Nova Scotia Limits Compensation For Injured Car Accident Victims
As I have explained in previous posts, Nova Scotia has legislation that places caps on the amount of compensation that persons injured in car accidents are entitled to receive for their injuries.
“Minor Injury” Cap Constitutional
Medical experts, former NHL players and olympic medalists will be in London Ontario this weekend to study and draw public awareness to sports related concussions due minor traumatic brain injury.
The London Hockey Concussion Summit is being chaired by Dr. Paul Echlin, a sports medicine and junior hockey doctor. Dr. Michael Czarnota,OHL and WHL consultant, will discuss concussions in minor hockey, and Dr. Jason Mihalik of the University of North Carolina, will discuss the recent multi-center youth concussion study.
But what is likely to get the public’s attention are former NHL stars Eric Lindros, Alyn McCaulay, and Jeff Beukeboom will speak about the effects concussions had on their careers.
Early Identification of Brain Injury Critical
Early identification of patients who have suffered mild traumatic brain injury is imperative to determine appropriate treatment and ensure a maximum recovery. Although there is some disagreement among medical professional as to what constitutes mild traumatic brain injury, all medical professionals agree that amnesia is evidence of a brain injury.
Online Tool Helps Explain
We have been investigating potential personal injury claims against Bayer Inc. the manufacturer of the drug Trasylol (Aprotinin) for almost a year now.
In January 2006, the New England Journal of Medicine reported that of the 4,400 heart surgery patients who received Trasylol:
1. Trasylol increased the risk of stroke by 181%;
A “multi-million dollar” class action law suit has been filed against drug manufacturer Bayer Inc. for injuries allegedly caused by the drug Trasylol (also known as Aprotinin)
CTV News has reported that a number of class action lawsuits have been filed in the United States. Now patients in Canada have filed a similar lawsuit.
Bayer Inc. withdrew Trasylol from the market after medical research studies showed that patients treated with the drug were more likely to die than patients treated with other medication.
For years insurance companies and their lawyers have been telling chronic pain victims: “…it’s all in your head!”
Defendants Claim Chronic Pain Isn’t Real
Insurance companies hire psychiatrists to produce reports claiming that the chronic pain victim’s pain is the result of a psychiatric illness, accuse the victim of malingering or come up with a bogus diagnosis like compensation neurosis.
Insurance companies use “dirty tricks” and “unethical behavior” to deny legitimate claims and boost their profits, according to a new report released by the American Association for Justice.
The report explains how insurers have:
…endeavored to deny claims, delay payments, confuse consumers with incomprehensible insurance-speak, and retroactively refuse anyone who may cost them money.
It’s very important for people to understand the certain parameters that revolve around head injuries and TBIs, because blunt force head trauma most certainly isn’t the only way an individual can suffer brain damage.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), traumatic brain injuries are a serious public health concern throughout the United States and beyond, and this includes statistical gathering of concussion and mild TBI patients.
Our traumatic brain injury information page will provide you with more information pertaining to TBIs their common causes. Although this page is about how it’s not necessary to endure head trauma, it’s still important to understand the symptoms and causes of traumatic brain injuries on a grand scale, including:
“I wasn’t knocked out. How could I have a brain injury?”
I get asked that question a lot. Some people still think that it is still necessary to suffer a loss of consciousness (be knocked out) in order to suffer a brain injury. I would say that the number 1 myth about brain injuries is that you can only suffer a brain injury if you have been knocked unconscious.
Concussion = Brain Injury
Provincial health authorities in Quebec have announced a recall of three brands of cheese after one person died and 87 people became sick from salmonella food poisoning.
The recall has increased the hysteria surrounding the Maple Leaf Foods listeria recall.
I have seen at least three media reports incorrectly linking the cheese recall with listeria. See here and here, for examples.
