Miscellaneous

• Avandia -Serious Side Effects

  Jeanie Oliver | February 09, 2008 10:30 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  Have you taken Avandia for treatment of type 2 diabetes? Unfortunately, this drug, once seen as the number one treatment for type 2 diabetes can have disastrous side effects. Since the drug was approved by the FDA, this agency has been monitoring its heart-related side effects.These side effects include fluid retention, edema, and congestive heart failure. Data has shown in controlled clinical...

• Duragesic Patch-Fentanyl Overdose Possible

  Jeanie Oliver | February 04, 2008 11:25 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  The Duragesic Patch malfunction is not new to medical news. The frightening aspect of this medical devise is that it continues to be a danger to patients. The patch, most often prescribed to patients with intense chronic pain, perhaps because of cancer or car wrecks, can malfunction because of acknowledged manufacturing defects.The defective patches leak the potent narcotic fentanyl directly...

• Allstate Punished in Florida

  Jeanie Oliver | January 22, 2008 6:56 PM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  Wow, Allstate has been hit hard in another state. Florida has decided that the company will not be allowed to sell new auto policies in the state until the company complies with court-issued subpoenas to bring forth documents. These documents cover 59 areas concerning Allstate's policies on the way it sets its rates. Allstate has been commanded by law to bring forth this information. It has...

• Cave Springs Cattleman Headed to New Orleans

  Jeanie Oliver | January 03, 2008 10:17 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  James Simpson, a local Cave Springs cattleman, has inventing on his mind. Mr. Simpson is one of two Farm Bureau members from the state being honored this month in New Orleans. New Orleans is the site of 2008's American Farm Bureau Convention. James was chosen for the '08 Farmer Idea Exchange for his farm implement "idea". He developed a 'double bale spike'. He and Charles Adamson from Forrest...

• Sexual Abuse on School Bus - Lawyer

  Sach Oliver | November 19, 2007 8:30 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  Our firm represents the family of a five year old girl who was sexually abused on her school bus on the way home from school in Marshall, Arkansas on November 8, 2007. On her ride home from school, two boys held down this young child and sexually assaulted her. Julie Munsell, a spokesperson for the Arkansas Department of Human Services said the State has yet to remove either boy from their...

• Aqua Dots Toy Contaminated with "Date Rape" Drug

  Sach Oliver | November 16, 2007 8:28 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  Baseball, apple pie, and Wal-Mart-how much more American can you get? Yet the All-American Wal-Mart just recently made a potentially killer toy, Aqua Dots, one of its list of 12 top Christmas toys. How can we as consumers know that toys we buy our innocent children are potential killers? Aqua Dots are just the latest in a list of Chinese produced toys to be marked by the Consumer Product Safety...

• Lawyers and Underage Drinking

  Frank Bailey | November 14, 2007 4:43 PM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  The statistics roll on, mind-numbing, relentless; x number killed, xx number seriously injured, wives widowed, children orphaned, lives destroyed. Public outrage waxes and wanes with the day's headlines, as if the problem of underage drinking is any better today than it was yesterday. But lawyers know the truth. We know every day brings more tragedy. We see the anguish of the victims in our...

• School Bus Safety

  Frank Bailey | November 13, 2007 11:31 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  Each year we hear of innocent children who are injured by school buses. There are basic principals of school bus safety drivers must follow. The number one rule is that safety has to always be the primary concern. School buses have to have efficiency, and economy, but there is no more important factor than overall safety. Usually when a child is injured or dies from a school bus injury, the...

• Injuries at Sporting and Entertainment Events

  Sach Oliver | November 08, 2007 1:47 PM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  The liability of property owners for injuries that occur to persons on their property is largely a creation of state law and court decisions. For this reason, the nature of a property owner's duties to individuals on the owner's property varies among states. Such duties may involve issues regarding the owner's actions and/or the owner's failure to act. Usually several factors and the particular...

• Manufacturing Defects, Collisions, and the "Enhanced Injury" Doctrine

  Sach Oliver | November 06, 2007 10:25 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  In many accidents, injuries do not result solely from the accident itself. Defective vehicle design or manufacturing may also be responsible for the injuries. For example, when a car equipped with a defective steering column crashes, the passengers are likely to suffer more severe head trauma than would have been caused by a crash alone. The Enhanced Injury DoctrineWhen a vehicle's design...