic condition called X syndrome, which has left her with mental disabilities. Donovan claims that Idant Laboratories provided her mother with defective sperm, leading to her health issues.

Pennsylvania law will not allow Donovan to bring her lawsuit. They have a blood shield law, which prevents sellers of human bodily material from being held responsible for negligence in product liability lawsuits. Since New York does not have a similar law, Donovan is pursuing her case there.

Genetics tests have verified that Donovan received genetic defects from the sperm provided by her biological father. In order for her to win her case, she needs to prove that the sperm her mother received was unsafe and caused injury to her.

This is the first time a sperm bank has ever been sued for product liability. Many other sperm banks are concerned that if she wins her case, it will lead to many other similar lawsuits in the future.

It is important to consult an experienced product liability lawyer if you or a loved one has been injured from a defective product. You may be entitled to receive compensation for your injuries.

If you have a product liability claim in the New York City area, please contact the Law Offices of Trief & Olk today to schedule a consultation.