InjuryBoard Raleigh Archives

• Escalator Injuries To Elderly Have Doubled

  Brent Adams | March 27, 2008 11:31 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  According to a review of reports by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, between the years of 1991 and 2005, the rate of personal injuries among senior citizens related to escalators has doubled. However, the majority are not serious injuries.During that time period, approximately 40,000 elderly people have experienced a personal injury, usually the result of a slip or a fall. In spite...

• Mail Fraud Charges Used To Fight Workers' Compensation Claimant

  Brent Adams | March 26, 2008 3:05 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  Mail fraud indictments are a favorite tool of federal prosecutors for just about any campaign de jour .These charges were used recently in a case brought by federal prosecutors against a workers' compensation claimant. A former employee of the Postal Service has denied federal charges of lying about disabilities while she collected approximately $69,000 in benefits from workers' compensation. On...

• Tire Manufacturer Fights Wide Access To Records In Defective Tire Suit

  Brent Adams | March 25, 2008 2:45 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Cooper Tire Company has appealed to the 10th U. S. Circuit Court Of Appeals to fight an order of the lower federal court to produce records relating to the manufacture of tires.The families of several students of Utah State who died or received personal injuries from a van crash in 2005 have taken their lawsuit, which claims that the crash was caused by defective tires, to a federal court in...

• Are you a Faker?

  Christina Medlin | March 24, 2008 1:30 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  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...

• School Bus Accident

  Christina Medlin | March 16, 2008 10:40 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A minivan collided with a school bus carrying 31 students to Durant Road Middle School in Raleigh, Wake County, NC. Fourteen (14) students and the bus driver were sent to the hospital. The driver of the minivan refused medical care. Although the driver of the minivan stated she had a green light, witnesses at the scene of the accident stated otherwise. The driver of the minivan was charged...

• U.S. Senate Votes To Strengthen the Consumer Products Safety Commission

  Brent Adams | March 16, 2008 7:24 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Lawmakers in the U.S. are pushing a bill that would give the US product safety watchdog a much-needed boost, providing it with more money and authority after a wave of recalls of dangerous products which could cause personal injury.On Thursday, March 6, the U.S. Senate voted for an increase in funding for the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), which had to deal with low finances and...

• Blind Spot Caused My Accident

  Christina Medlin | March 09, 2008 10:00 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A blind spot is the area behind a vehicle that a person cannot see from the driver's seat by looking forward or in the rear-view or side mirrors. Blind spots often cause accidents on the highway or cause children to be injured or killed when drivers do not see them when backing up. To help consumers understand how large some blind spots are, Consumer Reports has measured the blind spots of a...

• Race tied to reduction of workers' compensation benefits

  Brent Adams | March 08, 2008 7:50 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  A man from El Cajon, California is claiming that he lost half of his benefits from workers' compensation due to his race.The workers' compensation plan of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger contains language that is somewhat vague, which has allowed medical examiners to use age, race, and sex when determining how much should be paid by a company in a claim for workers' compensation.Milton...

• FDA recalls German manufacturers' heparin product

  Brent Adams | March 07, 2008 3:41 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  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...

• Crib Recall to Prevent Accidents

  Christina Medlin | March 02, 2008 3:43 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  On February 28, 2008, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of 24,000 cribs. Made in Indonesia, the cribs are equipped with faulty brackets which prevent the mattress from being fully lowered; therefore, children are put at risk of falling out of the crib. No deaths or injuries have been reported concerning any of the recalled cribs. Recalled cribs include: Majectice...