Slip and fall accidents are some One of the most common injuries in today's justice systems is the slip-and-fall accident. Dealing with this issue is quite complicated as some of the aspects of slip-and-fall accidents are difficult to resolve. An injury lawyer will...
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Slip and Fall Accidents 13 Million injured per year
The slip and fall accident is known to many as an age-old con designed to scam stores and malls out of easy settlement money. But, as Inside Edition reports on Monday, November 11, the majority of falls in stores are genuine, many caused when unsuspecting shoppers...
Is there a Dangerous Room in your House?
Your homes are your comfort zones where you feel protected and secured from all dangers. It is a peaceful place, far from strife and the madding crowd. Your houses are your sanctuaries. However, you are unaware that in every nook and cranny at home, a potential danger...
Stop Slip and Fall Accidents in Shops
Stop Slip and Fall Accidents in Grocery and Convenience Stores About more than one million emergency room visits annually are accounted for by the slips and falls which occur while shopping. The most common venues being the grocery or convenience store. It is a fact...
The Bathroom Is the Most Dangerous Room in Your Home
Home owners would always claim that the most dangerous room in the house is the kitchen. This is the place where the stove spark fires or gas leaks that lead to deadly explosions and some living room glass tables have been known to spontaneously fracture. It does...
Preventable Medicare Costs $60 Billion
Medicare’s expenses for its fall-related injury beneficiaries will amount as high as $60 billion annually within the next eight years as expected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The United States would have spent half a trillion dollars in treating...
Exercising is the Best Option for seniors to Reduce Fall Risks
Exercising is the Best Option for seniors to Reduce Fall Risks WINCHESTER, VA – Old age is risky to the life and limbs of seniors as it is a fact that from above the age of 65, an individual is more prone to fall accidents. Carl Hess, a resident at Westminster...
Pasadena grocery store name in slip-and-fall suit
A Pasadena grocery store is the object of a slip-and-fall injury claim by a Harris County woman. Maria Granados resident of Harris County filed a premises liability lawsuit on Sept. 4 in Harris County District Court against Sellers Brothers. According to ,Granados, on...
Exodus mine claims the life of a Spring Creek man
ELKO — Newmont Mining Corp.’s Exodus mine claimed the life of a miner from Spring Creek who died last Friday. According to Newmont officials, Allen Campbell, 49, died in an accident. However, the Mine Safety and Health Administration has not issued any preliminary...
Nursing Care Facilities Warned by OSHA to Watch Their Steps
Fall, slip and fall accidents ranked second to motor vehicle accidents as the cause of accidental death in the United States. Businesses are expecting that soon there will be safer flooring and matting manufactured to reduce these risks. According to OSHA, nursing...
NICB: Slip and Fall Claims Second Look
DES PLAINES, Ill - The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported that "slip and fall" claims addressed to businesses and targeting insurance companies are now carefully scrutinized for potential fraud. As in most cases, businesses frequently pay without...
Shoppers ring up $100m in Shop Claims
More than $100 million a year are claimed by shoppers through personal injury payouts from supermarkets after slipping in their aisles. One grocery outlet reported that it has more than $50 million worth of claims currently on its books rising by 300% from 2004....
Target to face jury over slo-mo clean up of nasty spill
Judge Gene Pratter released a decision on Monday regarding a local baby vomit slip and fall case, and the news was not positive for Target. It appears that Target will have to face a jury in a baby-spit-related slip-and-fall case. According to testimony presented in...
A You Reluctant to Dine Where Accidents Happen ?
CINCINNATI — The Cintas Corporation (NASDAQ: CTAS) in its efforts to assist restaurant operators acquire a better understand regarding the implications of a slip-and-fall accident, commissioned the Harris Interactive to conduct a telephone survey. The telephone survey...
A Robot developed to study slip-and-fall instances among elderly
Healthcare workers will no longer find taking care of elderly patients a difficult task, especially in a slip and fall situation in which the patient cannot recover on their own power. The good news is that researchers from Japan have introduced a robot that is able...