Newington police are investigating a fatal traffic accident that occurred last Friday at approximately 10:30 p.m. The accident occurred at the intersection of the Berlin Turnpike and Prospect Street.? A motorcycle and a pickup truck collided in the intersection. The operator of the motorcycle was pronounced dead at the scene.? Names are currently being withheld.? Newington police are encouraging any witnesses to the accident to contact them.?
The increasing fragmentation of medical care in general contributes to communication problems.? As we have more subspecialists, more hospitalists, more intensivists and less single primary care physicians in charge of someone, breakdowns in communication plague the medical community.? In paper based system, with mulitple consult specialists, under time constraints, it is far too easy for?missed diagnoses and failure to treat due to a breakdown in medical communication.? There are some remedies.? For example, universal electronic medical records would be a step toward remedying this problem.? It would provide a central repository so the patient can have access to the three or four specialists saying different things.? The communication breakdown leads to tragic cases of injury and death.? To bring a medical malpractice lawsuit in Connecticut, it needs to filed within 2 years of the date of medical malpractice.? In order to properly file the lawsuit, you must obtain a signed written report from a medical expert stating that malpractice has taken place and that the malpractice caused injury.? The signed medical expert report is appended to the lawsuit when it is filed with the court.? If an expert report is not filed with the complaint, the complaint is subject to dismissal.? Our firm’s personal injury lawyers have experience in handling medical malpractice cases on behalf of those that have been injured due to the malpractice of a doctor, hospital, or other health care provider.
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The US Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in cooperation with Evenflo Company Inc, announced a recall Friday of the Evenflo Embrace? Infant Car Seat/Carriers.?? The recall affects about 450,000 infant car seats.
The manufacturer of the defective car seats is?Evenflo Company Inc., of Vandalia, Ohio
When used as an infant carrier, the handle can unexpectedly release, causing the seat to rotate forward. When this happens, an infant inside the carrier can fall to the ground and suffer serious injuries.? There have been 679 reports of the handle on the car seat unexpectedly releasing.? This defect has caused 160 injuries to children.? These injuries include a skull fracture, concussions and lacerations.
The recall involves Evenflo Embrace? Infant Car Seat/Carriers made before April 8, 2006. The recalled car seat/carriers have model numbers beginning with 317, 320, 397, 398, 540, 548, 549, 550, 556, 597, 598 or 599. The model number and production date information can be found on a white label on the bottom of the carrier and on the top of the convenience base. Models beginning with ?5? are units sold with the travel system (compatible stroller). ?Evenflo? is on the carrying handle and car seat base. Embrace? infant car seat/carriers made on or after April 8, 2006 are not included in this recall.??Hopefully the recall will prevent future injuries to children as a result of the product defect.? If you believe that your child has been injured by the defective car seat, make sure that you keep the defective car seat.? It is vital evidence to prove that the car seat was indeed defective and the defect was a substantial contributing factor in causing your child’s injuires.? Contact one of our Connecticut personal injury lawyers should you have any questions relating to this defective child car seat.
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If you have been hurt in an accident, you should consider getting a personal injury lawyer. Instead of trying to handle the insurance claim on your own,?our connecticut personal injury lawyers?can help you maximize the settlement value of your personal injury claim or, if needed, take your case to court and try the case before a jury. Using?our?knowledge of the law and trial experience, our?hartford personal injury lawyers can get?you?the money you deserve.
Our personal injury lawyers represent injured clients on a contingency fee. This means that if?we win the case?we will get a percentage of the money you earn. In most cases this percentage still allows you to walk away with a large sum of money. If?we do not win the case for you, you will not owe us an attorneys’ fees.
There is no empirical evidence to support the much-publicized notion that the tort system amounts to a lottery for injured plaintiffs, as President Bush and others have long maintained, writes Philip G. Peters Jr. in the May edition of the Michigan Law Review. If anything, the system appears to be biased against injured plaintiffs.
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