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Birth injuries occur in approximately 7 out of every 1000 births. The most common injuries are neurologic – they involve the brain or nervous system. Many are preventable; they occur because medical mistakes are made.

You are driving on the freeway, minding your own business and paying attention to traffic conditions. When the cars in front of you begin to slow, so do you. Unfortunately, the man in the car behind you, who has been following too closely and is talking on a cell phone, isn’t paying attention and hits you from behind.

There are more than 60 million pet dogs in the United States. Each year, more than 800,000 people, half of them children, seek medical attention for dog bites and about a dozen die from the attack, most of them children.

The Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Charities (L.A. T.L.C.) made its last donation of the year to the Venice Family Clinic, which provides primary health care services to homeless men, women, and children during approximately 16,000 patient visits per year.

Dentists routinely pull wisdom teeth without telling patients about the risk of serious injury if the procedure is not done carefully, especially to the lingual nerve.

Los Angeles Trial Lawyers’ Charities reached out to help at St. Anne’s Maternity Home last week. On December 13, 2006, personal injury attorneys donned aprons, served up holiday dinner and donated $5,000 to this worthy charity.

The family of a woman, who was hit by a car in a crosswalk and who died after her condition was misdiagnosed, will have the opportunity to ask a jury to award compensation for their loss, thanks to a successful appeal by personal injury lawyer, Todd J. Bloomfield.