Injuryboard Roanoke
"Articles on personal injury, medical malpractice, elder abuse and neglect, as well as the legal issues surrounding noncompete and nonsolicitation disputes between employers and employees."
Author: Dan Frith and Lauren Ellerman practice at the Frith Law Firm in Roanoke, Va. They also author Legal Medicine and Virginia Non-Compete Law Blog.
Blawg Related Categories: Labor & Employment • Tort Law • Injury & Accident Law • Medical Malpractice • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from Injuryboard Roanoke
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Dangerous Falls in the Nursing Home: Some are Preventable
Elderly nursing home residents who fall often suffer serious injuries even death. Why do the elderly suffer such serious consequences from their falls? Because of other health issues like dementia, muscle atrophy, and loss of…
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Moped Accident Highlights Need For Helmets
Nora Quezada was involved in a July 4 traffic accident in Waynesboro, Virginia that killed a moped rider, 50 year old James Baber. The victim died from his injuries at the University of Virginia Medical…
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Mental Patient's Death Results in Firings
North Carolina (Raleigh) officials said Wednesday that they fired three Cherry Hospital employees and disciplined others after the death of a mental patient who went without food, water and care for more than 22 hours.…
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Death in a West Virginia Nursing Home
The family of a man who was hit and killed by a train last month after he wandered off from a Kanawha City (WV) nursing home filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the facility. The lawsuit,…
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Resident Dies After Attack in Nursing Home
Talk about a disturbing report. Weslaco, Texas police say 84-year-old Raul Saldivar was in bed Friday night when a 48-year-old fellow resident entered the room and begin hitting him with some medical equipment. Investigators say…
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Medical Information and Privacy
I received a telephone call the other day from a woman whose adult mother was in the hospital. The woman is a single (working) mother and had just been told by her mother's nurse that…
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U.S. Nursing Homes Get Bonuses Despite Violations
If this story wasn't so sad it would be funny! The Des Moines Register is reporting that nursing homes throughout the country are eligible for hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bonuses despite past…
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U.S. Hospitals Record Record Profits in 2007
The next time you are in a conversation about the reasonableness of hospital bills...throw out the number $43 billion. That's right... $43 billion is the amount of profit made by American hospitals in 2007. This…
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Will Obama's Win Improve Care Provided by Nursing Homes?
Democratic candidate Barack Obama last night was elected the next President of the United States. America's first African-American President - pretty big news! Obama will face many problems and issues as America tries to regain…
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Seniors - Get Your Flu Shots!
It's that time of year again...flu season! And seniors are especially at risk for complications from the flu. Don't believe me, well how about these facts: 5-20% of the U.S. population gets the flu; More…