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• Is the Nurse Taking Care of your Mother a "Temp"?

  Dan Frith | December 27, 2007 6:04 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  We all are concerned, rightfully, over the care our family members receive in nursing homes. You would have to be blind and deaf not to read, hear, and see all of the problems the nursing home industry in America!The most critical aspect of getting good care in a nursing home is the quality and training of the nursing staff. However, the problem is that most nursing homes are under-staffed and...

• Heavy Backpacks Causing Back and Spinal Injuries in Children

  Shannon Weidemann | August 15, 2007 3:24 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  The American Physical Therapy Association has released a study showing that heavy backpacks worn by school children can cause back and spinal injuries. The study was conducted by Mary Ann Wilmarth of Northwestern University. According to Wilmarth, injury can occur when a child, in trying to adapt to a heavy load, uses faulty postures such as arching the back, bending forward, twisting, or...

• You're Not In Good Hands With Allstate

  Staff Writer | February 24, 2006 8:02 AM | 1 CommentRoanoke, VA

  According to an article published in the July 2005 issue of "The New Mexico Trial Lawyer" Allstate insurance company has devised a plan to increase it profits at the expense of its policyholders and those injured by Allstate insureds. The article entitled "False Promises -- Allstate, McKinsey and the Zero Sum Game" by David J. Berardinelli describes how Allstate has discovered that it can...

• Criminal Charges Filed in Accident Which Killed Officer

  Dan Frith | October 16, 2008 2:27 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  There was a sad story in today's Roanoke Times newspaper. A 25 year old man from Ohio (Brooks Ryan Leisure) has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the traffic accident death of Jason...

• Eight Year Old Dies in Virginia Automobile Accident

  Dan Frith | May 20, 2008 10:26 AM | 1 CommentRoanoke, VA

  I was saddened to read the story of an 8 year old boy who died last week in a single car accident in Culpeper, Virginia. Virginia State Police reported that Orion Bickings was riding in a 1999 Acura...

• West Virginia: ATV Accidents On The Rise

  Dan Frith | May 12, 2008 6:24 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  It is that time of year when people start getting outdoors more...becoming active..but these numbers from the state of West Virginia involving fatal accidents and All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) is...

• Malignant Hyperthermia Kills Florida Teen During Surgery

  Dan Frith | March 28, 2008 6:06 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  You have already probably heard the sad story about the Florida teenager who died due to complications from anesthesia during corrective breast augmentation surgery. Stephanie Kuleba, age 18, was having outpatient corrective breast augmentation surgery last week in the offices of Dr. Steven Schuster in Boca Raton when she developed the symptoms of malignant hyperthermia after receiving...

• Congress May End Mandatory Arbitration for Consumers

  Dan Frith | February 12, 2008 10:50 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  I cannot express how unfair and biased mandatory arbitration is for American consumers! It seems that every purchase order for a TV, refrigerator, used car, or other product contains language which prevents you (the consumer) from holding the seller/manufacturer responsible for their defective products through our legal system. Instead of filing a lawsuit and having your claim heard by a jury...

• Carroll County Car Accident Leaves Two Injured

  Shannon Weidemann | July 10, 2007 2:57 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  A car and a semi-truck where involved in a motor vehicle accident on Interstate 77 in Carroll County. The accident happened on Friday morning and caused many traffic delays. It happened in the southbound lanes at mile marker 20, north of Hillsville. Witnesses told authorities that a car traveling too fast ran up under a tractor trailer. Both vehicles wrecked and caught fire. Both drivers of...

• Too Many Malpractice Lawsuits or Too Much Malpractice?

  Dan Frith | April 02, 2009 3:15 PM | 4 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  We've listened to George Bush, various national, state, and local medical organizations, and the insurance industry cry long and hard about the need to reform medical malpractice laws in the United...