Biomechanical engineer and UCLA professor Vijay Gupta has developed a new polymer which may notably increase football helmets’ ability to protect players from concussions without requiring any major redesign efforts. Gupta, originally from India, developed a passion for American football while living with fellow sports fans during his years as a graduate student at Massachusetts… Read More

A new study released on Wednesday, October 30th revealed evidence that high school football players are almost twice as likely to sustain a concussion as college players. However, existing data is still inconclusive as to whether repetitive head injuries can lead to long-term brain diseases that many former NFL stars have said they’ve had to… Read More

Last Sunday’s “Week 9” games marked the beginning of the second half of the NFL season.  So far this year, the league has documented a total of 62 concussions. This number denotes five fewer concussions than at the close of Week 9 last season. As Week 9’s late games wrapped up on Sunday night, at… Read More

A lawsuit was recently filed by environmentalists in the state of Wyoming due to concerns over hydraulic fracking and possible contamination of the water and soil caused by the chemicals that are used during the extraction process. Critics of fracking argue that it has been linked to instances of water contamination and illness in people.… Read More

On Friday, October 25th, a young girl from Riverside, CA, was awarded $150,750,000 by jurors at the close of a wrongful death civil trial. Riverside is a smaller city located approximately 60 miles east of Anaheim, CA. The award could be the largest of its kind in US history for a case of this nature.… Read More

On Friday, October 25th, an Arapahoe County jury (Denver, CO) awarded $3.75 million to the parents of a 12-year-old boy who drowned in a country club swimming pool. The financial determination came at the end of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Bill and Melissa McGarvin-O’Melia. Swimmer Drowns at Country Club Back in June of… Read More

In an earlier blog posting, we discussed a wrongful death suit filed in Dallas, Texas after 52-year-old Rosa Esparza slipped from her seat on a Six Flags’ roller coaster, the Texas Giant, and fell to her death. Esparza’s family members filed the civil suit shortly after the deadly accident. The original suit alleged that Six… Read More

On Thursday, October 17th, a local resident from Land O’Lakes died from serious injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident. According to an accident report filed by the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), the man crashed his motorcycle into the back of an automobile stopped at a red light. Kevin Dean Slaunwhite, 51, was riding his Honda… Read More

Rebecca Sedwick is a Polk County high school student who died by suicide after allegedly being bullied. After the teen’s unfortunate death, her mother, Tricia Norman, released a statement in late October indicating she plans on exploring all potential legal options and wants “justice” for her daughter’s death. The attorneys representing the teen’s mother, a… Read More