Since 2003, the average dog bite injury settlement amount has more than doubled. Higher medical bills have fueled much of this increase. The injuries described below normally require extensive, and costly, treatment at regional hospitals. Additionally, medical...
Top Ten Signs of Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Injuries
Both kinds of injuries are widespread at many Kentucky nursing homes. One in ten residents have survived abuse or neglect. Nursing home abuse is an intentional injury, like an assault. Nursing home neglect is an unintentional injury, like a slip and fall. To keep an...
Fatal Wrong-Way Wreck in Grant County
A man is dead after another motorist crossed over the centerline and hit him almost head-on. According to Kentucky State Police investigators, a 38-year-old Glencoe man crossed the centerline of Warsaw Road (State Highway 467) and struck another motorist on the other...
What Makes Construction Jobs So Dangerous?
The bustling construction industry in Greater Lexington accounts for about a fifth of all workplace fatalities. A few dollars is often the difference between a losing bid and a winning bid. To many employers, worker safety is an unnecessary cost. They often cut...
Catastrophic Wreck in Jessamine County
Two people were killed and two more were seriously injured in a wreck that witnesses blame on unsafe road design. “It’s scary to drive on this [part of State Highway 169],” one witness flatly stated. He personally knew of ten wrecks over the past six months. “It’s sad...
Obstacles to Compensation in Fall Injury Claims
The economic costs of fall injuries for people over 65 total $50 billion a year. These injuries also involve noneconomic losses which are almost incalculable. How does one put a price tag on something like emotional distress or pain and suffering? Such losses are...
Hart County Wreck Kills One Person
Few details were available after a motorist apparently collided with a semi-truck. The accident happened on a remote stretch of northbound Interstate 65 not far from Munfordville. The victim, who was driving the passenger car, was a 28-year-old man from Bowling Green....
Dual Fatal Wreck at Bardstown Intersection
Few details were available after a motorist apparently cut off another vehicle. The crash killed two people. The wreck happened near the corner of New Shepherdsville Road and Deatsville Road. According to Trooper Scotty Sharp, a Bardstown man was northbound on New...
Top Five Brain injury Causes
Traumatic Brain Injuries affect over 1.5 million Americans every year. Yet despite better understanding of the nature of these injuries, doctors do not treat most of these victims. As a result, their injuries quickly get worse. Initial symptoms, like disorientation...
Drunk Driver Kills Special Education Teacher
Charges are pending after an allegedly intoxicated motorist ran a car off the road, killing a Wellington Elementary School instructor and her 21-year-old daughter. The woman and her daughter were coming back from western Kentucky, where they had assisted tornado...
