News Tagged ‘injuries

Jury awards Minnesota man $7.87 million for construction-site injuries

crane 100x100A Hennepin County, Minnesota, jury awarded a former truck driver nearly $8 million in damages after a January 2006 construction accident left him with the heels of his feet shattered.

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Wife of Chicago construction worker killed on job sues

skid steerThe wife of an ironworker killed while working on a water reclamation project has filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking unspecified damages in excess of $50,000, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.

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Scaffold collapses, killing one Alabama worker and injuring another

scaff 100x100A Cullman, Alabama, man died Tuesday afternoon after falling on the scene of a construction site. Authorities said that Kenneth Ball, 51, a contractor and resident of Cullman, was installing a window on the fourth floor of a construction project when his scaffolding collapsed.

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father and son hit the road to raise brain injury awareness

TBI 100x100When Joshua Brantner was 20 years old, he attended a party that changed his life forever. He arrived as a healthy, ordinary guy but left in an ambulance with a traumatic brain injury that severely impaired his mental and physical functions.

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Concussions in children require extra care and attention

concussion 100x100Concussions, injuries that fall on the mild side of the traumatic brain injury (TBI) scale, are receiving significantly more consideration these days than ever before, thanks to studies that probe and attempt to grasp the often elusive nature of TBI.

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TBI kills UC San Diego pole vaulter

pole vaulterA 19-year-old pole vaulter for the University of Southern California San Diego died earlier this month after receiving a traumatic brain injury. According to the Los Angeles Times, sophomore Leon Roach from Huntington Beach, California, had been practicing his vaults on Thursday, September 3. Roach was completing a jump but missed the pads and hit the concrete instead, landing head first.

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Research helps identify injured children at low risk of TBI

TBI girlYour 18-month toddler chases after a ball and hits her head on the edge of a table, knocking her to the ground. A softball hits your 12-year old athlete in the head, leaving a noticeable welt. Both of these seem like minor, albeit painful injuries, but you’ve seen reports on television and online that some seemingly innocuous bumps and minor concussions can lead to a deadly traumatic brain injury. What should you do?

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Clemson research offers hope for TBI patients

ClemsonLogo2 100x100New hope for people living with the physical and mental impairments of traumatic brain injury has emerged from Clemson University. Assistant professor of bioengineering Ning Zhang used a combination of synthetic and natural materials in developing an injectable biomaterial that showed great promise for brain tissue regeneration in laboratory tests.

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Beasley Allen representing family of child killed in vehicle rollover

ford explorer xls 2002Beasley Allen has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Ford Motor Company in U.S. District Court, Southern District of Mississippi, Hattiesburg, on behalf of a Mississippi family whose 2002 Ford Explorer XLS rolled over after being struck by another vehicle.

The Riley family, represented by Beasley Allen J.P. Sawyer, alleges that the vehicle’s restraint system and door latch were defective and failed to protect them in the rollover. In result, Matthew and Carmen Riley and one of their daughters received severe injuries. Another daughter, Alyssa Riley, was killed in the rollover.

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Chrysler, GM bankruptcy deals strip victims of legal recourse

capitol 100x100Dozens of accident victims and their lawyers made their way to Washington, DC, and the halls of Capitol Hill last week, urging lawmakers and the Obama administration to protect their ability to pursue medical claims against Chrysler and General Motors.

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