What is Considered a Serious Injury? When an individual is involved in any type of accident, the injuries can range from mild to catastrophic or severe. When an injury is so severe that it changes a person’s life, the claim deserves to be handled in a way that will provide adequate compensation. A serious injury can include: Death, dismemberment, or serious permanent disfigurement or impairment of a bodily function Fractures Burns Amputation ...
Popular Bunk Beds Sold at Target, Wal-Mart, and More Being Recalled Due to a Fall Hazard. A bunk bed sold online at Overstock.com, Pier1.com, Target.com, WalkerEdison.com, Walmart.com, Wayfair.com and more is being recalled due to a fall hazard. The recall includes the Walker Edison’s Twin Cottage bunk bed. The wooden bunk beds were sold in blue, brown, red and white. The beds are a twin over twin combination, and all have a ladder down the side. According...What You Should Do After a Slip and Fall Accident.
Cold weather is here and slip and fall accidents are on the rise. When the outside conditions become icy and wet, trying to avoid a fall can be quite difficult. Each year, accidental slip and falls cause thirty thousand serious injuries and twenty thousand deaths. Poor or careless maintenance of sidewalks, parking lots and roads can quickly become dangerous for pedestrians. In some cases, there is a way to pursue compensation after a slip and...
With an increase in injuries at trampoline parks, doctors and experts warn against the dangers these parks pose for children. Each year, emergency rooms see roughly 100,000 trampoline injures that occurred at home or at a trampoline park, according to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. An ER doctor explains that children are suffering from what is called a trampoline fracture. Because children have open growth plates in their extremities,...
A Pittsburgh man has died in a tree trimming accident when the bucket truck he was using malfunctioned. The tree service employee was cutting trees 60 feet off the ground with a chainsaw when the arm of the bucket truck he was in malfunctioned and fell to the ground, throwing him from the bucket truck. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner said the man died due to blunt force trauma along with a sharp-force wound to the abdomen. The man was an employee...