Walking on the shoulder of the road is not ideal, but sometimes it is necessary. Many roads lack sidewalks, making the shoulder the safest option available for getting to your destination on foot. This means walking just a few feet from traffic. All it takes is a few moments of negligence on the part of…
A drug commonly used to treat mental illness has a frightening side effect, the Food and Drug Administration announced recently. The agency says the drug, Abilify ( aka Aripiprazole ) can cause compulsive behavior, including overeating, gambling and an uncontrollable desire for sex, TIME reports. Abilify is an anti-psychotic used as a mood stabilizer and…
Think medical malpractice isn’t a serious health crisis in this country? A bold new study from Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests it kills more people in the U.S. each year than just about every major disease. But you would not know it from the death certificates issued by negligent doctors. According to NPR, the Johns Hopkins…
Recently, Lawdragon Press interviewed Michael Kelly, our firm’s managing partner. Kelly, who has been practicing personal injury law in his hometown of San Francisco for 40 years, discussed his law school experience, how his practice has changed over the years, and, of course, the San Francisco Giants. Kelly graduated the University of California Hastings College…
Mike Kelly was the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Orange County Consumer Attorneys (OCCA) and the Inland Empire Consumer Attorneys Association (IECA) which was held at the Omni Las Palmas resort in Palm Springs May 21-23. The event, a continuing legal education program for attorneys specializing in representing plaintiffs in personal injury…
On April 5, Caleb’s Law (AB 2235) passed unanimously out of the California Assembly’s Business and Professions Committee. The bill calls for the Dental Board to create a committee to investigate children’s deaths occurring as a result of the use of anesthesia in dental procedures. The bill is named after Caleb Sears, a six year…
A lot goes on in a typical big-city emergency room, and it may be good for hospital staff to maintain a certain amount of emotional detachment from their patients. However, detachment should not cross over into callousness, and it definitely should not cause a deadly infection to go undiagnosed, as the husband of a woman…
The mission of San Francisco’s Vision Zero campaign is to eliminate fatal bicycle and pedestrian crashes in the city. Much of the effort is focused on eliminating accidents, but sometimes there are collisions that are not accidental at all. Sometimes, motorists use their cars and trucks as weapons to inflict serious harm on cyclists. In…
If self-driving automobiles are supposed to eliminate car accidents, it appears that engineers still have a ways to go. An automated test vehicle recently got into a crash in downtown San Francisco, though state officials blamed the incident on the human inside the vehicle. The car was a Nissan Leaf that Cruise Automation had equipped…
After hundreds of patients suffered infections in just three years, Olympus Corp. has announced that it is recalling its medical scopes. The recall comes after Olympus had notice of the fact so-called quote superbug” infections were being found in plaintiffs who underwent an endoscopy with the company’s scopes, but the company delay taking the scopes…
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