Posts by Crandall & Pera Law, LLC

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is a dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacterium than can lead to a number of serious, even deadly complications. Like c. diff, MRSA is often contracted by patients in hospitals, and is therefore commonly referred to as a hospital acquired infection, or HAI. A MRSA infection is a staph infection; staph is usually found…

Epidural steroid injections are used mostly to help people manage chronic pain. They are also used to help a woman in labor manage the pains associated with giving birth. Generally speaking, a doctor injects a steroid into the epidural space next to your spinal cord, and the steroids ease the inflammation of the nerve roots,…

If someone were to ask me, what is the statute of limitations for malpractice case in Kentucky, what I would tell them is that they have one year from the date that they reasonably should have known that the injury they suffered was due to a medical care provider’s negligence. Now a good example of…

The BMX world reeled in early February when news broke that Dave Mirra, a legend in the sport, was dead of an apparent suicide. Reports surfaced that Mirra had struggled with depression following his retirement in 2011; family and friends said that Mirra was an “adrenaline junkie” who struggled to find a replacement for the…

When the Zika virus starting making headlines in Brazil, the scientific community was skeptical that a mosquito-borne virus could be the cause of a rash of birth defects. As the evidence continued to mount, reality could no longer be ignored; Zika was a problem, and otherwise healthy pregnant women were giving birth to infants suffering…

There have been a number of articles online over the last couple of years that talk about self-driving cars. About a year ago, in May 2015, Google told us that their self-driving cars had driven 1.7 million miles, and only been involved in 11 auto accidents. If it is true that at least eight people…

Kentucky does a lot of things well; keeping deadly infections from spreading throughout their hospitals is not, sadly, one of those things. There is a lot of documentation out there about the generally low scores that Kentucky hospitals, and Louisville hospitals in general, receive when it comes to preventing infections like MRSA (a staph infection…

We are a country of victim blamers. Brock Turner’s father. Gamergate. The mental health crisis (or the gun industry, depending on whom you ask). Media pundits and bloggers and politicians and writers and artists and anyone else you ask will say that victim blaming is despicable – to which we reply, “The lady doth protest…

Following emergency authorization from the Federal Highway Administration, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has banned oversized trucks from traveling on Ky. 151, the two-lane highway in Anderson and Franklin Counties. Commercial vehicles often use the shortcut between I-64 and US 127 to disastrous effect; large trucks are involved in accidents on the road more than six…

Many people believe that a truck crash case is the same as a car crash case, but this simply isn’t true. There are separate laws and regulations that apply to truck drivers and trucking companies. For instance, truck drivers are only allowed to be on the road for a certain period of time. And they’re…