Birmingham Personal Injury Lawyer

According to an article on the Dallas News website, the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) regulates about 15,000 products including toys, circular saws, swimming pools and ATVs. The CPSC website is a great way for the average person to research recalls and injury reports involving consumer products. According to the article, most deaths involved the use of all terrain vehicles. The...

A recent study showed that each year there are as many as 600,000 eye injuries from sports-related accidents. Most of these injuries can be prevented if eye protection works properly. According to Health News Digest, the lenses in protective eyewear should be made of polycarbonate and meet ASTM standards for the sport being played. Common sports-related eye injuries include painful corneal...

A Montana Court has awarded the parents of a child killed in a car wreck money damages. The defective car seat at issue was manufactured and sold by Evenflo. According to the Chicago Tribune article, the Plaintiffs case included evidence that Evenflo knew the car seat had a problem in its design that could lead to the belt hooks breaking; however, they still chose to put in on the market. The...

Liability reform to stop medical malpractice junk lawsuits, the subject of a Courier-Journal opinion piece, fell on deaf ears last week in light of an article printed in the Journal of the American Medical Association which reports doctors are the third leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for more than 250,000 deaths annually. This flies in the face of the myth that tort...

Members of the Alabama House of Representatives seek to introduce HB 382 which would give total civil immunity to road contractors working on state projects within the specifications of the contract. If passed, this bill would provide that a contractor performing highway, road, or street repairs, construction or maintenance is not liable for damage or injury resulting therefrom despite the...

On April 19, 2007, a Montgomery jury awarded $2 million dollars in punitive damages and $2 million dollars in compensatory damages to a woman who was paralyzed when her SUV rolled over after the tread on one of her tires separated. The tire had been recalled in August 2002 and even though the plaintiff had her car serviced at Wal-Mart nine times after the recall, it failed to notify her of the...

On Wednesday, April 18, 2007, a New Jersey jury ordered Ford Motor Company to pay over $8 million to a woman who was injured in a crash after the defective gas pedal on her 1997 Ford Explorer stuck. At trial, evidence was offerred to prove to the jury that Ford had received tens of thousands of complaints about the defective gas pedals on its 1997 and 1998 Ford Explorers and Mercury Moutaineers....

Earlier this month, a Dallas jury awarded $6.3 million to a doctor who was fired by his employer after he voiced concerns about how anesthesia services were being billed. The lawsuit alleged that the anesthesia group made up charges of medical incompetence and rude behavior including false allegations of alcohol and drug abuse. According to the doctor's attorney, the lost job and the damage to...

Last week, a Florida jury awarded several million dollars to a plaintiff who suffered brain injuries in a two car accident. According to the Herald Tribune, the injured man did not immediately seek medical treatment for his brain injuries because he did not appreciate the extent of them at the time. The brain injury affected the victims ability to earn income and his behavior. In addition, the...

In a truck accident on Wednesday, a man was cut from his totaled pickup truck after crashing with a church bus. Police say he is still in critical condition. In the meantime 12 passengers of the bus and the bus driver were all taken to Mobile Infirmary for minor injuries in the crash.The man was transported by LifeFlight-Mobile helicopter to the University of South Alabama Medical Center for...