Month: June 2016
First Extreme Sport Athlete Diagnosed with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
The BMX world reeled in early February when news broke that Dave Mirra, a legend in the sport, was dead of an apparent suicide. Reports...
Zika Causes Birth Defects by Sidestepping Our Defenses
When the Zika virus starting making headlines in Brazil, the scientific community was skeptical that a mosquito-borne virus could be the cause of a rash...
Self-Driving Trucks and the Internet of Things
There have been a number of articles online over the last couple of years that talk about self-driving cars. About a year ago, in May...
A Kentucky Hospital May be Spreading Deadly MRSA Infections through Steroid Epidurals
Kentucky does a lot of things well; keeping deadly infections from spreading throughout their hospitals is not, sadly, one of those things. There is a...
Stop Victim-Blaming Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Already
We are a country of victim blamers. Brock Turner’s father. Gamergate. The mental health crisis (or the gun industry, depending on whom you ask). Media...
Who and When Can You File a Wrongful Death Claim in Court?
A wrongful death claim is one that alleges a person has died because of the intentional or negligent actions (or inactions) of another person or...
Kentucky’s Graefenburg Road Is Off the Map for Oversized Trucks
Following emergency authorization from the Federal Highway Administration, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has banned oversized trucks from traveling on Ky. 151, the two-lane highway in...
Transcript: Laws and Regulations that Apply to Truck Drivers and Trucking Companies
Many people believe that a truck crash case is the same as a car crash case, but this simply isn’t true. There are separate laws...
Everyone Has a Reason to Call for Safer Commercial Trucks
There’s no doubt about it; big accidents grab our attention. A quick Google search of “crazy cargo spills” nets more than 400,000 hits, while “truck...
Transcript: Can medical providers falsify your records and get away with it?
Not when you hire Crandall & Pera Law. Not only are Marc Pera, and I former defense lawyers, who have literally looked through thousands of...