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Even Minor Brain Injuries Can Cause Long-Term Deficits
Each year, researchers come closer to understanding the effects that repeated concussions and other brain injuries have on football players over the course of their lives. Of course, these long-term effects are at issue for anyone who sustains significant traumatic brain injury (TBI) from any type of accident.
According to the most recent statistics available from the California State Parks Division of Boating and Waterways, Los Angeles and Orange Counties ran neck-and-neck when it came to the number of boating accident injuries and fatalities in 2014.
According to a 2015 report by Kids in Danger (KID) about one-quarter of all products recalled by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) in the prior year were children's products. Like KID, each Los Angeles product liability attorney at our firm was heartened by a slight reduction in product-related child injuries and fatalities. However, a great concern remains that nearly 80 percent of recalled children's products are still in consumers' hands.
Side Impact Collisions Account for Many Traffic Fatalities
The term, side swipe generally brings to mind a minor accident resulting in damage to a car door or fender. However, this term does not adequately describe the true dangers of side impact collisions. According to the most recent statistics from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), frontal impacts account for 56 percent of passenger vehicle occupant deaths. Another 34 percent of passenger fatalities were caused by side-impact collisions.
The Causes of Accidents May Not Be As They Initially Appear
About two years after a fireball explosion occurred at UC Berkeley, KTVU reported that a student who was injured in the explosion filed a lawsuit to seek damages for her injuries. Although the trial has not yet begun, each Los Angeles burn injury lawyer at our firm believes that the case already provides a good example of why many accident victims do not file lawsuits immediately after they sustain injuries. In many cases, the results of detailed investigations change over time.