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• Nursing Home Problems

  Joe Stanley | November 28, 2007 10:20 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  The federal government has fined a Syracuse nursing home $215,212.50 for widespread medication errors and other serious problems. The fine demonstrates the serious problem with the care of the old and disabled/ If you have any loved ones in a nursing home visit them frequently and record any problems you see with the care. Follow up with written complaints.This will insure the best care...

• Big Brother Is Watching

  Joe Stanley | November 28, 2007 10:00 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  I have noticed a disturbing trend in the way victims of negligence are treated. Insurance companies rather than paying a fair settlement will use any means not to pay a fair settlement. One trick is to blame the injured party and to try to show they are trying to "rip off" the system. How do they do this?One of the method is to follow the injured person around. During the process of watching and...

• Construction and Worker Safety

  Joe Stanley | November 13, 2007 8:53 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  Many from the insurance industry and project development have advocated a change in the laws that protect workers injured from unsafe construction practices.A recent accident shows how dangerous construction can be. All loss who work in construction and are concerned about safety should insist that the laws are made stronger not weaker. Become involved so that the workers right to sue for unsafe...

• Dangerous Highways

  Joe Stanley | November 12, 2007 2:07 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The accident today in Oswego countyJoseph Kanaley, 64, of Martville, was driving a 1995 GMC south on county Route 34. He stopped at the stop sign at state Route 104 and then continued into the path of a 2005 Ford tow truck. The driver of the tow truck, Lawrence Curtis, 46, also of Martville, was westbound on state Route 104. Curtis was not hurt. Kanaley was taken to A.L. Lee Memorial Hospital in...