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Man awarded $49M for brain damage in crash with truck
Man awarded $49M for brain damage in crash with truck A passenger who sustained traumatic brain injuries in a multi-vehicle crash while on his way to a camping trip was awarded $49 million. In 2007, Drew Bianchi, then a 21-year-old college student, was in a sedan on Route 152, [...]
Continue reading...San Jose Jury Recognizes the Severity of Traumatic Brain Injury
23. September 2009
September 21, 2009: San Francisco Traumatic Brain Injury, Trucking Accident: $49,123,375.87 Recognizing the staggering costs of healthcare associated with traumatic brain injury, a San Jose jury awarded Drew Dakota Bianchi $49,123,375.87 late Monday afternoon. The verdict followed a hotly contested five-week trial involving two truck drivers who collided on State Route 152 (Pacheco Pass), one of whom [...]
Continue reading...Call your Senators and urge them to vote for S. 252, The Veterans Health Care Authorization Act of 2009
30. July 2009
In the coming days the Senate will consider S. 252, the Veterans Health Care Authorization Act of 2009. Among the provisions of the bill, the legislation authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs(VA) to provide care to veterans with traumatic brain injury through contracts with non-VA providers when necessary. Call your Senators today to encourage passage of [...]
Continue reading...BIAA Submits Questions and Comments to Congressional Committees
19. February 2008
Also this week, both chambers of Congress held important hearings on efforts to improve health care for returning service members, as well as to improve the veterans’ disability benefits system. BIAA submitted questions and comments in relation to several of the hearings. The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on “Care for Sick and [...]
Continue reading...BIAA Signs on To Budget and Appropriations Letters
19. February 2008
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (Labor-HHS-Ed) held a hearing on Thursday on this year’s proposed budget for the Department of Health and Human Services, featuring HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt as a witness. At the same time, BIAA signed on this week to a coalition letter to the [...]
Continue reading...Woman pleads guilty to defrauding Paonia man, others
11. October 2006
Name : Katharhynn Heidelberg Daily Press News Editor DENVER — In a surprising move Friday, the woman the IRS says participated in one of the biggest prime banknote fraud schemes in Colorado changed her plea to guilty. Jannice McClain Schmidt, 69, had been indicted in 2004 for her role in a prime bank note scheme the IRS contends [...]
Continue reading...‘Trying to find happiness is harder’
6. October 2006
May 07,2006 ROSELEE PAPANDREA DAILY NEWS STAFF Greg Acosta was the kid who made everybody laugh. During his senior year at Jacksonville High School in 2005, he was voted class clown and most unforgettable in the yearbook.
Continue reading...Autopsy results show man killed by Taser
28. September 2006
Paul Roberts/Staff Writer Issue date: 4/26/06 Section: News The results of the autopsy of Juan Manuel Nunez III were released Tuesday stating his death was caused by “acute alcohol intoxication and concussive brain injury complicated by post traumatic apnea.”
Continue reading...Portsmouth woman indicted on murder charge in toddler’s death
22. September 2006
Name : JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE, The Virginian-Pilot PORTSMOUTH – A woman has been accused of murdering a 2-year-old boy she was caring for in October, when he suffered injuries that doctors suspected show abuse.
Continue reading...$1,248,024.00 – Mild traumatic brain injury, minor rear end automobile accident
4. September 2005
Recent Scarlett Law Group Victories: On July 7, 2005, in Rasmussen v. Shade, et al., SCV 14935, Placer County Superior Court, Lincoln Division, the jury reached it’s Verdict awarding Kim Rasmussen $1,248,024.00 as a result of injuries he sustained in a relatively minor rear end automobile accident occurring in Roseville, California.
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