InjuryBoard Santa Clarita Archives

• Car Crash Leaves People Seriously Injured

  Susy Owen | June 29, 2007 5:25 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  On a dark Tampa street at 3:00 a.m. on Friday last, a vehicle that was traveling westbound at an estimated 100 miles per hour struck another vehicle that was traveling southbound. The horrific incident occurred at the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard (State Road 574) and County Road 579. Car crashes such as this one, which was due to such thoughtless and selfish behavior, are...

• Rabies & Dog Bites Lead to Euthanized Pets

  Susy Owen | June 28, 2007 3:49 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  Rabies is on the rise in North Carolina. In fact, officials in Mitchell and Yancey counties are advising residents to keep food and pets away from wild animals since they could be infected with the disease. Apparently, the increase in North Carolina is due to the large raccoon population in that state. The numbers are high. In the last few months as many as eight pets have had to be euthanized...

• Judge Retires after New Sexual Harassment Complaint

  Susy Owen | June 23, 2007 3:30 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  Judge W. Fred. Axley, 70 was originally elected in 1982 as a Criminal Court judge in Shelby County, Florida. Of late, he was permanently barred from a Florida resort due to a sexual harassment complaint made by one of the resort's female employees. Since that time, he has announced his retirement, while stating that the sexual harassment complaint had nothing to do with his decision to retire....

• 1-year-old Dog(s) Kills Owner

  Susy Owen | June 20, 2007 12:37 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  This story is a lesson on many levels, one of which is "do not ignore your instincts." Phyllis G. Carroll was a 63-year-old woman who owned two 1-year-old dogs. The two black chow mix dogs were from the same litter, one male and one female. They were kept outside in the yard behind Carroll's house. Friends say she had grown increasingly afraid of the aggressive dogs. It is a that point a dog...

• Auto Safety System Saves Lives, Fuel & More

  Susy Owen | June 18, 2007 2:57 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A device that is new to the average automobile could prevent as many as 30, 000 accidents and 660 deaths every year in the United States. According to Clyde Stech, President, MAXAIR ATMI, Inc., which created the safety system, "This feature is ready and available and could be on all new automobiles. It's a matter of consumers demanding it and auto manufacturers making it available." Evidently,...

• Avandia Hearing - FDA Exposed as Negligent

  Susy Owen | June 17, 2007 12:52 PM | 2 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Avandia is a type 2 diabetes drug that has been taken by a millions of people all over the world. According the IMS Health, a medical tracking firm, in 2006 alone, US doctors wrote 13 million Avandia prescriptions. It is known that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ignored repeated warning pertaining to increaded cardiac risks associated with this drug for years. The numbers are really...

• Defective Product Feared Toxic

  Susy Owen | June 14, 2007 3:13 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Of late, it was made public that there is contaminated toothpaste on the market, which was imported from China. Today the Colgate-Palmolive Company announced that a defective, counterfeit product in the form of toothpaste falsely packaged as "Colgate" has been found in several dollar-type discount stores in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. The counterfeit toothpaste was...

• BSU Spends $850K Defending Wrongful Death Action

  Susy Owen | June 14, 2007 2:12 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The family of a former 21-year-old Ball State University student has filed a $100 million civil rights lawsuit against the school. It seems that a rookie campus officer shoot a 21-year old student, Mike McKinney. The family filed the suit in spite of the fact that a Delaware County grand jury cleared Officer Robert Duplin of any wrongdoing. The shooting took place in November of 2003. The judge...

• Supreme Court Rules in Dog Mauling Case

  Susy Owen | June 07, 2007 12:32 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  In July 2002, the San Francisco lawyer whose dogs fatally mauled a neighbor was sentenced to four years in prison. The two dogs actually belonged to a state prisoner, who was gang involved and both convicted attorneys, Knoller and her husband, later adopted the prisoner. It would be difficult to find a better example of truth being stranger than fiction. Knoller was charged with involuntary...

• Avandia Research - Doctor is Threatened

  Susy Owen | June 06, 2007 12:49 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Avandia is a diabetes medicine and is GlaxoSmithKline's second-bestselling drug. We know that worldwide more than 6 million people have taken Avandia or Avandamet, since 1999. Additionally, there was $2.2 billion in U.S. Avandia sales reported by Glaxo and that is just for the year 2006.After conducting 42 clinical trials, The New England Journal of Medicine published doctor Steven Nissen's...

• Pet Owners Blog on Pet Food Recall Issues

  Susy Owen | June 06, 2007 12:12 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  As soon as Menu Foods began their massive recall of contaminated pet food on March 16, a popular website for animal lovers - www.petconnection.com - began providing information to alert people as to what was going on and providing them with information they would need. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, 56% of U.S. households are pet owners. I believe it is safe to say,...

• Auto Accident Becomes a Hit-and-Run

  Susy Owen | June 01, 2007 2:03 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Early this morning in San Francisco, a 70-year-old male pedestrian was struck by a hit-run-driver. After the auto accident, San Francisco police Sargent Neville Gittens said "He ended up on the hood of the vehicle and the vehicle continued for about 25 feet with the victim on the hood. "The suspect stopped the vehicle, and the victim rolled off the hood onto the street." Imagine, the driver only...

• Pet Food Contamination - U. S. Company's Disclosure

  Susy Owen | June 01, 2007 12:48 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  It is no secret that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) learned on March 15 that dogs and cats were being adversely affected by the ingestion of certain pet foods. Upon investigation, the FDA found contaminants in vegetable proteins, which had been imported from China. The recall prompted congressional hearings, not to mention scrutiny of China's current manufacturing processes. Since March,...

• Another Defective Product Leading to Eye Disease

  Susy Owen | June 01, 2007 12:37 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  This is not the first time that contact lens wearers have been told that they have a defective product on their hands, or rather in their eyes. Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) has pulled Complete MoisturePlus from the shelves globally. Apparently, they have received reports that 21 users have contracted Acanthamoeba, a water-borne parasite that occurs naturally but in the human eye can lead to...