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Do 50 Percent of People Have a Herniated Disc? Dispelling the Myth
Posted in Motor Vehicle Accidents, Personal Injury
You may have heard this one before: 50 percent of all normal and asymptomatic adults have at least one herniated disc (sometimes referred to as a slipped disc.) However, unlike many other buzzy medical “factoids,” this one is more myth than truth.
FDA Announces Plan for Restricting Access to Flavored E-Cigarettes
Posted in Personal Injury
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced plans to “restrict” sales locations for flavored e-cigarettes that appeal to youth. The restriction, which falls far short of a ban, will require sales to take place only in “age-restricted in-person locations and, if sold online, under heightened practices for age verification.” The restriction does… Continue reading
JUUL Has An Anti-Vaping Program For Schools?
Posted in Personal Injury
Did you know JUUL implemented a vaping prevention program targeted for use in schools? JUUL is the rapid-rise vaping company that makes e-cigarettes that look like USB units, and vaping liquids with high concentrations of nicotine. It has suffered heavy criticism for its appeal to underage youth and is being… Continue reading
Seven Children Die After Outbreak in New Jersey Facility
Posted in Personal Injury
The New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) has reported that seven children have died and twelve more remain infected as a result of an adenovirus outbreak in a nursing and rehabilitation facility in Wanaque. The facility is the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, and first notified the DOH of… Continue reading
NJ Doctor Stripped of License Over Hundreds of Opioid Prescriptions for the Drug Subsys
Posted in Personal Injury
A doctor in Philipsburg, New Jersey has lost his license after allegations that the physician had accepted more than $117,000 from the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics, Inc. to prescribe the company’s fentanyl painkiller Subsys to his patients. Dr. Kenneth P. Sun consented to the New Jersey State Board of Medical… Continue reading
Granddaughter & Great-Grandson of Harley-Davidson Co-Founder to Present at Roar to the Shore & DelMarVa
Posted in Personal Injury
Stark & Stark will be heading to the beach to meet everyone at the 2018 Roar to the Shore and DelMarVa Bike Week this September. While at both events, we will have with us the granddaughter and great-grandson of Harley-Davidson co-founder Walter Davidson as our guest speakers, Jean Davidson and… Continue reading
Workers Compensation and Fraud Update – the Statute Applies to the Employee and the Employer Alike
Posted in Personal Injury
The New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Fraud Statute, N.J.S.A. 34:15-57.4, is alive and well in the Division of Workers’ Compensation as it applies to injured workers. Attorneys for workers’ compensation carriers are making fraud arguments often, and in some cases being successful in terminating workers’ benefits. Yet injured workers do not… Continue reading
Vaping Teen Goes into Respiratory Failure
Posted in Personal Injury
An 18-year-old developed wet lung and went into respiratory arrest three weeks after starting to vape. The young women entered the ER with stabbing chest pains and difficulty breathing, which got progressively worse until she went into respiratory failure and wound up on a ventilator. Doctors diagnosed the young women… Continue reading
First U.S. Death from Exploding E-Cigarette
Posted in Personal Injury
Tragic news was released from Florida this week that a man who died on May 5, 2018, suffered a fatal injury from an e-cigarette explosion. The man died from a “projectile wound to the head,” and also suffered thermal burns on 80% of his body. Tallmadge D’Elia, who reportedly worked… Continue reading
FDA Clamps Down on E-cigarette Companies Selling to Minors
Posted in Personal Injury
In response to growing concern about e-cigarette use by children and teens, the FDA has intensified its enforcement of illegal sales and advertising of new electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) such as Juul, myblu and KandyPens. The FDA has stated it is committed to decreasing smoking and nicotine addiction in… Continue reading
