If you’re in the market for a new car, truck or SUV, here are eight safety features the Ohio injury lawyers at Elk & Elk think you should consider before making your purchase.

If you’re looking to purchase a new or used car, you’ve probably already considered expense, but have you given any thought to which cars are the safest? Many vehicles are now equipped with safety gadgets designed to make driving less dangerous. You need to know which safety features to look for so you can find a vehicle that will help protect you and your loved ones.

Here are eight safety features the Ohio accident attorneys at Elk & Elk think you should consider before making your next car purchase (Adapted from State Farm Insurance and The Safety Report Magazine): (more…)

Most people don’t think it’ll ever happen to them, but medical malpractice is a real problem in the U.S. Learn why you need an Ohio malpractice attorney if you or a loved one is harmed by a medical error.

We trust our doctors, surgeons, nurses and other healthcare professionals to provide us with quality medical care. But more often than the medical malpractice lawyers at Elk & Elk would like to believe, serious medical errors occur in hospitals and doctors’ offices across the U.S., resulting in serious harm to hundreds of thousands of innocent patients.

Although you may think it’ll never happen to you, the reality is that medical mistakes kill as many as 98,000 hospital patients every year. While we hope you never need our services, if you or a loved one is affected by medical malpractice, you need to know who to turn to. (more…)

Ohio recently revised its child safety restraint law to better protect young passengers. Learn the new guidelines so you can help keep your children safe on the road.

Car crashes are the leading cause of death among children in Ohio. According to the American Automobile Association, about 89 children were killed and more than 21,000 were injured in car accidents in Ohio between 2002 and 2007.

Consequently, Ohio revised its child safety restraint law in 2009 to better protect children from serious injury and death on Ohio’s roadways. According to the research team at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, child restraints can reduce the risk of serious injury or death in a crash by nearly 70 percent.

If you ride with children, the Ohio car accident lawyers at Elk & Elk want to make sure you understand Ohio’s safety restraint law. Here’s what you need to know to help keep your young passengers safe: (more…)

The drug recall lawyers at Elk & Elk are investigating Plavix-related injury claims after a study revealed Plavix patients may suffer severe or fatal bleeding side effects.

Plavix is a popular blood-thinning drug designed to reduce the risk of blood clots after a heart attack or stroke. However, according to a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Plavix has been found to increase the risk of life-threatening internal bleeding in certain patients. The Ohio injury lawyers at Elk & Elk are now investigating claims for serious bleeding caused by Plavix.

The drug’s manufacturers, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis, are being criticized for failing to adequately warn consumers that Plavix may cause serious gastrointestinal side effects, especially when taken in combination with other medications, like Aspirin.  If you suffer the following symptoms while taking Plavix, you may be at risk. Contact the Ohio drug recall lawyers at Elk & Elk to learn if you have rights to compensation: (more…)

DePuy Orthopaedics says its decision to phase out ASR hip implants was a reflection of declining sales, not safety, despite the 5,000 lawsuits pending against the company.

In 2009, DePuy Orthopaedic’s ASR hip implant was turned down for approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after studies showed it failed prematurely, requiring secondary surgeries for many patients. DePuy Orthopaedics is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, the Ohio product defect lawyers at Elk & Elk explained.

In order to be approved by the FDA, a medical device must prove to be reasonably safe and effective. In DePuy’s case, it needed to prove that the hip implant was as effective as, or not inferior to, a traditional hip implant.

Yet, Johnson & Johnson insisted the all-metal hip device was safe and continued to be sold overseas. Meanwhile, The New York Times reported that “a companion version [of the hip] was used in 30,000 patients in the United States,” but was recalled in 2010 amid increasing failure rates. (more…)