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• Meningitis and the Trial Attorney

  Frank Bailey | January 02, 2008 3:28 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  Meningitis is usually a complication of another bacterial infection such as pneumonia. With meningitis, the brain and spinal cord meninges (hence meningitis) become infected. If caught early and the infecting organism responds to antibiotics, the prognosis is usually good. If the meningitis is not treated early the prognosis is much worse, often resulting in death or permanent brain damage. ...

• Zetia May Cause Liver Damage

  Frank Bailey | December 21, 2007 2:58 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  Are big drug companies hiding the results of unfavorable test in favor of profits? A recent article in the New York Times seems to indicate that is just what is happening. The New York Times writes:New evidence shows that the drug makers Merck and Schering-Plough have conducted several studies of their popular cholesterol medicine Zetia that raise questions about its risks to the liver, but...

• Nike Football Helmet Chin Straps Recall

  Frank Bailey | November 14, 2007 11:58 AM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  On November 13, Nike recalled about 235,000 football helmet chin straps. The chin strap's plastic cup can break as a result of contact, exposing the player to facial or head injuries. Like many toys that have been recently recalled these straps were made in China.Nike has received 18 reports of the chin strap breaking, including two reports of concussions, two reports of facial lacerations...

• Closed Head Injury

  Frank Bailey | October 21, 2007 12:47 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  A closed head injury is an injury to the brain without a breach of the skull or the brain's surrounding tissues by a penetrating object. The biomechanics of a closed head injury may be understood by examining the inner dynamics of the skull and brain when influenced by the forces of acceleration, deceleration and rotating motions.When the head is subjected to rapid acceleration and then...

• Wrongful Death Suit Filed in Eells Death

  Shannon Weidemann | April 26, 2007 4:30 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  The family of Billie Joe Burton have sued KATV in Little Rock for wrongful death after she was killed last year in a car accident on Interstate 40. Paul Eells, the football broadcaster, was driving the KATV car that hit Burton's car. Both Burton and Eells died in the crash. His car crossed the center median of the interstate.In its response Thursday, the television station denied negligence....

• Wrongful Death Lawsuit Jurors Tour Accident Site

  Staff Writer | December 07, 2005 10:14 AM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  Jurors in a wrongful death lawsuit toured the facility yesterday where a teenager died when he was crushed by a recycling paper and cardboard baler. Jordan Dalrymple was on his next-to-last day on the job at Jefferson County Landfill and Recycling Center in Pine Bluff when he was trying to clear a jammed conveyor belt on the baler and fell into the hopper where the machine's compactor crushed...

• Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association Awards Sach Oliver Outstanding Young Lawyer

  Drew Dixon | May 07, 2008 8:44 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  The Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association announced today that, Sach Oliver is the recipient of the organization’s 2008 Outstanding Young Lawyer Award.

• Trucking Companies Are Liable for Punitive Damage

  Frank Bailey | March 26, 2008 9:07 AM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  Punitive damages against trucking companies may be imposed to punish the trucking company and to deter the trucking company and others from similar conduct. In order to recover punitive damages from a trucking company in Arkansas, a plaintiff must show that the trucking company knew or ought to have known; in the light of the surrounding circumstances that its conduct would naturally and...

• Traumatic Brain Injury...The Unseen Harm

  Frank Bailey | February 22, 2008 2:44 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  After a wreck, traumatic Brain Injury often goes undiagnosed in the Emergency Room. The doctors are worried about broken bones and other serious injuries and often overlook the most serious injury of all, traumatic brain injury (TBI). Every year, one in five hundred Americans have a TBI.Not long ago, unlike a broken bone or a herniated disc, most TBI was invisible. This made this type of case...

• Truck Collides With Train in Beauregard

  Shannon Weidemann | July 12, 2007 10:03 AM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  A semi-truck was hit by a train in Beauregard and injured four people on Tuesday. The trucking accident occured as the semi-truck was attempting to cross the railroad crossing at Ampacet Drive. The crossing does not have gates or warning lights.When the 94-car train struck the 18-wheeler's trailer, the trailer was ripped in half. The cab and half the trailer were dragged 287 feet down the...