There are so many personal injury stories in the news these days, it can be easy to miss the stories that are genuinely meaningful. However, as L.A.'s most acclaimed personal injury attorneys, at the Law Offices of Burg & Brock, our team is specially trained to know a noteworthy story relating to the specialization when we see it.
That was definitely the case when we came across an article on LawyersAndSettlements.com. The story detailed the re-reviewing and re-analysis of a 2009 study called Record. The study showed that Type 2 diabetes medications Avandia, Januvia and Byetta could more than double the risk of heart failure among users. The study was done by Duke Clinical Research Institute in Durham, North Carolina and involved 4,500 patients enrolled in the trial from 2001 through 2009, and is leading to increased scrutiny by the FDA.
The story illustrates the incredible importance of attorneys who look out for the common good with the same dedication of our team of personal injury lawyers at the Law Office of Burg & Brock. Over the years, Cameron Y. Brock has proved to be the preeminent personal injury attorney in Los Angeles for those who have been victimized in Los Angeles. If you feel you have been the victim of a dangerous or defective product, a personal injury, or any number of other potential mental, physical or emotional issues, contact the Law Offices of Burg & Brock today!
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Friday, April 19, 2013
The ACLU is Determined to Uphold the Sixth Amendment
The ACLU is preparing a slew of lawsuits with the intent of upholding the Sixth Amendment, which upholds a various rights of an American citizen with regards to a fair trial, including the right to competent counsel, and the related Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright. In Utah—where public defense attorneys are underpaid, stretched thin, and sometimes not properly trained for this work—the ACLU is hoping to set up statewide standards for public defenders, including better preparation and capping the number of cases a public defender can take on. As a part of their statewide scrutiny of Nebraska's public defender funding policies, the ACLU believes that Dawson County needs to add to their available counsel (of which there are currently only two part-time employees). Then, in Idaho, the ACLU is advocating for the rights of a public defender who they think has been unfairly released after 17 years of service.
While the team here at Burg & Brock aren't public defenders, we do like to think we work in a similar vein. As a personal injury attorney in Los Angeles, we protect the rights of the average American citizen who is suffering because of another person's negligence. It's a scary task to take on anyone with more resources (no matter if it's finances, legal knowledge, etc.) and the everyman needs solid representation.
Besides getting results (98% success rate) as one of the best personal injury attorneys Los Angeles has to offer, the Law Offices of Burg & Brock makes our services accessible to anyone unduly affected by an injury that wasn't their fault. We work on a contingency basis, which means you don't pay unless we reach a win. The Law Offices of Burg & Brock offers a free consultation; if you can't make it to us, we'll come to you. We'll even front the cost for your medical treatment and repair or replace your vehicle while you're waiting for results.
Call us at 1-888-509-2998 to schedule a free meeting with a successful personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles.
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Besides getting results (98% success rate) as one of the best personal injury attorneys Los Angeles has to offer, the Law Offices of Burg & Brock makes our services accessible to anyone unduly affected by an injury that wasn't their fault. We work on a contingency basis, which means you don't pay unless we reach a win. The Law Offices of Burg & Brock offers a free consultation; if you can't make it to us, we'll come to you. We'll even front the cost for your medical treatment and repair or replace your vehicle while you're waiting for results.
Call us at 1-888-509-2998 to schedule a free meeting with a successful personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles.
Friday, April 12, 2013
When Music Meets Mayhem
If you're at all connected or interested in the local or national music scene, particularly of the more alternative variety, you're now doubt aware that in just a few hours the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will be kicking off for another big year with over 100,000 music fans and compulsive partiers choking the usually quiet area outside of town. Now, being personal injury attorneys does not make us entirely immune to the charms of Blur, the Red Hot Chili Peppers. and the Stone Roses (well, some of us are). However, the business we are in forces us to mention the downside of not just Coachella but any music venue where situations might arise that are a bit more intense than those you might find in, say, a sparsely attended jazz club.
A good example would be the recent case of New Jersey man who is suing an area club because of injuries received in a punk rock mosh pit -- they still exist! -- which he says he was dragged into against his will. A case from last year had one of Chris Brown's bodyguards suing New York's W.i.P. (The man apparently received an out of court settlement from the club.) Obviously, the legal merits of these kind of cases vary. Still, these things will happen in any situation where people are out and some may be ingesting alcohol and possibly other mood altering substances -- and we all know that many types of contemporary music don't really fit the old "soothe the savage breast" mode. The smartest thing to do is just to be careful and avoid excessive rowdiness.
