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• Accident on Route 107 in Deerfield

  Ed Van Dorn | October 03, 2007 9:31 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Another avoidable accident occured the other day on Route 107 in Deerfield. According to police reports a Lincoln Navigator crossed over the center line of the highway and crashed head-on into a Chrysler Sebring sending 3 people to the hospital. There are many reasons why New Hampshire highways have so many accidents and collisions, but one thing is clear -- The vast majority of accidents are...

• Accidents on New Hampshire Highways

  Ed Van Dorn | October 03, 2007 9:10 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  More distressing news from New Hampshire highways. Edward Bailey was driving south on route 293 in Bedford when a pick up driven by Jason Lambert of Goffstown struck him head on. The Lambert vehicle was going the wrong way on this limited access highway. Lambert was arrested after the accident and charged with drunk driving. Bailey was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. For more see...

• O.J. Simpson Owes Victims' Families Over Thirty Million Dollars As A Result Of A Civil Judgment

  Rob Curtiss | September 27, 2007 3:55 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Many of us are aware O.J. Simpson is back in the news as a result of criminal charges filed against him in Las Vegas. Most of us also know that the former football star was acquitted at his murder trial. What fewer people realize is that the families of the murder victims, Simpson's former wife, Nicole, and Ron Goldman, brought a civil suit against him for money damages. This civil trial ended...

• Accident Related Worker Deaths

  Ed Van Dorn | September 20, 2007 10:08 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  In the year 2006, 5,703 people died while at work. Most of them died due to work related accidents. Most of these accidents could have been avoided. See the Bureau of Labor Statistics Website for more detailed information. The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor is urging legislation that will improve workplace safety. But we all know how Congress works. For every...

• Car Accidents and Personal Injury Law

  Ed Van Dorn | August 27, 2007 11:26 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  For thirty years I have been representing people who have been seriously injured in car accidents. This has not been the only focus of my practice. I also represent people injured in product liability cases, that is injuries caused by defectively manufactured or designed products, medical malpractice and the like. But car accidents and representing those seriously injured in them has been the...

• Toy Recall

  Ed Van Dorn | August 27, 2007 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  At the beginning of this month toy manufacturer Fisher-Price announced it was recalling 83 types of toys -- including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters -- because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead.You may think this is old news and why is this lawyer blogging on the topic almost a month later. Good question. The answer is that experience tells us that after a...

• So-Called "Soft Tissue" Injuries Can Be Hard On Car Accident Victims

  Rob Curtiss | August 08, 2007 4:05 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  People who have been injured in car accidents often count themselves lucky if they have no broken bones. Unfortunately, injuries to connective tissue, the fibrous tissue which connects muscle to muscle and or bone to bone are often just as debilitating. When connective tissue such as ligaments or tendons are strained, stretched or torn they heal by forming scar tissue. The problem is that scar...

• Rescue Workers Still Trying to Find Utah Coal Miners

  Jenny Albano | August 07, 2007 1:47 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Rescue workers worked all night to find the six coal miners that are trapped 1,500 feet underground after a coal mine collapsed on top of them on Monday, August 6 in Utah.So far, none of the rescue efforts have not been successful. Dangerous conditions and falling rocks stopped the first drilling effort on Monday night. Rescue workers spent time clearing a road outside the collapsed mine to...

• Mirraco BMX Bicycles Recalled

  Christina Cole | February 28, 2007 12:17 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Mirraco LLC is recalling 11,000 BMX bicycles. The front wheel forks on the bikes may have been welded improperly. This defect can pose a risk that the weld can fail and the rider can lose control and fall.So far, the firm has received four reports of steer tube rotation and one report of a fork seperation due to weld failure. No injuries have been reported.The recall included BMX bicycles. The...

• New Hampshire Man Charged in Fatal Crash

  Christina Cole | February 20, 2007 7:22 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  A New Hampshire man is being charged with leaving the scene of a car accident, where a teenage girl was seriously hurt and an Elmhurst man was killed.The driver faces up to four years in prison if convicted. According to the charges, the two-vehicle accident happened at midnight on February 7th on the westbound Grand Central Parkway. Melendez, of Elmhurst and a 16-year-old girl passenger were...