Nursing home abuse attorneys are important Are you afraid that your loved one’s nursing home staff might be abusive or neglectful? If you suspect mistreatment, you do have some options. In this video, Memphis nursing home abuse attorney Darrell Castle explains some of the ways you can move forward if you’re worried about your loved one. If you or a loved one have been a victim of nursing home abuse, we’d love to speak to you. You can contact us at (901) 327-1212 or fill out one of the contact forms online.
Kids, toys and product liability Video Transcript: Hello, this is Darrell Castle. I’m an attorney licensed to practice law in the state of Tennessee. And on this video today, I’m going to be talking about injuries to children: injuries caused by toys, children playing with toys and being injured by them because they are defective. Nothing can replace your child. The loss of your child would be so devastating, certainly money can’t replace it. Money can’t calm the emotional damage that long-term injury to your child would cause; but money is all we have to do these things with. And money can pay your medical bills; money can pay the cost of long-term rehabilitation; money can make your life a
What to do after you’ve taken a dangerous drug By: Darrell Castle If you think you’ve been injured by a dangerous drug, obviously you need to get treatment. You need to be treated by a doctor; and when you’re recovered, if you think that your injury has been caused by a drug, then call me or come and see me and I’ll talk through the whole process with you. It won’t require any money from you whatsoever. We would take your case, if we do, on a percentage of whatever we recover. And if we don’t recover anything, then there’s no cost to you. But what will be required of you is a little bit of your time and some
Mirena is a contraceptive device meant to prevent pregnancy for up to five years. It has also been linked to many dangerous side effects, including uterine perforation. Uterine perforation is a dangerous injury that can lead to sepsis, infection, infertility / hysterectomy, damage to other organs, and even in some cases death. Women who have recently given birth or who are breastfeeding are at particular risk of uterine perforation. Mirena has also been linked to ovarian cysts, breast cancer, and dangerous or fatal complications in pregnancy and birth. If you believe you’ve been injured by Mirena, there are a few things you need to do as soon as possible: Seek medical attention immediately. The problems you’re experiencing may get
When Dogs Attack By: Darrell Castle Here in Memphis, a big city with a lot of residential areas, dogs get loose fairly often and are roaming the streets. Sometimes, these dogs are harmless to you because they’ve been trained relatively well. However, some dog owners are completely negligent and their dog is either trained to attack or doesn’t know it’s not supposed to. Cesar’s Way, a great online resource for dog owners, has some advice for what you should do when confronted by a dog. The article details why dogs attack – as a result of motion, which triggers their prey drive. When you run or walk by a house with a dog fenced in the back yard, that
Bed bugs in a movie theater? By: Darrell Castle You hear about bed bugs in motels and hotels, but movie theaters? Get out of here! But that’s what happened in Lodi, California, where a theater is temporarily closed after several people complained they were bitten by bed bugs while watching a movie. Two teens were covered in bed bug bites the morning after they were enjoying a flick at a local theater. “When we woke up the next morning, we looked at each other and saw that we had all these red bumps all over us,” one of the girls said. A family member told the local news that the girls woke up with hundreds of bites on their bodies.
Do you have delayed pain after a motorcycle accident? By: Darrell Castle If you’re in a motorcycle accident but don’t immediately experience pain, or even after a day, you might feel pretty lucky. However, that doesn’t mean you’re out of the woods yet. Many times, up to a week or so after the accident, you may begin to feel some pain. Often, this delayed pain reveals itself in a back injury. It’s at this point you need to seek medical treatment, because these small injuries can turn into nagging long-term injuries if not properly treated. You also need to speak to an attorney – it’s not too late. Even if you told the police officer at the scene of the
By: Darrell Castle So that car came out of no where and smashed into you while you were riding your bicycle? That unfortunately doesn’t surprise me. Here in Memphis, there’s been a longstanding feud between cyclists and drivers. Some in each group think they own the road, when in reality, they share it. With the city of Memphis making the necessary push to mold the community into a more “livable” one by adding bike lanes – and gaining a lot of positive national exposure for its efforts – it’s time for these drivers and cyclist to get along and learn how to share the road. But, perfection will never be a reality and accidents will happen due to ignorance of
By: Darrell Castle General Motors expected to pay out $400 million in compensation claims, but that number could increase to $600 million. Surely you remember the GM ignition switch debacle from last year. You know, the one where GM officials knew many of their makes of vehicles had a faulty ignition switch. And that this faulty ignition switch could shut the entire vehicle off…while it’s in use…disabling everything. Brakes. Airbags. Everything. That seems very dangerous, and that’s because it is. Many people were seriously injured. Many people died. With the high number of personal injury claims – and the PR nightmare – GM set up a compensation program to fund the injured victims and the families of lost loved ones.
Why did these two trains collide? By: Darrell Castle A train crash early Sunday morning in Hoxie, Arkansas, 90 miles outside of Memphis, left two crew members dead and two others injured. The trains collided head on, leaving the question – why were these trains on the same track? “We don’t know the cause of the accident. We have no idea why these trains were on the same line,” Emergency Management Director, Buddy Williams, said. The collision involved two locomotives, one with with 86 cars and one with 93 cars. This was no small crash. A resulting fire took nearly seven hours to extinguish. “We will be looking at train signal information,” said Michael Hiller, an investigator for the National