Coachella seems to be an unusually safe event considering the setting and the large number of people who show up -- a quick Google search found little publicly known work for personal injury lawyers (we saw one entirely unverified mention of a death back in 2008.) Probably the extremes of daytime heat and nighttime cold are the most dangerous things about the event. So, please, be careful if you're ready to head to a festival or local night clubs. At the risk of putting ourselves out of business, it's much better to have fun and be safe than to need a personal injury lawyer.
A good example would be the recent case of New Jersey man who is suing an area club because of injuries received in a punk rock mosh pit -- they still exist! -- which he says he was dragged into against his will. A case from last year had one of Chris Brown's bodyguards suing New York's W.i.P. (The man apparently received an out of court settlement from the club.) Obviously, the legal merits of these kind of cases vary. Still, these things will happen in any situation where people are out and some may be ingesting alcohol and possibly other mood altering substances -- and we all know that many types of contemporary music don't really fit the old "soothe the savage breast" mode. The smartest thing to do is just to be careful and avoid excessive rowdiness.
Coachella seems to be an unusually safe event considering the setting and the large number of people who show up -- a quick Google search found little publicly known work for personal injury lawyers (we saw one entirely unverified mention of a death back in 2008.) Probably the extremes of daytime heat and nighttime cold are the most dangerous things about the event. So, please, be careful if you're ready to head to a festival or local night clubs. At the risk of putting ourselves out of business, it's much better to have fun and be safe than to need a personal injury lawyer.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Lawsuit Filed Against Unlicensed After School Program Following Child's Injury
As home to Cameron Y. Brock, the most respected personal injury attorneys in Los Angeles, we are always on the look out for noteworthy stories related to personal injury law at the Law Offices of Burg & Brock. Unfortunately, sometimes these cases make our blood boil.
That was certainly the case when reading about an event in San Diego and reported by ABC 10 News, in which a six-year-old boy suffered serious injuries while unsupervised in an after school program.
The after school program utilized rented space from the Standley Park and Recreation Center in University City. Witnesses say that 6-year-old Rowan Munteanu slipped from the top of the slide and fell to the ground while no counselor was there to supervise. Once Rowan's mother, Ali Koppel, arrived, she says she saw golf ball-sized swelling on Rowan's wrists, but was told by a counselor: "Take him home, give him Tylenol. He'll be fine."
Community care licensing policies state that children ages 6-12 must be supervised at all times. In this case, not only was there no staff supervision on duty, but in the following lawsuit, it was revealed the facility has been operating without a license for six years.
It is cases like this that make personal injury attorney Cameron Y. Brock proud to fight for the rights of victims in cases of personal injury involving negligence. There is never an excuse for a company, organization or individual to avoid responsibility for the repercussions under the law of their own negligence. Particularly when children are involved, we're thankful for Cameron Y. Brock, and our entire team of first-rate legal professionals at the Law Offices of Cameron Brock. In this case, the facility has already been shut down, and fortunately, it appears as if the guilty parties will be held accountable.
If you are in need of a personal injury, wrongful death, or vehicle accident lawyer, Cameron Y. Brock is happy to offer you a free consultation on your rights. Together, we can hold the guilty parties accountable and ensure victims are properly compensated for their pain!
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Why We're Needed
Tucked away near the bottom of today's news is a brief story stating that a Georgia pharmacy is issuing a recall on the drug Avastin, commonly prescribed for macular degeneration. The reason is that the lot in question of this drug has been linked to eye infections. Admittedly, this is not top-of-the-page news even for a personal injury attorney, but it's just another reminder of the way we all take it for granted how the combined power of the threat of lawsuits and regulation makes companies behave in ways that protect all of our safety.
If all the personal injury lawyers in the world dissappeared tomorrow, we know there are lots of people who wouldn't shed a tear. However, it's important to realize that the folks who would be dancing the most vigorous jigs would be owners and investors in large businesses that would no longer have to worry about lawsuits on behalf of injured employees and consumers.
We'd all like to think that simple human decency, plus the threat of bad public relations, would keep responsible parties from placing innocent people in danger. The problem is, without a single personal injury lawyer to file a lawsuit, not only would we lose a gigantic, albeit negative, financial incentive for companies to pay close attention to the safety of their products and workplaces -- we'd even lose the public relations damage a company that doesn't pay attention to safety should suffer. When was the last time you read a news story about a personal injury allegedly caused by a company or organization where a lawsuit by either an individual or a government agency wasn't involved?
Like us or not, if you want to stay safe, you need us.
If all the personal injury lawyers in the world dissappeared tomorrow, we know there are lots of people who wouldn't shed a tear. However, it's important to realize that the folks who would be dancing the most vigorous jigs would be owners and investors in large businesses that would no longer have to worry about lawsuits on behalf of injured employees and consumers.
