InjuryBoard Cherry Hill Archives

• Insurance Companies Pay Doctors Half-Billion to Settle Class Action Lawsuits

  Mike Ferrara | April 30, 2007 3:50 PM | 2 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Doctors make me chuckle. They hate lawyers, they hate lawsuits, and they especially hate class action lawsuits. Unless it's their own. A group of 900,000 doctors just settled a class action lawsuit against Blue Cross and Blue Shield for $128 Million. That after they received $405 Million from other insurers, including Aetna, Wellpoint, HeathNet, CIGNA, and Humana. The claims were based...

• 13 Year Old Boy Killed by Hit and Run SUV

  Mike Ferrara | April 30, 2007 11:30 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  In another very sad case, a 13 year Brooklyn boy was killed as he rode a bike back from a family party. As he crossed the street, an SUV went around a slower moving car and stuck and killed the boy. The driver of the SUV did not stop and police are now trying to locate him. Drivers have to be ever vigilant to make sure they are aware of pedestrians or bike riders. There are over...

• Construction Site Deaths Rise from 110 to 146

  Mike Ferrara | April 29, 2007 10:46 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  The number of needless deaths that occur at construction sites continues to rise. The latest figures from the Lansing State Journal showed that in 2005 there were 110 deaths compared to 146 deaths in 2006. According to construction site attorney Michael A. Ferrara, Jr., there is absolutely no excuse for this contining carnage. Companies must take all steps possible to avoid these...

• Put Down That Diet Soda: New Proof That Aspartame Causes Cancer

  Mike Ferrara | April 24, 2007 11:02 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  A new study conducted confirms the carcinogenicity of aspartame. The results of this study were presented April 23, 2007 at the Mt. Sinai Medical School in New York. Aspartame is an artificial sweetener consumed by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. It is used in over 6,000 diet products including soft drinks, chewing gum, candy, desserts, yogurt as well as in pharmaceuticals, in...

• Define Victory

  Mike Ferrara | April 18, 2007 11:35 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The country is deeply divided over Iraq. Whether or not you feel the war was justified, the time has come to discuss how to resolve the problem and begin to heal the country. The war has now gone on longer than America's involvement in World War II. We have buried more than 3,000 of our sons and daughters, and countless thousands more are permanently scarred, physically and mentally. How much...

• Major Study Confirms Health Risks of Hot Dogs, Bacon and Deli Meats

  Mike Ferrara | April 16, 2007 3:38 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  A study from Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, examined the diet and lung function of 7,352 people with an average age of 64.5 years.Using data compiled as part of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the study authors found a statistical association between people who ate 14 or more servings monthly of cured meats and the incidence of chronic...

• Vioxx Replacement Drug, Arcoxia, Shot Down by FDA Panel By 20-1 Vote

  Mike Ferrara | April 15, 2007 3:23 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Merck and Co., Inc. suffered a major defeat when a special panel of the Food and Drug Administration rejected Merck's attempt to get approval for it's Vioxx replacement drug, Arcoxia. The vote was 20-1. There is no longer any doctor or scientist willling to say that these class of pain killers, known as Cox-2's, are safe. rs. They increase the risk of heart attack and stroke...

• 17 Year Old Driver Kills 60 Year Old Cherry Hill Woman

  Mike Ferrara | April 14, 2007 1:05 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  In a tragic case, a 60 year woman was struck by a car driven by a 17 year old from Haddonfield, New Jersey. Doctors tried to save her, but she died several days later. The woman was a pedestrian in the Promenade Shopping Center in Marlton, New Jersey. She was crossing the parking lot in front of the L.L.Bean store when she was hit. Teenagers are notorious bad drivers because of...

• Drinking Greatly Increases Breast Cancer and Bowel Cancer in Women

  Mike Ferrara | April 14, 2007 12:42 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A new study reported in the Sydney Morning Hearld reports that linking drinking and breast and bowel cancer should cause women to rethink their drinking habits. The World Health Organization says there is enough evidence to add breast and colorectal (colon or bowel) cancer to the list of cancers already associated with drinking alcohol, which include mouth, throat and liver cancer.WHO's...

• Governor Corzine: Get Well Soon, But Please Buckle Up Next Time

  Mike Ferrara | April 13, 2007 6:05 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Jon Corzine, the 60 year old Governor of New Jersey, remains in intensive care after being seriously injured in a auto crash. He was the front seat passenger in an SUV being driven by a state trooper when it was forced into a guard rail by a hit and run driver. Incredibly, he was not wearing a seatbelt. Every major study done to date shows that wearing seatbelts saves lives and...

• It's Spring Clean-Up Time: Be Careful with Nailguns -185,000 Injured in United States

  Mike Ferrara | April 13, 2007 12:08 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Did you know that 37,000 United States residents a year are injured by nailguns seriously enough to require a trip to the emergency room of their local hospital? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC, reported those findings in a study done from 2001 to 2005. That's 185,000 over a five year period. The number of consumers make up 40% of the total and it is...

• $101 Million Paid to Tropicana Workers Killed and Injured in Garage Collapse

  Mike Ferrara | April 12, 2007 2:40 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  www.philly.comTropicana Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City and several contruction companies agreed to pay the the families of four workers who were killed a total of $101 Million Dollars. The money will also be shared by those who were injured when the parking garage collapsed during contruction. The project was being rushed to compete with another casino also under contruction. Needless...

• 4 Million Chinese Made Kid's Bracelets Recalled: Contain High Amounts of Lead

  Mike Ferrara | April 03, 2007 10:06 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  On of the purposes of a blog is to allow the author to vent. And vent I will. We continue to import cheap and dangerious goods from China at a record pace. Our trade deficit with China is staggering. And yet the current administration in Washington continues to do whatever it can to cozy up to these Chinese Communists. Give me a break. The latest horror story vested upon our...