Posts tagged Head Injury

• Using Car Seats as Carriers, Mini Craddles Harms Thousands of Babies

  Jim Lewis | October 21, 2009 3:46 PM | 1 CommentVirginia Beach, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Infant car seats save hundreds of babies' lives each year--when the seats remain properly installed in a vehicle. Using car seats to carry infants or hold them while doing chores or taking care of...

• Motorcycle Crash in Chesapeake Claims a Life, Shatters Another

  Emily Mapp Brannon | October 14, 2009 11:47 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  Take two motorcycles, add excessive speed and a narrow residential road lined with parked cars, and you all too often wind up with a tragedy like the one that occurred Tuesday evening in Chesapeake....

• Head Injury Could Lead to Traumatic Brain Injury

  Jim Lewis | May 30, 2009 2:47 PM | 1 CommentVirginia Beach, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  If you’ve been involved in a car wreck or some other type of accident, you may have incurred a serious head injury which could lead to a traumatic brain injury. Unfortunately, brain injuries...

• Brain injury: A major problem in Virginia (VA) and Nationwide

  Rick Shapiro | July 06, 2007 3:54 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Brain injury is a major cause of death and disability of people under age 45 and a significant medical/legal issue in tort and insurance law today. According to the Brain Injury Association of Virginia (VA) 28,000 visits to an emergency room occur in Virginia (VA) each year as a result of traumatic brain injury. Across the U.S. traumatic brain injury (TBI) costs over 56 billion dollars every...

• Brain Injury Verdict Among Virginia's Largest

  Rick Shapiro | May 15, 2007 4:24 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  A woman was recently awarded 12 million dollars for a brain injury from a 2003 fall. The Hampton, Virginia (VA) jury made this large award in a slip and fall accident case. The large multi-million dollar jury award is probably among the highest in the slip and fall/premises liability category in Virginia (VA) history, and the plaintiff was represented by Stephen Smith, of Hampton, Virginia...

• New Methods to Detect Brain Injury Explained

  Staff Writer | March 22, 2007 5:05 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  For the last several decades, doctors and hospitals have used a device called a pulse oximeter to measure the amount of oxygen in someone's blood during medical procedures and surgeries. The purpose of this device is to ensure that while the patient is unresponsive due to anesthesia, he does not suffer a brain injury because of loss of oxygen in the blood. The pulse...

• Man Dies of Severe Head Injury

  Shannon Weidemann | February 14, 2007 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  A carpenter working on the University of Tennessee's new aquatic center died after suffering severe head trauma on the worksite. The 53 year old man was found at the base of one of the walls.The Tennessee office of Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating, according to Milissa Reierson, communications director for TOSHA. Investigations take 4-6 weeks to complete, she...

• 3.5 Million Verdict For Brain Damage After Botched Gastric Bypass

  Rick Shapiro | September 06, 2006 8:22 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A jury recently awarded a 3.5 million dollar verdict in Fredericksburg Circuit Court to a plaintiff who underwent gastric bypass surgery (stomach staple surgery) and suffered brain damage. One doctor, President of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, testified that a leak from the plaintiff's gastric bypass surgery caused peritonitis and a septic reaction that lead to the brain getting...

• New Court Decision Holds Hotels Liable For Many Criminal Attacks

  Rick Shapiro | March 26, 2006 7:35 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  It is reasonable for the law to impose upon the innkeeper, and on the common carrier, a duty to take reasonable precautions to protect his guests against injury caused by the criminal conduct on the part of other guests or strangers if the danger of injury by such conduct is known to the innkeeper or reasonably foreseeable...." In March, 2006, the Virginia Supreme Court announced a...

• Recovering Medical Expenses--Are Double or Triple Recoveries Permitted?

  Rick Shapiro | March 07, 2006 10:26 AM | 1 CommentVirginia Beach, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Virginia has special rules regarding what damages are recoverable in personal injury cases including special rules relating to what some would call "double recoveries" of medical expenses. It is best to use examples to explain some of the rules. Imagine you have a health insurance policy, and a car insurance policy on your own vehicle but you are hurt in a crash when a careless driver runs a...