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- Unknown and known in tractor-trailer crashes
Nov 14, 2015
The coverage of the recent crash involving a tractor-trailer and a pick-up was scant. Just one Pennsylvania TV station covered the deadly collision and its report lasted just a few seconds. Media interest in these violent events is limited, though a few familiar details emerged in this case. The driver of the pick-up died in the early morning crash, trapped inside what remained of his mangled vehicle. He was 66 years old. The brief video...Read More - More than 2,000 patients exposed to Hepatitis C at Davis Hospital and Medical Center in Utah
Nov 13, 2015
Our firm is now reviewing cases for those who may have been exposed to Hepatitis C while being treated at Davis Hospital and Medical Center. The current investigation into how a patient at McKay-Dee Hospital became infected with the Hepatitis C virus has now widened its gaze to a second hospital. Layton, Utah's Davis Hospital and Medical Center, just a few miles south of Ogden, Utah-based McKay-Dee Hospital, is sending notices to 2369 patients to...Read More - Work-related illness claims more difficult than injury claims
Nov 12, 2015
Workers' compensation was set up during a time when most work injuries were trauma-related. Today, deaths from occupational illness far outnumber deaths from work injuries. But the system often fails workers who become ill at work because of acute or chronic exposure to a toxin or other dangerous work condition. Part of the problem is that the nature of illness related to toxic exposure doesn't always cooperate with regulations governing workers' compensation claims. An exposure-related...Read More - Nearly 5000 Utah hospital patients at McKay-Dee may have been exposed to Hepatitis C
Nov 10, 2015
In a recent interview, ABC news reported that one of the five thousand, a high school senior in Utah, and his mother are extremely fearful pending the results of his Hepatitis C test. The test was administered after the young man became aware through a letter that a nurse at the hospital had been diverting a type of morphine for her own personal use that was meant to be disposed. The crimes occurred at McKay-Dee...Read More - Insurers sometimes stonewall large retailers, too
Nov 1, 2015
Individuals aren't the only ones who have trouble getting insurance companies to pay after an accident. The retail giant Walmart recently sued two of its insurers–Liberty Insurance Underwriters and Ohio Casualty Insurance– for breach of contract and bad faith after the two insurers declined to pay their share for the settlement to Tracy Morgan following last summer's accident. The crash seriously injured Morgan and killed fellow comedian James McNair when sleep-deprived Walmart truck driver Kevin...Read More - Vehicles’ center of gravity and mass play a role in accidents
Oct 30, 2015
One person is dead and eighteen are injured after a bus carrying the Lehigh University rowing team collided with a car on Route 22 in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania. None of the students was seriously injured; the driver of the car was pronounced dead about an hour after the crash. It is remarkable that the accident only seems to have caused minor injuries for the people on the bus. That’s because the bus rolled over. Our...Read More - Mercer County $2.2 million car accident verdict awarded
Oct 26, 2015
The Pittsburgh car accident attorneys at Dallas W. Hartman, P.C. have reached a verdict of $2,200,000.00 for a Mercer County woman injured in a car accident. On Friday, October 23, 2015, a Mercer County Court of Common Pleas entered a jury verdict that awarded the seventy-five-year-old victim of a 2009 car accident $2.2 million. In 2009, a Stoneboro, Pennsylvania woman was driving south on State Route 173 between Grove City and Mercer, Pennsylvania. At that time,...Read More - Dreams of crumpled metal, shattered glass and pain
Oct 21, 2015
At one point or another, all of us have had a bad dream. Some are pretty common, including a dream in which you're in school and the teacher is about to test the class on a subject you have not studied. Other common dreams include visions of falling, being chased, flying and showing up to work or school in your birthday suit. People who have been in serious car accidents sometimes have nightmares for months...Read More - Dallas Hartman scholarship recipients from Penn State Shenango recognized
Oct 14, 2015
Among many other things-such as being a father, husband, and dedicated attorney-Dallas Hartman is also a philanthropist. Attorney Dallas Hartman has set up three different scholarships-one for him and his wife: the Dallas and Kristina Hartman Trustee Scholarship, one for his firm: the Dallas W. Hartman P.C. Attorneys at Law Trustee Scholarship, and one on behalf of himself: the Dallas W. Hartman P.C. Trustee Scholarship. Each year in the fall, Penn State Shenango hosts the...Read More - Pedestrian accident victim dies 50 years later of severe injuries
Sep 3, 2015
Most of our readers were not yet born when an 8-year-old Pennsylvania boy was hit by a car on July 8, 1965. The day after the pedestrian accident, the Allentown newspaper reported that the boy hospitalized in critical condition had suffered broken legs, cuts and bruises — as well as massive head injuries. The severe brain trauma he suffered that day resulted in quadriplegia for the boy. Fifty years later, he was still being treated...Read More