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On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. on Monday, December 31, 2012 New Years Day is synonymous with champagne, revelry, and drinking and driving. Massive efforts have been made to reduce highway fatalities on New Year’s Eve, by using designated drivers and numerous other campaigns to keep drunken drivers from causing car accidents after the […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Friday, December 28, 2012 The decline in highway traffic fatalities over the last several years has been great news in the United States. Highway deaths have long been one of the leading killers of Americans, following only cancer and heart disease. In […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Monday, December 24, 2012 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is requesting that all cars manufactured after September 2014 have electronic data recorders (EDR) that can capture important vehicle system operational data in the moments immediately before a crash or accident. EDRs are […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Medical Malpractice on Friday, December 21, 2012 The kidney dialysis center in Town and Country injected eight patients with bleach or other cleansing chemicals at the beginning of December, and was subsequently investigated by federal Medicare officials. The mistake, apparently due cleaning chemicals remaining in the […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Monday, December 17, 2012 The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released the findings of its report on the crash of a tractor-trailer truck with an Amtrak passenger train in Nevada in 2011. The truck drove through the crossing gates and past […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Saturday, December 15, 2012 Distracted driving has become a well-know concern. The arrival of the cell phone, and more recently, the smartphone, has heaped more servings of distraction on the plate of drivers, who already availed themselves of other distractions like eating, […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 In a detailed investigation, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has published a series on pedestrian accidents along railroad tracks. The report describes the dangers of crossing or walking along the tracks from across the country. They began the investigation after the death of a […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Defective Products on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Taser International is being sued in St. Louis by a man claiming the company failed to warn police adequately of the dangers of shooting a taser into an individual’s chest. The man was shot with a taser in the […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Monday, December 3, 2012 A tour bus carrying 32 member of a church group ran into an overpass at the Miami International Airport on Saturday, killing two passengers and critically injuring three others. The bus crash occurred when the driver apparently took […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Medical Malpractice on Friday, November 30, 2012 A star basketball player developed a painful swelling in his arm, eventually causing his arm to swell to two or three times normal size. At that point, he knew something was wrong but he didn’t know what it was. […]