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Five Injured When TARC Bus Collides With Downtown House

From WHAS11.com

" Five people were transported to the hospital after a TARC bus crashed into a downtown home over the weekend.

The TARC bus barreled through a home on East Chestnut Street Saturday morning. The #19 bus was traveling north on Chestnut Street when it crossed an oncoming traffic lane, plowed through a fence, yard, took out the side of the home and then kept going, tearing into two cars and finally crashing at the side of an apartment complex.

 

EMS took 5 people, including the bus driver, to the hospital with minor injuries.  Harold Springer, the man in the home that was hit by the bus, was also taken to the hospital.

 

TARC officials say they are putting the Springers up in a hotel until they can find a longer-term housing option.  They are also having the home inspected.  The Springers say their insurance will cover the repairs. "

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Truck Wreck In Bullitt County Injures Three

From The Louisville Courier-Journal:

"A multi-car wreck involving a log truck on Highway 44 in Bullitt County on Monday, June 15, left at least three people injured and halted traffic on the road between Shepherdsville and Mt. Washington.

Three people were seriously injured in the crash, which involved a log truck and four other vehicles, said Bullitt County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Danny Thompson.  He said the injuries included broken bones, but he did not know whether they were life-threatening.

An emergency dispatcher in Bullitt County said calls about the wreck in the 3200 block of Highway 44 began coming in at 5:50 p.m.

The driver of a Dodge Durango was attempting to make a turn at the intersection of Watergate Drive and 44 when it was struck from behind by the log truck, Thompson said. The Durango then hit the car in front of it and the log truck struck two vehicles traveling in the eastbound lanes.

The injured were taken via helicopter and ambulance to University Hospital, the dispatcher said. She did not know how many people were transported in total.

Investigators were being called to the scene to determine what caused the accident."

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The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents the victims of truck and auto accidents.  If you or a loved one were injured in an accident involving a truck, semi, and/or commercial vehicle, protect your rights.  Contact the experienced legal team at Franklin Gray & White for your free consultation.

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Truck Accident On I-65: Semi Collides With Tour Bus, Sends 9 To Hospital

From the Courier-Journal.com:

"A tractor-trailer that struck a broken-down tour bus carrying a Christian gospel group on I-65 northbound just north of Elizabethtown this morning sent nine people to the hospital, including three children, officials said.

None suffered life-threatening injuries, but one may have been in serious condition after the 4:15 a.m. accident involving five vehicles, said Hardin County Sheriff’s Office executive officer Greg Lowe.I-65 was closed for about an hour, but authorities have since reopened one lane to traffic, he said. Traffic is currently backed up for almost two miles.

Lowe said the semi struck one of two tour buses owned by the Morgan family, a Christian musical group. The bus was on the side of the road after it broke down. After the accident, the cab of the trailer caught fire."

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The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents the victims of truck and auto accidents.  If you or a loved one were injured in an accident involving a truck, semi, and/or commercial vehicle, protect your rights.  Contact the experienced legal team at Franklin Gray & White for your free consultation.

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Illinois Jury Awards $24 Million In Fatal Truck Crash Trial

From the Chicago Tribune:

"A Will County jury has awarded nearly $24 million to families of two people killed and another seriously injured when a truck crashed into a line of cars on Interstate Highway 55 near Plainfield in April 2004.

Jurors on Friday issued the judgment—the highest verdict amount in a civil case in Will County in at least 50 years—against C.H. Robinson Worldwide, a Minnesota freight broker that had contracted with the truck driver, De An Henry of Utah."

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The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents the victims of truck and auto accidents.  If you or a loved one were injured in an accident involving a truck, semi, and/or commercial vehicle, protect your rights.  Contact the experienced legal team at Franklin Gray & White for your free consultation.

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Jury Awards Woman $65 Million In Tractor-Trailer Accident

From The Ledger.com

"A jury awarded a 21-year-old Wauchula woman $65 million Wednesday for her injuries in a 2007 crash.

 The verdict is considered to be one of the largest by a Polk County jury.

Wednesday's verdict stemmed from a traffic crash in Zolfo Springs that left Kendra Lymon in a coma and hospitalized for months.

Lymon had been driving her Dodge Neon on Aug. 21, 2007, when a tractor-trailer owned by an Auburndale-based company, Bynum Transport, struck her car at State Road 35 and State Road 64, according to the lawsuit naming Bynum and the driver.

A telephone call Wednesday evening to Bynum Transport was not returned.

The truck's driver, Robert Bohn, a battalion chief for Polk County Fire Services, was working part-time for the trucking company.

Bohn said in a deposition that he went into the intersection because he had the green light.

