You may have heard about Hunter Garstin's story on the news. On December 7, 2013, Hunter suffered a paralyzing spinal cord injury during a high school wrestling meet. When the high school's insurance company denied Hunter's claim, his mom called Rocky to step in and fight for her son. Rocky and his team worked tirelessly [...]
“My investigations reveal this is a pretty dirty trucking company,” said Rocky McElhaney, Lead Attorney and Owner at Rocky McElhaney Law Firm. On April 28, 2016, Spirit Truck Lines’ careless and rule-breaking driver senselessly took the life of 65 year-old TDOT worker David Younger, and injured three other TDOT workers. Before this incident, the Texas [...]
A Tribute to Rocky McElhaney Law Firm Executive Director, Dena Gibson, a 2016 Association of Legal Administrators Inductee Our leaders aren’t just on the front lines and in the courtroom fighting for justice against insurance companies and big corporations. They’re not always the ones who get those tearful hugs from our clients when the Judge [...]
The Schultz family had to endure one of the worst things in life: losing their child. In 2014, their son Tyler Schultz, 24, and two others were killed in a catastrophic wreck near the Center Point Road Exit on Vietnam Veterans Parkway in Hendersonville. The case was very complicated and more emotionally taxing than most [...]
Last November, the US Food & Drug Administration convened a panel of experts to hear evidence regarding the dangers of fluoroquinolones, a group of antibiotics. The meeting came on the heels of a safety review of the drugs, which revealed that fluoroquinolones could cause severe and potentially permanent damage to muscles, tendons, joints, nerves, and [...]
On April 9, 2016, two people were killed and five others injured in a single vehicle crash that happened around 10pm on Interstate 40 West near mile marker 238 in Lebanon, Tennessee. A Chevrolet Suburban carrying the 6 passengers along with the driver were traveling westbound when the vehicle lost control and rolled, coming to [...]
The 411 on where to find vehicle recall information and what to do if you’ve been injured by a recalled or defective vehicle The numbers for 2015 aren’t finished being tallied yet but in 2014, carmakers issued a record 803 recalls, effecting approximately 64-million vehicles. That’s one in every four vehicles on the road. With [...]
In the race for the most amazing group of folks to ever work at a personal injury law firm, we asked our teammates the tough questions. In a few words, we wanted to know what it was that made them the best at their job as a paralegal at Rocky McElhaney Law Firm, and why [...]
In early March, House Bill 1468 aiming to make Tennessee’s child passenger restraint laws more stringent, passed in the Senate unanimously and in the House with a 68-19 vote. It was nearly signed by Governor Haslam until it got wait-listed on Tuesday, March 22 in the State House Transportation Committee over the unclear language concerning [...]
The first total hip replacement was established in the 1930’s by Orthopedic Surgeon, Phillip Wiles, of the Middlesex Hospital. Prior to this, prosthetic replacement surgery was of the hemi-arthroplasty type with only one arthritic surface being replaced and the results were unsatisfactory. This is the first replacement which replaced the socket and the femoral component. [...]
