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• Knee Injuries in Accident Victims

  Laura Mackie | March 15, 2007 12:49 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Dealing effectively with lawsuits where your client has suffered an injury to their knee requires a litigator to be familiar with the common medical problems specific to that area of the body. One such common diagnosis is chondromalacia patella, which means that there was a breakdown or softening of the cartilage in the knee. Instead of gliding smoothly across the bone, the kneecap rubs against...

• One Man's Pain......

  Laura Mackie | January 31, 2007 9:01 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  ......Is another man's pleasure. Well at least as far as Jeffrey Mogil of the University of Illinois is concerned. More accurately, with the results of 62 different studies behind him, Mogil says that scientists now know that people really do feel pain differently when confronted by the same stimulus. The answer, it appears, can be found in the human genome. The search goes on within the...

• Whose Job is it anyway?

  Laura Mackie | January 29, 2007 11:55 AM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Consumers experiencing a medical emergency are often subjected to unnecessary risks for personal injury and/or malpractice when the agency responding to the call is staffed by untrained or unqualified personnel. An investigative report published by the Sacramento Bee recently exposed a troubling lack of oversight by a state agency in the area of licensing and certification of paramedics.The...

• Fire Safety Films: Spreading the Message of Fire Safety

  Edward Smith | January 17, 2007 12:27 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Since fire safety is a major cause of concern throughout the world, media and communications agencies have brought out films to promote the concept of fire safety. These films often grab the attention of viewers and disseminate the message of fire safety. These films have great educational value, as they educate about fire safety situations in a creative and informative way.The National...

• Fires in schools: What causes Damage?

  Edward Smith | January 17, 2007 11:15 AM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Fire safety in schools is a very necessary corrective to the increasing incidence of fires in schools. According to statistics, 1 in 15 schools suffer a fire accident. An enormous amount of money is wasted from fires caused to schools, which happen most often due to arson. Most arson attacks happen when school is closed, when the risk of damage to property may well be increased, but the...

• An Overview of Factors Involved In Fire Investigation

  Edward Smith | January 17, 2007 11:05 AM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Fire safety investigations are conducted to determine the nature and cause behind a fire and to establish the rightful claim for the person/s involved in the fire.t. Fire investigators, the personnel responsible for carrying out fire investigations, compile data related to fire investigations to analyze the factors behind how a fire was ignited and grew. They also investigate in order to...

• Tragic and avoidable....Death and D.U.I.

  Laura Mackie | January 16, 2007 7:58 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Once again, we are reminded by events in the news that drinking alcoholic beverages and driving an automobile are lethal combinations.48-year-old Janusz Porembrski died from massive head injuries sustained when the 1999 Mercury Mountain he was driving was struck by an out of control Lexus being driven by Brian Mays (age 21). The accident occurred on I-5 in Sacramento California in the early...

• Manage your pain, save your brain

  Laura Mackie | January 09, 2007 5:58 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  A recent study of long term pain sufferers provides information of interest to medical professionals as well as members of the legal community. In particular, the study provides a useful basis on which to determine residuals for clients suffering long term pain as a result of the negligence of a third party.The November 23, 2006 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience reported on a study conducted...

• Burn injuries: Plastic surgery evaluations often necessary

  Ed Smith | November 08, 2006 6:01 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  When someone is injured in a fire (house fire, car accident, gas station fire, etc.) oftentimes persons sustain severe burn injuries. When resolving cases like these, it is important to keep in mind that any settlement must include past damages, current damages, and future damages as the carrier involved will often require that the person receiving a settlement sign a Release of All Claims. ...

• FDA Issues Nationwide Notification of Recall of Certain Guidant Implantable Defibrillators and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillators

  Ed Smith | October 26, 2006 4:19 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  FDA is notifying health care providers and patients that the Guidant Corporation is recalling certain of its implantable defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators. These devices can develop an internal short circuit without warning, resulting in failure to deliver a shock when needed.