But at trial, Lymon's lawyers argued their client had the green light and produced an eyewitness to testify as such.

Despite regaining consciousness and undergoing therapy, Lymon continues to require 24-hour care and supervision, according to her lawyers from Wilkes & McHugh.

"She has suffered these terrible injuries needlessly," said Tampa lawyer Jim Freeman, according to a news release from the law firm. "Kendra Lymon is one of the most deserving clients I've had in 30 years of practice.""

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The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents the victims of truck and auto accidents.  If you or a loved one were injured in an accident involving a truck, semi, and/or commercial vehicle, protect your rights.  Contact the experienced legal team at Franklin Gray & White for your free consultation.

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Franklin Gray & White

The Speed Mansion

505 West Ormsby Avenue

Louisville, Kentucky 40203

Tel: (502) 637-6000

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Truck Accident: Truck Overturns On 1-71 In Oldham County, Kentucky

From the Louisville Courier-Journal:

Another trucking accident on the expressways in the greater Louisville, Kentucky region.  A tractor-trailer overturns on I-71 in Oldham County near the LaGrange exit causing significant traffic problems.  Luckily this time there does not appear to be any injuries from the semi accident.  However, accidents involving tractor-trailers often result in catastrophic injuries. 

The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents the victims of truck and auto accidents.  If you or a loved one were injured in an accident involving a truck, semi, and/or commercial vehicle, protect your rights.  Contact the experienced legal team at Franklin Gray & White for your free consultation.

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Franklin Gray & White

The Speed Mansion

505 West Ormsby Avenue

Louisville, Kentucky 40203

Tel: (502) 637-6000

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Truck Accident Closes I-65 in Indiana

From the Louisville Courier-Journal:

"A truck wreck on the southern edge of Indianapolis will block southbound traffic on Interstate 65 for most of the day. Northbound traffic is still open.

Indiana State Police said a tanker truck overturned on the interstate north of Southport Road.

Troopers said the highway will be blocked between I-465 and Southport Road until the fuel carried by the full-sized tanker is transferred to another truck and the overturned tanker is towed from the highway."

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The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents the victims of truck and auto accidents.  If you or a loved one were injured in an accident involving a truck, semi, and/or commercial vehicle, protect your rights.  Contact the experienced legal team at Franklin Gray & White for your free consultation.

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Franklin Gray & White

The Speed Mansion

505 West Ormsby Avenue

Louisville, Kentucky 40203

Tel: (502) 637-6000

Toll-Free: (800) 637-6033

Fax: (502) 637-1413

email: mwhite@franklingrayandwhite.com

Jury Awards Truck Accident Victim $23.5Million

From the Wichita Eagle:

"In one of the biggest traffic-accident verdicts in Kansas, a jury awarded $23.5 million last week in a lawsuit stemming from injuries in a semitrailer accident in New Mexico.

U.S. District Judge Monti Belot reduced the actual award to nearly $15.3 million for Terry and Donna Frederick of Overland Park, because the jury decided the driver of the other truck was only 65 percent at fault.

Robyn Getchel tested positive for methamphetamine while driving a truck for Swift Transportation. Getchel claimed she was rear-ended.

But subsequent tests by the Fredericks' lawyers showed Getchel was backing up from a rest stop onto the highway when she hit the truck Terry Frederick was riding in for Yellow Freight. The driver of the Yellow Freight truck, Dennis Bottorff, was killed.

The accident occurred just after 1:30 a.m. on March 16, 2006, on U.S. 54 near Tucumcari, N.M., nearly two hours west of Amarillo, Texas.

Terry Frederick, 56, suffered a severe spinal cord injury.

"We believe we were awarded enough money to take care of our clients' injuries and what they've suffered," said Scott Nutter, one of the Fredericks' lawyers.

Terry Frederick had about $5 million in medical bills. The rest of the verdict covered future medical expenses, lost wages and pain and suffering."

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The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents the victims of truck and auto accidents.  If you or a loved one were injured in an accident involving a truck, semi, and/or commercial vehicle, protect your rights.  Contact the experienced legal team at Franklin Gray & White for your free consultation.

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Fatal Truck Wreck In Texas

From Fox 26 in Houston:

A driver is killed after an accident causes the truck he was operating to roll over and catch fire in southwest Houston.

The truck was traveling northbound on U.S. Highway 59, the Southwest Freeway, when a car clipped the vehicle near the Weslayan exit and caused it roll over and catch fire before 8: 30 p.m. Monday.

The body of the male driver who drove the truck was consumed by the vehicle fire while a female passenger with two dogs was able to exit the truck before the flames overtook the truck. She was taken to Ben Taub General Hospital to be treated for her injuries.

