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Have you been injured in an auto accident? Are you confused as to what to do, where to go, and who to talk to? Do you need medical treatment? These are questions you are probably asking yourself. Being involved in an accident creates a lot of stress and is an emotional time filled with personal frustration.

MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR INJURIES

If you have been injured in an auto accident, you should get the medical treatment you need. You may have been taken to the emergency room by ambulance and now need follow up treatment. You should get the medical treatment you need whether or not you have insurance.

Don't have insurance? Many of us do not have medical insurance to cover the expense of doctors. If you fall into this category, you will probably find yourself having to pay for the medical treatment up front. The isurance company might reimburse you for the medical treatment later on down the line but you will need to pay first - there are many varying factors and it all depends on your case and the facts.

If you don't have health insurance, we can still help you obtain immediate medical treatment for you, and you don't have to pay back the doctors until you receive the money from your settlement.

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This means that the doctor will not charge you until your case settles.

Don't pass up medical treatment you need simply because you can't afford medical treatment and the insurance company will not pay them for you.

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PROPERTY DAMAGE

The damage to your vehicle, referred to as property damage, is often an important issue in car accident cases. It is your RIGHT to have your automobile repaired or have it replaced for its value if it is totaled. If your vehicle is undriveable, you may also be entitled to car rental reimbursement. Insurance companies are not in business to pay you money. The insurance carriers often dispute the extent of your property damage claim. As part of my service to you, I will fight the insurance carriers to resolve your property damage claim.

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Nurse’s Family Files Avandia Wrongful Death Lawsuit
San Diego, CA: Rogelio Larosa and his adult son, Eric, of National City, San Diego County, California, filed a lawsuit on Monday, December 17, 2007, against Philadelphia-based GlaxoSmithKline ("GSK"), the maker of Avandia (rosiglitazone maleate), in U.S. District Court, Southern District of California (San Diego) accusing GSK of causing the wrongful death of a Chula Vista nurse due to its negligence, fraud, breach of warranty and a failure to warn about the risks of its drug, Avandia. The lawsuit alleges that Milagros Larosa, 65, over the course of one year, was hospitalized three different times for heart problems, classified as myocardial ischemic events (a painful heart condition caused by blockage or lack of blood flow to the heart) and ultimately suffered a fatal stroke, caused by the Avandia she was taking for her type 2 diabetes. She had no prior heart problems or any type of a heart condition before starting Avandia. Milagros suffered her first heart blockage in December of 2004 and subsequently suffered two more blockage attacks, one in January 2005 and the other in July 2005, each requiring a heart bypass or "coronary revascularization" to restore the flow of oxygen and nutrients to her heart. Following her myocardial ischemic event in July, Milagros had to be placed in a nursing home where she could be given constant care. She then suffered a stroke and died on December 20, 2005. The attorneys for the family allege in the complaint that GSK, before getting approval for Avandia, knew, or should have known, that Avandia was associated with a significant increased risk of heart failure, myocardial ischemia (also known as angina) and ischemic events such as cardiovascular mortality, myocardial infarction (heart attack), and stroke. The lawsuit also alleges that GSK negligently and carelessly failed to fully disclose the results of testing and other information in its possession from clinical trials, physicians, patients and regulatory authorities, regarding the association between Avandia and heart failure, heart attacks and stroke. The complaint further alleges that GSK over-promoted Avandia, carelessly promoted it as safe and effective and failed and refused to adequately warn the medical community and the consuming public of the risks associated with Avandia until the FDA finally took action.

