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04 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

New iPhone App Targets Injuries from Accidents

The iPhone is one of the world’s most popular devices and one reason for it’s popularity is both the quantity and types of “apps” users can download for use on the device. There are literally a million of them available that provide as many different functions. Recently one personal injury firm in the UK got [...]

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30 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Stores Trying to Quell Black Friday Crowds

The deals are eye-popping and create quite a feverish response from consumers. But the excitement can lead to disaster, as evidenced by last year’s trampling death of a Wal-mart employee in New York. When the mob mentality kicks in, personal accountability goes right out the window. This was evidenced in our last post about a [...]

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30 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Woman Injured at Clarksville Toys R Us

Black Friday turned bloody Friday for a Clarksville woman at Toys R Us. The 32-year-old woman was in line at midnight waiting for her chance at an amazing deal. When the doors opened, the crowd jumped forward, knocking her to the ground, and trampling her. Several people trampled her causing a swollen and bleeding right [...]

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25 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Headed to the Grocery Store? Watch out!

If you had to name the most dangerous place you go to on a weekly basis what would it be? Maybe the bank? After all, banks get robbed. So do gas stations. Did you think of the grocery store? Most people don’t, but it really is a common place for injuries to occur. The reason [...]

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25 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Health Care Tax on Plastic Surgery

Harry Reid has introduced a bill that would help pay for health care by taxing elective cosmetic surgery. There are, however, exceptions to the tax spelled out in the bill. Senator Tom Coburn, however, used the bill as the basis for a rant saying it would tax women who have breast reconstruction surgery after a [...]

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25 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Report Urges Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery to Avoid Injury

A recently released report urges better standards for the cosmetic surgery field to help protect patients from injury and thus reduce claims against doctors. A risk of clinical negligence is growing as the industry is failing to police itself against unsafe techniques. Cosmetic surgery has taken a commercial focus recently and has led to more [...]

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24 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

More Than 2 Million Unsafe Baby Cribs Recalled

It’s devastating to think a child may be unsafe in his own bed. But for 2 million children using a very popular crib made since 1993, that’s exactly what has happened. The problem is that the metal support brackets that support the crib mattress is faulty and has been known to crack and break. When [...]

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24 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Car Accident Injuries in Nashville – Who Is Liable?

Car accidents happen every day here in Nashville and the surrounding areas. Many of these accidents are small “fender benders” where thankfully no one gets hurt. But occasionally the crash results in an injury serious enough to cause medical attention, lost work time, or perhaps even something worse. The question often arises of who is [...]

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19 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Safest Cars for 2010

Today the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released a list of the safest new vehicles. Among the winners, Ford Motor Co and its Volvo unit got the highest marks. They were followed by Subaru and Volkswagen AG and Audi. Surprisingly the Honda Accord and Ford Fusion were not ever considered after failing to earn minimum [...]

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19 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Special Investment Fund for Personal Injury Claimants

Typically when a person is awarded a financial settlement due to a personal injury claim, they will use the money to pay expenses they have incurred from the injury. The compensatory damages received will likely be invested in some way to ensure it offers a return to the claimant. But often these investors are treated [...]

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