Toyota Now Thinks Black Boxes Are Reliable

July 29, 2010

If you are involved in a serious personal injury accident involving a car or SUV, your vehicle’s “black box” contains useful information that can assist your personal injury attorney and accident reconstruction expert in a personal injury lawsuit.
A black box is actually an event data recording device.  It records data regarding your vehicle’s speed, direction, [...]

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Nissan Recalling Cube Over Injury & Safety Concerns

July 27, 2010

As reported by USA Today, Nissan has announced that it is recalling its popular Cube hatchback due to the possibility of fuel spilling during a rear-end collision.  If such a collision were to take place the leakage of gasoline could cause a fire and potentially serious personal injuries.
According to NHTSA, federal tests indicated that the [...]

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Traumatic Brain Injury May Increase Risk Of Epilepsy

July 23, 2010

As reported by US News & World Report, a penetrating traumatic brain injury may increase an injury victim’s risk of developing epilepsy even later in life.
The research and data has come by way of looking at soldiers who have suffered serious traumatic brain injuries.  And what researchers have found is that when a soldier suffer [...]

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Injured Workers’ Rights Were Limited by Wal-Mart

July 22, 2010

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is facing a class-action lawsuit suit in Colorado asserting that it sought to limit the rights of injured workers in its stores.
The plaintiffs have asserted that Wal-Mart conspired to set limits on medical care for injured workers for financial reasons. The suit, which was filed [...]

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Traumatic Brain Injury Detection Device

July 19, 2010

Wouldn’t it be great if we had a device that could detect a traumatic brain injury – TBI or MTBI – right on the scene of a personal injury accident or fall?
Well, it appears the U.S. Marine Corps believe it would be pretty good too.
According to Biz Journal, the Marines have just awarded InfraScan a [...]

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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Research Needed

July 16, 2010

Mild traumatic brain injury is really anything but mild.  Brain Injuries are ranked or graded based on their degree of severity.  Thus, a Mild traumatic brain injury is only mild when compared to a traumatic brain injury.
This injury impacts over a million injury victims every year.  For many of these individuals a full recovery is [...]

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San Jose Editorial – Ban BPA

July 16, 2010

The San Jose Mercury News in a recent editorial argues that California and the federal government should move to ban the substance BPA from products due to concern of injury and illness resulting form exposure to this chemical product.
We here at San Jose Injury Attorney blog applaud the San Jose Mercury News editorial board [...]

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Brain Injury Victim Needs Funds For Treatment

July 15, 2010

Traumatic Brain Injury – known as TBI or MTBI depending on the degree of severity – impacts over 1.4 million injury victims every year.
Unfortunately, one of those victims this past year was 19 year old Jessica Huse, a recent graduate of San Jose’s Valle Christian School.
As reported by the San Jose Mercury News, Jessica was [...]

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Doctor Sues Due to Bad Internet Review

July 7, 2010

Usually doctors are always blaming everyone else for being lawsuit happy, so to speak.
But it seems a cosmetic surgeon in northern California has filed a libel and defamation lawsuit against a host of online critics who were allegedly “badmouthing” her on the Internet.
Dr. Kimberly Henry claims in her lawsuit that at least 12 different online [...]

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Brain Injury Patients Could Be Helped By Computer Chip

June 28, 2010

There are over 1.4 million brain injury victims in the United States every year.  What if a percentage of those individuals could aided by stimulation to the area of the brain that has been damaged.  Well, that is exactly what a team of researchers in Tel Aviv are attempting to do.
The scientist are trying to [...]

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