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• Continuous Infusion Pain Pumps Causing Cartilage Death

  Michael Phelan | July 21, 2009 3:09 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  Studies show a strong association between the intra-articular (inside the joint space) use of high volume pain pumps following arthroscopic shoulder surgery and an otherwise unexplainable loss of...

• The Billion Dollar Antipsychotics Settlement?

  Zev Antell | January 20, 2009 3:49 PM | 1 CommentRichmond, VA

  According to an article published in last week’s New York Times, goliath drug maker, Eli Lilly appears poised to agree to a $1.4 billion settlement related to marketing and use of its...

• More and More Computer Workers Seeking Overtime Pay(2)

  Bill Tucker | February 21, 2008 11:42 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  A significant trend in wage and hour law is the number of Computer and IT workers, particularly those in the service industry, who are filing lawsuits seeking to recover unpaid overtime. Many employers mistakenly regard overtime pay as a benefit available only to "blue collar" workers, and misclassify high-tech employees as exempt from the overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards...

• Mortgage Loan Officers File Suit for Unpaid Overtime

  Bill Tucker | February 15, 2008 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  Loan Officers for American Equity Mortgage recently filed a national class action lawsuit alleging that their employer misclassified them as exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act, and seeking recovery of unpaid overtime compensation. This lawsuit is part of a growing trend of lawsuits filed by "white collar" workers in the financial, pharmaceutical, computer, IT, service and other industries...

• Repeal the Feres Doctrine

  Michael Phelan | May 19, 2009 10:37 AM | 2 CommentsRichmond, VA

  Cindy Wilson was a 37 year old technical sergeant stationed at Langley Air Force Base. On February 20, 2007, she was to give birth to her first child. Sergeant Wilson was excited that her parents...

• Alarming News Regarding Repetitive Head Trauma

  Michael Phelan | January 27, 2009 5:37 PM | 1 CommentRichmond, VA

  Clinical researchers reported today that postmortem examination of the brain of a recently deceased 18 year old high school football player showed early signs of an incurable debilitating brain...

• US Lacrosse Confronts Concussion Epidemic

  Michael Phelan | November 07, 2007 8:55 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  Two days after his team won the National Lacrosse League championship, Jay Jalbert was laying in a hospital bed recovering from his seventh concussion. Jay was forced to retire from professional Lacrosse. Four weeks after taking a routine shot off his face mask, Denver Outlaws goalie Trevor Tierney was still experiencing symptoms of his seventh concussion. Concussions are prevalent in contact...

• Owners Accountable for Dangerous Dogs

  Staff Writer | March 14, 2006 11:23 AM | 9 CommentsRichmond, VA

  This past weekend, a casual stroll through many of the parks in the Richmond, Virginia area would you have made you think it was "pitbull weekend". Strangely enough, there were dozens of owners walking their dogs with make shift leashes. In many instances, it appeared that the dogs were actually walking their owners. On Sunday, one pitbull got loose in Monroe Park and attacked at least five...

• Hold Your Child Out of Sports Following a Concussion

  Michael Phelan | May 05, 2009 3:24 PM | 3 CommentsRichmond, VA

  I know many well-meaning parents who are guilty of allowing their child to be rushed back into contact sports following a concussion. Whether the concussion is suffered in a car accident or a...

• Special Ed Child Kills Self After Being Forced By His School Into Seclusion Cell

  Michael Phelan | December 18, 2008 10:21 AM | 1 CommentRichmond, VA

  This is a sad story of the wrongful death of a 13 year-old child who needed help from his special ed school but got a form of torture. A few weeks before a 13-year-old north Georgia special...