When people hit their heads hard enough to cause damage to the brain, as in a Kentucky car crash, the injury often is not limited to the site of impact. The consistency of the brain has been compared to firm pudding, soft tofu, and soft…
We hear a lot of heated discussion about the prevalence of brain injuries in team sports that are characterized by physical contact, such as football, hockey, and even baseball. Turns out, though, that bicycle accidents result in almost as many head injuries as football and…
Blood thinners help reduce the likelihood of suffering from a heart attack or stroke by preventing blood clots. They can be important drugs that prevent patients from dying in the hospital. However, a recent study found that blood thinners might account for 7 percent of…
A recent article on TheState.com reports the following news about self-driving cars: Self-steering cars will be on the market by the end of 2013. Self-parking cars will be available soon after. Fully automatic cars, which require no human driver, are less than 10 years away…
There are several acronyms listed in your vehicle’s owner’s manual, and you may not know what all of them mean. If you plan to go on the road in Kentucky, towing a trailer, you’d better know your vehicle’s gross combined weight rating, or GCWR. What…
Kentucky statute defines wrongful death as follows: Whenever the death of a person results from an injury inflicted by the negligence or wrongful act of another, damages may be recovered for the death from the person who caused it, or whose agent or servant caused…