July 2012 - Morgan & Morgan Blog Archive

A 34-year old man has been charged after running over three children in a southern Atlanta carwash, leaving all three with injuries that required hospitalization. Police have said that the driver was not paying attention when he hit the three children in the parking lot, badly cracking his windshield. According to WSB Radio, the three children are in stable condition at the Children’s Hospital of Atlanta at Egleston. Mena has been charged with reckless driving and dr
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Salient due partially to a horrific Naples operating room fire that badly burned a patient, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking a stand against these catastrophic accidents. To try to prevent this type of tragic accident, the FDA recently hosted a webinar aimed to educate industry experts and employees on the risks related to operating room surgical fires. According to the FDA, there are an estimated 550 to 650 surgical fires per year in operating rooms in th
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A truck driver has been charged with multiple violations after causing a three-vehicle wreck in Montgomery County that send 7 people to the hospital. According to the Roanoke Times, 41-year-old Ganga Kadariya was driving his minivan northbound on I-81 when he stopped short in the right lane to avoid an incoming ambulance and was struck from behind by a box truck. The driver and six passengers were injured and taken to the hospital, but none were believed to have life-threatening injuries. Truck driver Ronnie Payne,
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A motorist driving in the wrong direction on Interstate 275 was involved in a head-on collision that left one dead and three others, including himself, in serious condition. According to reports, Christopher Ponce, 22, was driving southbound on I-275 North just below the Interstate 4 interchange when he struck William Brooks Angel’s vehicle, which was traveling northbound in the center lane. Angel was pronounced dead on
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It was reported that from 2011 to 2012 six people were taken to the emergency department of Rhode Island Hospital with wire bristles from grill brushes stuck in their throats or internal organs. An article from ABC News suggests that the bristles may have dislodged from the brushes while the grill was being cleaned and later stuck to meat subsequently cooked on the grill. Presumably, the meat was then ingested along with the small, but sharp and pot
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Tragic boating accidents continue to pile up in Lake Lanier, this time embroiling singing and dancing sensation Usher. Usher’s stepson, Kile Glover, was riding in an inner tube being pulled by a boat when a jet ski struck the tube and seriously injured him and a 15-year-old girl riding with him. According to CBS News, the boy was rescued by two Good Samaritans and the girl was saved by two Department of Natural Resources rangers. Doctors hav
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A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a six year old girl who suffered serious brain injuries after being struck with a baseball at an Atlanta Braves game. Reportedly, the girl and her parents were seated behind the visitor’s dugout when a line drive foul ball was hit into their section. The young girl was unable to protect herself from the incoming projectile that was, as the lawsuit states, “hit at an incredible rate of speed.” The suit goes on to name the Atlanta Braves as a defendant, claiming that the team failed to provide proper protection to prevent these sorts of
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A Ft. Lauderdale man has been charged with multiple crimes after his involvement in an accident that killed a bicyclist in Delaware at the beginning of the month. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Florida resident Brian Meegan was drunk when he merged onto a highway and hit a 44-year-old cyclist from Snow Hill, Maryland. The accident in Rehoboth Beach carried cyclist Russell Henman about 400 feet, where he was pronounced dead at the scene. Meegan is said to hav
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Three bus drivers and the driver of a car have been charged with the misdemeanor of following too closely after their roles in a collision that injured 61 people in May. The collision, which involved six buses and one car, occurred on Interstate 20 in Newton County. The buses were transporting Burke County students to a Six Flags amusement park outside of Atlanta when they approached cars that had slowed down when the number of lanes went from two to one. The driver of one bus had to be cut from the wreckage and airlifted to the hospital, but the other injured individuals were treated for r
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The Georgia Supreme Court granted an appeal to a family that said their disabled child was wrongly excluded from attending her own medical malpractice trial. In a 6-1 decision, the court reversed a decision made by a trial court judge that limited the amount of time Kyla Kesterson was allowed to attend her own trial to when it was “essential and relevant” to witness testimony. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the original lawsuit in Clarke County alleged that obstet
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