We'd all like to think that simple human decency, plus the threat of bad public relations, would keep responsible parties from placing innocent people in danger. The problem is, without a single personal injury lawyer to file a lawsuit, not only would we lose a gigantic, albeit negative, financial incentive for companies to pay close attention to the safety of their products and workplaces -- we'd even lose the public relations damage a company that doesn't pay attention to safety should suffer. When was the last time you read a news story about a personal injury allegedly caused by a company or organization where a lawsuit by either an individual or a government agency wasn't involved?
Like us or not, if you want to stay safe, you need us.
Friday, March 1, 2013
The Sporting Life
Word that a lawsuit had been filed earlier this week in the aftermath of and incident in which three spectators were injured at the Daytona International Speedway in Florida got us thinking about sports and the law in general. Obviously the vehicle accident lawyer who took the NASCAR case is thinking about the specific legalities that can make the case for the victims, even as representatives of the racetrack will try and argue that the waiver disclaiming responsibility on the back of the ticket absolves them of all responsibility.
Still, there are questions beyond the interesting matter of how much responsibility the owner of a sports venue has for the safety of guests, even when the sport in question carries a small but definite inherent risk for viewers. As an attorney in Los Angeles, we don't hear about NASCAR every day, but football is the nation's sport.
As most readers will probably know, doctors, sports observers, and athletes, as well as personally injury lawyers, have been conducting a very forthright discussion of the dangers to athletes inherent in the game of football in particular. With evidence mounting that the repeated concussions football players suffer can have seriously destructive consequences in regards to both the physical and mental health of athletes, many people are wondering if the sport should even be allowed to continue without truly major alterations to the way the game is played on the professional, collegiate, and high school level.
Of course, as with the Daytona case, the people behind the big business of sports will have to balance the popularity of their current way of doing things against the costs they will be forced to pay out to compensate the victims. In the meantime, lawyers like everyone here at the Law Offices of Burg and Brock will be watching very carefully.
Still, there are questions beyond the interesting matter of how much responsibility the owner of a sports venue has for the safety of guests, even when the sport in question carries a small but definite inherent risk for viewers. As an attorney in Los Angeles, we don't hear about NASCAR every day, but football is the nation's sport.
As most readers will probably know, doctors, sports observers, and athletes, as well as personally injury lawyers, have been conducting a very forthright discussion of the dangers to athletes inherent in the game of football in particular. With evidence mounting that the repeated concussions football players suffer can have seriously destructive consequences in regards to both the physical and mental health of athletes, many people are wondering if the sport should even be allowed to continue without truly major alterations to the way the game is played on the professional, collegiate, and high school level.
Of course, as with the Daytona case, the people behind the big business of sports will have to balance the popularity of their current way of doing things against the costs they will be forced to pay out to compensate the victims. In the meantime, lawyers like everyone here at the Law Offices of Burg and Brock will be watching very carefully.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Preparedness is Key after a Car Accident
At the Law Offices of Burg & Brock, we've seen the difference that a well-documented case can make for personal injury claims after an accident. As a vehicle accident lawyer in Los Angeles, Cameron Yadidi Brock works on a contingency basis and doesn't get paid unless you win a settlement or positive verdict. He's netted a success rate of 97% as an attorney in Los Angeles, which is helped by the fact that he only takes on cases he believes he can win.
Documentation and information following an accident can definitely help this confidence. Here are some ways to strengthen your case around the time of the accident before even seeing one of Burg & Brock's personal injury lawyers in Los Angeles:
On a personal note, we're big proponents of emergency preparedness kits to keep in your car. Here's a sample list of items to keep as suggested by squawkfox.com with additions from its comments section:
Documentation and information following an accident can definitely help this confidence. Here are some ways to strengthen your case around the time of the accident before even seeing one of Burg & Brock's personal injury lawyers in Los Angeles:
- Locate witnesses and get their contact information. You never know what testimony could come in handy.
- Take as many pictures as possible. Up close, from far away, all vehicles involved.
- Don't make any verbal or written claims about fault or injuries at this time. You could be in shock or simply startled, so it isn't a good idea to go on the record about anything.
- Go to the doctor. This will get you the proper documentation about your injuries and will also prevent any injuries from getting worse. If taken on by Burg & Brock, we can help you front the cost of these visits until your settlement has ended.
On a personal note, we're big proponents of emergency preparedness kits to keep in your car. Here's a sample list of items to keep as suggested by squawkfox.com with additions from its comments section:
- Cell phone
- Disposable camera
- Pen and paper
- Medical information card and related information
- Emergency contact numbers
- First aid kit
- Small road cones, emergency flares
- Mylar blankets
- Candles or other source of light
- Snacks
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