Posts by Crandall & Pera Law, LLC

Ohio is ranked 45th in the nation for infant mortality. The only states that ranked worse included Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas and West Virginia. That shouldn’t make anyone feel better, however. Ohio is a first-rate state in first-world country, but ranks behind Russia, Serbia and Cuba in infant mortality. Clearly, something is very wrong. The…

March 20th marked the first day of spring, and while the weather may not have acted accordingly, warmer weather is officially on the way. Everyone is itching to get outside and get moving; there are leaves to rake and lawns to mow, bicycles to pull out of the garage, and work to do before we…

On January 27, 2014, Douglas Balder, a State Trooper in Illinois, was helping a stalled big-rig on the Ronald Regan Memorial Tolloway. His car was hit by a tractor-trailer whose driver was falling asleep behind the wheel. This is how the Huffington Post described the result of the crash: “The impact crushed the [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes”…

When the average person hears the word “traumatic,” he or she probably conjures up images of devastating injuries – the kinds of injuries that lead to a lifetime on a ventilator, or early onset dementia. In the worst-case scenarios, this can absolutely happen. But many people who suffer what is deemed a mild traumatic brain…

Bill Mullins, the second-generation owner of Mullins Rubber Products in the Riverside suburb of Dayton, is no stranger to the Environmental Protection Agency. In 2004, Mullins and his company paid a total of $500,000 in fines for violating the Clean Air Act; the fines were assessed after Mullins pled guilty to misreporting air pollution from…

Our nation’s infrastructure is in a serious state of disrepair, but fixing our roads and highways incurs costs to drivers above and beyond the taxes they pay. As our population grows, more and more cars are driving on highways and bridges that were never designed to handle such volume. New construction projects to address the…

Kentucky State Police responded to a three-vehicle crash in Bell County on the afternoon of March 24. The scene was pure chaos; an overturned pickup truck was leaking gas on to the roadway, a short distance from a nearly unrecognizable Nissan Maxima and a driverless 18-wheeler. A passerby was helping to extricate three adults and…

An 18-wheeler leaving Truck World in Hubbard closed the I-80/Route 62 interchange overnight on March 24 after the driver struck several utility poles. The downed poles and wires created dangerous conditions that were exacerbated by high winds and heavy rainfall. The driver, Adam Plaxco, 36, was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle while impaired…

The Combs-Hehl Bridge rises over a hundred feet above the Ohio River. The major artery that connects Ohio and Kentucky, the bridge has had its fair share of accidents, but the most recent one was horrifying. A devastating March 15 pileup sent one car plunging into the river below. Police now think they know the…

The National Football League’s senior vice president for health and safety, Jeff Miller, appeared before a congressional committee on March 14. During the hearing, Miller made headlines by publicly acknowledging that there is a link between football and the devastating neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. This is the first time that any representative…