Injury News

Each year in the United States, approximately 4.7 million people become victims of a dog bite injury. This translates to about two percent of the American population. Of these people injured by a dog bite, approximately 800,000 (or 0.3 percent of the US population) require medical care. The average hospital stay for a dog bite injury is three and a half days. Each year, an average of ten to twenty people are killed as a result of serious dog bite injuries. Most of the people injured or killed from a dog bite are children.

If you are a victim of a dog bite, you have the legal right to seek compensation for your injuries. Laws regarding the legal rights of dog bite victims vary from state to state and even from city to city. In all US states, a dog bite victim can recover compensation for damages from the following: a person whose negligence caused the dog bite, a person in violation of animal restraint and confinement laws, and a person who knowingly kept a dog with a history of aggression towards people.

Abdominal mesothelioma, also known as peritoneal mesothelioma, is one form of a rare asbestos-linked cancer, mesothelioma. The abdominal mesothelioma, as the name suggests, is a cancer of the tissues in the abdominal cavity. Abdominal mesothelioma generally affects men ages 50-70, although women make up about one-fifth of all abdominal mesothelioma cases.

Abdominal pains, abdominal weakness, weight loss, loss of appetite, nausea, and abdominal swelling are all abdominal mesothelioma symptoms. Patients exhibiting these symptoms are usually scheduled for further examinations to search for other abdominal mesothelioma signs. If an X-ray or CT scan indicates signs that the patient indeed may have abdominal mesothelioma, a biopsy is conducted, allowing the physician to determine the malignancy level. Any abdominal mesothelioma treatment will be determined by the physician and patient, taking into account the stage of the abdominal mesothelioma, the location and sizes of any tumors, and the age and health of the patient. Abdominal mesothelioma has a very high mortality rate, and in many cases, diagnosis occurs when the abdominal mesothelioma has already progressed too far. In such cases, all actions focus on making the abdominal mesothelioma as comfortable as possible, often removing portions of the tumor to relieve pressure.

Abdominal mesothelioma patients may be able to recover part or all of the costs of treating abdominal mesothelioma, due to its strong links to asbestos exposure.

Every year, around 11,000 Americans will suffer a new spinal cord injury, adding to the already 250,000-400,000 Americans currently suffering from spinal cord injury. The leading cause of a spinal cord injury is due to auto accidents. Depending on the location and severity of the spinal cord injury will determine how a spinal cord injury patient’s life may become affected. Since over half of all spinal cord injury patients will have suffered the accident between the ages of 16 and 30, spinal cord injury patients that seek treatment can learn new ways to live a fulfilling life despite an unfortunate accident.

The costs associated to a spinal cord injury can be overwhelming, but you may be entitled to monetary awards for your injury.

The effects of brain injuries from accidents or medical malpractice can be severe and lifelong. In some cases, brain injuries will result in the death of the patient. Some brain injuries related to malpractice occur while the patient is in surgery; improper administration of anesthesia causes brain injuries by reducing available oxygen, or halting blood flow to the brain entirely. Surgical brain injuries can also occur while the surgeon attempts to correct another problem, but ends up causing brain injuries due to bruising or other surgical trauma. There are also brain injuries that result from failure to diagnose or misdiagnosis. An individual who suffers brain injuries due to a misdiagnosed or untreated condition may have much more extensive brain injuries than they would have, had the doctor properly diagnosed and treated the original problem.

Brain injuries from head trauma, aneurysm, and other conditions can be quite severe, even deadly. Brain injuries cause speech/sensory impairments, headaches, paralysis, seizure disorders, and memory and concentration deficits. Emotional effects of brain injuries include mood swings, anxiety, depression, sexual dysfunction, and excessive emotional agitation. Even when brain injuries do not result in physical harm, the emotional and cognitive repercussions can be devastating. Brain injuries completely change the lives of victims and their families, affecting the ability of those suffering brain injuries to work, learn, and interact normally with their families and society in general.

If you or a loved one has suffered a debilitating brain injury, you may be entitled to monetary awards for your injury!

Birth injuries are usually due to complications during labor and delivery. Birth injuries range from mild to severe, from bruising to permanent disability. The most common types of birth injuries include bruising and forceps marks, facial paralysis, brachial palsy injuries, fractured bones, and brain damage due to oxygen deprivation. While birth injuries can occur in very simple deliveries, they most often occur during difficult labors. An infant’s large size or a mother’s small pelvis size may contribute to a difficult labor that may lead to birth injuries.

A doctor should be vigilant in order to anticipate complications that may lead to birth injuries. Some of the things a doctor should take into consideration when preparing to deliver an infant are possible complications resulting from the size of the baby, the mother’s medical history, umbilical cord positioning, fetal distress such as irregularities in the fetal heartbeat, and proper administration of drugs used during labor and delivery. Failure to monitor these and a number of other situations may mean that the physician was negligent in his care of a patient.