Miscellaneous | InjuryBoard Fayetteville

If you were forced by a general contractor for an employer to buy a workers' compensation insurance policy and if you never had any employees during the time, the policy was enforced, you may very well be entitled to a refund of all the premiums you've paid for any such policies.

Because of the recent decision of the U.S. Supreme court that medical device makers are protected from liability when their devices have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, a recent product liability case against the maker of a defective hearing aid has been dismissed by the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

A 79-year-old Hurricane Katrina refugee from New Orleans has filed a $100 million negligence suit against a New York, New York hotel, claiming that she fainted and suffered personal injuries due to being scalded while taking a shower in the hotel.According to Ethel Tropez, who now resides in Live Oak, Texas, the March 29, 2007 incident in the Hotel Chandler resulted in being badly burned and...

According to a statement made on Tuesday, March 18 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a drug used for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be harmful to those who use it. As if the disabling condition of COPD was not difficult enough, the FDA says that Spiriva, a lung drug manufactured by Pfizer Inc. and German-based Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutical...

A woman has filed a lawsuit claiming that while she was in Chicago, Illinois, she received personal injuries in a rush for seating at the set of the Oprah Winfrey talk show.According to the claims of Orit Greenberg, Harpo Studios exhibited negligence through their failure to control the audience during the December 5, 2006 incident. She filed the suit seeking damages in excess of...

A federal jury awarded an Arkansas breast cancer victim $ 27.2 million punitive damages award yesterday on top of $ 2.7 million in compensatory damages after she developed breast cancer from taking the defendants' hormone replacement drugs.The jury found that the defendants had not adequately warned Donna Scroggin that the drugs caused an increased risk of developing breast cancer.She had...

A recent news article about a workers' demonstration in Mississippi reminds us of how good North Carolina workers' compensation law is compared to the law in most other states.The unfortunate workers in Mississippi live with a 60 year limit on workers' compensation benefits. The current limit in Mississippi is 450 weeks of workers' compensation benefits, no matter how severe or permanent the...

After the lifelong epilepsy of Oro Valley, Arizona native Randall Burger became uncontrollable, he applied for benefits from Social Security disability. The agency denied his claim.U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Arizona) says that 64 percent of initial claims for disability are turned down by the Social Security Administration.Giffords' office came to the aid of Burger and upon appeal, his...

Diabetes is a leading cause of disability in the United States. Unfortunately, the poor who do not have access to good medical care are more prone to disability from this horrible disease that those who have access to good medical care.According to a study released on Friday, February 15 by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, managing the disabling condition of diabetes is made more...

In a move that could lead to a rash of products liability suits, Chattern, Inc. , the manufacturer of Icy Hot and related products announced that it was voluntarily recalling its' Icy Hot Heat Therapy and a number of related products.Consumers have reported first, second and third degree burns after using these products. Some users reported having skin irritation after use of the...

Trek Bicycle Corp., based out of Waterloo, Wisconsin, has issued a voluntary recall of approximately 49,000 girls bicycles due to the risk of frames possibly breaking during use of the bikes. According to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, the company has already received reports of 13 incidents of frames breaking The CPSC also said that four of those incidents were reported...

The tragic story of Nataline Sarkisyan has been widely publicized. The facts are sad indeed. Young Miss Sarkisyan was diagnosed with leukemia at age 14. The cancer went into remission for two years when the leukemia relapsed. Just before Thanksgiving, Nataline's brother donated bone marrow for a transplant that was at first successful in putting her cancer back into remission....

The Treasury Department has made plans to introduce a prepaid debit card for recipients of Social Security, including those receiving disability, in an effort to provide benefits payments that are safer and cheaper.The Direct Express debit card is to be introduced in a handful of states in the coming spring and rolled out by the end of the coming summer. Comerica Inc.'s Comerica Bank has been...

The nation appears to be angered by the suit brought against an 8 year old boy who skied into an adult skier in ColoradoAccording to a lawyer in Pennsylvania , the personal injury lawsuit a couple from South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania filed against an 8-year-old boy who crashed into the husband while skiing in Colorado may be unpopular, but it is justifiable. According to Jim Chalat, the...

Wary about potential premises liability issues and personal injuries, many stores and malls are taking precautions when it comes to trendy wheeled sneakers. One such place is Dubuque, Iowa, where stores are implementing policy changes and new signage.According to Zach Shank, manager of a Hy-Vee in the city, the shoes have been banned in his store. He said the decision was prompted by complaints...