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The Onder Law Firm and Parents for Window Blind Safety Fight for Safer ...

St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) July 20, 2011

The Onder Law Firm joins Parents for Window Blind Safety in reminding the public that window blind cords have long posed a grave strangulation danger to children. The cords on many window blinds pose a recipe for strangulation in millions of homes across the country, often existing in daycare facilities. The New York Times profiled the case of a Maryland woman who lost her 2-year old son to window blind cord strangulation this spring in the article titled " A Debate Over Window Blinds " by Andrew Martin (April 20, 2011). According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were 41 deaths recorded between the agency's creation in 1973 and 1981, showing this to be risk known to the window blind cord manufacturing industry for decades.    The recently published New York Times window blind cord strangulation article detailed the Consumer Product Safety Commission's struggle with the window blind manufacturing industry for an ultimately line of "safe" over "safer" products and how that fight has been driven by two individuals, Linda Kaiser of Parents for Window Blind Safety and James Onder of The Onder Law Firm, which has represented parents in window blind lawsuits in over 25 states.

Linda Kaiser, who founded Parents for Window Blind Safety along with her husband after the loss of their daughter to strangulation from a window blinds inner cord, has become the nation's foremost advocate for the elimination of all window blind cord strangulation dangers . The New York Times article attributed her efforts for shaping the Consumer Product Safety Commission's current efforts to reform window blind safety regulations.

James Onder, founding partner of Onder, Shelton, O'Leary & Peterson, stated, "The only language some window blind manufacturers and retailers seem to understand is litigation. Parents can't possibly put a price on their children's lives, but too many window blind companies have chosen to do just that".

About Parents for Window Blind Safety Parents for Window Blind Safety is an advocacy and support group for creating a 100% safe environment for children in homes and public places from strangulation hazards posed by corded window covering products. By creating greater awareness of the dangers posed by not just draw cords but also inner window blind cords, the organization may prevent the tragedy that befell its founders and increase pressure on both the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the window blind manufacturing industry. More information about Parents for Window Blind Safety is available at www.pfwbs.org .

Horse Chomps Off Woman's Finger, Personal Injury Derby Ensues ...

In the popular imagination, horses are noble, gentle creatures who, when not carrying small men on their backs in mile-long races, spend their days leisurely chewing hay and oats.

This image may be partly true, but even many animals lovers theorize that horses are a few pegs below cats and dogs in the animal intelligence department.

Solid evidence of this theory was recently presented when a horse allegedly bit off part of an Illinois woman’s finger in a gruesome farm incident. In the wake of this disaster, the injured woman has filed a personal injury lawsuit against the owners of the equine nibbler.

According to sources, Linda O’Leary claims that she was bitten by a chestnut-colored gelding while she was taking pictures of her grandchildren feeding other horses at Wagner Farm in the Glenview Park District of northern Illinois.

In perhaps the most graphic description of an animal attack ever recorded, O’Leary boldly told the Chicago Tribune that, after the horse got hold of her hand, she could feel a “sucking feeling and then a crunch, and he opened his mouth, and I pulled my hand out, and [my finger] was gone.”

In her personal injury claim, which names the Glenview Park District as the defendant, O’Leary says the horse took off her right index finger above the first knuckle.

O’Leary had been visiting the park with her two grandchildren, who were six and eight years old at the time. She claims the horse “came out of nowhere” when she backed out of a crowd to take a picture of her grandchildren.

She also expressed her concern that the horse could have done much more damage to the smaller children, and felt fortunate that they were not harmed.

The injury is particularly debilitating for O’Leary, who is right-handed, because she works in the payroll department for a Chicago business, and claims that she cannot use the finger for turning a key in a door without experiencing severe pain.

In response to the lawsuit, the executive director of the Glenview Park District did not offer a comment, but did state that the horse in question had not previously bitten any visitors before this incident.

Animal attack lawsuits occur in a number of different ways, including dog bites, horse attacks, and other forms of animal violence.

In order to bring an animal attack lawsuit, most victims of these attacks must be able to prove that the animal’s owner, or the person in charge of monitoring the animal, negligently failed to properly supervise the animal.

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