Personal Injury Blog

According to the Los Angeles Times, a private program called the Illinois Professionals Health Program (IPHP), in charge of monitoring doctors who are receiving substance-abuse treatment in the state, has been expanded to reach health care workers who may be guilty of sex offenses.  The program, which monitors treatments outside of the public view, has been highly criticized because of its secrecy and supposed lack of regulation.  Critics say that sexual misconduct by health care professionals must be met with public disciplinary actions, not covert treatments.

Former medical prosecutor John Goldberg …(read more)

On August 13, 2010, Janice Rivera, a 20 year old Deltona, Florida resident, was ejected from a car and seriously injured during a crash in Seminole County.  On November 19, 2010, she filed a lawsuit against the driver of the vehicle, Danielle Joseph, and Phusion Projects, Inc., the maker of the alcoholic energy drink Four Loko.  Rivera alleges that Joseph drank Four Loko prior to colliding with another car at high speed.  The name “Four” was derived from the drink’s four main ingredients: alcohol, caffeine, guarana and taurine.  It also …(read more)

In June 2010, a California jury decided that Enterprise Rent-A-Car should pay $15 million to the parents of two young women who died in 2004 when their rental car caught fire and crashed.  Enterprise had admitted liability in May 2010 for the accident, since the PT Cruiser the sisters, Jacqueline and Raechel Houck, rented had an open recall for potential under-the-hood fires.  Experts determined that the cause of the accident was a faulty power steering hose.

Since the verdict, the sisters’ mother, Carol Houck, has worked with the Center for Auto …(read more)

Remington Arms Company has been the subject of a products liability investigation sparked by decades of customer complaints and accidental deaths.  Investigators uncovering internal files and interviewing former employees of Remington Arms Company have found some alarming information — Remington allegedly knew of a design defect but failed to take action.

The first Remington Model 700 rifle was the 721, which was introduced in the late 1940s.  The rifle’s popularity has largely been due to a unique trigger mechanism invented by Merle “Mike” Walker, a Remington engineer, dubbed the “perfect trigger.”  …(read more)