News & Case Studies

Fresenius Reaches $250 Million GranuFlo Settlement On February 22, 2016, it was announced that Fresenius Medical Care reached an agreement to set aside $250 million to settle claims stemming from their GranuFlo and Naturalyte dialysis concentrates. GranuFlo and NaturaLyte are medications used on dialysis patients undergoing treatment for kidney disease and renal failure during dialysis… Read More »$250 Million GranuFlo Settlement

Former Iberia Parish jail warden files ‘whistleblower’ suit The suit alleges firing due to complaints The former warden of the Iberia Parish Jail alleges he was fired last year for complaining about inmate beatings and reporting other wrongdoing by deputies that included theft and forgery. Wesley Hayes, who served as warden from December 2009 to… Read More »Warden Files Whistleblower Lawsuit

The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office (LPSO) has settled a wrongful death suit for $225,000 with the family of a man who died after spending 17 days in solitary confinement on a pair of misdemeanors his family claims he never was formally booked for. Filed by Burgess Injury & Car Accident Lawyers, the wrongful death suit… Read More »LPCC Settles Death Suit for $225K

Burgess Injury & Car Accident Lawyers settles brutality suit for $400K against Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office paid $400,000 to settle a federal brutality lawsuit for the 2014 alleged beating of an inmate. Jason Brungardt, 41, of Lafayette, filed the suit last year after he said two former deputies — Brandon… Read More »Burgess settles brutality suit $400K

Dialing While Driving, Deadly Distractions The next time you’re tempted to make a phone call while you’re behind the wheel, remember this. Dialing while driving increases the risk of a crash or near-crash more than any other sort of distraction. That’s one of the findings of a special report published in the New England Journal… Read More »Dialing And Driving, Deadly Distractions

What Shouldn’t I Say After a Car Accident? After a car accident, there are steps you must take to ensure your own safety (or anyone else) and, to properly document the accident for law enforcement and insurance reasons. There are also some things you should never, ever do after a wreck. Do not leave the… Read More »After a Car Accident

Even with the reduced visibility and traction that comes with wet weather driving, many accidents are preventable. Below we provide some recommendations on how to lessen some of the risks brought about by rainy weather driving. Rainy Weather Driving Safety Think. When conditions are bad, drivers have to be focused on what’s going on around… Read More »Rainy Weather Driving Safety

Meet Graham, the Crash Test Not-So Dummy, and the Only Human ‘Designed’ to Survive a Car Crash Created in a collaboration between an artist, a trauma surgeon, and a crash investigation expert, to build “an interactive lifelike sculpture … designed with bodily features that might be present in humans if they had evolved to withstand the… Read More »Meet Graham

Are You Taking Unsafe Prescription Drugs? Excuse us for peeking inside your medicine cabinet, but you may be taking unsafe medication. Many medications prescribed by doctors may be harmful to you and your family. Medications such as Estratest, used for hot flashes, or Hylira, a gel prescribed for dry skin, are examples of the thousands… Read More »Taking Unsafe Prescription Drugs?