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		<title>Distracted Driver Alert: Keep your Hands off My Ford Touch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter West</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Automotive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Car Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dashboard Computer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Distracted Driver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LED Dashboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Ford Touch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The distracted driver is becoming just as serious a problem as drunk driving used to be before society woke up, looked in the rear view mirror and saw themselves as the pariahs they had become. People still drive drunk—or tired, which is almost as bad—but the penalties for a DUI have increased and there is no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swimming Accident Safety Checklist: Print &amp; Share</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brain Injury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diving Accident]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drowning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paralysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pool Drain Accident]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pool Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spinal Injury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summer Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swim Accident]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each year, thousands are injured or die from swimming accidents: drowning, diving accidents resulting in brain injury, spinal injury, paralysis or death, and pool drain-related disembowelment or entrapment. As we begin the fun-in-the-sun season, we encourage you to print out our &#8220;3 D&#8217;s of Swim Safety Checklist&#8221; and go over it with your children. Unfortunately, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jimmy Stewart Plane Crash Movie too Close to Reality 60 Years Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter West</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airlines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The grounding of a Southwest Airlines 737 earlier this month due to a five-foot tear in the upper fuselage while the plane was in the air reminded me of a favorite old movie starring James Stewart. 

'No Highway in the Sky,' a British disaster film made in 1951, follows the heroics and eccentricities of a professor and an expert in aviation who is commissioned to investigate the crash of a commercial airliner. Factoring in the age of the plane and the number of hours flown—not to mention the natural propensity of metal to weaken when under constant stress and subject to vibration—Stewart's character theorizes that the plane crashed because the tail fell off due to metal fatigue. 

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		<title>Segway Company Owner Dead, by Segway</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defective Products]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jimi Heselden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Segway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Segway death]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, this one is rife with irony. The type I don't like writing about. It seems that Jimi Heselden, the man who only recently bought the Segway scooter company—you know, those odd-looking stand-on motorized scooters that look a bit like a pogo stick on wheels—has died. And here's the eerily ironic part: as a result of driving his Segway scooter over a cliff and into a river.

Now, the cliff was not the great White Cliffs of Dover (approx. 350 ft. high), but a smaller "cliff" that's located near Jimi Heselden's estate at West Yorkshire in Boston Spa—for those of you who are wondering where that is, it's about a three-and-a-half hour ride north of London in the English countryside. And it's reported at dailymail.co.uk that the drop was about thirty feet from a rocky path--the picture shown there looks more sloping and wooded in nature than a sheer drop. I bring up the nature of the nature (ie, the cliff) not to diminish the severity of the fall, but to draw attention to the fact that a Segway may not be the best vehicle for handling rougher terrain--and clearly there are risks involved in riding a Segway.
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		<title>Where were all the &#8216;Safety Nets&#8217; at Amusement Park?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/where-were-all-the-safety-nets-at-amusement-park-04608.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LucyC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal Injury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amusement Ride]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extreme World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teagan Marti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terminal Velocity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[


Never a fan of amusement park rides—including the Ferris Wheel—I read about this story with a stomach churning sense of foreboding. On July 31, 12-year old Teagan Marti fell more than 100 feet in Extreme World Amusement Park's Terminal Velocity 'ride' and landed on concrete because the safety net was not in place.  

Remarkably, she survived. She is in the hospital in Wisconsin, the state where the amusement park is located, in critical but stable condition. She has 10 fractures in her back and one in her skull. Her father, who is a radiologist, performed CPR on her at the scene to bring her back to life. 

Dr. Alex Marti, was the first to see his daughter after her fall. During an appearance on CBS' The Early Show on August 2, he said  "She was dead....She was basically unconscious, not moving and laying flat on her back with blood coming out of her ears and nose. Just a horrible, horrible scene. At the moment she fell and I heard that loud thud, I just assumed she was dead." 
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		<title>With where Cars are Heading, my Money&#8217;s Going in Funeral Homes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 14:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter West</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Automotive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defective Products]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cars]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love to drive—but I just may have to give it up and be done with it. Because I don&#8217;t like where the cars of the future are going.  For that matter, I don&#8217;t like where they are now.  A recent article in The New York Times focused on the cars of the future and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyer to Discuss Defective Car Seats on FOX 11 Ten O&#8217;Clock News LA</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/lawyer-to-discuss-defective-car-seats-on-fox-11-ten-oclock-news-la-03677.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 21:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bisnar Chase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Chase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defective Car Seats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given all the news over the past few months about sticking accelerator pedals, floor mat problems or defective brakes, it&#8217;s easy to see how an issue like defective car seats can get lost in the mix. And, in truth, you don&#8217;t hear about defective car seat stories too often in the news. Sadly though, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mmmaybe not&#8230;BP up for Safety Award, Ceremony Quietly Postponed</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/mmmaybe-notbp-up-for-safety-award-ceremony-quietly-postponed-03559.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 19:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter West</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP Oil Spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deepwater Horizon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it wasn&#8217;t so tragic—with loss of life and the almost certain environmental threat—the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon would have taken on a completely unexpected spin with an irony so delicious you could taste it. Instead, it&#8217;s just sad. That&#8217;s because BP, the multinational oil company that had leased the Deepwater Horizon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Paycheck. No Motorcycle. No Accident. Coincidence?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/no-paycheck-no-motorcycle-no-accident-coincidence-03463.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/no-paycheck-no-motorcycle-no-accident-coincidence-03463.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[GHSA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently not if you go by the latest report by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) on motorcycle accident deaths. The report indicates that motorcycle fatalities for 2009 were down by at least ten percent vs. 2008. And that follows eleven straight years of increases in motorcycle accident deaths. While, according to the GHSA, the findings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fallen Workers Remembered this Workers&#8217; Memorial Day</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/fallen-workers-remembered-this-workers-memorial-day-03444.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that today is Workers&#8217; Memorial Day? Not to be confused with Memorial Day in May, people worldwide will join together this April 28th and remember those disabled, injured, made unwell or killed in the workplace. The purpose of this day is to sympathize with those who have suffered due to unsafe, negligent [...]]]></description>
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