If you happened to be riding your motorcycle in El Cajon last Friday you might have been taken by surprise by stepped up police scrutiny of your activities. Authorities insist it was all for a good cause -- reducing the number of deaths and injuries due to negligence...
When stories about dog attacks hit the news, they almost always seem to involve pit bulls. The truth of the matter is that any dog can be vicious and the size of the animal doesn't much matter. Of course, the bigger the animal, the more serious the injury it is likely...
In the first part of this post, we began discussing the new transportation option that ride-sharing companies have opened up for Californians.We noted, however, that there are key liability issues for private cars associated with the new service that remain...
Ride-sharing has emerged as an important new way of getting many people in California from point A to point B.No longer are private cars, taxis and public transportation the only options. With network companies to arrange and handle payment for rides for...
Claims about the zeitgeist - the spirit of the times - are easy to overdo.After all, in a country like the U.S., with over 300 million people, there is arguably no single spirit or animating force that fully reflects the complexity of the culture.But if there were a...
Football isn't the only sport in which players are at risk of brain injuries.As we discussed most recently in our February 3 post, the evidence continues to accumulate that concussions and other head injuries suffered on the football field can have catastrophic...
One of the threads we’ve been following in this blog is the emerging research about the long-term effects of brain injuries.One of the most prominent places that this research is getting attention outside the scientific research community is in the ongoing story...
