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Traumatic Brain Injury
Think Traumatic Brain Injuries Are Rare? Think Again.
Did you know March was Brain Injury Awareness Month? We wanted to post this blog last month, but we forgot – brain injury, perhaps? All kidding aside, brain injuries are no joke. Often not detected or diagnosed for months or even years, these injuries can devastate lives. New studies reported by Reuters last month reveal […]
$760 million settlement for football players with traumatic brain injuries rejected
A federal judge is refusing to sign off on a $760 million settlement for retired football players suffering from traumatic brain injuries caused by concussions because she believes the amount is not adequate to compensate the thousands of retired athletes and their families who are entitled to the money. The settlement was first negotiated last […]
Daycare pays parents of child with brain injury $1 million
A North Carolina daycare center was forced to pay $1 million dollars to the family of a child who suffered a severe brain injury as the result of negligence of one of the daycare’s employees. The employee turned her attention away from the infant for one or two minutes and found the child unresponsive. The daycare […]
Miner death toll rises
Four coal workers were killed within the first eleven days of the government shutdown, according to reports. The deaths add to the mounting 2013 coal miner death toll, which lists 18 fatalities as of Oct. 17. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announces each fatality on their website but the […]
Texas TBI sufferer wins suit against employer
A Texas man who suffered traumatic brain injury from an on-the-job fall won about $5.53 million dollars after suing his former employer, West Star Transportation, for negligence. Charles Robison, 52, was standing on top of an overloaded flatbed truck when he fell approximately 15 feet to the concrete below. In addition to fractures to his […]