“Mom, I love you, but I don’t feel safe when you drive me while texting.” That’s where we need to start. Distracted driving statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) indicate that at least nine of us are killed — and nearly 1,000…
In an official notice released on Dec. 7, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) denied 10 electronic logging device (ELD) exemption requests from different trucking organizations. The ELD mandate is a federal government-issued mandate that requires commercial truck drivers to insta
By now, most people have heard that there are thousands of product liability lawsuits filed against the makers of permanent polypropylene (PP) mesh implants for both hernias and pelvic repair. Some of the biggest names in Big Pharma are among them – Johnson & Johnson…
Each year, one of every 20 U.S. deaths, which encompasses around 140,000 people, is caused by a stroke. Nearly nine in 10 of these strokes are ischemic strokes, which occur when blood flow to the brain is limited or blocked. This blockage deprives the brain…
A leading hernia mesh doctor reports that her California office is being inundated with requests for hernia mesh removals. Dr. Shirin Towfigh is the principal investigator among researchers reporting on the conclusion of a 4.5 year study on mesh removals, published in Hernia Magazine December…
In late November, a Tennessee judge dismissed a lawsuit that aimed to label Big Pharma manufacturers of prescription opiates as drug dealers. This comes after 47 Middle and East Tennessee counties filed lawsuits against opiate manufacturers and distributors in 2017. Thousands more were filed nationw
Deer hunting season recently began in many states around the country, and with it, another onslaught of crossbow injuries resulting in claims against Barnett Outdoors, LLC. Although Barnett was forced to place “finger reminders” on their crossbows some years ago, many of these ‘reminders’ are…
Each year, up to 2,000 crashes result from unsafe driving on snowy, icy, or rainy roads in Nevada. In an attempt counteract this, the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) recently implemented a new safety regulation for drivers; beginning in Winter 2018-2019, snow chains are mandatory…
DID YOU KNOW MORE THAN 800,000 HERNIA REPAIRS ARE PERFORMED IN THE U.S. EACH YEAR? YET THERE HAVE BEEN 50,000+ LAWSUITS IN THE U.S. RELATED TO HERNIA MESH PROCEDURES AND THE NUMBER CONTINUES TO RISE. The most common adverse events following hernia repair with mesh…
Just weeks after a Desoto County, MS bus wreck killed 2 and left dozens more injured, tragedy struck the Mid-South again. This time the victim is a 9 year old boy from Memphis named Kameron Johnson. His friends and family called him Kam Kam, according…
Did you know that 94% of teen drivers acknowledge the dangers of texting and driving, yet 35% of them admit to still doing it anyway? That’s according to a recent AAA poll. While those are nationwide numbers, the statistics in Tennessee aren’t any better. On…
A former top executive of Insys Therapeutics Inc., an Arizona-based pharmaceutical company, pleaded guilty in a Boston courthouse in late November to bribing doctors to prescribe the company’s strongest opioid medication. The former executive, Alec Burlakoff, was Insys’ vice president of sales and i
