Total Recall: The Complete Vehicle Recall and Defective Product Liability Forum
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…
Read MoreBoating Accidents and Recreation Accidents Liability
The spring season begins with tragedy as a rescue effort turns into a recovery effort in search of the body of Jeremy Cross, the first victim of 2016 lost to leisure boating accident. As Nashville gets geared up for another season of lake-bound boating, canoeing, paddle-boarding and waterside fun, The Rocky McElhaney Law Firm…
Read MoreSmyrna Head-On Collision Wreck Victim Writes Rocky McElhaney Law Firm a Moving 5-Star Review
Montoya Taylor knows tragedy well. She was one of six ladies who were in an SUV that was hit head-on by a drunk driver in Smyrna, Tennessee back in 2014. But she, nor her friends have let the tragedy of the wreck dictate their lives. Below is the honest and moving review that she wrote…
Read MoreTornadoes, Floods and Now Earthquakes in Tennessee? What You Should Know About the Probability of the Big One Along the Madrid Fault Line
We don’t take our job of helping people lightly. We are very grateful for all the notoriety we’ve received for our work as trial lawyers fighting for the fair compensation injury victims deserve. Part of our duty in being able to reach so many folks across Tennessee and the US is to keep them aware…
Read MoreAntioch Man Flees the Scene of Collision and Causes Another Fatal Collision on Bell Road
A man was charged in a ‘horrific’ 6-car fatal crash at a busy Antioch intersection after previously fleeing scene of another accident. A horrific crash yesterday evening in Antioch, Tennessee claimed the life of 66 year-old John Kurtz of Antioch and injured 6 others. Police said, 30 year-old John Hullett the driver of a…
Read MoreMourning Tennesseans Left with Questions About Tourist Attraction Safety After Pigeon Forge Helicopter Crash Kills Five
The sightseeing helicopter tour crash that took five lives on Monday afternoon in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee has been on everyone’s mind. Tuesday night, police released the names of the five young victims who were tragically killed. Passengers, Johna Morvant, 49, and her two children, Peyton, 22, and Parker Rasmussen, 18, were also on board along…
Read MoreTennessee Senate Says “No Guns Allowed” Signs Can Hurt People Too- and Businesses Who Post Them Will Be Held Responsible For Injury-Related Incidents
Guns, gun rights, gun safety, and really any discussion about the role of firearms in our society have become a bit of a “third rail” topic in recent years. While we here at Rocky McElhaney Law Firm will keep our personal stances and politics to ourselves, there is an important issue in the news right…
Read MoreCar-Seat and Booster Seat Law Changes To Make Make Kids Safer Behind the Wheel? House Majority Says "Not Now."
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…
Read MoreDepuy Metal-on-Metal Hip Implant Lawyers Talk History, Hype, and Help for Defective Hip Arthroplasty Victims
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. …
Read MoreHow a Case of Mistaken Identity Led to an Unnecessary Surgery – on a Baby
You read that right. The University Medical Center in Lebanon, Tennessee, performed an unnecessary surgical procedure on a newborn baby in December of 2015. The pediatrician performed a frenulectomy on Jennifer Melton’s son Nate when it should have been performed on another newborn child. The doctor admitted that he made a mistake to Ms. Melton,…
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