by James Lambka | Dec 5, 2017 | Automobile Accidents, Children, Slip & Fall, Traumatic Brain Injuries
National Public Radio authored a piece that covered Penn State Hershey’s development of a new test that measures genetic material in saliva to detect the existence of concussions in children. The results were almost 90 percent accurate. When concussed, the brain...
by James Lambka | Dec 4, 2017 | Automobile Accidents
Distracted Driving has increasingly been recognized as a serious problem on our roadways. Washington State has passed a new law more strictly regulating the use of telephones, and other items, while driving. See our video post on this here. Failing to keep one’s eyes...
by James Lambka | Nov 17, 2017 | Automobile Accidents
An orthopedics professor at Harvard Medical School has reviewed data and determined that the chance of getting arthritis within a decade of tearing a tendon or ligament in the knee is greater than 50 percent. While the paper is not yet published, but is slated to be...
by James Lambka | Sep 21, 2017 | Automobile Accidents, Children
In 2013, the Seattle School District did a one day count of drivers failing to stop at school buses that were actively loading children and over 300 people violated the law on that single day. It is September and schools are back in session and it is an important...
by James Lambka | Aug 2, 2017 | Automobile Accidents, Injury Law, Washington Law
In today’s vlog, we’d like to revisit a topic we discussed in a previous blog, that being the new distracted driving law that went into effect on July 23, 2017. This law was heavily discussed both in the national media and by the public at large because of...
by James Lambka | May 16, 2017 | Automobile Accidents, Medical Info, Traumatic Brain Injuries
A new Study in the Journal of Neurotrauma 34:1411-1523 (April 15, 2017), concludes that many people who suffer from postconcussion syndrome do not recover. The study focused on 285 patients diagnosed with concussion based symptoms. Of these, 141 responded and these...
