Category : Brain Injuries
New Study Shows Patients with Severe Brain Injury may have Alert Minds
The Washington Post has an interesting new report on experiments into the mental alertness levels of people with a serious brain injury. The experiments have shown that some of these patients, who are in a vegetative state, continue to have active minds.
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Football Analysts Join California Brain Injury Lawyers in Concern over Injuries
California brain injury attorneys are letting their voices be heard in the outcry against the high rates of brain injuries in professional football players and the fact that the NFL has not made any serious attempts to protect players from these injuries.
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Wal-Mart Backs Down in Shanks Case
All the wonderful press that the Debbie Shank case was giving Wal-Mart seems to have taken effect. The company has announced that it is retracting from its move to recoup her medical expenses. In short, Debbie will get to keep the money that she received in a settlement with the trucking company that caused the accident.
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Brain Injured Woman Sued by Wal-Mart
Debbie Shank dies a little every time she hears about her son’s death. Each time, she’s told her 18-year-old son died in Iraq, she cries, and then promptly forgets that’s he’s dead.
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Jury Awards $10 Million to Brain Damaged Woman
A jury has awarded a 58-year-old woman, left brain damaged after being struck by an MBTA bus, a verdict of $10 million. The total sum of the award with interest comes up to $12.5 million.
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Modesto California Teenager Battles for Life After SUV Crash
19-year-old Mauricio Alaniz is a gifted young man – a basketball player at Modesto Junior College, music technician for his church’s Spanish services and deeply involved in his church’s high school group. On Thursday night, the teenager was out in his SUV when it was slammed into by a vehicle driven by a 60-year-old woman. Alaniz suffered life-threatening injuries and is battling for life in the intensive care unit of the Memorial Medical Center.
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