InjuryBoard Little Rock Archives

• Seatbelts Can Fail

  Frank Bailey | February 27, 2008 4:00 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  As much as we depend on seatbelts to save lives, you would think seatbelts would never fail. This is not always true. A jury in West Palm Beach Florida ordered Mitsubishe to pay $11,000,000 in damages to the parents of their 25 year old son Scott, who died after being partially ejected from a SUV made by Mitsubishi.Attorneys representing the family argued that Mitsubishi sold the SUV even...

• Traumatic Brain Injury...The Unseen Harm

  Frank Bailey | February 22, 2008 2:44 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...

• Car Crash Not Always Driver's Fault

  Drew Dixon | February 21, 2008 2:59 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  There were nearly 6,420,000 auto wrecks in the United States in 2005. Of those 6,420,000 wrecks more than 2,900,000 people were injured and 42,636 people were killed. That means that every ten seconds someone in the United States is involved in a car wreck. Most often those wrecks are the result of driver negligence due to the driver's failure to obey traffic laws, use of a cell phone, or use...