Blog: Personal Injury - Page 14

With winter weather approaching, snow, ice and freezing temperatures will make traveling dangerous for pedestrians and drivers. Sadly, slip and falls and motor vehicle accidents will rise during this time. These accidents will also contribute to a significant increase in workers' compensation claims. Each year, accidental slip and falls cause thirty thousand serious injuries and twenty thousand deaths. Icy roads and mounds of snow make it difficult for pedestrians...

General Motors (GM) has created a fund to compensate victims who have either died or were seriously injured due to the faulty design of the ignition switch in certain GM vehicles. So far, 30 death claims have been accepted in connection with the faulty ignition switch recall. The total number of claims the program has received is 1,580. These claims include 192 death claims, 102 "Category One" injury claims and 1,286 "Category Two" injury claims. A "Category...

A seven-year-old girl went to a Halloween party at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World earlier this month. Her costume of choice was a peacock and she accessorized with "Fright Night" eye shadow tattoos. Two days after the use of the tattoos, she ended up in the emergency room because the skin around her eyes was inflamed and dry. Her parents took her to a local hospital near Orlando, Florida. The doctors there believe she had a chemical burn that took...

The McKeesport community is mourning the loss of a family that was killed on Saturday morning by a fire in their home. Two adults and four children died of smoke inhalation. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. The victims of the fire were a mother, her four children and her father-in-law. The mother's husband was able to escape the fire but was severely burned. He was hospitalized and remains in critical condition. The Allegheny County's...

Water scooters, better known by the brand names of Jet Ski, Sea Doo and WaveRunner, are used frequently in the summer for recreational water activities. A water scooter is a watercraft that a rider sits on rather than inside. They also do not have any brakes to assist in slowing down. This poses may threats for an accident or injury to occur. This was the case for one Penn Hills man on Sunday, July 13, 2014 when his water scooter capsized while riding on the...