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I am going to Los Angeles shortly and wanted to get some writing in first: The national average of people fatally injured by police pursuits per day — an alarming 368 last year. according to the federal Fatal Analysis Reporting System. It also reflects a lot of criminal activity in general.

In Philadelphia, two police officers have died and fifty-nine other people have been injured as a result of police pursuits this year. Charles H. Ramsey, Police Commissioner, has decided, instead of being in defense of this, that the department’s pursuit policy needs change and plans to do so next month.

Philadelphia’s original 1994 policy , allows pursuits to nab someone suspected of committing a violent felony, to apprehend someone with a deadly weapon who used or intends to use it, and to recover a stolen car -if the driver breaks traffic laws to elude arrest. California in general and Los Angeles in particular are among the leading areas for this kind of death. Of course part of the reason is the fact that most people drive in Los Angeles and the fact that there is a lot of criminal activity generally there, with all the gangs and so on. it is no defense, just an observation.
 
The new policy outlines that pursuits will be justifiable in only two cases: if it will potentially prevent someone’s death or serious injury; or if a pursuit is necessary to apprehend someone who committed, or attempted to commit, a violent felony or who possesses a deadly weapon. By the way if you need a  Los Angeles criminal defense attorney then you should give Ramiro Luis a call. He is a first rate Los Angeles criminal defense attorney and he also services other nearby localities..

Nationally, pursuit policies are being amended and changed to reflect a more stringent approach, with some police departments banning them altogether and others allowing officers to pursue only known violent criminal offenders.

Despite statements often made by police officers in defense of it, some (but not all) of the nation’s leading experts on police pursuits say that there are two deep-rooted myths that should be corrected:

“Police say: ‘If we don’t chase, everybody’s going to run.’ That’s just not true. Most people do stop,” said Geoffrey Alpert, a criminal-justice professor at the University of South Carolina who co-authored the book “Pursuit Driving: What We Know.”

I just got back from San Francisco so it is time to get writing once again. A one-month-old boy remains in critical condition at University Medical Center late Tuesday evening following a two-vehicle collision last week in which he was ejected from a car. Payden Martin was thrown through the back window of the vehicle in the Dec. 9 collision at Valley View and Main Street.

All in all, the infant has a severe head personal injury in this tragic case. Samaria Shumake, 16, was also ejected from the back seat of a black Chevrolet Cavalier at approximately12:20 p.m. in front of the Valley View Shopping Center. She was ater released from a hospital, the authorities said. By the way if you happen to live in either San Francisco or perhaps the greater Oakland-frisco area and you require a wonderful San Francisco personal injury lawyer then may I suggest the superb law offices of Steve brady. he is an elite level San Francisco personal injury lawyer and can help you with a wide array of different cases.

The car, driven by Tamaria R. Shumake, 20, collided with a 1998 Ford F-150 driven by Dustin R. Kilpatrick,. Shumake told authorities that she saw the oncoming truck but thought she had time to get across the five lanes.

The two were ejected from the car along with a child restraint seat which police officers found in the street, a police incident report said.Shumake said she didn’t have the base to the child seat in the car because the baby didn’t like it, the report said.

The accident remains under investigation, the police chief said. It should be interesting to see what other details come out in this rather shocking and disturbing personal injury related case.

In October, Samantha Houston told her mother that she was moving into a North Philadelphia house with Amin Payne. Trena Houston cautioned her daughter to be careful. She was concerned about Armin Payne’s reputation and arrests for shootings causing personal injury, robbery and drug use. Payne’s enemies soon discovered his new address, a two-story rowhouse in the 3300 block of Mutter Street.

A little after 5 a.m. Dec. 1, 2008, police said, two gunmen barged into the house where Samantha Houston, Payne, and their two boys were asleep. Firing into the bed, they caused serious personal injury to Payne, 20, the target of their attack, who escaped out a second-floor window.

Samantha Houston, 19, was fatally wounded and died less than an hour later. The couple’s eldest son was shot twice in the back.  The 3-year-old had apparently crawled into his parents’ bed during the night. Amir, their one year old, who was sleeping in a separate bed, did not suffer personal injury. The death and the severe injuries in this incident demonstrate the far reaching street violence that accounts for most of the nearly 2,000 shootings and 321 homicides recorded in Philadelphia so far this year. Although Samson, 3, survived, one of the bullets damaged his spinal cord. Doctors said he would likely spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. By the way if you require a good Philadelphia personal injury lawyer  then I suggest Mark S. Rosenberg. He can help you with quite an assortment of cases involving various injuries. In my opinion he is one of the better Philadelphia personal injury lawyer working in the land of Rocky balboa today.

The day after he was shot, Payne was arrested on outstanding warrants including a charge of aggravated assault for allegedly firing five shots into a woman’s house last December. He was also charged with attempted murder, robbery and assault. Payne is a real scumbag, in my personal opinion.

