Rants &Amp; Raves | InjuryBoard Orange County

This week, I was one of many attorneys who received an e-mail from Richard Alexander, a very accomplished and knowledgeable personal injury attorney in San Jose. The subject of Alexander's e-mail was very relevant especially at this time when the wildfires that have ravaged Southern California are subsiding and people affected by the fire are starting to look for adjusters and attorneys to help...

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Four people are dead. Eight people are still missing. There are still no answers and there won't be for a while. I'm referring, of course, to the horrible Minneapolis bridge collapse last week that occurred at rush hour traffic. It's almost a miracle that the death toll was not higher considering the magnitude of the incident and the volume of traffic that was on the bridge at the time.It was a...

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Time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in energy efficiency.The United States Senate has proposed a bill that would require automakers to increase fuel economy over 40% to 35 miles per gallon. The new regulation, if passed by the House, would apply to all sized vehicles-cars, trucks, and SUVs. One of the major concerns by consumers is that their choice of 'size' will be impacted by...

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2004 there were 3308 unintentional, fatal drownings - equaling an average of 9 lives lost per day. These statistics do not account for the 676 drownings in boat-related deaths. For every child under 14 who drowns 5 others are treated at hospitals, some with severe brain damage.Men lead in so many of life's statistics, and they can...

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Eighteen Orange County children have drowned this year.It was a crowded pool at a birthday party in a Villa Park home. It was a perfect day for a party - warm and sunny. There were plenty of kids in the pool and even more adults standing around the pool watching them. But not one of those kids or adults noticed 4-year-old Aurora Pruitt of Moreno Valley slip underwater and drown in the shallow...

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Cemetery negligence or fraud? How would you feel if you had no idea where your loved one was buried?A Charlotte, N.C. family is finding out the hard way. According to an article posted on the local WSOC TV's Web site, the family found out this week that their grandmother, Rebecca Grier, was not buried in the plot they were told she was buried in at York Memorial Cemetery. For four years, that's...

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If you talked to Charlcie Woodruff, nursing director at the McLennan County Jail, she would tell you that being a whistle-blower is the right thing to do, even though Charlcie was placed on administrative leave from her job in Waco, Texas when she did just that . Charlcie accepted the nursing director position a little over six months ago, and only after County officials promised her that jail...

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A life troubled with alcohol and drugs, cuts short a promsing career.It's been almost a year since Steve Howe, one of my favorite baseball players, died after rolling his pick up truck in Coachella, California. According to local police, the pickup truck Howe was driving left the road and then entered the median and rolled several times, ejecting Howe from his truck.To my knowledge the...

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After mounting complaints that its advisory committees were dominated by members with drug industry ties, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has tightened it rules on just who will be allowed to offer advice, according to a report on the Consumeraffairs.com Web site this week.Under its draft guidance, advisors who receive money from a drug or device maker would not be allowed to vote on...

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Will your insurance company pay when the tiime comes?According to a recent article in the New York Times , 64-year-old Mary Rose Derks, believed in long term care insurance (LTC). She faithfully paid Conseco Insuranace Company a $100 a month for a long-term care policy. Mary Derks was determined she would not be a burden on her family.After Mary had been hospitalized numerous times for chronic...

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This week was a tragic one for a Garden Grove family that lost two toddlers, who drowned in the family's backyard swimming pool Wednesday.Khloe Hyunh was only 21 months old and her cousin, Jason Nguyen was 2 years old. The children's mothers are sisters, according to an article in the Orange County Register.Officials say that it took only minutes for the two children to slip away into the deep,...

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Appalling and distressing news report from consumeraffairs.com.According to this article posted Friday on the group's Web site, they have inside information that Michael Baroody, chief lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), a powerful trade group that opposes aggressive product safety regulation, is President Bush's choice to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission...

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