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The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents the victims of truck and auto accidents.  If you or a loved one were injured in an accident involving a truck, semi, and/or commercial vehicle, protect your rights.  Contact the experienced legal team at Franklin Gray & White for your free consultation.

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$1.2 million Lexington Kentucky Malpractice Verdict

A Fayette County Kentucky jury awarded $1.2 million to the plaintiff in a medical malpractice trial. Larry Franklin represented the plaintiff in the week-long trial in Lexington Kentucky.

Family Settles With Hospital For $6.5 Million In Brain Injury Case

From Chicago Breaking News:

"A $6.5 million settlement has been reached on behalf of a 7-year-old Aurora boy who allegedly suffered a brain injury at birth at Provena Mercy Medical Center, the Beacon News reports. Attorneys for the boy, Roberto Morales Jr., say the attending obstetrician, as well as the labor and delivery nurse, failed to respond to the baby's low heart rate and reduced oxygen flow caused by the drug Pitocin. The settlement was reached Friday afternoon in Cook County Circuit Court. Morales was treated at Provena Mercy on April 7, 2001."

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The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents victims of brain and birth injuries.  Such representation has included the largest Cerebral Palsy verdict in Kentucky.  If you believe a loved one has suffered a brain or other birth related injury, please contact the experienced Medical Malpractice attorneys at Franklin Gray & White.  Our attorneys are ready to assist you, please contact us for a FREE Consultation.

Experts Concerned With Rise in C-Sections

From the Louisvile Courier-Journal:

"Kelly Parsons was in her eighth month of pregnancy when her water broke and doctors, concerned about her severe high blood pressure, prepared to deliver her baby by Caesarean section.

Lying in her hospital bed, she kept thinking her baby wasn't ready to be born.

"I knew it wasn't good," said the 30-year-old Louisville woman.

ndeed, while he's doing well at 5 years old, Parsons' son Jackson was born underweight, suffered breathing problems and jaundice and spent two weeks in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Such serious and costly medical problems are not unusual for the growing number of babies born relatively late in pregnancy, but before the 37 to 42 weeks considered full-term.

And a growing number of doctors and health advocates -- including the March of Dimes at a recent "prematurity summit" in Louisville -- are linking this to a new factor: a jump in C-sections.

The rate of C-sections reached a record in 2005 -- the most recent year for which data are available -- 30.3 percent of all births in the United States, up 46 percent from 1996. Kentucky's rate, 33.9 percent, was sixth-highest in the nation.

Pre-term births, meanwhile, have risen more than 30 percent in two decades nationally, and today comprise about one in seven births in Kentucky and Indiana. Most of those are "late pre-term," defined as 34 to 36 weeks in the womb.

Some medical experts and women's health advocates say late pre-term births could be reduced by bringing down the number of C-sections done before 39 weeks for reasons such as mothers' requests or doctors' schedules.

The March of Dimes is asking hospitals to voluntarily review all such C-sections.

"There are many of us doing elective Caesareans," said Dr. Iffath Abbasi Hoskins, of New York, vice president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "Often, it is for the health of the mother or baby. … (But) some of it is the patients saying: 'I'm done. Get me delivered.' "

Others argue, however, that the vast majority of C-sections are done for sound medical reasons, as in the case of Parsons, who was believed to be 33 weeks along. But doctors do admit medical decisions are sometimes tempered by concerns about malpractice lawsuits."

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Prenatal and perinatal care are complicated areas of medical practice.  Unfortunately, too often negligent care in these areas can led to devastating effects to the child and the mother.  The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents victims of medical malpractice including cases involving birth injuries and cerebral palsy.  If you are concerned that you or a loved one has been the victim of medical malpractice, please contact the attorneys at Franklin Gray & White for a free consultation.

Antibiotics for Preterm Labor Linked to Cerebral Palsy

From the Washington Post, two recent studies have found a link between preterm labor antibiotics and cerebral palsy.  The article states that "not only do antibiotics not help pregnant women experiencing premature labor without ruptured membranes and no sign of infection, they may increase the risk of cerebral palsy in some children."

A doctor interviewed for the article said this about the study, "This is a good study, because it's a large number of patients, and it shows that the use of antibiotics do not help and are possibly harmful for preterm labor in the absence of rupture of the membrane (broken water)."

However, doctors who were interviewed about the study were quick to warn pregnant women not to neccessarily avoid antibiotics though, stating, "We need to reassure pregnant women that, if they have signs of infection and antibiotics are clearly indicated, then they should feel no reluctance to accept antibiotics."

The law firm of Franklin Gray & White has experience litigating cases involving birth injuries and cerebral palsy.  If you are concerned that you or a loved one has experienced a birth injury, please contact the attorneys at Franklin Gray & White for a free consultation. 

