InjuryBoard Lansing Archives

• Finding A Cure For Diabetes, A Disease Effecting Two-Hundred Million People

  David Mittleman | August 30, 2008 10:54 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Scientists have discovered a way to transform pancreatic cells into insulin-producing beta cells. While there is still work to be done, this accomplishment comes at a very necessary time...

• Searching For Loopholes - How Will Your Insurance Company Deny Your Claim?

  David Mittleman | August 28, 2008 11:31 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  After losing his brother to the war in Afghanistan and watching his parents suffer through the loss of one child, Andrew White, a Marine in the war in Iraq, took out a $50,000...

• Why Are Business Groups Funding High-Stakes State Court Elections?

  David Mittleman | August 26, 2008 8:34 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  They don't want to be accountable to people and that is wrong. State courts across the country are caught in a high-stakes, high-priced fight between corporations, insurance companies...

• One Dead After Tanker Truck Rolls Over SUV In Lansing

  Devon Glass | August 24, 2008 10:50 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Just before rush hour on Friday August 22, 2008, a tanker truck carrying nearly 20,000 gallons of fuel rolled over on top of a SUV, killing one person and injuring a few others. It is...

• Malpractice Damage Caps: Adding Insult to Injury

  David Mittleman | August 18, 2008 10:14 AM | 13 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  No matter how much education or training a doctor has, he or she is still a human being. As all of us know, humans make mistakes. Although some degree of error is essentially inevitable in any...

• Mistaken Identity as Medical Malpractice

  David Mittleman | August 14, 2008 2:28 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  It is a lesson we try to teach children from a very young age: Everyone is a unique individual, with his or her own strengths and weaknesses, and nothing can change that. Wrong-patient procedures,...

• Unlicensed Driver Causes Fatal Crash in Lansing

  David Mittleman | August 12, 2008 10:02 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Unfortunately, it appears the Friday automobile accident that resulted in the death of a three-year-old child is part of a disturbing national trend. The driver who caused the crash, according to...

• The Frightening Reality of Wrong-Site Surgery

  David Mittleman | August 08, 2008 9:52 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Surgical procedures are intimidating. You put your life and your health in the hands of your doctor, allowing him to render you unconscious and to perform the most delicate of procedures with his...

• Surgery Gone Wrong: When A Surgeon Refuses To Stop And Ask For Directions

  Devon Glass | August 06, 2008 10:37 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  Surgery can be a very invasive procedure requiring focus and discipline by the surgeon. Of course there are many types of surgeries out there, from a simple mole removal to a more...