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The nursing home in this case had a long history of providing poor treatment to its residents. The outcome was the death of patient.

The family in this case chose to file a wrongful death lawsuit to set the record straight and to try and improve things for others at the nursing home where their relative died. Shockingly, the nursing home in question had an established track record of being on a federal watch list as a special focus facility. This was not for good reasons. It was because it had an awful record and needed to be watched carefully. Unfortunately, that did not help the victim in this story.

The elderly gentleman in this nursing home developed bedsores and a variety of other skin conditions that led to necrotic tissue, breathing difficulties, osteomyelitis and ulcers. Any one of these medical conditions on their own would have been bad enough, but cumulatively, they caused the man’s death. This should not have happened, as these conditions are highly preventable with proper care. Rather than getting that care, the man got substandard and lackluster nursing from staff that led to his demise.

Riding a bike is cool. Dumping that bike, laying it down or losing control means spinal cord and other injuries.

Let’s face it, for those who ride a motorcycle, it is what they want to do and they are not going to stop. It is their choice to do what they want with their lives. Unfortunately, they often don’t have a choice over what happens to their lives if they are involved in a collision. For those that survive, they may have to deal with spinal cord injury; something that will be with them for the rest of their lives. Call it a life-altering event that never gets better.

There is some good news on the horizon for those who do suffer from spinal cord injury as a result of a wreck. It appears that just recently a drug in development to treat Alzheimer’s may be effective in re-growing ends of injured nerves and alleviates pain and paralysis. This latest breaking news may turn the world of ER medicine on its head and be a real boon for bikers.

Injury accidents and death can happen at any time, when you least expect them.

While many people seem to understand the concept behind a personal injury lawsuit, they don’t always associate a death as a result of an accident, as being a personal injury as well. Typically, if someone dies as the result of a fall, they may choose to sue in several modalities, such as a wrongful death or personal injury or even product liability.

It depends on the details of the case, as to which route makes the most sense if it may be going to court. Most often, this decision is made by your Atlanta personal injury lawyer, as he assesses the details of your case during discussions with you.

These days, many professionals do nOt retire at 65 years of age. Some practice longer, and perhaps perilously so when the results are death.

A 13-year-old girl is dead as the result of having two baby teeth removed and an impacted one uncovered by an 80-year-old dentist. The child’s death was attributed to lack of oxygen to the brain after the dentist had given her anesthesia.

In a further shocking development, it was discovered that the same dentist had also been involved in a wrongful death lawsuit about 12 years ago. That suit involved a 57-year-old woman who had six teeth removed. She reacted badly to the halothane and went into fatal cardiac arrhythmia. The wrongful death lawsuit, filed by her husband, stated the dentist did not have a defibrillator or continuous EKG; things that could have saved the woman’s life.

Death happens in the blink of an eye. In this case, a cop was doing his job when an 18-wheeler rammed his cruiser.

Being in law enforcement is not an easy job to begin with and being out on patrol has its own special set of risks. That was never more clear than in this reported case, when a highway patrol officer was doing a traffic stop near an exit when a big rig rammed into the rear of his cruiser. The impact shoved the car into a box truck. The officer died a few hours later at a hospital. His wife and three children survived him.

The trucker was arrested on the spot and charged with several criminal offenses. The driver chose to plead not guilty, but that may be a difficult plea to maintain, as the prosecution has evident the trucker fell asleep at the wheel of his rig, losing control and drifting into the right lane where the officer was conducting the traffic stop.

Many people wonder if teens should be allowed to drive as early as they do in some states. They lack the experience to properly handle a vehicle.

Call this a “hot button issue.” At what age should teens be allowed to drive? There are so many answers out there, it would be hard to discuss them all and cover the reasons why some feel teens need more experience before getting a license to drive a potentially lethal weapon. This case is no exception to that rule and points out that when teens, hormones and inexperience behind the wheel are involved, the results may leave people dead. Those harmed or killed will need the services of a competent Atlanta personal injury lawyer.

Our office read about this case, a horrific wreck between a school bus and a pickup truck that snuffed out two promising young lives. The pickup truck driver was 18 years old. His passenger and girlfriend was only 17. Despite both the driver and front passenger being belted in, their multiple injuries spelled death. The other two passengers in the truck were listed in critical condition when they were taken to hospital by EMS crews.

Wrongful death lawsuits may be filed against a person or an entity, such as a city. They are not always filed against just another person.

Wrongful death lawsuits are not always filed against another person. They may be filed against a city, town or municipality or company. The best example of that is the fiasco that was the New York blizzard in December 2010. The city did not know what hit it and citizens in distress found out about that the hard way.

Unfortunately, there were at least two wrongful deaths as a result of that major storm. The second lawsuit was just brought recently by a family in Brooklyn who waited an hour and a half for an ambulance crew to come and help their mother. The woman had chest pains and before the EMS crews could get to her, she died.