Actor's Family Settles Medical Malpractice Lawsuit With Hospital

From the Los Angeles Times:

"Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly reached a settlement with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for $750,000 over a medication error last year that nearly killed the couple's twin infants, according to papers filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Nurses at the hospital mistakenly gave twins Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace 1,000 times the recommended dose of the blood thinner heparin, leaving them vulnerable to uncontrolled bleeding and leaving them, for a time, in critical condition."

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Medication errors  occur frequently and can lead to serious health consequences and even death.  The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents victims of medical malpractice.  If you or a loved one has been injured as the result of  a medication error or other medical negligence, please contact the experienced legal team at Franklin Gray & White for a free consultation.  For more information, see our online library.

BELOW AVERAGE KENTUCKY NURSING HOMES: Is your loved one in nursing home that falls below average?

WE KNOW WHICH KENTUCKY NURSING HOMES FALL BELOW AVERAGE in health inspections, staffing and quality measures. Low ratings in these areas can indicate negligent care which can lead to ABUSE, BED SORES, DEHYDRATION, FALLS and violations of a residents rights. If you believe a loved one has been mistreated in a Kentucky Nursing Home contact Matthew White at mwhite@franklingrayandwhite.com for a FREE CONSULTATION.

Fifth Third Bank Issuing New Credit and Debit Cards After Heartland Payment Systems Data Theft

From the Louisville Courier-Journal:

"Fifth Third Bank is among financial institutions across the U.S issuing new credit cards and debit cards following the theft of transaction data earlier this year from payment processor Heartland Payment Systems.

“We have been dealing with this for some time,” Fifth Third Bank spokeswoman Deborah Decorcy said of notices sent to customers recently that a new card would be issued.

The company couldn't immediately provide how many customers were affected at Fifth Third.

Heartland, of Princeton, N.J., processes up to 100 million transactions monthly for financial institutions."

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The experienced class action attorneys at Franklin Gray & White represent victims of personal information data theft.  Fifth Third Bank has numerous branches in Louisville, Kentucky.  If you or a love one believe that you may have been affected by the Heartland Payment Systems security breach, please contact the class action and complex litigation attorneys at Franklin Gray and White, or email Matthew L. White (mwhite@franklingrayandwhite.com) for a free consultation.

 

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Possible Kroger Card Data Theft

Franklin Gray & White is currently investigating possible claims regarding a possible security breach of Kroger grocery's Personal Finance Card data and the resulting loss of customers personal information.

The experienced class action attorneys at Franklin Gray & White represent victims of personal information data theft.  If you or a love one believe that you may have been affected by the Kroger security breach or have received a letter from Kroger Personal Finance, please contact the class action and complex litigation attorneys at Franklin Gray and White, or email Matthew L. White (mwhite@franklingrayandwhite.com) for a free consultation.

 

Franklin Gray & White

The Speed Mansion

505 West Ormsby Avenue

Louisville, Kentucky 40203

Tel: (502) 637-6000

Toll-Free: (800) 637-6033

Fax: (502) 637-1413

email: mwhite@franklingrayandwhite.com

Victoria's Secret Bra Rash Lawsuits

From the ABA Journal:

"An Ohio woman has filed a lawsuit against Victoria’s Secret that claims two bras she purchased gave her a rash that was apparently caused by formaldehyde.

Roberta Ritter says she became “utterly sick” after she wore her new Angels Secret Embrace and Very Sexy Extreme Me Push-Up bras, the New York Post reports. The cosmetic chemist and occasional Cher impersonator told the publication the rash was "red hot to the touch, burning and itching."

The suit, filed May 14, says Ritter’s lawyers bought and tested bras like the ones owned by Ritter and found they contained formaldehyde, ABC News reports. Victoria’s Secret said in a statement that it is investigating customer complaints but it has strict quality controls and does not use formaldehyde in its bras. "We are sorry that a small number of people have had an issue and we want to help them determine the cause,” the company said."

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If you or a loved one has experienced skin irritation, rashes, blistering, itching, scarring, or other health problems after use of a Victoria's Secret Bra, please contact the experienced Class Action attorneys at Franklin Gray & White, for a free consultation.

Recent Study on Effect of Anesthetic Dosing on Cartilege

The preceding is a link to an abstract of a study recently published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (UK Edition).  The study looked at the effects of anesthetic dosing on cartilege.

The law firm of Franklin Gray & White currently represents clients who were injured through the use of shoulder pain pumps and their respective anesthetics.  If you or a loved one were a recipient of such a pump, and believe that you have sustained injuries, please contact Matthew White for a free consultation.