A new study from Canada could mean better results for victims of traumatic brain injury. The research, recently published in the journal Neurology, examined the sleep habits of 30 patients who had been hospitalized for moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)...
Last June in Tennessee, a seven-car pileup in a construction zone killed six people and injured eighteen more. An investigation into the crash found that the tractor-trailer responsible for the initial collision was traveling at better than 80mph into a zone of heavy...
In the United States, premature birth is the leading cause of permanent disabilities, and sometimes death in babies. In many cases, it is unclear why a woman experiences preterm (premature) birth. A baby that is born before the 37th week of pregnancy is considered...
The recent spate of inclement weather in Maryland was responsible for a slew of highway crashes. The largest accident has been called the worst in Baltimore’s recent history; more than sixty vehicles piled up on the highway after a fuel tanker slid off a bridge...
Well what you should know about Erb’s palsy is that it is an injury that occurs, oftentimes in newborns, at the time of delivery. What happens is that when a newborn is coming through the birth canal, at the last moment when the head peaks, unfortunately some...
Early last year, an Ohio jury awarded Mark Soberay $27 million in damages for injuries he sustained in an accident as a passenger on a Greyhound bus. The accident happened when the bus driver fell asleep and rear-ended a tractor-trailer; Soberay sustained multiple...
Well, one of the things that makes Crandall & Pera Law especially unique is the fact that we have three full time registered nurses on staff. There’s one that works in northern Ohio, one that works in southern Ohio, and one that works out of Kentucky, and...
The last few days of 2016 were a rollercoaster ride for the ages; the year claimed so many prominent public figures that a GoFundMe page was started to protect Betty White for the remainder of the year. The slings and arrows continued to fly right up until the very...
A birth injury case starts with one of the most dreaded things in anyone’s life and that is an injury to a child. But what people don't realize initially is that injury to the child could actually have happened during the various stages of the pregnancy. So, an...
It’s not news; distracted and fatigued driving cause accidents and cost lives. We talk about distracted driving all the time because the evidence is plain; studies have found that texting and driving is just as dangerous as driving under the influence. Now it...
