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“Tell ‘em. Tell ‘em again. Tell ‘em you told ‘em.” It’s a formula for writing TV news stories. But no matter how many times TV carries reports about deadly accidents in SUVs, folks don’t seem to get the message: rollover wrecks are killers. So Jim Adler, a successful rollover accident lawyer, is reminding you of the danger even though the latest deadly rollover spree got plenty of news coverage.
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Was your home or business hit hard by Hurricane Ike? If so, you need to file an insurance claim as soon as possible. That means taking certain measures. First, alert your insurance carrier that you are reporting a claim. You may have separate carriers for homeowners and flood insurance, which will mean contacting agents for both. Or you may run a business, which means you should contact your business interruption insurance carrier. |
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In the wake of Hurricane Ike, thousands of homeowners face struggles to repair and restore their homes – struggles in which their homeowners insurance is a vital element. But while Ike has spurred a strong sense of community and a rallying spirit in neighborhoods, that same spirit may not extend to all insurance companies or to all contractors offering their services to clean up or repair.
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With America on the verge of a hazardous holiday weekend, Americans finally get some good news on the drunk driving front – though only to a point. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters says drunk driving fatalities for 2007 dropped in 32 states. Meanwhile, America’s drunk driving fatality total fell from nearly 13,500 in 2006 to 12,998 in 2007.
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 Again, a medical device created to heal ends of harming. In this case such a device is the pain pumps used on patients who have had arthroscopic shoulder surgery. A variety of these shoulder pain pumps’ manufacturers reportedly directed doctors to use the pumps in a manner not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In fact, the FDA refused to approve it. Now the result, for many, is ongoing pain. In fact, it may be a lifetime of pain. |
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Just as rollovers have given SUVs (sport utility vehicles) a bad name, they’ve done the same for ATVs (all-terrain vehicles), such as Yamaha Rhino ATVs.
According to the Consumer Products Safety Commission, ATV driving leads to more than 700 deaths and more than 135,000 injuries annually in America, and about 30 per cent of those involve children. Texas is among the top five states for ATV deaths, along with Pennsylvania, California, West Virginia and Kentucky.
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With Tropical Storm Gustav bearing down on their offshore oil rigs, oil companies are evacuating non-essential personnel from the many rigs dotting America's Gulf Coast. But oil workers on shore aren’t always so lucky.
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Again, a major construction crane collapse has taken lives, this time at the LyondellBasell oil refinery along the Houston Ship Channel. Four workers were killed and seven were injured in the Friday afternoon accident, the third fatal construction crane collapse in America this year.
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Again, pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. may be involved in potentially harmful if not fatal drugs. This time such a drug may be Vytorin, which Merck produces along with Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals. The Food and Drug Administration is exploring whether Vytorin, which is used to reduce cholesterol, could instead fail in that task while also contributing to its users getting cancer. |
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 From their state's bigness to its boldness, Texans can take pride in many things. But with size also come large statistical numbers -- and often unpleasant ones. That's certainly the case for job fatalities, for which Texas now clearly leads the nation. Figures released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveal that Texas had more on-the-job deaths in 2007 than any other state: 527. And those can't just be blamed on Texas' enormous size.
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“Leave the driving to us,” a famous bus line’s slogan said, pressing the idea that driving is difficult if not dangerous business and you’re better of riding in a large, professionally helmed bus for long highway trips. But are you? As a horrific bus accident in North Texas early this morning showed, crowded, heavy, hard to control buses can be extremely dangerous vehicles – dangerous to the point that 14 passengers on this bus bound from Houston died, with another 20 injured and in area hospitals.
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 Nursing home abuse can be fought with nursing home litigation
America’s nursing home population is big – 1.4 million residents – and it’s getting bigger. As the large segment of the population known as Baby Boomers passes age 65, the nation’s 16,100 certified nursing homes will be hard pressed to keep up with added residents.
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Here's a new one: A traffic ticket for teens is acquiring the “let ‘em know” status of a report card. After all, if you fail a class, your parents hear about it – and that’s incentive in itself to do better. Now, if you fail to observe traffic laws and are caught, your parents will hear about that, too -- at least they will in Oviedo, Fla.
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After weeks of false leads and largely futile investigations, the Food and Drug Administration finally claims to have pinpointed the source of the nation’s ongoing outbreak of salmonella Saintpaul food poisoning. It seems a farm in Mexico with Serrano peppers may have started it all.
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 Brain injury death can lead to claims
The human brain is a complex and delicate organ upon which most bodily functions depend. As such, it is one of the worst places in the body to receive a traumatic injury, and such injuries to the brain can lead to death. If a loved one has suffered a catastrophic brain injury resulting in death, and this injury occurred through another person’s misconduct or negligence, consult a brain death lawyer to ensure you can claim compensation for this wrongful death. |
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 President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990, which stipulated that employers and other organizations could not discriminate based on disability – generally defined as a mental or physical impairment. The act was good news for millions, including those suffering from burns.
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 Several thousand pounds of metal traveling at high or even moderate speeds can be deadly. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, automobile accidents caused more than 42,000 deaths in 2006. The Burn Resource Center reports car crashes and severe burns are the top two killers in America for accident-related deaths. When these two dangers combine, the results can be catastrophic. |
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The United States suffered 1,642,500 fires in 2006, causing 3,245 civilian fire deaths, 89 firefighter deaths, 16,400 civilian fire injuries and $11.3 billion in property damage. The National Fire Protection Association also reports fires were up 3 per cent over the previous year. Most civilian fire deaths came from structure fires, followed by vehicle fires, outside fires and other fires. |
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because construction jobs have more safety risks than desk jobs doesn’t mean they should be fatal. Yet thousands of persons are injured or killed on construction sites yearly, often because an owner or employer has been negligent. Also guilty may be architects, general contractors, sub-contractors or manufacturers of equipment used in construction. If a loved one has suffered a wrongful death on a construction site, contact an experienced wrongful death construction lawyer.
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 A Government Accountability Office study, due later this week, indicates that more than half a million commercial drivers may be physically unfit to drive. That’s because these drivers are eligible for full disability payments over health issues, as determined by the Social Security Administration, Veterans Affairs Department and Labor Department.
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