Posts tagged injury

• It's Rush Week In Colleges Across America - Let's Hope The Hazing Tradition Will Not Continue

  Jean Martin | September 15, 2009 5:25 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  My niece at NC State University has been excited to begin Rush for her sorority. Being a member of a sorority or fraternity can build lifelong friendships and account for many college memories, but...

• New Roof Crush Standards Are A Start But Do Not Go Far Enough To Protect Consumers

  Jean Martin | August 14, 2009 12:32 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, beat expectations recently by doubling the minimum roof crush resistance standard for most vehicles. For the last three years, NHTSA...

• Pitocin Cited As Cause of Brain Injury in Child

  Jean Martin | January 13, 2009 5:22 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  A hospital in Illinois has agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle the case of a 7-year-old boy who allegedly suffered a brain injury at birth. The family had alleged that the obstetrician, as well...

• DOT Worker Dies After Being Crushed By Backhoe

  Jean Martin | June 10, 2008 3:09 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  When my fellow IB partner Steve Lombardi asked me to join in a series of blogs about workers being accidentally backed over by fellow workers, I had no idea that the timing would be so ripe....

• Accidentally Backing over a Fellow Construction Worker

  Tate Hodges | June 09, 2008 9:10 AM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Your first impression about this type of accident probably will be one of curious interest and inquisitive horror. After all, how often could this actually happen? Surely, there must be...

• Shot With Nail Gun - An Increasingly Alarming Headline

  Jean Martin | May 30, 2008 12:41 PM | 1 CommentWilmington, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Young worker shot in head with nail gun Worker shot with nail gun These are headlines that I don't enjoy reading. I've read reports that as many as 100 people a day show up in Emergency Rooms with...

• Vytorin and Zetia - Consumers Ripped Off

  Jean Martin | March 31, 2008 10:35 AM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Doctors are being urged to cut their prescriptions of the popular cholesterol-lowering drugs Vytorin and Zetia in patients. A recent clinical study showed that Vytorin and Zetia were far more expensive yet far less effective than statin drugs. The study did not raise significant safety issues among patients treated with Vytorin, but did suggest that patients need not pay the higher cost for...

• Yamaha Rhino ATVs Unsafe

  Jean Martin | February 19, 2008 7:48 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Since its introduction in 2003, the safety of the Yamaha Rhino has been called into question. With several fatalities, accidents, and serious injuries, the Rhino is considered among the most dangerous all-terrain vehicles (ATV) available to consumers. As an acknowledgement of the accidents that have occurred thus far, Yamaha offered to install doors on all Rhinos as an increased safety measure,...

• ATV Rollover Accidents - Yamaha Rhino's Defective Design

  Jean Martin | February 19, 2008 6:53 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Despite its unsafe reputation, the Yamaha Rhino ATV is still being sold. With several fatalities, accidents, and serious injuries, the Rhino is considered among the most dangerous all-terrain vehicles available. From severed limbs and head injuries to broken bones and numerous deaths, the list of those who have experienced a traumatic event as a result of the Yamaha Rhino continues to...

• Investigation Reveals Pharmacy Policies Cause Errors

  Gary Shipman | February 14, 2008 4:02 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  An investigation by USA Today has revealed that pharmacy errors at the nation's largest drugstore chains, Walgreens and CVS, are caused by corporate policies requiring that pharmacists work long hours and fill prescriptions in as little as two minutes.A study by Auburn University in 2003 projected that the odds of getting a prescription as the result of an error by the filling pharmacist was...