The Injury Board

Kitrick, Lewis & Harris Co., L.P.A. is a proud member of the Injury Board. This group advocates for safety and prevention through education. Please check out their new site: http://www.injuryboard.org/

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Meso patients chosen to participate in federal mesothelioma study:
http://news.yahoo.com/three-mesothelioma-patients-chosen-reviewers-federal-program-research-180042100.html

Slugger Award

http://www.ohioinjurylaw.com/articles.php?id=15&title=central-ohio-association-for-justice---improving-the-judicial-system&action=single

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Columbus Children’s Choir

Our firm is proud to support a fine group of young people. The CCC is a treble choir composed of the finest young singers in Columbus and Central Ohio. Children, grades 3-12, enter the choir through auditions held each year for the following season. No talented singer is turned away. Our firm was able to donate the remaining amount needed to send the children to perform in the holiday festivities this year in Washington, D.C. We are privileged to be a part of allowing this group to perform for our President and the nation. 

 

To help support your community, and for more information on the choir, please visit their website at: 

http://www.columbuschildrenschoir.org/ 

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Promising new treatment for mesothelioma
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/12/15/doctors-encouraged-by-new-mesothelioma-treatment/


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PhoneGuard is a smart phone app that can be utilized on the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry. This app is the first of its kind with a primary focus to stop drivers from texting while they are behind the wheel. The main feature of PhoneGuard is “text block” which prevents the driver from surfing the web, texting, BBMing, or reading e-mails while driving. PhoneGuard is also equipped with speed control, allowing the administrative user to set a speed limit to help monitor how fast one drives. The panic button is also a feature of this app. It immediately sends a text message and GPS coordinates that will open a map with available phone numbers to call, or the option to call 911. Geo-Fencing, a special feature on PhoneGuard Family Pro, allows you to receive notifications if any selected phones enter or leave a geographic area, based on a zip code or a customizable radius of the area. For more features of this one of a kind app or to purchase PhoneGuard for your family members go to:


http://phoneguard.com/Default.aspx

Stop marketers from being able to call your cellphone

A bill being considered by the House Energy and Commerce Committee would end 20 years of consumer protection preventing marketers from endlessly calling your cell phone- and using up minutes that you pay for.

Visit:  www.act.credoaction.com for more details.

Last year distracted drivers caused nearly 80% of car wrecks, leading to over 33,000 deaths.  Texting while driving is quickly becoming the biggest distraction for all drivers.  So what does this mean for the average driver?  Parents must lead  by example.  If a  young driver sees a parent  texting while driving, the youth will be more likely to do so as well.  So, we ask parents to get involved and pay more attention to how their own actions influence others.   It is important to know the local and state laws in your area.  Also, be aware of  certain  technology that is available.  For instance, Phone Guard is a new application for the iPhone, Blackberry, and Android, and it  has a number of different features that   parents can use  that can prevent drivers from texting, BBMing, surfing the web, and reading e-mail.  For more information about this topic, please visit our website http://www.klhlaw.com/ and  to see what the state and local laws are  in Ohio,  visit http://handsfreeinfo.com/ohio-cell-phone-laws-legislation

Senate Bill Targets Foreign Corporations That Skirt Federal Safety Standards, Legal System | Fighting for Justice

Senate Bill Targets Foreign Corporations That Skirt Federal Safety Standards, Legal System | Fighting for Justice

Winter is coming. Make sure you and your car are ready.

http://www.toledofreepress.com/2011/12/01/highway-patrol-offers-winter-safe-driving-tips/

Things We are Celebrating

*Technology  really does make our lives better,  and longer. 2011 was the year that research  suggested we may be closing in on a powerful AIDS vaccine, that we came even closer  to the global annihilation of polio, and that we learned renewable energy investment  in  the  developing  world  had  outstripped   such investments in rich countries. Alongside strong economic growth in developing countries and the spread of peace, democracy, and learning, continued technological advances will underpin a healthier, wealthier, more stable, and more sustainable world in the years ahead.

*Vegetarianism in the United States may have expanded by as much

as two-thirds  since 2009. As many as 5 percent of Americans now claim they don' t eat meat.

*People are healthier  than ever. According to World Bank data, roughly two million children born this year worldwide will live to their fifth birthday who would have died were mortality rates what they were 10 years ago.

*The world is richer than it has ever been. Even as stagnation and  popular  angst  gripped  the  U.S.  economy  this  year,  a historically unprecedented decline in levels of absolute poverty continued worldwide.

*We're getting  smarter. Technological and scientific advance in

the United States and other developed countries continues at a remarkable pace     this was the year, after all, that Google premiered  a robot  that could attend boring meetings  in your place, and we discovered 21 more planets orbiting distant stars.

*We're more peaceful  than we used to be. The last decade has

seen fewer war deaths than any decade in the past century. On the domestic front, violent crime continued  its downward  trend through the start of the recession -- from more than 1.8 million reported violent crimes in 1990 to 1.2 million in 2010.

*Freedom  and democracy  are  spreading.  That'  really  good news because democracies really do fight less often.

*Social  networking  is bringing  us all closer  together.  Closer

communications leads to more trade and investment, making people better off both here and abroad.

*Money is not just stuck in big banks.  On the strength of the

same technologies, global remittances have climbed from $132 to

$440 billion over the course of the past decade.

*There are more families and more people to be friends with than ever before.   To be sure, we face the challenge of moving the world onto a more sustainable path of consumption But combined with the global spread of education, a larger population means there are far, far more potential geniuses to help figure it out. So celebrate that there are more people who are leading a higher quality of life than ever before in recorded history.

Mark and I celebrate what we know YOU can do to make the world

an even better place next year.