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(Editor's note: The following blog is from AAJ President, Larry Tawwater)

(Editor's note: The following blog is from Linda Lipsen, CEO of the American Association for Justice)

At least 11 people have now been killed in incidents involving Takata airbags, which can send shrapnel into the driver when the devices malfunction. Huma Hanif, a 17-year-old Texas woman, was the most recent victim.

Emily Mitchell, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, had no reason to believe her newborn baby had any health problems. The sonograms had been normal. But her son, Lucian, was born with severe heart defects. He died one week later. 

When the brave men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces are deployed they should not have to worry about certain burdens at home, such as losing their civilian jobs or suffering abuses and frauds by financial corporations.

On October 12, 2006, during a middle-school football game, 13-year old Zackery Lystedt made a hard tackle, slamming the back of his head into the ground. He walked off the field on his own, and later returned to play the second half. But just as the game ended, Zackery collapsed. He was airlifted to a Trauma 1 hospital in nearby Seattle, where he was in a coma for the next month. For nine months after, he was unable to move or even blink.

(Editor's note: This blog post was written by AAJ Member, Robert Gellatly)

(The following blog was written by AAJ Communications Intern Harley Payne)

Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States, according to the latest research. The Washington Post wrote, “A new study by patient-safety researchers…shows that ‘medical errors’ in hospitals and other healthcare facilities are incredibly common and may now be the third-leading cause of death in the United States – claiming 251,000 lives every year, more than respiratory disease, accidents, stroke and Alzheimer’s.”