A Eurocopter EC-130 helicopter with four persons on board crashed into the Tennessee River on Monday evening at around 7.40 p.m. Three people were rescued by a nearby pontoon boat as they were attempting to swim to shore, but the fourth person died in the crash. His body was retrieved by police divers. The accident [...]
Walking and cycling became more popular in Nashville when restrictions to counter the Covid-19 pandemic were stricter. Public transportation options were on the other hand less popular for understandable reasons. As traffic increases with restrictions easing, pedestrians and cyclists are rediscovering just how vulnerable they are to careless, intolerant or aggressive drivers. One of the [...]
Zantac, a popular and much used brand of heartburn and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) medication has been taken off the shelves of pharmacies since April 1st this year following a mandatory withdrawal notice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). That said, you shouldn’t be taking Zantac or any other medication for heartburn that [...]
Medical malpractice, or medical negligence as it is also called, is a situation in which a health care provider (doctor, nurse, surgeon, specialist, clinic, hospital or any other medical service provider) fails to provide an appropriate “standard of care.” The term negligence is easier to understand as it suggests correctly that a health care provider [...]
By now anyone who is taking Zantac as a heartburn or GERD medication will be seeking alternatives. This is because the FDA has finally ordered a ban on manufacturing, marketing and selling the drug in the United States because it has been alleged to have caused cancer. If you, or a family member, have developed [...]
Occasionally, large commercial airplanes do crash. It makes big, worldwide headlines and there are reviews and investigations that try and figure out the answers for how and why they happen. In some cases, e.g. the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which probably crashed somewhere in the Indian Ocean, there are still no clear answers to those [...]
Nashville may seem a long way from Wuhan in China, the epicenter of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak which has now spread to countries and killed over 2,000 people. Nashville residents may take comfort in the swift actions of the U.S. government that has probably prevented, or at least slowed down, the arrival of the [...]
Injuries caused by slip, trip and fall accidents are the most common of any injuries not related to traffic accidents. Leaving aside injuries that happen in the home and that cannot be blamed on anything except personal carelessness these injuries are commonly caused by negligent property owners. If you have been injured through a slip [...]
Four elementary school teachers have filed a lawsuit against Delta Air Lines citing negligence after suffering skin irritation and nausea from dumped fuel at their school near Los Angeles. The fuel was dumped at an unusually low level when Delta flight 89 was forced to return to L.A. International Airport after reporting engine trouble last [...]
The crash of the Ukrainian Airlines aircraft near Tehran in Iran is a political and legal minefield. Responsibility for the disaster has only just been confirmed by the Iranian government and, in particular, its air force. This seems to have been due to a hasty and ill informed decision to shoot the plane down with [...]