Ford settles with four states in rollover case
SACRAMENTO -- Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday ended an era of litigation over its rollover-plagued Explorers when it agreed to settle class-action lawsuits covering plaintiffs in four states. The settlement applies to about 1 million people in California, Connecticut, Illinois and Texas who claimed their Explorers were prone to flip, said Kevin P. Roddy, a New Jersey attorney and co-counsel for the SUV owners who brought the lawsuit. Ford has faced wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits across the country stemming from a series of rollover accidents that involved earlier models of its popular Explorer. The deal announced Wednesday settles cases brought by Explorer owners who said their vehicles had lost value because of their perceived danger. It ends all the outstanding rollover-related lawsuits against the company, Ford spokeswoman Kristen Kinley said. She would not say how much Ford has paid to settle earlier claims. Customers affected by the four-state settlement in California will be notified in late December and early January, she said. "Ford's position on this is we feel this is fair and reasonable, and in the best interest of our customers," she said in a telephone interview. The settlement applies to Explorers in model years 1991 through 2001 and will be filed later Wednesday in Sacramento County Superior Court. It will allow vehicle owners to apply for $500 vouchers to buy new Explorers or $300 vouchers to buy other Ford or Lincoln Mercury products. The settlement also requires Ford to distribute information about the rollover dangers of sport utility vehicles and to limit safety claims in its advertising. In 2000, the federal government began investigating the Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. tires that had been standard equipment on Explorers after receiving numerous complaints. More than 250 people were killed and hundreds more injured in accidents involving tread separation on the tires, most of which were on Explorers at the time they failed. Each company blamed the other for the rollovers, with the Nashville-based tire manufacturer saying the Explorers' earlier design was faulty. The earliest of the four lawsuits consolidated in California was filed in 2000. The case went to trial for 50 days earlier this year before the parties announced in October that they were close to a settlement. In a 2004 San Diego case, a jury awarded a San Diego woman who had been paralyzed in a Ford Explorer rollover crash $246 million in punitive damages, after earlier finding Ford Motor Co. liable for $122.6 million in compensatory damages. It marked the first jury verdict Ford had lost in nearly a dozen cases that have gone to trial challenging the safety of the nation's best-selling sport utility vehicle. Many of the Explorers owned by the plaintiffs in the class-action suit had been purchased between 1990 and 2000 and are no longer on the road, Roddy said. If Sacramento County Superior Court Judge David De Alba approves the preliminary settlement on Monday, the parties will announce a toll-free number and Web site for consumers, followed by the mailed notices. Explorer owners will be able to apply for vouchers through the Web site. The parties plan to ask the judge to give final approval during a hearing in April, after those covered by the settlement have had time to apply, Roddy said. The vouchers can be used not only by plaintiffs' family members, but also can be transferred to anyone in the vehicle owner's state, Roddy said. "You can give it to your neighbor if he's in the market," he said. The $300 or $500 vouchers should be enough to cover the cost of electronic stability control options on new vehicles, said consumer advocate Rosemary Shahan of California-based Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety.

Victim of fatal Jamul crash identified
SAN DIEGO – A motorist killed in a head-on collision involving a big rig on a rural East County roadway was identified Saturday as Tai Huu Nguyen, 55, of Spring Valley, the Medical Examiner's Office said. Nguyen was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident on State Route 94 in the Jamul area at about 2:30 p.m. Friday. The collision occurred when the 2006 Lexus driven by Nguyen veered in front of an oncoming tractor-trailer, according to the California Highway Patrol. The impact left both vehicles in flames. The trucker, Nestor Rogelio Lopez, 29, was taken to a nearby hospital and treated for moderately-serious injuries, CHP public affairs Officer Brian Pennings said.

San Diego man, 26, killed in car accident
 A 26-year-old man was killed in a car accident Saturday about 1 1/3 miles west of Alice. Officials with the Department of Public Safety said Leonel Octavio Trejo Jr. of San Diego was a passenger in a 1994 Chevrolet S-10 pickup headed west on County Road 116. The pickup was struck by a 1998 Lincoln Town Car traveling south. Trejo was pronounced dead at the scene...

Girl hurt in hit-and-run accident
A man driving a pickup truck seen speeding down a street in Emerald Hills this morning struck a child and then hit a house, San Diego police said. The 5-year-old girl was taken to the hospital. The extent of her injuries was not known. Officials originally reported she was 8 years old. Police are looking for the driver. It is believed he was in a white two-door pickup truck that may have been reported stolen, said police Sgt. Kerry Tom. The truck was ditched about a mile from where the girl was hit. A gas and water line were broken when the car struck the house on Kelton Road around 7:21 a.m, Tom said.

North County Motorcycle Fatalities Follow U.S. Trend
Auto and Motorcycle Accidents Yesterday another person lost his life in a motorcycle accident. This time it was in Ramona, but I have been noticing more and more motorcycle fatalities in the local paper and wondered if I am just noticing more, or whether there are actually more. Well, according to a recent study, the number of motorcycle deaths in North County this year was unprecedented. As of December 22nd, the CHP has investigated 15 motorcycle crash fatalities in Northern San Diego County. There were only eight last year, and four the two years before that. Law enforcement can't explain the increase, but apparently the North County increase in fatalities follows a national trend. Authorities blame the rise in deaths on several factors, such as inattentive motorists and rider inexperience. Much of the blame has been placed on the motorcyclists themselves, whether it's inattentive driving or inexperienced riders. Of the 15 deaths this year, the motorcyclist was determined at fault in 11 of them. And the culprit in those 11 is usually speeding. Interestingly - but probably not surprising - two groups have been identified and being the victims of most of these motorcycle accidents - young Marines and older riders. The number of people riding motorcycles, especially baby boomers, has grown, but the number of fatalities has increased at a far more alarming rate, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Last year, motorcycle fatalities made up 11 percent of all traffic deaths nationwide, compared with 5 percent in 1997, the organization reports.

