Michigan Personal Injury Law Blog

A Michigan State University study indicates that concussions suffered by young athletes, especially young women, may be more serious than those sustained by older male players. The report concluded that brain injury symptoms were more pronounced and recovery times were longer for females or high-school age athletes than males and college-level athletes.

Over 1.6 million Americans suffer concussions related to sports every year. Among patients are an increasing number of student athletes.

The death of loved ones is difficult enough when they pass away peacefully. It is especially hard for a family to endure the death of someone they love in a violent or fatal accident. Sometimes the only solace for survivors is the knowledge of how and why a relative's death occurred.

Investigators gather evidence and talk with witnesses to determine what happened. Courts help determine whether negligence plays a part. The effort to explain through facts what happened during an accident and the legal process to bring a careless driver to justice help family members understand and process these awful events.

Michigan has always been an industrial state. With access to all the shipping of the Great Lakes and a hardworking population, the automobile industrial and other heavy manufacturers and industry have located themselves in Michigan. These industrial jobs have also traditionally been good jobs for the people of Michigan. One of the causes of the economic distress in Michigan has been the loss of jus this type of well paying job. One reason that these jobs typically paid so well was because they involved working with heavy and dangerous materials and machinery. The potential for a serious industrial injury or workplace accident has always been present.

Today, the Detroit Free Press reported that a worker at an axle manufacturing facility was seriously injured when a hydraulic forge press exploded. The man working on the press at the time suffered severe burns in the blast, according to a supervisor at the plant. The injured machine worker was taken by helicopter to Detroit Receiving Hospital. The local sheriff's office reports that Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Act officials are investigating the accident.

A football mom didn't know about concussions when her football-player son suffered one in high school football. After the concussion incident her son sustained, she acted as if nothing major happened and had her son do his homework and sent him to school the next morning. Until her son suffered from a concussion, and after a subsequent amount of research on them, she did not know how many students actually suffered from concussions. Like most people, she only attributed it to professional sports, according to the director of the Neurotrauma Research Laboratory.

The mom heard about studies that the director was doing, so she helped him get in touch with her son's high school administrators. They agreed to participate in the director's studies. The students at her son's high school are now part of the director's studies, which measure not only times a player is hit, but the location, magnitude and other statistics about the hit.