A lawsuit has been filed in Montana against the insurance company AFLAC (American Family Life Assurance Company) on behalf of two medical workers killed in a plane crash while going to pick up a patient. The lawsuit alleges that AFLAC denied accidental death benefits to the victims families after their deaths. AFLAC explained the denial […]
TBI Patients Sue for Living Rights
Several lawsuits have been filed recently claiming that victims of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) are not being provided the community-based care that would allow them to leave their institutions and nursing homes and live in a more integrated setting. A class-action lawsuit in Boston accuses the governor and several of his officials of breaking federal […]
Human Tissue Donation – Where Does it Really Go?
People donate organs, tissue, and blood to help others and sometimes to be stored for later use in case of personal medical needs. Human tissue from certain demographic groups, usually people with very specific ethnic backgrounds, can be used for life-saving research which would not otherwise be possible. Most donors have altruist motives, believing that […]
The Workers’ Comp Dilemma: To Sue or Not to Sue
Under Kentucky’s law, an employee can only successfully sue an employer for an injury that happened in the workplace if the employee can prove the employer deliberately intended for him to be harmed. To date, no employee in Kentucky has ever been able to prove that his employer intended to harm him. In January 2007, […]
ATV Injuries/Deaths Are on the Rise; Plaintiff Victories Are Not
In the early 1980s, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) began analyzing data on ATVs (all-terrain vehicles) to provide statistics on the numbers of ATV-related injuries and deaths each year. According to a report by the CPSC, there were 251 ATV-related deaths in 1985; 398 in 1999; and 467 in 2005. Of those deaths […]
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