Miscellaneous

• Motor Vehicle Accidents and Neck Injuries

  Ed Van Dorn | September 11, 2007 4:33 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Anyone who has been unfortunate enough to have been in a motor vehicle accident and suffered a serious neck injury knows that insurance companies will most often assume that the victim is exaggerating the extent of the injury and try to down play the case. This is so even though study after study has demonstrated that serious neck injuries can occur in motor vehicle accidents even at lower...

• 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...

• CPSC Warns Of Rise in College Dorm Fires

  Courtney Mills | August 21, 2007 1:41 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a warning about the prevalence of fires in college dormitories, fraternities, sororities, as well as barracks. The CPSC referred to some stunning basic facts on fires in college dorms.According to CPSC Chairman Nancy Nord, "Going to college marks an important milestone, and the CPSC doesn't want that to be marred by a potentially tragic...

• Trapped Utah Coal Miners Continue to be in a Nation's Prayers

  Rob Curtiss | August 10, 2007 3:02 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Less than two weeks after the Minneapolis bridge collapse we are focused on another national tragedy, the plight of the coal miners trapped in the Crandall Canyon (Utah) mine. Presently the rescue effort is ongoing, aided hopefully by all our prayers.For me this tragedy makes me reflect again about the physical dangers that confront so many American workers daily. My father was a roofer who...

• 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...

• Botulism and Legal Liability

  Ed Van Dorn | July 25, 2007 11:26 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  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 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  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....

• Accident Victims and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

  Rob Curtiss | July 13, 2007 1:37 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  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...

• Fireworks and Personal Injury

  Ed Van Dorn | July 05, 2007 10:10 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  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...