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To counter Ford’s defenses, plaintiffs’ engineering expert performed five dynamic sled tests using a 1990 Tempo body and front and rear seats, with adult dummies in the front seats and six-year-old dummies in the rear seats. The testing demonstrated that the Tempo front seat would fracture and fail with a 112- pound female dummy in the front seat during a 15 mph change in velocity rear impact. The testing further revealed a severe risk of injury to children seated in the rear seat during any rear impact with a change in velocity of 15 to 30 mph. The testing showed that a |
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Before trial a §§ 537.060 and 537.065 R.S.Mo. settlement agreement was reached with the driver, Hupman, and his employer, Kansas City Motorcycle Escort. After a three-week trial and just prior to closing arguments, the Canfield family reached a confidential settlement with Ford. |
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While safety experts and the automobile manufacturers all recommend that young children be placed in the rear seats, most parents do not know that the front seats are purportedly “designed to yield” in a manner that places their children at a high risk of serious injury or death in routine rear impact collisions from front seatback failures. Seatback failure is a serious automobile safety concern that should be addressed by the automobile manufacturers or by NHTSA through significant improvements to the seat strength requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 301. |
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Wichita Kansas Physician’s Failure To Provide
Hypertension Treatment Results In Stroke |
If untreated, hypertension, or high
blood pressure, can lead to cerebral
vascular accidents, most commonly,
stroke. John Parisi represented a 47- year-old man, whose family practice physician failed to provide adequate treatment for his long term, uncontrolled high blood pressure. |
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Despite having high blood pressure readings over a number of years during his office visits, the Wichita, Kansas physician failed to prescribe blood pressure medication to lower his blood pressure. As a consequence of untreated high blood pressure, in April of 2001 our client sustained a severe ponteen |
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stroke, rendering him completely disabled, with disabling right sided weakness, difficulty with ambulation and significant impairment to his vision.
The relationship between increased
blood pressure and increased risk of
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*From The Joint National
Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and
Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7) “Seventh Report.”
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