As technology continues to advance whereby nearly everyone has a smartphone now, texting while driving isn't the only digital communication concern for Tennessee drivers. Tweeting, direct-messaging, facebooking and any other form of digital communication via a hand held device is prevalent and a very dangerous task to perform while operating a vehicle. Yet many people on [...]
A simple google search of the keywords "do loud pipes save lives" will yield a myriad of opinions and accounts from the road by motorcycle enthusiasts. Motorcycle accidents by nature tend to be more traumatic than any other auto accident. They often involve serious injuries and can be personally and financially devastating. Despite the many stereotypes, [...]
In its quest to purportedly "create healthcare savings," the medical malpractice reform movement advocates setting caps on malpractice lawsuits as occurred in Tennessee. But, does this strategy actually work? It’s conventional wisdom that medical costs are too high. Likewise, physicians do worry about getting sued. As a result of these fears, doctors can order tests [...]
One of the the most common elective surgeries in America is knee replacement. According to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention 700,000 knee replacement surgeries are performed each year year. With an aging population driving demand, more companies are forming offering medical devices. OtisMed Corporation is one such company that marketed a product called "OtisKnee" [...]
In February, The New York Times reported that the New York State attorney general’s office had accused four big box retailers of selling "fraudulent and dangerous herbal supplements" demanding Walmart, Target, Walgreens and GNC remove these supplements from their shelves. The attorney general's action was primarily directed at the allegedly fraudulent sale of dietary supplements labeled as [...]
It appears the Tennessee State Senate wishes to take the legal profession in Tennessee back to the 1800s. Perhaps they are using the infamous story of Abraham Lincoln as logic since he did not actually attend law school, but instead independently studied the law, registered with the Sangamon County Court in Illinois and passed an oral [...]
As I wrote last month, a serious outbreak of a drug resistent superbug discovered in hospitals in three major American cities linked to a device not sufficiently sterilized but used in certain endoscopic procedures has resulted in sickness and in some cases death. Just last week, February 14, another hospital in a major city reported [...]
In a press release issued January 13, 2015 The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) stated it wants to "improve safety in the nation's commercial trucking industry and require that people with medical conditions be deemed medically fit for duty before they can operate vehicles." The release further states the NTSB is seeking improvements in commercial trucking [...]
An outbreak of infections from hospitals in Seattle and other major cities including Pittsburg and Chicago has resulted in patients getting sick and some dying after contracting a superbug called carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae or "CRE." This bacteria is highly resistant to numerous antibiotics and can kill up to 50 percent of people infected, according to the Centers for [...]
Rideshare services Uber and Lyft have been getting a lot of attention in the media recently for a myriad of reason chief of which are the need for regulations of their services and questions about liability. Rideshare services are very similar to taxi services with a technological twist. They utilize smartphone apps to connect private [...]