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• Christopher Robin Gould Killed. His Family Should File These Claims:

  Ward Merdes | July 23, 2008 4:39 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Chris Gould killed by Front-End Loader. Investigation is warranted ASAP.

• 5 Car Mash-Up Kills One and Injures Two on Seward Highway Near Girdwood

  James Cool | December 31, 2008 7:01 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  The Anchorage Daily News reports that a five-car accident on the Seward Highway took one life and left at least two others seriously injured. The paper reports that the accident occurred when...

• 87 Year Old Alaskan Woman Killed in Two-Car Accident on Sterling Highway

  James Cool | November 25, 2008 9:25 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Soldotna, Alaska—KTTU News Alaska reports that 87 year old Mary Hunter was killed in a two-car collision on Alaska’s Sterling Highway outside Soldotna on Tuesday, November 11, 2008....

• I Was Hurt In An Accident...Who Pays My Medical Bills?

  James Cool | April 09, 2009 3:04 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  If you were hurt in an accident, get immediate medical care. Do not delay receiving medical care until your insurance claim is settled. In fact, many insurance companies will ask that you...

• What's "Negligence"? [Hint: It's Just Being Stupid]

  Ward Merdes | April 05, 2009 1:59 AM | 4 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  For the last 20+ years, I've been a personal injury attorney in Alaska. My phone rings every day with people who have had bad things happen to them. Nobody wants to call me. They only call me when...

• Alaska Helicopter Crash Killes 3, injures 14 year old boy

  Ward Merdes | April 17, 2008 1:42 PM | 4 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  It was reported today that a helicopter crash off the Glenn Highway killed Michael Seward, 37, of Palmer; Thomas Middleton, 46, of Anchorage; Joseph O'Donnell, 48, of Girdwood; and Benoit Pin, a...

• Cox Crossed The Center-Line, Killing Honeycutt & Injuring Aliment

  Ward Merdes | August 26, 2007 3:55 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Cox crossed the center line. Honeycutt & Harlan Aliment need to contact an attorney now.Updated reports from the Alaska State Troopers show that Dan Cox, 64, of Eagle River, was driving a red pickup truck northbound with Harlan Aliment of Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, when his vehicle crossed the center line of the highway and collided with the front end of Honeycutt's white van. Honeycutt was...

• Avandia and Actos Linked to Heart Failure

  Ward Merdes | July 30, 2007 11:55 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Hundreds of thousands of mostly overweight people are taking Avandia and Actos. They just learned that it is linked to heart failure. Can you think of a worse group of people to risk heart failure?The drugs are prescribed by doctors for type II diabetes. Their use has doubled in the past three years as a consequence of a growing obesity problem. In 2006, 1.8m prescriptions were written across...

• Alaska Rollover Kills 3, injures 2. Alcohol Involved. Here's the Tort Law...

  Ward Merdes | July 08, 2008 2:18 PM | 2 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Alaskan Roll-Over Auto Crash Kills 3 and injures 2. Here is the Alaskan law the occupants need to know...

• Medical Malpractice Awareness Needed

  Staff Writer | March 17, 2006 9:14 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Fellow blogger David Lowe points out that the Association of Trial Lawyers of America was campaining last week to bring attention the death toll from medical errors in America's hospitals. National Patient Safety Awareness Week spread the word that "Congress Should Protect Patients, Not Those Guilty of Medical Negligence."David also directs his readers to a fact sheet provided by the National...