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• Stronger Warning Issued to Parents Over Magnetic Toys

  David Lowe | April 26, 2007 6:45 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  I wrote last November about a recall of Polly Pocket magnetic toys, which were being swallowed and injuring children. Now, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a stronger warning to parents about children swallowing magnetic toys in the wake of reports of hundreds of emergency room visits by children, many requriing surgery, and one death caused by ingestion of parts from these...

• Motorcycle Accidents Can Be Reduced With Training

  David Lowe | April 22, 2007 8:59 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Motorcycle Accidents

  May is Motorcycle Awareness Month. Many riders will be pulling the tarp off of their machines and hitting the roadways now that Spring is upon us. The National Association of State Motorcycle Safety Administrators (SMSA) stresses that one out of five motorcycle crashes involves an unlicensed, and untrained rider.This strongly suggests that motorcycle crashes and fatalities would be reduced if...

• Traumatic Brain Injury-- The Long Road to Recovery

  David Lowe | April 19, 2007 7:11 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Traumatic brain injury is a frequent and devastating consequence of a car accident. A column by award winning writer Crocker Stephenson in today's Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel provides a poignant account of a couple driving their car on a foggy day, broadsided by a delivery truck, and each left with serious consequences of brain injury from the force of the brain slamming into the skull that...

• Jury Service-- Seeing It From The Other Side

  David Lowe | April 16, 2007 11:35 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Here I am, Monday morning in the Milwaukee County Courthouse-- a familiar time and location. But this time I am sitting in the jury assembly room with a jury summons in my hand. This is my first opportunity for jury service, and one that I am looking forward to. We are sitting in auditorium type seating, unacquainted with one another, no one talking, all somewhat uncomfortable in these strange...

• Nail Gun Injuries On the Increase

  David Lowe | April 13, 2007 4:33 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Nail guns are easy to use, but not necessarily easy to use safely. Today's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report issued by the Center for Disease Control reveals that over the five year period between 2001 - 2005, emergency departments saw 37,000 patients annually for nail gun injuries. This represents a remarkable surge in the occurrence of nail gun injuries, particularly in the consumer...