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• Government Pays Disability For Back Condition

  Brent Adams | February 23, 2009 4:54 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  Disabling back conditions enable a citizen to recover disability income from the Federal Government. Approximately 80% of all adults will have a serious back problem during their life....

• North Carolina Jury Returns Low Verdict For Neck Injury

  Brent Adams | July 06, 2008 10:22 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  A Dobson County jury returned a verdict of $45,000.00 in favor of a victim of a rear-end collision who sustained a neck injury. As a result of neck injury which was caused by the collision the claimant’s doctors recommended a cervical fusion of the neck. The surgical fusion would have involved joining together the C5-C6 cervical discs so that there would be no movement between the two discs. Both an orthopedic spine specialist and a neurosurgeon recommended this surgery.

• Are you a Faker?

  Christina Medlin | March 24, 2008 1:30 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  Insurance companies and their lawyers have begun using the Fake Bad Scale (FBS) Test to determine if injured people are faking their pain from car accidents. Expert witnesses for the defense/insurance companies began using the test more often after the test was added to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI).The MMPI is often used to diagnose and treat patients in mental-health...

• FDA recalls German manufacturers' heparin product

  Brent Adams | March 07, 2008 3:41 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  The U. S. Food and Drug Administration has added to its' the recall of heparin products.This was in response to continued safety worries about the safety of the widely used blood thiner.The German version of the product manufactured by Rotexmedica GnbH Arzneimittelwerk was recalled Thursday by the FDA after reports of bad reactions in some German patients.Germany has also recalled this...

• Deaths From ATV'S Continue To Rise

  Brent Adams | February 21, 2008 10:32 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  Deaths from all-terrain-vehicles (ATV's) due to personal injuries received in accidents involving are continually on the rise, a trend which has led to increased tensions over pending safety regulations as the popularity of the vehicles continues to rise.According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, an estimated 870 people died in ATV wrecks in 2005, an increase from 860 in the year...

• Raleigh, North Carolina News and Observer Asks for Tougher Dog Bite Laws

  Brent Adams | February 13, 2008 12:34 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  North Carolina's dog bite laws are not sufficient to protect citizens from dangerous dogs in an increasingly urban environment.In a recent editorial, the Raleigh, North Carolina News and Observer, urged state and municipal lawmakers to enact tougher law to protect urban dog bite victims. When dog bites man, it may not always make the news; however, the personal injuries received by the victim...

• Issue of whether an injury is covered by workers compensation law can be complex

  Brent Adams | January 17, 2008 10:25 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  Employees are entitled to benefits from workers' compensation whenever they receive a personal injury "arising out of and in the course of employment. For example, a machinist received an injury to his eye from flying glass from a cola bottle while on his lunch break that caused blindness in that eye. As he was placing the bottle in the cooler, it exploded. He would be entitled to receive...

• Jeep Recall

  Christina Medlin | October 05, 2007 10:34 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  One Saturday while out shopping, my brakes simply stopped working. Most of the time when a person's brakes fail, the brake pedal will go completely to the floor, with no resistance. However, when my brakes failed to work it was as if something was preventing me from pressing the brake. I stomped on the brake, but nothing happened. The pedal did not move. I immediately pulled the emergency...

• N.C. Workers' Comp Insurers Seek Rate Increase

  Sheila Chavis | September 13, 2007 12:18 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  On Friday, September 1, 2007, the North Carolina Rate Bureau filed a request with the N.C. Department of Insurance for a 5.9% increase in workers' compensation insurance rates. A request for an increase in insurance rates, in itself may be alarming to N.C. employers and employess. However, the requested rate increase pales in comparison to the 2006 request of 12.1%. The Depart of Insurance...

• Investigating Officer Cannot Testify Concerning Speed

  Brent Adams | August 15, 2007 8:25 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  Many people are concerned about what an investigating officer writes in an automobile accident report concerning speed and other circumstances relating to a collision. Unfortunately, insurance companies usually accept the investigating officer's statement in an accident report as being accurate. Many valid claims are denied based upon faulty information in an accident report.There is usually no...