Category : Catastrophic Injuries

Accidents Resulting from Children Left Unattended in Cars, On the Rise

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration this week issued a warning to parents, to never leave their children unattended in cars. The agency issued a special consumer advisory in response to a spike in deaths involving children left unattended in cars, and suffocated to death.

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Nation’s First Full Face Transplant Provides Hope to Victims of Catastrophic Facial Injuries

This week, doctors at Massachusetts’ Brigham and Women’s Hospital announced that they have successfully performed the country’s first full face transplant.  The surgery was performed on a 25-year-old construction worker from Texas, who had suffered horrific injuries to his face during a power line accident in 2008.  Los Angeles catastrophic injury attorneys believe that this surgery could one day help more and more people who have suffered horrific facial injuries in auto/trucking and workplace accidents.

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Experimental Surgery Provides Hope to Patients with Rotator Cuff Injuries

Rotator cuff tears or rotator cuff injuries are very often the result of repetitive strain or workplace accidents. Orange County personal injury lawyers also find that these often occur as a result of slip and fall accidents.  In the case of minor rotator cuff tears, there are surgeries that can help treat the injury, and restore mobility to the person.  However, in cases of serious rotator cuff tears, treatment options for the patient are very limited.  Now, a new experimental surgery conducted in Georgia is promising new hope to persons who live with the debilitating pain of these injuries.

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Study Looks at Treatment for Accident-Related Blinding Injuries

Trauma-related eye injuries in an accident can lead to vision loss.  Researchers at a Georgia university are now looking at treatment for traumatic optic nerve damage to prevent blindness.

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Concussions in Children could Lead to Brain injuries

A Canadian research team is warning that parents simply don’t take children’s concussions seriously enough, but should. According to the researchers, a concussion is not just a minor head injury, but could be a sign of a more severe brain injury that parents, teachers and coaches must take more seriously.

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Sacramento Bus Accident Claims One More Life

The Sacramento bus crash in October has claimed its 10th victim with the death of a 51-year-old woman who died on Tuesday. Mourned by a large family including 15 children and stepchildren, Pia Xiong was given a traditional Hmong funeral.

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Former Marine Awarded $18.1 Million for Catastrophic Injuries in Gym Accident

Harold Leon Bostick doesn’t remember much about the accident at his regular gym in 2001 that left him with such catastrophic injuries, but he does remember lifting a few sets of weights on the Flex Equipment Co. Smith machine, before the horizontal weights fell down on his neck. For a while after the accident everything was a haze, and Bostick suffered from temporary amnesia about what happened after. It was only later that the full impact of his injuries struck him – he had a spinal cord injury, and was now a quadriplegic. An athlete, a lawyer in the making, with degrees in law, chemical engineering and business, Bostick was now confined to a wheelchair, unable to grip with his hands, although he does have some mobility in his arms.

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Driver In Sacramento Bus Accident Was Not Drunk, Prosecutors Say

Colusa County District Attorney John Poyner has confirmed that Quintin Watts, the driver who was arrested on suspicion of driving drunk and causing the bus accident near Sacramento on October 5th, was not drunk at the time of the crash. Toxicology reports have apparently come back as negative, clearing the 52-year-old driver who has received the brunt of the blame for the deadly bus accident.

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Sacramento Bus Accident Driver and Vehicle Had No Place on the Roads

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Colusa Bus Accident Raises Concerns about Lack of Regulation in Bus Industry

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