On the afternoon of Wednesday January 21, an accident closed the northbound lanes of I-75 at mile marker 134 near Caryville. The Tennessee Highway Patrol reported that an unknown vehicle hit Lindsey Chapman, 31, who was driving a 2002 Pontiac Grand Am. Ms. Chapman lost control of her vehicle and hit the guardrail cables before [...]
Trinity Industries is a Texas-based manufacturing company that produces, among other things, guardrail ends that are provided to transportation departments across the United States. In October 2014, a federal whistleblower case against Trinity resulted in a $525 million fraud verdict after a federal jury found that the company made false statements concerning a modified ET-Plus [...]
Watching your little one open his or her toys during the holidays can be a wonderful experience. Some toys, however, are less safe than others. W.A.T.C.H., or the World Against Toys Causing Harm, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to informing the public about dangerous children’s toys, products, and activities, like yo-yos, Legos, or jungle [...]
Prescription of controlled substances has been thrust into the national spotlight in recent years. Despite a national crackdown, new data shows doctors have prescribed larger numbers of potent controlled substances to Medicare patients than ever before. Tennessee came in second in the nation (just under Florida) in number of providers who wrote a minimum of [...]
An accident involving two school buses on December 2nd is raising serious questions, and demands serious answers. The Tennessee Depart of Safety and the National Transportation Safety Board are conducting investigations, but police released preliminary findings ahead of the official reports. What We Know So Far According to police, Knox County school bus 44 was [...]
We know that brain damage can affect all of your other body parts and systems, but is the reverse also true? Can a traumatic accident or injury to your spinal cord cause you to develop brain damage? Researchers are the University of Maryland School of Medicine think that it can. They have been studying the [...]
The Takata Corporation supplies airbags to many of the cars we drive. In certain models produced since 2001, however, the airbags have failed to keep people safe; in fact, they have done just the opposite. More than 30 lawsuits have been filed against Takata alleging that that the airbags deploy with such force that drivers [...]
Any time you’re involved in an accident or event that results in an injury, it’s serious business. Some injuries, however, are designated as catastrophic: the effects of the injury are so severe that they could affect your life in a long-term or permanent way. Truly catastrophic injuries are usually the result of a serious accident, [...]
When doctors, lawyers, insurance companies and judges talk about “traumatic brain injuries,” they’re not discussing a bump on the head. A traumatic brain injury, or TBI, is an injury so severe that it has lasting repercussions on your life. Banging your head on the car when you get out certainly hurts, but it’s unlikely that [...]
CrossFit is everywhere these days. The high-intensity and highly-addictive workout methodology has taken the country by storm, earning “converts” everywhere it goes. But CrossFit creates some dangerous situations for the people who follow the regimens, and could lead to long-term injuries. What exactly IS CrossFit? CrossFit is an exercise program that emphasizes core and strength [...]
