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Airbags have been a huge safety innovation for automobiles. Airbags can also cause serious injuries. Recently, automobile manufacturers recalled millions of vehicles that were equipped with Takata airbags, which were prone to explode and send shrapnel flying through the vehicle. Even when airbags perform correctly, they can harm passengers, particularly smaller ones. Although these injuries are rare, they can be serious, and in some cases can be more serious than any injuries that would have occurred in an accident had the airbags not deployed. Airbags deploy when a crash occurs because an electronic signal tells them to deploy. A chemical …

Being a police officer in Los Angeles can be an extremely difficult job, even under the best of circumstances. The jobs of police officers often involve violence. In many cases, force is necessary and justified on the part of the police officer. In some cases, however, police officers do abuse their power. When that happens, the police must be held accountable. In some situations, the agency or governmental entity that the police officer works for can be held legally liable, particularly if it failed to properly screen potential officers before hiring them, or if it failed to properly train law …

It’s illegal under both federal and state law to discriminate against a woman in the workplace because of her pregnancy. Under the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act, and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act, women are provided with certain legal protections during their pregnancies. By law, an employer cannot refuse to hire or demote or fire a woman because she is currently pregnant or is planning to become pregnant. Some common examples of pregnancy discrimination include refusing to hire women of childbearing age out of fear they may become pregnant and quit their jobs, …

For most new parents, the birth of a child is an exciting event which they have looked forward to for months. Sadly, often obstetricians fail to exercise a high level of care during childbirth. This may result in injuries or death to the mother, the child, or both. There are many types of malpractice an obstetrician can commit during labor or delivery. The obstetrician may fail to recognize complications during the delivery. He or she may not have performed proper tests during the pregnancy or delivery. For example, he or she may have failed to give the mother a Group …

Maybe your mom, dad, cherished grandparent or other loved one who is spending time in a nursing home just informed you that, while he or she feels just fine, the home has been administering intensive and hours-long therapy on a daily basis. You might want to check in on that, Now. And you might want to bring in a copy of a recent federal report that contains some truly hair-raising information and charges relating to care-delivery practices and policies of high numbers of homes across the country. Here’s a nugget of information that virtually pulses with light in study findings …

Unfortunately, not all property open to the public is safeguarded for visitors. If you have had a crime committed against you on business property, such as a store, hotel, restaurant, or parking garage, and you suffered injuries or other damages as a result, you may have a claim for inadequate security. The property owner can face legal liability as a result of his or her failure to provide adequate security. However, the property owner is not automatically liable just because you were injured by a criminal on the property. You must be able to show that a criminal action was …

I’m sorry to hear about your automobile accident and spinal cord injury. Automobile accidents are one of the leading causes of spinal cord injuries in California. Every year in California people are injured in car accidents that leave them with serious spinal cord injuries. Many of those injuries are considered mild and can be fixed with surgery. More serious injuries may result in partial or complete paralysis to the accident victim. Generally speaking, there are two types of spinal cord injuries – complete and incomplete. There are many variations of spinal cord injuries between those two types, including: – Injuries …

No outcomes are guaranteed for any surgery. The results of an extremely complex and risky surgery may turn out to exceed a patient’s expectations. A very common low-risk surgery may have complications and result in serious injuries or death to the patient. Your body may not have responded as expected during surgery, or complications may have arisen that a doctor could not be expected to reasonably anticipate. However, in some cases surgeries are unsuccessful because of negligence on the part of the surgeon, the hospital, or health care professionals. Some experts estimate that hundreds of thousands of patients die annually …

Although slip and fall or trip and fall accidents are one of the most common ways that people are injured as a result of another party’s negligence, it can be tough to win those cases. However, there are steps that can be taken to increase the odds of success in your case. If you have ever been injured in a fall in a public place, follow these steps and you are much more likely to prevail in your case. First, protecting your health should be your top priority. Take all steps necessary to get the medical treatment necessary to heal. …

California traffic safety officials would likely be most happy if they could interpret current accident and fatality statistics as merely a temporary aberrational departure — a hiccup, if you will — in an otherwise steady pattern of improving roadway safety. They can’t do that easily, though, because traffic-related deaths in California are unquestionably on the rise, and have been so over consecutive measuring periods in recent years. That spells upswing, and it is notably discernible — and troubling. “We want to keep it [the pattern showing a persistent rise in roadway deaths] as minimal as possible,” says one state safety …

If you have been injured in a car accident, a slip and fall accident, or a workplace accident, you may not be sure about whether you should hire a lawyer to help you pursue a claim. Many accident victims believe that they should make the claim themselves, because if they hire an attorney, he or she will take the majority of their compensation. In some cases involving a very small claim, it is probably not necessary to hire an attorney. A minor fender bender that did little damage to your car and produced no injuries is an example of a …

Although the analogy to a food item might not seem immediately intuitive regarding medical error, it actually does make sense with just a brief bit of explanation. A doctor who has long been concerned with the lingering — and, demonstrably, outsized — problem of medical misdiagnosis says that it is an element of medical error that is particularly hard to get a handle on and deal with, especially when compared to other types of medical mistakes. Like medication errors, for instance, the source of which can often be discovered through a methodical look back at the chronology of what transpired …