Posts tagged injury

• Play safe to avoid turning celebration to sorrow July 4

  Wendi Lewis | June 26, 2008 10:13 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A report released this week by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says nearly 10,000 Americans were treated for fireworks-related injuries in 2007. Of that number more than half occurred within one month of the July 4 Independence Day holiday. Play it safe this holiday to avoid serious injury or even death.

• Lee High School Bus Accident Lawsuits to Move Forward

  Shannon Weidemann | January 03, 2008 10:33 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  There have been than 24 personal injury lawsuits filed against Laidlaw Transit Inc. over the November 2006 bus accident that left 4 Lee High School students dead. Twelve of the cases now have court dates starting in November of this year. Depositions have been scheduled as well for the driver of the bus and executives at Laidlaw. The collision of the Laidlaw Transit bus and a car driven by a...

• McDonald's Strip Search Victim Wins $6.1 Million in Suit

  Courtney Mills | October 05, 2007 4:25 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In the McDonald's Strip Search Case, after hearing Louise Ogborn's plaintive testimony in the witness box of how she endured two long hours of sexual torment as a prank caller posing as a cop subjected her to a virtual strip search while hapless McDonald's managers went along, a jury awarded her $6.1 million, far short of the $200 million she was seeking from the fast food giant.Ogborn was a...

• University President Places Cops on Leave after Student Tasered

  Courtney Mills | September 19, 2007 10:28 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  When video of a group of police Tasering University of Florida senior Andrew Meyer became an instant internet sensation on Tuesday, the debate on free speech on college campuses began to circulate in earnest. University of Florida President Bernie Machen responded in kind by placing two of the officers on leave because of their actions.In the video, UF senior Andrew Meyer is seen asking Sen....

• Cholesterol Lowering Drugs Top Sellers in U.S. Market

  Courtney Mills | September 13, 2007 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to an article published on Reuters today, the cholesterol-lowering drug category of statins, the most popular of which is Lipitor by Pfizer, was responsible for the Lion's share of prescription drug sales in 2004. While cholesterol-lowering drug tended to be the most profitable for drug companies, according to federal estimates, patients spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $9...

• Globetrotting Honeymooner Sparks International TB Scare

  Staff Writer | June 14, 2007 11:46 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Andrew Speaker triggered an international tuberculosis scare when he exposed fellow travelers to a highly drug resistant form of TB. Speaker knew that when he flew out of Atlanta for his wedding in Greece that he had TB, but did not find out that it was a highly dangerous form until he reached Europe. Speaker disregarded US health officials by flying to and from Europe for his wedding and...

• Allianz Life Insurance Class Action Lawsuit Opt-Out Date Approaching

  Staff Writer | May 03, 2007 3:29 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  See our Mobile blog for an update about the Allianz Life Insurance class action lawsuit. The opt-out date is quickly approaching.