William "Bill" Hurst Personal Injury Law Blog

A concussion is a traumatic brain injury (TBI) that may result in bad headaches, altered levels of alertness or even unconsciousness.  It interferes with the way your brain works and it can affect memory, judgment, reflexes, speech, balance, coordination and sleep manner.  A concussion can result from a slip and fall accident, sports activities or car accidents. Significant movement of the brain in any direction can cause you to lose alertness.  How long you remain u... Read More

In August of 2008 in Greensburg, Indiana, a parent of a toddler dropped off their 2 year old daughter and two hours later a large console television fell on her daughter crushing her eye sockets, pallet, nose and cheekbone.  It will be many years before she’ll recover because of her age and how things grow.  Unfortunately this kind of an event is not uncommon.   http://www.wthr.com/story/9412088/parents-push-for-day-care-licensing-after-toddlers-accident... Read More

All businesses that are open to the public have an obligation to maintain safe conditions. This means they are required to inspect their premises, and to eliminate any slip and fall hazards before someone is injured.  Businesses are not automatically liable for injuries sustained on their premises. If a person slips, trips and falls in a business, the person injured must present evidence that the hazard existed long enough that a reasonably prudent business owner or manager should have know... Read More

       If you or a loved one has been involved in an accident involving a slip and fall and you would like to have consultation with an experienced attorney contact our office at (800) 636-0808.  You may meet with William “Bill” Hurst for a free consultation and he only charges a fee if you make a recovery.  http://www.billhurst.com. ... Read More

A recent study suggests that legalizing medical marijuana may reduce traffic fatalities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-medical-marijuana-laws-traffic-deaths.html   Th e researchers (Dan Rees Professor at the University of Colorado and Mark Anderson Professor at Montana State University) conclude that legalizing medical marijuana reduces alcohol consumption and reduce traffic deaths.  It is thought that people are more wary of driving when “high” than when d... Read More

Eye injuries are very common and affect in excess of one million Americans every year.  There is increased litigation for the negligence doctors and clinics as well as lawsuits arising out of accidents where negligence is claimed by an injured  person causing the injury.... Read More

It is believed that for the past several years, approximately 500 worker deaths occur nationally in work zone traffic accidents annually.  In the past several years various governmental agencies have been obtaining construction auto accident data.  However, despite efforts, there is a lack of reasonable accident information obtained from police and public agencies responsible for work zone safety. ... Read More

Farm work rivals construction work as one of most dangerous jobs in America.  The national rate of death from farm accidents is about 22.1 deaths for 100,000 workers.  The most common injuries involve various kinds of farm equipment, structures  like gain bins (entrapments), chemical exposures, spills, fires, toxic exposures and, finally, and least likely, farm animals causing accidents resulting in injury.  Injuries involving farm tractors result in nearly 270 deaths each ye... Read More

As the price of gasoline soars more people have been switching to motorcycles, scooters and mopeds, which get far better miles.  But as the numbers of mopeds and scooters rises so will the number of accidents, safety officials have agreed. The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission has reported that there were 2,870 emergency room treated injuries relating to motorized scooters reported in the first nine months of 2001, and 2,760 injuries reported in 2000.  T... Read More

The stage toppled at 8:49 p.m.  A timeline released by the Indiana State Police showed that the National Weather Service indicated as early as 8:00 that a storm with hail and 40 mph winds was expected to hit the fair grounds at 9:15.  Meteorologists indicate that it’s not unusual for strong winds to precede a thunderstorm like the one that was proceeding towards Indianapolis and the fairgrounds on Saturday evening.  As early as 7:00 p.m. the National Weather Service adv... Read More