Cleveland Personal Injury Law Blog

One common reason why families place their loved ones in nursing homes is for their own protection. Elderly parents may become forgetful or confused. They may be unable to cook for themselves, forget to take their medicine or neglect their own hygiene. Your parents may fit this description. Additionally, many older parents become unsteady and require the kind of attention and care you cannot provide because of your own obligations.

If you chose an Ohio nursing facility after your loved one suffered injuries in a fall at home, you may have been shocked to see injuries on your parent from a fall after you moved him or her to the nursing home. Falls that result in a bruise or bump at a younger age can be devastating to older individuals, and nursing homes have an important duty to protect your parent from such falls.

Anyone in Ohio or elsewhere in the country working around animals faces certain inherent dangers that could result in serious or fatal personal injuries. This is exactly what happened to a 22-year-old intern in North Carolina. The woman was cleaning an animal enclosure at a zoo when the incident occurred. According to a statement by the zoo, lions were somehow allowed to get out of a locked space and into the area where the routine cleaning was taking place. It was one of these lions that attacked and fatally injured the worker.

It's unclear if any wrongful death litigation will result from the incident. However, the lion involved with the attack was shot and killed by sheriff's deputies. Zoo officials plan to investigate the incident to determine how the lions were able to escape their enclosure and get into the area where they were in direct contact with humans. The zoo remains closed until further notice pending results from the investigation.

A drunk driver injured herself and left a young couple dead -- and six children without their mother and father in Akron, Ohio -- after a crash in a residential area of the city.

The drunk driver, a 26-year-old woman, was heading east on Lindsay Ave. at a high speed and failed to stop at a stop sign. She rammed an oncoming car with such force that it sent both cars off the road and over the curb. The car she hit traveled some distance from the point of impact, and both the passenger and driver of that vehicle were ejected.

The Ohio Highway Patrol is urging the state's drivers to slow down and stay alert in construction zones.

Just recently, a 24-year-old construction worker was killed while working on US-33 while repairing a damaged guardrail. Charges have yet to be filed in that incident because investigators are still working out exactly what happened. A semitruck struck the woman and kept driving, but investigators haven't yet determined if a crime was committed. Leaving the scene of an accident is a crime in its own right, but it isn't entirely clear if the driver even realized he'd struck the young woman.