317.582.0000Category Archives: Personal Injury
INDIANA RED FLAG LAW: TRYING TO STEM THE FLOOD OF GUN VIOLENCE
If someone is suicidal or an imminent threat to others, should a local judge be able to temporarily take away that person’s guns? Indiana is one of several states with a “Red Flag” law that says the answer to that question is “yes”. The Indiana Constitution and the U.S. Bill of Rights both recognize… Read More »
AFTER TRAUMATIC BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD INJURIES, RECOVERY IS FAR FROM SIMPLE
The central nervous system, consisting of the brain and the spinal cord, is the command center for the human body. The spinal cord is essentially the ‘motorway’ that is involved in the co-ordination of the body’s movement, with signals carried from body parts to the brain relating to heat, cold, pressure, pain and the… Read More »
PINWHEELS IN PENNSYLAVANIA, SHAMEFUL STATISTICS IN INDIANA
To spread awareness during National Child Abuse Prevention Month, officials in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania planted 554 pinwheels on the courthouse lawn, each representing an abused child in the county who had the courage to seek help. Here in Indiana, with our state described as having the second-highest child abuse rate in the nation, the General… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: COURT RULES GUNMAKER REMINGTON CAN BE SUED
The Connecticut Supreme Court has just issued a landmark ruling: gun manufacturer Remington can be the target of a wrongful death lawsuit because of the way the company marketed the Bushmaster rifle used to kill six educators and 20 students at Sandy Hook Elementary School back in 2012. Remington had argued that it could… Read More »
EXACTLY WHO’S AT FAULT WHEN GUN VIOLENCE CAUSES INJURY AND DEATH?
There are more guns than people in the United States, a global small arms survey revealed. In fact, while Americans make up only 4% of the world’s population, the study showed, we own nearly half of the entire global stock of firearms! The bad part, as a new study in the Journal of the… Read More »
NURSING HOME NEGLECT IS A FORM OF ABUSE
“But we didn’t mean it!” simply isn’t going to cut it as an excuse when it comes to nursing home neglect. True, unlike abuse, neglect is not done out of specific intent to harm a patient or an elder in a nursing home or rehabilitation facility. But too often, intended or not, substandard care… Read More »
WHEN A LOVED ONE SUFFERS ABUSE OR NEGLECT IN A NURSING HOME
The facility may be called a nursing home, convalescent home, rest home, or elder care facility. Whichever it is, the owners of that facility can be held legally responsible when harm is caused to a patient or resident. There are actually different categories of harm, any one of which can be grounds for filing… Read More »
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES MAY BE INVISIBLE, YET LIFE – ALTERING
Sometimes, when there’s a hard blow or jolt to the head, the skull remains intact, and the extent of the injury is invisible from the outside. In fact, one of the most common forms of closed-head injury is concussion. There may be no noticeable scars, bruises, or bleeding, but what has happened inside… Read More »
THE BIGGEST THREAT OF PERSONAL INJURY TO KIDS ISN’T ASSAULT WEAPONS
“According to scientific literature, American children face a substantial risk of exposure to firearm injury and death,” a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute report points out, citing the following three statistics as part of a long list: There are approximately 120 guns in circulation in the U.S. for every 100 people. 1 out… Read More »
TRAGIC TRUCK-CAUSED PERSONAL INJURIES CONTINUE TO BE IN THE NEWS
Only last week in our Ramey & Hailey blog, we reported on four crashes at bus stops that killed and injured children, the latest in hundreds of school transportation-related crashes reported by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. In just the past month and half, deadly accidents involving trucks have taken the lives of… Read More »
