Jonesboro Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Miscellaneous

The Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association announced today that, Sach Oliver is the recipient of the organization’s 2008 Outstanding Young Lawyer Award.

Last Thursday, Sach and I drove to Arkansas State University in Jonesboro to attend the Student Leadership Banquet. Sach was the guest speaker. The banquet was held in the new student center at ASU...

Storms continue to bring rain. The water must go somewhere, and downstream it flows. Farmers in the delta areas of Arkansas are being hit hard by the excess water. Jackson County extension agent,...

On March 21, 2008 B. Braun Medical, Inc instituted a nationwide recall of Heparin. The recall affected 23 lots of Heparin manufactured and distributed by B. Braun Medical Inc both here and in Canada. There have been numerous reports of serious injuries and deaths in patients who have received Heparin injectable products. The typical symptoms include anaphylactic like reactions...abdominal...

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...

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...

The skies are clear and no rain in the forecast. It would seem that the dangers of last week's rain had passed. Unfortunately, this is not the case for residents of the Arkansas "prairie" region in eastern Arkansas. The flash point centers around a break on Saturday in the 60-year old levee that held back the Black River in Northeast Arkansas.Flash flood watches were issued for this area of...

Chantix, manufactured by Pfizer, was looked to by smokers as the answer to kicking a tough habit. It was approved by the FDA in 2006 as a drug to help people quit smoking. It acts in the parts of the brain affected by nicotine. Unfortunately, it appears that the dangers of the drug can't outweigh the positive chance to quit smoking.Investigators for the federal government are now researching...

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...

Can you believe the reactions Sigma Sigma Sigma members had to HAZING. It these members knew of the grief, the danger, the lives lost due to hazing they surely would take this more seriously. Engaging in drinking parties is dangerous. Underage drinking kills.The National Chapter should be applauded for suspending the Chapter for these violent acts of hazing. When will this plight on our...

Jury trials are an essential part of the American legal system. You are guaranteed a trial and a jury of your peers in the U.S. Constitution. What you are not given an absolute guarantee for would be every single aspect of the lives and opinions of the final group of jurors who hear your case. Who knew that even with the best possible prep in voire dire, that a juror would spend so much time in...

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...

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...

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...

Bayer AG based in Germany has suspended the sale of its anti-bleeding drug Trasylol. This action came about at the request of U.S. health officials pending further information based on a Canadian study. This study suggests it's linked to a 50 percent higher risk of death when used in coronary by-pass surgery. Approved in 1993, the drug has been under a cloud for more than a year amid data...