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• Soaring Profits for State's Largest Malpractice Insurer

  Staff Writer | June 23, 2006 9:45 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  North Carolina's largest medical malpractice insurer saw its 2005 profits from premiums increase by 224 percent, according to a recent article. During the same year the combined pay for the top two executives at the company approached $1.5 Million. Meanwhile, the premiums Medical Mutual has charged its physician-insureds have risen by a combined average of about 45 percent over the last five...

• N.C. Workplace Fatalities Continue at Last Year's Pace

  Staff Writer | June 14, 2006 9:24 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  According to a report from the North Carolina Department of Labor, called the Occupational Fatality Investigation Review, there have been 48 on-the-job deaths in the state during the 2006 fiscal year, which ends in September. In 2005, there were 72 workers who were killed while on the job in North Carolina, and there were 90 fatal work injuries in 2004. The report details all fatal work...

• Expert Witness Vindicated by North Carolina Appeals Court

  Staff Writer | June 07, 2006 4:27 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  The North Carolina Court of Appeals has reinstated the medical license of a Miami, Florida neurosurgeon who had been disciplined by the North Carolina Medical Board for his testimony on behalf of the plaintiffs in a medical malpractice case. The court's decision reversed the findings of the Board and the Wake County trial court, both of which had decided that Dr. Gary Lustgarten's North...

• One of the Worst Car Accidents in North Carolina History

  Staff Writer | June 06, 2006 2:43 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Thirty-four peope were injured last week in a series of accidents during rush hour along I-40 between Mebane and Hillsborough. The combination of sun and a blinding rainstorm made driving conditions virtually impossible. Traffic slowed to around 45 mph, but that couldn't prevent the mayhem.According to herald-sun.com:Eighty-two vehicles were involved in 44 collisions and 34 people were hurt, the...

• Support the Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 2006

  Staff Writer | June 06, 2006 9:27 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Head & Brain Injuries

  Tampa injury lawyer Bob Carroll, a fellow InjuryBoard blogger, brought my attention to a letter from Susan Connors, President of the Brain Injury Association of America. Susan asks readers to support the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Act of 2006 by contacting their representatives and asking them to become co-sponsors of the act. She also requests readers send the Congressional Brain Injury Task...

• Do You Really Need That Invasive Procedure?

  Staff Writer | June 02, 2006 12:10 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Consumer Reports offers a list of 12 invasive surgeries you may be better off without - meaning there may be safer, successful alternatives. Among them, weight-loss surgery, hysterectomy, and wisdon tooth extraction.Such overuse typically arises when surgeons don't keep up with the research and either perform discredited operations or do proven procedures in inappropriate patients, embrace...

• 2004 Truck Accident Statistics

  Staff Writer | June 01, 2006 10:12 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents

  From the US Department of Transportation. Truck accident facts for the state of NC in 2004. Stats from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and Motor Carrier Management Information System. Hopefully 2005 data will be released soon.182 Large Trucks Involved in Fatal Crashes 198 Fatalities in Crashes Involving Large Trucks 4,267 Large Trucks Involved in Non-Fatal Crashes 2,166 Large Trucks...