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• Avandia and Product Liability

  Ed Van Dorn | July 30, 2007 3:05 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Yet another drug has recently been found to cause more serious health problems than it is designed to treat. The drug is Avandia and it is prescribed as a diabetes drug. Unfortunatley it also appears to cause serious heart problems. Two of the most commonly used drugs for diabetes, which were taken by hundreds of thousands of mostly overweight people in the UK last year, are causing widespread...

• Botulism and Legal Liability

  Ed Van Dorn | July 25, 2007 11:26 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Yesterday I blogged on a recent discovery of botulism contaminated food products. Today's Washington Post has more on this story. Now there are 92 products manufactured by Castlebury Foods that should be avoided. The Post story leads with this warning.People should immediately throw away more than 90 different products, from chili sauce to corned beef hash to dog food, produced at a plant linked...

• Canned Meat and Botulism

  Ed Van Dorn | July 24, 2007 1:05 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Our firm regularly tracks news of consumer product safety concerns to pass information on that will be a benefit to public safety in our community. A recent development in consumer saftey involves botulism in canned meat. Botulism is a rare but serious paralytic illness caused by a nerve toxin that is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. There are three main kinds of botulism....

• Auto Accidents and Insurance

  Ed Van Dorn | July 20, 2007 2:22 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Did you know that where you live is important to insurance companies when they set your automobile insurance rates. When assessing risk of auto accidents insurance companies usually look at how often car accidents and theft occur close to your home and this helps them determine your rates. Studies by the insurance companies show that most accidents occur close to home. One company asked 11,000...

• Motor Vehicle Accidents on Rural Highways

  Ed Van Dorn | July 20, 2007 2:08 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  To those of us living in Northern New Hampshire its no secret that automobile accidents on rural highways can be deadly. A recent study by the University of Minnesota confirmed that rural auto accidents are statistically more deadly than accidents on urban roads. University of Minnesota research by the Center of Excellence on Rural Safety found rural roads deadlier when it comes to car crashes...

• Accident Victims and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

  Rob Curtiss | July 13, 2007 1:37 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Sometimes individuals who are involved in scary accidents develop a psychological condition known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.PTSD is a panic disorder that afflicts people who have been in a situation where they thought they were either going to be killed or very seriously injured. PTSD victims tend to replay the event that frightened them over and over in their minds in a...

• Motor Vehicle Accidents and Whiplash

  Rob Curtiss | July 10, 2007 4:11 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Whiplash is the common term for a painful injury to the ligaments, tendons, or muscles of the neck. This injury is often diagnosed in car accident victims, particularly those who are rear-ended. Insurance companies that defend personal injury cases have tried to make whiplash into a kind of cliché, insinuating that it is a made up condition. However, personal injury victims who suffer from neck...

• Dog Bite Law in New Hampshire

  Ed Van Dorn | July 05, 2007 10:41 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  The state of New Hampshire has a strict law concerning dog bites and attacks by domestic animals. Specifically the law says:NHRSA 466:19 Liability of Owner or Keeper. - Any person to whom or to whose property, including sheep, lambs, fowl, or other domestic creatures, damage may be occasioned by a dog not owned or kept by such person shall be entitled to recover damages from the person who owns,...

• Fireworks and Personal Injury

  Ed Van Dorn | July 05, 2007 10:10 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Last night my community had its annual fireworks display to celebrate our Nation's independence. Fortunately I don't believe there were any incidents. Everyone went home happy and filled with fried dough and memories of the spectacle. But sadly, this is not always the case. Every year around this time we learn of serious injury or even death from fireworks mishaps. This morning I read about a...

• Motorcycle Week and Head Injuries

  Ed Van Dorn | July 03, 2007 2:08 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Every June New Hampshire has motorcycle week. This is where thousands of motorcycle riders come to the state to celebrate all things motorcycle. It's a great sight to be riding on one of our rural highways and see a hundred or so motorcycle riders coming down the road in unison. The vast majority of bike riders these days are law abiding and careful. Many of them seem to be approaching senior...