Indianapolis Personal Injury Law Blog

Drowsy driving is a serious problem throughout the country which can lead to many serious accidents, injuries and consequences for victims and their families.

As is always true following any motor vehicle accident, important legal resources are available to help injured victims with their damages.

Defective drug liability is important for victims of defective drugs to understand. It is important for injured victims and their families to understand liability for defective drugs which may offer some help to victims with their physical, financial and emotional damages that result.

Liability for defective drugs may exist when a drug company develops, manufactures, distributes or sells a prescription drug or other pharmaceutical that is unreasonably dangerous or defective. When a dangerous or defective drug results in injury or death to victims, drug companies may be liable to the victims and families that have suffered harm. In some circumstances, drug makers may be aware of potential dangers associated with their products.

Because of their heavy weight and high ground clearance, semitrailers can cause significant damage when they are involved in car crashes. Underriding accidents are one particularly devastating type of crash involving semitrailers. In this type of crash, a passenger vehicle ends up partially or completely under a semitrailer, which increases the likelihood of death or serious injuries to the occupants of the smaller vehicle.

How underriding occurs

Over half of underriding accidents involve a passenger vehicle going under the front of a semitrailer. This could happen if a truck driver is following too closely behind the car, if a car in front of the semitrailer slams on its breaks or if the brakes in the semitrailer fail.

Indiana's hospitals posting jaw-dropping numbers, study reveals
Several weeks ago, a concerned citizen sent me a financial summary of Indiana's not-for-profit hospitals. He asked that I look into the issue of excessive profits by these systems.

I was skeptical that the issue would be relevant. Profits are critical to an economy; they serve as a guide to pricing and investment decisions and reward the men and women who create value. The demonization of profits is a sure sign of unformed thought. Moreover, not-for-profit hospitals have explicitly chosen to forgo profits as part of their operations, so I doubted the financial summary would reveal anything important.

I was mistaken.

What I discovered will deeply anger every Hoosier and should embarrass most hospital administrators and board members. I also expect it to cause significant changes to state policy with respect to these hospitals. This is likely to change the way we tax them, regulate their competitors and enforce antitrust laws. It will surely lead to civil litigation involving billions of dollars of excess profits.