Minnesota And Wisconsin Personal Injury And Safety Blog

Needing medication can be difficult and stressful. The right medication can relieve your symptoms and, in some cases, improve your quality of life. The wrong medication can make your condition much worse.

A medication error occurs when a preventable event causes you to receive the wrong medication. Depending on what your medical situation is, you may have several people on your medical team. Your medical team relies on clear communication and documentation to ensure you receive the correct treatments, but sometimes, members of the team fail.

Many elements can contribute to medical mistakes. Between long hours, miscommunications and individual complexities, there are many opportunities for a medical team to make mistakes.

Unfortunately, some are better than others at accepting responsibility for their mistakes. Hospitals and their personnel often worry about their reputation more than reporting an error.

This is what you need to know about a hospital's obligation to report errors.

Whether it is for something small or a significant part in a vehicle, you have likely gotten a recall notice about a vehicle at some point in your life. The little postcards and seemingly anonymous letters are easy to dismiss.

When you are the one injured by a recalled vehicle, however, those notifications feel more significant. Unfortunately, owners often ignore recall notices and continue driving vehicles that are in desperate need of repair.

Here's what you need to know about your personal injury claim if your car accident involved a recalled vehicle.

Regardless of what they are hauling, semi-trucks can pose severe threats to the other drivers on the road. Even empty, semis are heavy and awkward and can do substantial damage in a collision.

Driving a semi requires focus and attention to detail. Large trucks can be challenging to handle and slow to maneuver. It is crucial that truck drivers are alert enough to focus on everything that is happening on the road.

Here are three things to know about why drivers are so tired, and the rules meant to protect everyone on the road.