Marysville Civil Litigation Blog

Many retired professional football players face continuing huge medical bills for injuries and serious medical conditions that are a product of the bruising time they spent on the playing field. Many believe that such expenses should be covered by workers compensation or other insurance programs. Many injured or ill former players feel abandoned by their former teams, however.

In one instance, a former NFL player has had no fewer than 24 separate corrective surgical procedures on his knees, and despite it all, still has to use a crutch when he walks. His leg, he feels, is an unsightly mess, and one leg is three inches shorter than the other.

A truck accident in Salt Creek Township in Wayne County, Ohio, resulted in serious injuries to a 5-year-old Amish boy. The child was a passenger in a two-seat, open-style buggy, which had a sign displayed that identified it as a “slow-moving vehicle.” At approximately 11:10 a.m., a 1998 GMC pickup truck, struck the buggy and forced it off the road. The truck then continued into another lane, hitting a 2009 Lincoln MKZ driven by a 43-year-old woman, also forcing that vehicle to leave the road.

The woman, the 5-year-old boy, and a 9-year-old child riding in the buggy, were all injured and treated at the scene of the crash by emergency medical personnel. The buggy driver, who is the father of the two children, was not injured. His younger son was rushed to a nearby hospital, but was later transferred by helicopter to another hospital in Akron.

Ohio prosecutors recently went to court to drop assault charges against a man they had previously accused of attacking the 18-year--old daughter of a murdered New Franklin, Ohio, couple, admitting that the charges were false. They followed that up, however, by hurling new accusations and charges -- for both assault of the daughter and murder of the couple -- against an 18-year-old man. Despite the prosecution's track record of getting the wrong man, a judge imposed a severe and draconian $2 million bail on the newly accused defendant.

While bail is supposed to merely guarantee a defendant's appearance at trial, and while those charged with a crime are presumed innocent under the U.S. Constitution, high bails are often used to keep poor, young and minority defendants incarcerated for months or even years pending trial. In this case, the defendant is a young African-American man.

A 74-year-old Ohio woman spent over a week in the care of a hospital after she was attacked by a group of dogs, sustaining a number of serious injuries. The woman has since returned to her home, but is still recovering with an infected leg, countless scratches and lesions on her arms and a severe scalp wound that doctors had to staple shut. Although acknowledging that the attack left her with "lots of hospital bills" that her insurance policy will not fully cover, she is apparently choosing not to pursue civil litigation against the animals' owner.

The woman says she was walking in her neighborhood on March 10 when she heard a group of dogs barking; shortly after she was attacked by an unknown number of the animals. The victim said she attempted to protect herself with pepper spray, but the tactic failed and the dogs began to repeatedly bite and scratch her, leaving deep gashes and ripping off a large patch of skin from her leg. She said she screamed until finally a neighbor came. The woman was transported to a hospital via helicopter and admitted to its Intensive Care Unit.