The medical issues surrounding traumatic brain injury (TBI) have become much more discussed in the news with the veterans coming home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and new attention paid by military doctors to this type of injury. Sometimes a blow to the head can result in a skull wound which is cracked…
As a busy personal injury attorney, I speak with many people about cases where a child has been injured as a result of someone else’s negligence. I recently spoke with a young mother whose 8-year old daughter was injured when another child was playing with a bag of trash left on a complex playground. The…
We constantly try to increase our knowledge about the handling of catastrophic accident cases like traumatic brain injury (TBI) by going to the top continuing legal education seminars available in the nation. Recently, Jim Lewis, one of our partners who handles head injury cases, went to the 2009 Litigation Strategies Seminar put on by the Brain Injury Association of America in Las Vegas, Nevada.
A recent news release by the American Association for Justice (AAJ) in April, 2009 shows the need for improved national safety rules related to large trucks and buses. The safety standards for buses have not been updated in decades. The problem of rollovers resulting in death of passengers needs to be addressed.
A good item about another reason to hire a good lawyer for your injury case as soon as possible was just posted by my law partner John C. in our firm’s trucking accident library section. In Virginia (VA), each different jurisdiction is going to have a separate place that keeps records and recordings of 911 calls…