San Francisco is the fourth most dangerous city in the country for mailman dog bites, according to recent rankings by the Postal Service. The USPS releases rankings of the most dangerous cities for dog bites to promote National Dog Bite Prevention Week. The USPS says that 5,879 of its employees were attacked in 2012 and…
A chill ran down my spine as I read today’s account of a Recology garbage truck running over and killing a bicyclist this morning. Tragedy occurred at 16th Street and South Van Ness Avenue and, according to the news story, happened when the truck turned right and into a cyclist who was riding to the…
Dangerous consumer products are recalled on almost a daily basis. From defective child seats to dangerous medical devices, thousands of California consumers are harmed by defective products every year. In many cases, a person’s ability to be compensated for their injuries depends on where a product was manufactured. Foreign products account for almost 80 percent…
Walkup Melodia Kelly & Schoenberger is pleased to announce that on Friday May 17, 2013, Conor M. Kelly obtained a $38.6 million verdict ($12.3 million present cash value) in San Francisco Superior Court on behalf of a disabled nineteen-year-old man who sustained incomplete tetraplegia as a result of the failure to diagnose and treat an…
San Francisco’s cable cars are one of the city’s most popular tourist attractions. Cable cars also appear to be one of the city’s most dangerous public transit options, averaging about one accident per month. “The 19th Century technology of the cable cars does pose some challenges,” said SFMTA spokesman Paul Rose. “While one accident is…
Roughly one-third of Bay Area pedestrian accidents involve people who are hit in crosswalks. According to a recent study from the Center for Investigative Reporting, this number is three times the national average. The high rate of fatal crosswalk accidents coincides with a large increase in the number of San Francisco drivers distracted by smartphones….
Nestlé USA has announced a recall of four types of frozen pizza popular in Northern California and across the country. The pizzas were sold under the DiGiorno and California Pizza brands and are being recalled because some consumers have found pieces of plastic inside of their pizzas. The company says that it has traced the…
A San Jose mother and her daughter were critically injured recently after two teen boys decided to drag race BMWs down a residential street. Authorities say that the two 17-year-old boys were racing BMWs down the 5400 block of Leigh Avenue in South San Jose when they lost control of their vehicles. One of the…
The use of robots in California operating rooms has increased dramatically in the past few years, but some federal regulators are unsure whether robot-assisted surgeries are completely safe. CBS News reports that the so-called “da Vinci” operating room robot was used in almost 400,000 surgeries last year, a number that tripled in four years. An…
Whiplash is one of the most common injuries suffered in San Francisco car accidents. Whiplash is a soft tissue injury that is sometimes called a “neck sprain” or “neck strain.” The injury occurs due to neck damage, including injuries to intervertebral joints, disks and nerve roots. There is a large medical consensus that whiplash is…
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