San Antonio, Texas Personal Injury - Plaintiff Blog

At the moment, the FDA is warning doctors to weigh the risks of prescribing the diabetes drug Actos for patients who are being treated for bladder cancer or who have a history of bladder cancer, raising a red flag that Actos may be a dangerous drug.

As KSAT San Antonio reports, organ donation can go a long way toward healing for those left behind after an accident or illness. Take Kasey Kaufman's mother, for example, who recently met the two men who have her son's organs - and are alive today because she consented to organ donation.

In 2010, 17-year-old Kasey Kaufman lost his life in a Kerrville car accident.

Allstate America's Best Drivers Report for 2011 shows that San Antonio, Texas, ranks 142 (out of 200 larger cities) for the number of car wrecks per driver on average. San Antonio drivers get into one car accident, on average, around every eight years.

There is absolutely no reference to drunk driving in Hollie O'Connor's report for the San Antonio Express-News, but the dozen or so online readers' comments on the story make good guesses as to what caused an accident involving a pickup truck and a big rig in Texas earlier this month.

And, unfortunately, the accident resulted in the deaths of both the driver and passenger in the pickup.

"She was accepting of kids of all types, welcoming of everyone. I don't know how you could find a better kid," says the mother of a 16-year-old girl who was killed as a passenger in a car accident, as Jessica Rush reports for the Plano Star.

Car wrecks are the leading cause of death for teenagers, as Vianna Davila reports for the Houston Chronicle. In fact, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has nicknamed summer the "100 deadliest days."

Here, Davila reports the following "top factors" that lead to car accidents involving teens:

• Driving at night
• Distracted driving (such as texting while driving)
• Speeding
• Drunk driving

A San Antonio police officer named Stephanie Brown, who had been an officer for three years, was killed when she was struck head on by an SUV driven by former U.S. Army sergeant Chris Baldaramos. As Eva Ruth Moravec reports for the San Antonio-Express News, Baldaramos's blood-alcohol content was apparently three times the legal limit at the time of the San Antonio car wreck.

After years of widespread consumer safety issues with airbags, Ford reluctantly recalled nearly 150,000 pickups in its F-150 line of trucks. Ford's slow-to-the-draw recall comes as somewhat of a surprise considering their long line of problems with the F-150s, including deadly fire hazards. With a loyal following by hard-working men and women in San Antonio and throughout Texas, you'd think that Ford would move swiftly on such a dangerous symptom like airbag defects.

F-150 drivers of the 2005-06 models have reported inadvertent airbag deployment for years now. It's a problem that dozens of F-150 owners made Ford aware of, but the U.S.' second biggest automaker refused to take mass action. For this reason, the federal government felt it needed to step in, formally urging Ford to take care of its mistake and recall 1.3 million of its vehicles to fix the faulty airbags.