State officials have announced a stepped-up effort to reduce impaired driving during two busy holiday weekends. Drivers across Utah should understand what that means before they get behind the wheel. A single stop can carry consequences that last long after the holiday ends. What the State Announced The Utah Highway Patrol, the Utah Department of…
A cyclist who sustains a traumatic brain injury in a collision with a motor vehicle faces challenges that extend well beyond the initial hospital stay. TBIs range in severity from concussions that resolve over weeks to injuries that produce permanent cognitive, physical, or behavioral impairment. The difficulty with brain injuries in the legal context is…
Hospital staffing decisions are made in executive suites. Patients on the floor bear the consequences when those decisions produce nurse-to-patient ratios that no reasonable person could safely manage. Understaffing isn’t just an operational problem — it’s a patient safety problem. When a patient is harmed because an overwhelmed nurse couldn’t provide the care the standard…
This is one of the hardest things to hear when you or someone you love has been seriously harmed by medical care. But it’s an important distinction to understand before anything else. Medicine is genuinely complicated. Doctors make judgment calls under pressure, with incomplete information, in situations where multiple reasonable approaches exist. Not every complication,…
Utah is one of the most recreation-rich states in the country. Skiing, hiking, mountain biking, rock climbing, and river sports. Millions of people participate every year, residents and visitors alike. Most trips go fine. But when something goes wrong out there, the injuries can be genuinely serious, and the legal questions that follow are rarely…
Children don’t think like adults. A backyard pool isn’t a drowning risk — it’s an invitation to splash around. An abandoned construction site isn’t a danger zone — it’s a playground waiting to happen. That gap between what adults recognize as dangerous and what children see as exciting is exactly what the attractive nuisance doctrine…
