Every business needs a strong legal foundation. If the legal fine print of the partnership agreement, shareholder matters and other issues are not defined properly, you could find yourself in a position where you're involved in ugly litigation, needing the services of an attorney. Unfortunately California business litigation lawyers often come across people who rush into startups or small businesses without bothering to have an attorney involved. A business lawyer can help you get it right at the very outset.
A business of almost any size can benefit from having a business attorney at the start. However, having a lawyer on board is absolutely imperative when you are starting a partnership. Often, people enter into partnership agreements without really thinking through partnership issues. As a result, a few years down the line, they get entangled in nasty disputes that can quickly get ugly. Having a business lawyer on board right at the outset can help prevent such disputes, and outline the steps to be taken to resolve a dispute when it does arise.
You also need a Los Angeles business attorney on board if you have ambitious plans for the future and expect your company to grow rapidly. With rapid growth can come rapid challenges and friction within a company. A business lawyer has experience setting up all kinds of businesses, and has seen firsthand the challenges that can arise in the future. He can help you avoid these challenges, or prepare you adequately for dealing with them. A business lawyer is also absolutely necessary when you're signing a shareholder agreement.
Needless to mention, an attorney will cost you less if you hire one at the time of setting up the business than if you go looking for one to resolve the dispute.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Survey Indicates Americans Want More Government Rules to Prevent Accidents
Less government is not necessarily better government, at least when it comes to traffic accident prevention. That's the message Americans are sending to the federal government. A new survey by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety finds that a majority of Americans want the federal administration to enact more laws to prevent motor vehicle accidents and keep Americans safer while traveling.
Sixty percent of the respondents in the survey wanted more laws to prevent motorists from indulging in dangerous behavior behind the wheel. Further, 57% also wants states to get more involved in passing laws to keep motorists safer. At least 70% of respondents in the survey also wanted stricter enforcement of current driving laws. There also seems to be strong support for tough graduated driver licensing standards for teen drivers. Eighty six percent of the respondents in the survey wanted teen drivers to complete a driver’s education program before they are receive a driver’s license.
Another fact that emerged from the survey that California car accident attorneys find particularly interesting, is that Americans believe carmakers could be doing more to keep motorists and passengers safe. Increasingly safer cars are one of the reasons why traffic accident deaths around the country have been declining, but at least 50% of the respondents in the survey believe that automakers could be doing more to make their cars safer.
The survey coincides with an initiative by the United Nations to reduce traffic accident deaths around the globe. The ten-year initiative aims to reduce worldwide traffic accident deaths by the year 2020. The Initiative is called Decade of Action for Road Safety, and aims to work with governments around the world to affect traffic safety change, to help reduce the number of fatal traffic accidents and save lives. According to the initiative, more than 1.3 million people die every year in traffic accidents. In the United States, motor vehicle accidents are the number one cause of death for teenagers and young children, and also one of the leading causes of accidental death for the general population.
Sixty percent of the respondents in the survey wanted more laws to prevent motorists from indulging in dangerous behavior behind the wheel. Further, 57% also wants states to get more involved in passing laws to keep motorists safer. At least 70% of respondents in the survey also wanted stricter enforcement of current driving laws. There also seems to be strong support for tough graduated driver licensing standards for teen drivers. Eighty six percent of the respondents in the survey wanted teen drivers to complete a driver’s education program before they are receive a driver’s license.
Another fact that emerged from the survey that California car accident attorneys find particularly interesting, is that Americans believe carmakers could be doing more to keep motorists and passengers safe. Increasingly safer cars are one of the reasons why traffic accident deaths around the country have been declining, but at least 50% of the respondents in the survey believe that automakers could be doing more to make their cars safer.
The survey coincides with an initiative by the United Nations to reduce traffic accident deaths around the globe. The ten-year initiative aims to reduce worldwide traffic accident deaths by the year 2020. The Initiative is called Decade of Action for Road Safety, and aims to work with governments around the world to affect traffic safety change, to help reduce the number of fatal traffic accidents and save lives. According to the initiative, more than 1.3 million people die every year in traffic accidents. In the United States, motor vehicle accidents are the number one cause of death for teenagers and young children, and also one of the leading causes of accidental death for the general population.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Risk of Fractures in Elderly from Thyroid Drugs
Elderly patients, who are on thyroid medications to treat hypothyroidism or an under active thyroid, may be at a higher risk of suffering fractures. According to a new study, California pharmaceutical product liability lawyers may have reason to be concerned that elderly patients who are on the drug levothyroxine, which is a synthetic form of the thyroid hormone, may be at a higher risk of such fractures.
The researchers analyzed data from 200,000 female patients aged 70 and above who were prescribed levothyroxine between April 2002 and March 2007. The researchers then tracked these patients during the follow-up period, which lasted until March 2008. They found that at least 10% of these patients who had taken levothyroxine during the study period, suffered at least one fracture during the follow-up period.
Some levothyroxine users were much more likely to suffer fractures. For instance, people who had recently started taking the drug, or were currently taking the drug were at a much higher risk of suffering fractures, compared to those people who stopped taking the drug a long time ago or had stopped taking it in the past. There is a strong link between the risk of fractures and the dosage of the levothyroxine. People who took high doses had a risk of suffering a fracture that was 3.5 times greater, compared to patients who took lower doses of levothyroxine.
The researchers have concluded that the use of levothyroxine seems to increase the risk of fractures in both men and women, even after considering other factors that could cause fractures.
The researchers are advising that older patients who are on thyroid hormone replacement therapy like levothyroxine, be monitored regularly to determine whether the dosage needs to be adjusted over a period of time. It's also important for doctors to consider that there may be a natural reduction in the thyroid hormone as a result of age, which needs to be taken into consideration while deciding dosage.
The researchers analyzed data from 200,000 female patients aged 70 and above who were prescribed levothyroxine between April 2002 and March 2007. The researchers then tracked these patients during the follow-up period, which lasted until March 2008. They found that at least 10% of these patients who had taken levothyroxine during the study period, suffered at least one fracture during the follow-up period.
Some levothyroxine users were much more likely to suffer fractures. For instance, people who had recently started taking the drug, or were currently taking the drug were at a much higher risk of suffering fractures, compared to those people who stopped taking the drug a long time ago or had stopped taking it in the past. There is a strong link between the risk of fractures and the dosage of the levothyroxine. People who took high doses had a risk of suffering a fracture that was 3.5 times greater, compared to patients who took lower doses of levothyroxine.
The researchers have concluded that the use of levothyroxine seems to increase the risk of fractures in both men and women, even after considering other factors that could cause fractures.
The researchers are advising that older patients who are on thyroid hormone replacement therapy like levothyroxine, be monitored regularly to determine whether the dosage needs to be adjusted over a period of time. It's also important for doctors to consider that there may be a natural reduction in the thyroid hormone as a result of age, which needs to be taken into consideration while deciding dosage.
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