Hartford Personal Injury Lawyer

The Bush Administration announced that Medicare will no longer pay the extra costs of treating preventable errors, injuries and infections that occur in hospitals. Until this policy change, Medicare covered expenses stemming from hospital errors. Privare insurers are now also making a similar policy change in an attempt to save money. The new policy does poses some interesting questions...

An 18-year-old Connecticut resident was killed this week after he was hit with a personal watercraft on Lake Gaston in North Carolina. The man and his friend were operating Jet skis on a lake when his friends jet ski struck the man the head. Officials are withholding the man's identity until his relatives are notified. The 18-year-old and a friend were vacationing with family at Lake Gaston,...

Add another Chinse product to the ever growing list of defective and unsafe products being made in China. A Russian car magazine recently sponsored a crash test of a Chinese made vehicle - Chery Amulet. The car folded like an accordian in the test calling into serious question the basic safety of the car. Click here for car crash video.For more information on this subject matter, please refer...

Police have charged 19-year-old Clinton resident Dennis Knapp with the death of a young Madison woman who was killed in a violent car crash early Saturday morning. Knapp, 19, of North High St., is charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of alcohol. He faces up to 10 years in prison on the manslaughter charge. The police have not disclosed, and it is unknown if the...

Mattel Inc. on Tuesday identified the Chinese vendor that made nearly 1 million Fisher-Price toys that were recalled last week because they may contain lead. Mattel said Lee Der Industrial Company Ltd., located in Guang Dong province, made the 967,000 toys sold under the Fisher-Price brand in the United States between May and August.For more information on this subject, please refer to our...

A Naugatuck priest is facing charges of sexually assaulting a minor. Father Robert J. Grant, of St. Mary's Church on North Main Street, was arrested on Thursday after an investigation by Naugatuck police.

Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys -- including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters -- because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead. The worldwide recall being announced Thursday involves 967,000 plastic preschool toys made by a Chinese vendor and sold in the United States between May and August. It is the latest in a wave of recalls that has...

The pilots in a jet crash last summer that killed 49 people left the terminal without receiving four important airport advisories, including one that said the normal taxiway to the main runway was closed. Comair Flight 5191 crashed on August 27, 2006, shortly after mistakenly taking off from the general aviation runway, killing all people aboard but one. The plane taxied to the wrong runway in...

An initial probe of a Brazilian plane crash that killed at least 200 people suggests the airliner's pilot tried to abort a crash landing, an official said Wednesday. For more information on this subject matter, please refer to the section on Airline, Cruise, Bus, and other Mass Transit Accidents.

A TAM Airlines Airbus 320 carrying 176 people crashed while attempting to land in heavy rain at Sao Paulo's Congon has Airport, the airline said. The Sao Paulo fire department said at least 200 people, including some on the ground, were dead at the scene. There was no immediate word on survivors.A Brazilian Court had previously banned large jets from using the runway due to safety concerns. The...