InjuryBoard Austin Archives

• GM Hopes To Use Its Bankruptcy To Avoid Liability For Its Product Defect Claims

  Brooks Schuelke | June 29, 2009 5:22 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  At a critical hearing tomorrow, GM's bankruptcy judge will be asked to approve the current plan for the transfer of assets from GM to the new GM. As part of that plan, all existing personal injury...

• Pregnant (Or Think You Might Be)?: Beware Birth Defects Caused By Psychotropic Drugs (Lamictal, Paxil, Zoloft & Prozac)

  Mark Perlmutter | June 29, 2009 1:34 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  The same medication helping you could be hurting your baby, as recent studies of psychotropic drug use show. The drugs Lamictal, Paxil, Zoloft, and Prozac have now all been linked to birth defects...

• Amen! New Legislation Seeks To End Chiropractic Solicitation Of Car Wreck Victims

  Brooks Schuelke | June 29, 2009 9:04 AM | 3 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  I’ve previously written about the problem with chiropractors soliciting car wreck victims and then directing the clients to attorneys, many of whom provide questionable representation. In the...

• Learn From Sergio Kindle --- Don't Text And Drive

  Brooks Schuelke | June 27, 2009 10:58 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Everyone that knows me knows that I'm a huge University of Texas fan. That's why I was so dismayed tonight to see that Texas star linebacker/defensive end Sergio Kindle suffered a concussion when he...

• Do You Have A Teen Driver? Make Them Watch This Today Show Video On The Dangers of Texting While Driving

  Brooks Schuelke | June 26, 2009 2:40 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  As parents, our job, I think, is to be repetitive on all the lessons that we're supposed to teach our kids that they refuse to learn. Although my kids aren't old enough for constant texting to be an...

• Washington, DC Train/Rail Disaster Kills At Least Seven & Injures More. What Does It Mean For Austin?

  Brooks Schuelke | June 23, 2009 9:51 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  Yesterday, Washington, DC suffered a horrific train/rail crash when one Metro train slammed into the back of another. The crash killed at least seven people and injured more than seventy others. In...

• Wrong Way Drivers Causing A Rash of Traffic Fatalities In Dallas And Austin

  Brooks Schuelke | June 22, 2009 6:22 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  It's one of those things that's almost too bizarre to be true. This weekend, four people were killed in a wreck caused by a wrong way driver on the Dallas North Tollway. The wreck occurred despite...

• Car Wreck Victims, Please Don't Become Victim To Insurance Company Swoop And Settle Techniques

  Brooks Schuelke | June 16, 2009 9:27 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  I think the sign of genius is being able to take something from those you disagree with. I have frequently written about my displeasure with attorneys or chiropractors that improperly (and perhaps...

• Scaffold Collapse At Austin's 21 Rio Condo Project Demonstrates The Need For Fall Safety Systems

  Brooks Schuelke | June 10, 2009 5:53 PM | 3 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  KXAN is reporting that a scaffold collapsed at the construction site of the 21 Rio condos in Austin (near the UT campus). All three people on the scaffold were killed. This incident is another...

• ROT Motorcycle Rally Is This Weekend; Let's Avoid The Motorcycle Accidents

  Brooks Schuelke | June 10, 2009 2:46 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Motorcycle Accidents

  I'm almost recycling a post from last year, but this weekend is the Republic of Texas Rally in Austin. The rally will bring over 50,000 bikers to town. There might be even more this year with Robbie...

• What Do You Mean Medicare Is Holding Up My Car Wreck Settlement?

  Brooks Schuelke | June 09, 2009 12:21 PM | 4 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  All too often, I have to tell a client, yes, your case has settled, but don't expect the money for several months. Why? Because of Medicare. Medicare has a subrogation interest, meaning that...

• Will Capital Metro's MetroRail Ever Be Safe?

  Brooks Schuelke | June 05, 2009 9:56 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  It was supposed to open last November. Then the opening was moved to March 30. And as that date approached, the opening was delayed indefinitely so that we now don't have an official opening date...