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• Suit Filed in Tornado Bus Wreck

  Frank Bailey | March 26, 2008 12:48 PM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  Last week, Bailey and Oliver Law Firm filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of St. Francis County, Arkansas against Tornado Bus Company, Inc. for Mary Alice Royko and James A Royko. The suit arises out of a wreck that occurred on November 25, 2007 on I-40 near Forest City, Arkansas.The suit alleges that over the last 30 months, Tornado Bus Company has had 32 moving violations and its buses have...

• Deadly Heparin

  Frank Bailey | March 24, 2008 2:06 PM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  Pet food, children's toys, and now Heparin...all unsafe Chinese products. Investigators are trying to determine if the drug Heparin was deliberately contaminated with a fake ingredient resulting in up to 19 known deaths.We know Heparin is a commonly used blood thinner. All the ingredients come from China. Dr. Janet Woodcock, the Federal Drug Administration's deputy commissioner said it is...

• Protect Your Constitutional Rights to Full Compensation

  Frank Bailey | February 22, 2008 2:41 PM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  If you have been injured, the Arkansas Legislature attempted in 2003 to limit your right to compensation to the amount of medical bills actually paid. For example if you had Medicare Insurance that paid a lower rate than the hospital charged, the legislation only required the wrongdoer to pay the lower amount. In effect this gave the wrongdoer the benefit of your insurance.Fortunately there...

• Medication Errors Cause Injury and Death

  Frank Bailey | December 19, 2007 12:11 PM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  Health care is not as safe as it should be. A substantial body of evidence points to medical errors as a leading cause of death and injury in America. These preventable adverse events are the 8th leading cause of death in the United States. Sizable numbers of Americans are harmed as a result of medical malpractice. Deaths due to preventable adverse events in hospitals (malpractice) exceed...

• Patient Rights-Respect and Courtesy?

  Jeanie Oliver | December 18, 2007 3:13 PM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  I have recently been diagnosed with an autonomic nervous system dysfunction called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, POTS for short. What I have is not so important in this blog as how I have been treated by medical professionals. Most of you probably think "treated" means what the doctors have prescribed, recommended, tests that have been run, etc. In this article, though, I mean...

• Strangulation Hazard in Hooded Sweatshirts

  Sach Oliver | December 10, 2007 1:56 PM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  What is more comfortable than a good soft sweatshirt. No work would get done in America on Saturdays without them. However, safety studies now show us that hooded sweatshirts can be one of the most dangerous of easy-living apparel. When consulted, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has guidelines for hooded sweatshirts because of the danger, especially, to children.In particular, sweatshirts...

• El accidente del autobús mata a tres personas - abogado

  Sach Oliver | November 27, 2007 2:41 PM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  Un accidente terrible en I-40 cerca de la ciudad de Forrest tomó a tres vidas esta última noche de sábado. El accidente implicó un autobús, un acoplado del tractor, y un coche. Dañaron a las docenas de gente en el accidente. El autobús que causó el accidente perteneció a las líneas de autobús del tornado de Dallas, Tejas. Según el policía del estado de Arkansas, el autobús cruzó...

• The Medical Expert in a Nursing Home Case

  Frank Bailey | November 13, 2007 4:44 PM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  If you have a nursing home case of abuse and neglect, your attorney will need a medical expert. The medical expert's role is to determine whether quality care was delivered to your family member. The expert must have training in geriatric medicine, and be thoroughly knowledgeable regarding medical issues.The expert must also be familiar with the strict regulatory environment in these...

• Students Exposed to TB Awarded $5.2 Million

  Frank Bailey | November 07, 2007 10:20 AM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  Six high school students and an adult chaperone came down with tuberculosis after riding on a bus driven by a driver infected with TD. The driver had been coughing up blood, had a chronic cough, night sweats and never went to the doctor before taking the students on the bus trip.The owner of the bus Garcia Holiday Tours claimed he was not aware of the driver's sickness, but that someone must...

• Child Safety and School Buses

  Sach Oliver | November 05, 2007 4:02 PM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  All parents deserve the peace of mind that comes with knowing their children are safe and secure on their way to school. In rural America we tend to take for granted the rumble of a big yellow school bus rambling down the road delivering the vast majority of school children to school and back home. Traditional school buses remain the safest form of school transportation. However, there are...