New Years Eve tends to result in an increase in drinking and driving. Don’t drink and drive and if you find yourself, or a loved one, injured by a drunk driver, seek legal help. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X2Tr13s_gU If video above does not work, click here Video Transcript Hello, this is Darrell Castle. I’m an attorney licensed to practice law in the state of Tennessee and today is December 31, 2013. It’s New Years Eve in other words and I’m making this video because I’m very concerned about people who might be driving tonight on New Years Eve, especially young people. Your children perhaps, or your grandchildren, teenagers, young people who may be out, having a good time, enjoying themselves,
You may have a loved one with chronic medical conditions that requires a lot of dependancy. Perhaps it requires a full-time caretaker. Regardless of whether the caretaker is a family member or a true professional, the job can be stressful. It takes a special person with compassion, patience and strength to do the job. And when the stress and frustration builds up, the wrong person may take things too far and turn to abuse as his or her coping mechanism. Each caregiver relationship is unique, but here are some general suggestions to prevent this abuse from happening. Observe Whether your family member or a professional has the duty of taking care of your loved one, always check in. There should
Debt Can Affect People of All Income Levels It doesn’t matter how much money you make, you can still struggle with debt. Almost all of us have had experiences where we spent unwisely or realized after the fact that we could’ve budgeted our money better. In fact, money can serve as an even greater temptation and risk when you have a lot of it. Sometimes at that level, people make unwise investments without thinking. And if you come into fame and success young, it’s an even bigger trap: some people make so much money early in their lives that they never learn to budget well. This is all to say there’s no shame in struggling with your finances, especially when
Every Tuesday we want to inform you of a new scam alert to avoid. This week involves a popular social media site – Pinterest. Big time social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have been grounds for scammers to exploit, and now Pinterest, another site growing in popularity, especially among females, is becoming a common scammer ground as well. It all starts with an email from Pinterest. The email claims that your friend has shared a “pin” with you – the term the site uses for a digital scrapbook image. Since the email and link seem real, you will probably click on it. Common scam pins are ones with celebrities and beauty photos, giveaway offers, infographics and before and
Every Tuesday, we want to inform you of a new scam alert to avoid. This week involves emails. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) contacted several different funeral homes which confirmed they sometimes send out funeral notifications via email. Scammers seem to have taken notice of this and are using it to gain your personal information. Be wary if you receive an email with the subject line “funeral notification,” even if it’s from a funeral home in your area, or appears to be at least. The email may even have the funeral home’s name, colors and logos, but it could be anyone. Why is this dangerous? The email will instruct you to click on a link to view the invitation to “celebrate your
Every Tuesday, we want to inform you of a new scam alert to avoid. This week involves utilities. It’s been an abnormally cold winter here in Memphis, and though temperatures have been on the rise and the weather has been nice, we aren’t completely out of the winter woods yet. This is why you need to stay cautious of this new scam. If you get a phone call from the utility company, stay alert and listen to what they say carefully. Utility companies often do use the phone to reach their customers, but scammers do as well. Scammers are calling people, disguising themselves as the utility company, and telling their victims that they are late on their bill and need
Americans are very good at encouraging young people to do all the right things: Get the best education available Buy a home for your family Give yourself and your loved ones the best life you can But in all three examples, many people are being set up to fail. Take education. Schools are promising more and more to young people, but in so many cases they fail to provide the one thing you need when you graduate: a job. Or mortgage payments. When banks knowingly lend out in risky ways, they set up the borrower for high debt and eventual default. And we’re always telling people the tricks to “living well,” but that’s hard to do when you’re swamped with
We are still in the trenches reviewing cases related to temporary blood filters. These are tiny, removable devices put in the veins to help people with extreme risk for clotting, pulmonary embolism, stroke, or heart attack. Unfortunately they also have an extremely high failure rate. They can break and migrate through your body, piercing organs, requiring surgery, or even leading to death. With those heinous injuries in mind, I’m seeking justice on behalf of the victims. It’s important to remember I’m not going after the doctors or hospitals that implant these devices. I believe they are looking out for their patients and trying to do right by them. But the manufacturer knows all about the harm these devices can do. There’s evidence they’ve
By: Darrell Castle When nursing home abuse/neglect occurs, bed sores are almost always mentioned as a clue and side-effect. But, do you know what bed sores are? Well, if you have an elderly-loved one in a nursing home, then it’s extremely important that you do so you can be sure he or she is being properly cared for. In a nursing home or elderly care facility, bed sores are often a result of patients not being rolled over and moved around as needed. Many of these patients rely on the nursing home employees for their mobility – even for rolling over in bed. Bed sores can develop quickly and treatment can be difficult. The Mayo Clinic has provided a list
The recent deadly meningitis outbreak in Tennessee and around the country has people asking about compounding pharmacies, since it was a steroid injection from a compounding pharmacy that caused the problem in the first place. What are compounding pharmacies? What do they do? And are their products unsafe? Compounding is actually a traditional part of pharmacy. It just refers to pharmacists mixing ingredients for a unique patient or type of patient. It’s used commonly for patients who have allergies to specific ingredients that might be found in the normal commercial brand. However, lately what was once a relatively boutique pharmacy practice has grown into a large-scale manufacturing stronghold and a thorn in the side of regulators. In the case