Helicopter crash
Minutes after lifting off from the deck of the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard, two Navy MH-60S Seahawk helicopters flew in formation above the calm Pacific near San Clemente Island. Bearing the call signs Bullet 10 and Bullet 11, the Seahawks cruised through a few light clouds at 2:23 p.m. Jan. 26, 2007. The flights were part of a training exercise on how to board and inspect ships at sea. Suddenly, Bullet 10 dropped like a stone. “Mayday, mayday, mayday,” said Lt. Adam Dyer, the aircraft's commander. “Strap in, PCL, PCL,” Dyer said, ordering a cutback on the power control level. His recovery attempts did no good. Nine seconds after the first indication of trouble, the helicopter slammed into the water tail down and rolled on its right side. Everyone aboard the aircraft – Dyer, his co-pilot, Lt. j.g. Laura Mankey, and two search-and-rescue swimmers, Petty Officer 1st Class Cory Helman and Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher Will – died in the accident. Nearly a year later, naval aviators remain baffled as to why Bullet 10 fell about 50 miles west of Camp Pendleton. Navy investigators spent months interviewing witnesses, examining wreckage and detailing what happened in the final minutes before the crash. But they couldn't determined its cause. The San Diego Union-Tribune obtained a copy of the investigation last week through a Freedom of Information Act request. Unsolved crashes are “incredibly rare,” said April Phillips, a spokeswoman for the Naval Safety Center in Norfolk, Va. As a result of the crash, the investigators urged the Navy to install crash-resistant flight data recorders on its aircraft. The devices record critical information such as air speed, altitude, pitch and engine power. Such recorders aren't required in many military aircraft. They've been mandatory for civilian airliners for nearly 50 years. “The lack of a flight data recorder on board the aircraft greatly hindered the search for the cause of the accident,” the lead investigator, whose name was deleted by Navy lawyers, wrote in his report. “A record would exist that could clearly identify any failed component.” The report chronicled the Bonhomme Richard's quick response to the crash as Bullet 11's crew buzzed overhead. The ship's rescue swimmers and small boats reached the crash scene. They pulled Will's body from the water, but medical corpsmen couldn't revive him. A 24-hour search turned up a few pieces of wreckage, but no signs of the crew. Three weeks later, Navy salvors recovered the rest of the helicopter and the bodies of the other three crew members from the ocean floor – 3,700 feet beneath the surface. They brought the remains to North Island Naval Air Station, where the helicopter's squadron is based... ..

Lawmakers ignore city charter recommendations
SAN DIEGO – It took 51 meetings for a group of volunteers to draft 11 recommendations for the June ballot to improve San Diego city government – and a single meeting yesterday for a City Council committee to shrug off most of them. Council members said they preferred to slow down and scale back an effort to rewrite San Diego's City Charter next year, despite Mayor Jerry Sanders' desire to push ahead on a package of proposals with some changes.

Oceanside police K-9 officers sue city
SAN DIEGO -- For the second time this year, a group of Oceanside police officers who are or have been canine handlers have filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging they were underpaid for time they spent on job-related activities. In the latest case, six police officers allege the off-duty time they spent caring for the police dogs and maintaining their vehicles is time for which they should have been paid but were not fully compensated. Filed Friday in the San Diego Superior Court, the lawsuit alleges the city has violated multiple sections of state labor laws and asks for an unspecified amount of money for the officers. The same officers raised similar allegations in a federal lawsuit filed in April accusing the city of violating the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. City Attorney John Mullen said Wednesday afternoon that the city believes the state labor code sections at issue do not apply to the city. Nevertheless, the officers are paid fairly for the time they spend training the dogs outside their regular work days, Mullen said. The new Superior Court lawsuit and the federal lawsuit allege that activities for which police officer canine handlers are responsible while off duty include inspecting, bathing, exercising, feeding and training the dogs at home. The handlers also spend time giving the dogs medicine or taking them to veterinary appointments, the lawsuits allege... .. ...

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