Last year, Dr. Teodor Grantcharov put the finishing touches on a surgical “black box” and began testing the device in operating rooms. The device, inspired in part by the aviation industry’s recording log of the same name, was conceived as an educational tool. For the first time, surgeons would have a complete record of all [...]
Stephanie Morgan, a big rig driver, witnessed a horrific accident in late October. The company she works for is one of many that employ an Onboard Safety Monitoring (OBSM) System. Her sudden braking to avoid the accident alerted a truck-safety monitoring company, which automatically notified her boss’s office in Omaha, Nebraska. The data from the [...]
In his freshman year at Stanford, Catalin Voss helped build an app for Google Glass that could recognize emotions. The software use facial recognition software to analyze expressions, and compared those expressions to a database to determine the emotion being expressed. The app was so successful that a Japanese company purchased the creation and is [...]
In our mobile society, everyone is a pedestrian. With over 253 million cars and trucks on the road, pedestrian fatalities are the rare traffic statistic that is on the rise. In 2013, the last year for which data is available, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recorded 4,735 deaths in the US. In Tennessee, there [...]
The Rocky McElhaney Law Firm stands for justice – always has, always will. In our crusade for justice, we have been able to secure some of the largest trial verdicts and settlements for our clients throughout Tennessee at a time when they needed that compensation the most. It is our great pleasure to announce our [...]
Firm founder and all-around champion of the people’s rights Rocky McElhaney has done it again! We are so excited and proud to announce that Rocky has been named to the Top 100 list of lawyers in Tennessee by Super Lawyers! At last count, there were more than 17,000 lawyers in Tennessee, which makes inclusion into [...]
The dangers of a high-fructose diet are fairly well established. A diet consisting of large amounts of the sweetener heightens the risk of cancer, diabetes, obesity, and fatty liver. A recent study from the University of California, Los Angeles has found that fructose can have devastating effects for victims recovering from traumatic brain injury. The [...]
Spilled hot coffee, slip and falls in a department store, claims that Netflix is responsible for your daughter’s pregnancy; the media is full of overblown coverage of “frivolous” lawsuits. The Connecticut Post covered the most recent of these, where headlines screamed that a woman is suing her nephew for loving her too much. There are [...]
Sarah Ray and her husband, Paul, had just finished exchanging vows at the altar. The ceremony was over, and everyone was looking forward to greeting the couple at the reception. Sarah and Paul were taking a moment to savor their union before leaving the church when both phones went off. The newlyweds, both paramedics, received [...]
Anyone who commutes to work on a major highway is familiar with scraps of tire debris scattered across the roadway. Occasionally, larger chunks of shredded tire belting stay in the middle of the lane, creating a minor traffic obstacle that can have major consequences. However, those little pieces of rubber are an indicator of a [...]