 A woman recently went to a dentist on the East Coast to have a tooth replaced with a permanent bridge ( no, not the Scaffolding kind). The dentist in question then told her that he could give her a “celebrity smile,” but then she claims that instead she recieved a “bite only a horse could love,”. 
The obviously agreed with her assessment since she was given som $194,000 in damages. She must have had a good Attorney. Of course, she will seriously need these funds since, even thought it was certainly an accident on the part of the dentist, she must now endure undergo two to five years of very costly and quite possibly tedious repair treatment just to get her smile back to normal. Incidentially this is a tad off-topic yet if you need a leading Scaffolding Accident Attorney then may I put a plug in for the elite Law offices of Geller & Siegal, based in Manhatten.
They can certainly be of help with a number of general construction as well as other Scaffolding Accident Attorney concerns. Now back to the story at hand:
Meanwhile, in a rather shocking and unfortunate New Jersey medical malpractice case, which was somewhat similiar to a the other case, a man was awarded damages of nearly three million bucks in a lawsuit in which he claimed that he underwent surgery to repair a badly damamged Achilles tendon from an accident and instead ended up with very serious brain damage. An article posted on WEBWIRE, on Dec. 4, 2008, described the argument made by an attorney on behalf of this poor man. It basically asserted that the brain damage in question was actually due to the attending anesthesiologist’s failure to correct a change in the man’s vital signs during several critical  minutes as
his oxygen saturation levels sharply decreased, and this created serious respiratory arrest and brain damage to the 44 year-old defendent. Again, it may have indeed been an innocent accident, and probably was no more than that, but nonetheless the consequences for him are indeed dire.
This particular patient, who had worked as CFO for a health care system, claims that he is now unemployable due to his problems with short-term memory as well as communication skills.  A good case to get an Attorney.

In some interesting news coming out of Chicago, a former Illinois construction worker filed a personal injury lawsuit against several defendant companies for injuries he suffered in a work accident. According to the lawsuit, Thomas Capstick was working on a construction project in Madison County Dec. 22, 2006, when the scaffolding he was standing on collapsed. Mr. Capstick reports suffering a traumatic, disabling spinal personal injury in the construction accident.

Capstick names several companies as the defendants responsible in the personal injury lawsuit, including: Elite Contracting, Dayton Superior Corporation, ITW Red Head, OK Fasteners, and Keller Construction. Capstick argues that the defendants are liable for his injuries and is seeking  sums in excess of $500,000 for his losses. By the way if you happen to reside in the Chicago area and need a leading Chicago personal injury attorney then please try John Buden. He can assist you with a plethera of cases that are related to accidents and is an awesome Chicago personal injury attorney in my personal opinion. In other midwest legal news,

A lawsuit filed in Lake County, Indiana claims the Catholic Church failed to report to law enforcement a priest who had been accused of child molestation. His only discipline involved transferring him to different parishes.

Adding insult to injury, the suit claims that in 2003-04 Richard A. Emerson repeatedly abused a then-11-year-old boy at St. Thomas More parish in Munster, Ind. The boy is now 16. It is easy to see why they went and retained an attorney

The boy’s attorneys state that they are in possession of a copy of a letter from Gary (Ind.)  Bishop Dale Melczek to Pope Benedict outlining why Emerson should be defrocked. The letter shows that the church knew of Emerson’s alleged crimes since as early as 1992, but refused to warn police, parishioners or the public, as stated in the release.  I am sure his actions caused considerable psychic personal injury.

According to the suit, Emerson worked at several parishes including East Chicago, Hammond, LaPorte, Michigan City and the former Hoosier Boys Town in Schererville. 

While some experts are predicting a sharp dip in the Hawaii commercial real estate market for 2009,
last year was really a surprisingly good year for some sectors of commercial real estate.
As a whole, commercial real estate encompasses offices, industrial as well as various retail outlets.
Last year saw some significant new developments which gave a spark to the state commercial sector,
although some local markets, such as Kauai real estate in Kauai county had at least one major project canceled which does not bode well for the current year.
While most of the large downtown city properties (such as malls) are doing fine at this point in time,
those particular properties which are not in premium areas are suffering. This may be why relative backwaters such as the Big Island and Kauai real estate are suffering while Honolulu is healthy.
 As the cliche goes, location is everything in real estate. Of course a big issue is the overall gloomy economic outlook, and particularly the financial sector meltdown which has created a crippling credit market crunch of sorts, sadly enouph for both buyers and sellers.
All in all, as long as the credit markets remain tight, I think that the experts  are justified in their pessimism. For instance, if a person wanted to open up a business in say, Lihue, Kauai, yet was unable to secure an adequate credit line, then that individual could obviously not get the required inventory and would not stay open long. That is the reason that it is apparent that the commercial space is very likely to stay vacant for a while, regardless if ist is Mauai, Molokai, Lanai or Kauai real estate we are talking about. So the clear forecast is for an additional slowing down of the commercial real estate market in Hawaii this year. However, if you are looking to purchase commercial real estate it is a great time, particularly if you can secure your own funding source independent of the mainstream financial sector.

On December 1^st, the Pilgrims Pride Corporation voluntarily filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy for relief under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. They posted a notice on their website informing their partners and customers of the filing and that they would not be going out of business but will rebuild it after the restructuring process.  Their situation looks somewhat similiar to that of Washington Mutual.

Pilgrims Pride and their subsidiaries made the announcement stating that they were addressing short-term challenges in the operational area and with the liquidity problems of the company. They state they have been plagued with increasingly high costs of chicken feed and an over abundant supply of chickens. They also make reference to a weakening market price and lessening demand for chicken as being part of the problem. Perhaps Bankruptcy is a better option than trying to get funds from Washington as so many others did.

According to the company president and Chief Executive officer, Clint Rivers, “After careful consideration of all available alternatives, the Company’s Board of Directors determined that a Chapter 11 filing was a necessary and prudent step and the best way to obtain the financing necessary to maintain regular operations and allow for a successful restructuring.”  And if you live in Washington and need to find out about washington bankruptcy laws then might I suggest Jason Newcombe as he is one of the top washington  bankruptcy laws specialists out there and can help you with many cases. He is sevices Seattle and greater Puget Sound/Washington/ area.

The Bankruptcy was filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Northern District of Texas. Pilgrims Pride is being represented by Stephen A. Youngman of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Some operations in the United States and those in Mexico are not included in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.