Author Archives: Metier Law Firm

Can Food Be Recalled?

Most product liability cases involve defective components in automobiles, dangerous toys, hazardous appliances and defective pharmaceuticals. However, the food industry can also produce faulty products that can harm consumers. Businesses at all different levels of production and distribution can be liable for failing to follow standardized timing and temperature procedures, resulting in spoiled or poisonous… read more

Do Football Helmets Protect Against Traumatic Brain Injuries?

Contact sports often involve many small concussions and brain injuries, which, over time, can develop into post-concussion syndrome. Brain injuries produce long-lasting effects that leave the victim with impaired memory, attention deficits, emotional management issues and personality changes. According to CBS Local Philadelphia, a group of Florida-based neurologists recently conducted a study of the different… read more

How Does The Military Address Motorcycle Safety?

In recent years, military officials noticed an increase in motorcycle purchases among servicemen and women. “A lot of these soldiers, they go for pretty long deployments, save up some money and, especially the younger ones, they like to buy some toys with that money. A lot end up buying a motorcycle,” said the safety manager… read more

What Alternative Treatments Help Traumatic Brain Injuries?

After a traumatic brain injury, damaged regions of the brain send a distress signal of inflammation. Even in mild brain injuries, it can be difficult to turn the inflammation signal off.  Often, damaged regions will remain inflamed for months after the injury occurred. According to CNN, omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil can help… read more

How To Negotiate Dangerous Turns

Very often, motorcyclists swerve off the road while negotiating turns with a variable radius. Essentially, there are different turning maneuvers required for different shapes of road. The radius on a simple, right angle turn is constant, so the motorcyclist can approach the curve from the left area of their lane, slope to the right while… read more

Is My Triumph Motorcycle Safe To Ride?

Safety conscious motorcyclists know that it is always a good idea to regularly check the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) listings for product recalls. Whenever a defect is noticed in a certain model of motorcycle, the NHTSA informs the motorcycle manufacturer who must then reach out to owners of the defective model and provide… read more

Why Are Traumatic Brain Injuries So Expensive?

When someone suffers a traumatic brain injury (TBI), in most cases, the effects are permanent. TBI’s often result in the long term damage of brain regions responsible for motion, emotional processing and analytic thinking. As such, TBI’s are linked to Parkinson’s disease, depression, bipolar disorder and cognitive degeneration. Care for TBI victims is incredibly expensive… read more

Who Is On The Frontier Of Traumatic Brain Injury Research?

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the winners of the Head Health Challenge (HHC) were announced recently. The Head Health Challenge is a competition co-sponsored by General Electric (GE) and the National Football League (NFL) to improve the treatment and diagnosis of traumatic brain injuries for soldiers, athletes and anyone else suffering… read more

Is Lane Splitting A Safe Practice?

It is very common for motorcyclists to engage in a maneuver known as lane splitting whenever traffic is moving very slowly or not at all. Lane splitting consists of riding in between lanes of bumper to bumper traffic. The legality of lane splitting is very ambiguous and varies from state to state. The majority of… read more

Are Soccer Players At Risk For Brain Injuries?

American football players are not the only athletes at risk for traumatic brain injury and post-concussion syndrome. According to a recent journal article published in Brain Injury, soccer players suffer repeated brain injuries every time they hit the ball with their heads. “The practice of heading, which might occur thousands of times over a player’s… read more