Over the weekend, a 17-year-old boy was seriously injured at a construction site in an Oakland neighborhood. NBC Bay Area News reports that concrete slabs from the home’s foundation fell on the teen, and he was pinned against a wall. It took firefighters on the scene about an hour to free the teen from the […]
Personal Injury/Wrongful Death
Competency in Older Physicians
With a large aging population of baby boomer physicians, a recent Medscape article raises the question of competency in older doctors. Should older doctors be screened for cognitive impairments or other age-related issues, and at what age should that screening or testing begin? Some doctors are in favor of standardizing these polices, and others consider […]
San Jose Worker Death Prompts Closer Inspection
Worker deaths at construction sites in San Jose and San Mateo have state safety regulators taking a closer look at area jobsites. KTVU News just reported on California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s (CalOSHA’s) closer inspection of Bay Area construction sites. On May 21, 48-year-old Victorino Campos-Tovar died after falling three stories while unloading […]
Widespread E. Coli Outbreak
E. Coli is causing serious concerns across the United States this week after the CDC confirmed seven cases of the infection, along with widespread contaminations, recalls, and illnesses related to the virus. CDC investigators have traced the likely source to raw clover sprouts produced by Evergreen Fresh Sprouts LLC of Idaho, with all affected patients […]
Falling Trees Can Cause Serious Injury and Death
They say it sounds like thunder or the creeeak of floorboards in a Hollywood horror movie. It is the warning sound from a tree before disaster strikes: a limb as heavy as a refrigerator — or the whole soaring tree itself — was breaking loose. “We were walking and we heard a — we heard a cracking sound,” Shifra […]
