2022

A Tennessee nurse was recently on trial for reckless homicide after an error of administering a medication killed a woman. Last week, the criminal case of 38-year-old RaDonda Vaught, a nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, who injected a patient with a powerful paralytic drug rather than a mild sedative in...

Did you know that auto accidents are the second leading cause of traumatic brain injuries in the United States? Traumatic brain injuries or TBIs from car accidents account for 17.3% of all TBIs each year. That’s second only to falls, which make up just over 35% of traumatic brain injuries. There were roughly 223,050...

Did you know that someone in the U.S. has a stroke every 40 seconds, and that every four minutes, someone dies of stroke? When the blood supply to brain tissue is blocked by a blood clot, it’s known as an ischemic stroke. A stroke can also occur when a blood vessel in the brain...

In Michigan in 2020, there were 245,432 crashes, of which 1,010 (0.4%) were fatal, 44,417 (18.1%) were personal injury, and 200,005 (81.5%) were property damage only. For each person killed, 56 people were injured in crashes. One person in our state was killed every 8 hours and 7 minutes as a result of a...

The Plaintiff, Joseph Mull, sustained injuries when he was involved in a motor vehicle accident while driving a motorcycle owned by his girlfriend. The Defendant insurance company argued the plaintiff's admission that he didn’t have permission from his girlfriend to use the motorcycle on the day of the accident precludes him from collecting benefits...