Oklahoma Personal Injury Law Blog
A high school football player in Oklahoma died on Sept. 19 as a result of a head injury he suffered earlier in the month. The Bartlesville Wesleyan Christian High School student reportedly sustained the head injury when he was tackled during a football game. Although the tackle appeared to be [...]
Oklahoma drivers with vehicles manufactured by General Motors may want to find out if theirs is one that was recalled for a faulty ignition. A number of people who were convicted of charges such as vehicular homicide following accidents while driving these vehicles have now had those charges overturned with [...]
Oklahoma residents who have been unfortunate enough to have been involved in a car accident may not necessarily manifest all the symptoms of their injury at once. The adrenaline and confusion of the accident have the potential to mask a person's awareness of very serious wounds, and certain conditions such [...]
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, about 950 vehicles were involved in a fatal collision in Oklahoma during 2012. Of those crashes that occurred, 13 percent of them, or 124, involved large trucks. This statistic represents 3.3 percent of the total amount of collisions involving large trucks that [...]
Many people in Oklahoma are diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries, or TBIs, due to a fall, playing sports or being injured in motor vehicle accidents. A new study has found that people with TBIs are also much more likely to be diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, suggesting a link between [...]
Long stretches of lonely highway in Oklahoma make it easy for a driver to get tired. Certain risk factors enhance the chance of someone falling asleep behind the wheel, and drivers who lose awareness of the road pose similar accident risks as those who have been drinking alcohol. The Centers [...]
Oklahoma football fans may be interested to learn that, on Aug. 13, it was announced that a former safety who played for the University of California, Berkeley, has sued the school. The former player, who was active between 2004 and 2008, claimed that the school did not warn him about [...]
Residents of Oklahoma may have heard about a new blood test that may predict the extent of a brain injury and the time needed for recuperation. Currently, brain trauma is diagnosed in the emergency room through CT scans or the victim's symptoms that may result in a worsening of the [...]
As concern over surgical errors and fear that hospitals and medical personnel are not disclosing the errors that occur continues to grow, there are a few tools being considered as a way to have a record of what goes on during a surgery, including tracking the actions of the surgeon. [...]
Childbirth-related deaths have been rising in Oklahoma and across the United States for the past 25 years. Meanwhile, maternal deaths have been falling in much of the rest of the world. In fact, the U.S. was one of only eight other countries, including South Sudan and Afghanistan, to experience an [...]
