Posts tagged General Personal Injury

• Fireworks Injure Bystanders, Not Just Users

  David Lowe | July 05, 2007 8:56 AM | 2 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Millions of Americans enjoyed fireworks displays yesterday. But I suspect that some families today are struggling with the aftermath of injuries from fireworks. It's not just those foolish enough to buy and use these products themselves. It's the danger of fireworks to bystanders that gives cause for concern. Bystanders are more often injured by fireworks than operators themselves. A...

• Tree Stand Manufacturer Settles Suit By CPSC

  David Lowe | January 11, 2008 1:47 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Ardisam, Inc. of Cumberland, Wisconsin is paying $420,000 to settle a suit by the Consumer Product Safety Commission alleging that it failed to report personal injuries suffered by hunters using its tree stands when the stands unexpectedly detached from trees. Even though the company allegedly became aware of at least nine injury incident reports as early as 2000, the company did not report the...

• Traumatic Brain Injury-- The Long Road to Recovery

  David Lowe | April 19, 2007 7:11 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI 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...

• Pet Food Recall Raises Issue Of Remedies For Pet Owners' Loss Of Companionship

  David Lowe | March 20, 2007 10:35 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The recall of contaminated pet food manufactured by Menu Foods, Inc. of Streetsville, Ontario, Canada, will awaken the public to the fact that state laws give rather meager court remedies to owners who lose a pet due to negligence. The recall, announced March 17, 2007, involved 60 million containers of pet food of the "Cuts and Gravy" style. The food was sold in stores between December 3 and...

• Legislator Seeking End to U.W. Law Support Is Experienced Pro Se Litigant

  David Lowe | July 17, 2007 9:33 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Declaring that Wisconsin does not need more "ambulance chasing lawyers", Rep. Frank Lasee, Republican from Green Bay, has proposed a measure that would end public support for the University of Wisconsin Law School. The measure gained approval from the Republican controlled Wisconsin Assembly and became part of the recently approved Wisconsin Assembly's budget bill.Appropriately, Governor Doyle...

• Wisconsin Court Allows Clergy Abuse Victims To Sue For Fraud

  David Lowe | July 12, 2007 8:11 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Court decisions by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1995 and 1997 closed the door to the courthouse for childhood victims of sex abuse by priests, holding in John BBB Doe v. Archdiocese of Milwaukee that the statute of limitations had expired three years after the last incident of abuse and, in a case called Pritzlaff v. Archdiocse of Milwaukee, that the Archdiocese of Milwaukee was not liable for...

• Contingent Fee Lawyers In Public Interest Cases Face Real Risks

  David Lowe | July 10, 2007 8:15 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Today's New York Times has published a piece by legal affairs columnist Adam Liptik raising questions about state and local governments' use of contingent fee lawfirms to handle major litigation, such as tobacco and environmental pollution cases. Most of the criticism of the fee arrangements comes out of the mouths of lawyers defending the polluters and other corporate interests, who would...

• Pesticide Drift Endangers Schoolchildren

  David Lowe | May 17, 2007 6:29 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Associated Press has published a startling report about brain injury and death of schoolchildren due to pesticide spraying near schools. The report focuses on California, one of eight states that require a buffer zone around schools to protect children from "pesticide drift". There there were 590 pesticide-related illnesses at schools from 1996 to 2005, according to state records obtained...

• Problems Persist For Brain Injury Victim

  David Lowe | October 02, 2007 7:07 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Brain injury can result in physical limitations, such as quadraplegia or paraplegia, as well as mental limitations, such as loss of memory and other cognitive functions. An interesting and tragic account of one man's traumatic brain injury appears in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Elliot Lubar, a well known executive of a social services agency that provides counseling services to...

• Insurance Companies Accused of Fraud in Katrina Claims

  Paul Jacquart | August 08, 2007 9:57 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Associated Press has reported that the U.S. Department of Justice is contemplating intervening in a New Orleans lawsuit accusing several major insurance companies of fraud for paying off engineers in order to falsify claims. The "whistleblower" suit filed in the name of two sisters who worked for a company that contracted with State Farm, names State Farm, Nationwide Insurance Co.,...