Transcript: “Hello! I’m Darrell Castle. I’m an attorney licensed to practice law in the state of Tennessee, and one of the areas of practice that I utilize is medical negligence, or medical malpractice, if you will. “A lot of times, people will come to me, and they’ll ask me the question, ‘how long does a medical malpractice case taker?’ Because that’s of a concern to them. And my answer to that usually is, ‘Well, it takes a while. I’ll be honest with you; it takes a while,” because medical negligence, if you’re going to accuse a doctor or a hospital or other medical provider of negligence, you’re really stepping into territory that you need to know what you’re doing.
At this point, a college degree goes hand in hand with staggering loan debt more often than not — and recent statistics show the problem isn’t going away any time soon. The average student loan debt for Class of 2016 graduates was $37,172, 6% higher than the year before. Debt of this magnitude is downright debilitating. For many young people, it’s a barrier to buying homes or starting families of their own. It often feels impossible to pay off, and in some cases, it is. The number of defaulted federal student loans continues to climb. In 2016, approximately 8 million borrowers gave up on paying more than $137 billion in student loan debt, a new high. Many people don’t realize
Determining the responsible party for a car accident isn’t as easy as it seems. In fact, it’s even possible for both drivers to share fault equally. Here in Tennessee we have something called comparative negligence, a legal concept relevant to situations in which both parties share responsibility. With comparative negligence, fault is compared and assigned to the two different drivers in an accident. Insurance companies often use a defense of comparative negligence to try to save money on claims, shifting some of the fault onto the victim. For example, if you’re assigned 20% fault in an accident where the recovery is $10,000, you would be entitled to $8,000. However, in Tennessee, if the fault is 50% or more, neither driver
USA Today’s The Tennessean is reporting that a 19-year-old truck driver has been arrested in connection with a crash on February 14 that took the life of a motorcyclist. The driver also fled the scene of the deadly crash. According to Metro crash investigators, Leon W. Duke, from Nashville, was driving a friend’s pickup truck when he caused the deadly crash at the intersection of Anderson Lane and Gallatin Pike in the Madison neighborhood of Nashville. Duke was coming from a bar in the Rivergate area at the time of the incident. The report from law enforcement shows that Duke turned in front of the motorcycle driven by Curtis Kevan, a 59-year-old man from Bethpage, who died as a result
Transcript: “Hello, I’m Darrell Castle. I’m a social security disability attorney licensed to practice law in the state of Tennessee. “One of the questions I get quite often is, ‘I think I am disabled, how can I get benefits started?’ Well, applying is the first step. Applying is easy. You can do that online, or you can do it in person at the social security department, but applying is not the problem; the problem is having your application accepted. And that is difficult. Most, the vast majority, are not accepted, folks. Remember, if you apply yourself, you have only 60 days to file an appeal, only 60 days. We can help you with the appeal if you get it to
Transcript: “Hi! I’m Darrell Castle, and I’m an attorney licensed to practice law right here in the state of Tennessee, and one of the areas of law that I practice in is automobile accident cases. Personal injury, in other words. And from time to time, people will ask a question: ‘What happens if the accident happens if the accident is both drivers’ fault? What if they share fault equally?’ Well, that doesn’t happen. That would be my answer. But actually, occasionally, it does. It does happen. “Here in Tennessee, we have what’s called ‘comparative fault,’ or ‘comparative negligence.’ That just means that the fault is compared and assigned to the two different drivers, so if you have fault assigned to
The lawyer-client relationship should be based on trust. But some scam artists give the medical and legal field a bad name. And in one example, they set out to manipulate people’s medical information to try to pressure you to have unnecessary, possibly dangerous surgery. This nightmare became a reality for Jerri Plummer. She told The New York Times, “I was taken advantage of through this whole process.” Now Ms. Plummer must wear adult diapers, after being convinced to have her ineffective vaginal mesh implant removed, only to suffer worse urinary problems she is being told are permanent. Here’s what happened: The scam began when Ms. Plummer got an unexpected call from a person who only gave their first name. Somehow
Transcript: “Hello! This is Darrell Castle, folks, and sometimes people ask me questions. One of the question I was asked recently is, ‘How is the opioid epidemic, the opioid crisis, if you want to call it that, different from the normal drug problems that we have here in America?’ Like, people might be addicted to heroin, to cocaine, to some other, what we call ‘street drugs,’ as opposed to opiates like oxycontin, oxycodone, fentanyl, and the like, methadone… The difference is, is that the opioids are perfectly legal. They’re not street drugs. You don’t have to go out and rob somebody to get the money to buy your drug; it’s prescribed legally by your doctor. “See, doctors were convinced about
Transcript: “Hello! I’m Darrel Castle, folks. Sometimes people call me with questions. One of the questions that I’ve been getting lately is, ‘How would I know if my child has NAS, or neonatal abstinence syndrome?’ Well, folks, believe me, you’ll know. Number one, there’ll probably be a diagnosis, but if there isn’t, and that does happen sometimes. There are all these symptoms, like if your child has got, possibly, learning disabilities, seizures, unable to control his or her behavior, unable to sit still, unable to stand up, to sit down, just all kinds of things would manifest themselves like that, screaming and so forth, but you would also know, if you as a mother, would know if you were
Transcript: “Hello! This is Darrell Castle, folks, and today I want to talk to you about opioid pain relievers and how children become addicted to opioids, not just children, but babies, babies just born are addicted to the opioid pain relievers. Now that syndrome is called “neonatal abstinence syndrome.” That’s because their mothers took this drug while she was pregnant, and passed it on to her unborn child, and that child was born with the syndrome which causes sometimes lifetime disability and other problems, other problems, behavior problems, learning problems, all kinds of things like that. “I want to just give you one way that this occasionally happens. So you think, “Why would they give pregnant mothers these things?” Well