Deadly Month for Michigan Carbon Monoxide Incidents A series of Michigan Carbon Monoxide deaths has happened in November including another hotel case where alarms didn’t warn guests and a tragic case of missing batteries in Rochester Hills. By Attorney Gordon Johnson Late fall is always a bad time for carbon monoxide poisoning cases, as furnaces […]
Brain Damage the Cost of Office Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Office carbon monoxide poisoning is a major risk of long term disability and brain damage. It rarely gets headlines because people usually don’t die. But the brain damage impacts thousands. By Attorney Gordon Johnson Last week we wrote our first blog about the risk factors for […]
School Carbon Monoxide Alarms – Does Yours Have One? School carbon monoxide alarms must be required in all school buildings as the risk of hundreds of children getting poisoned by one faulty appliance continues. By Attorney Gordon Johnson When I first started blogging about carbon monoxide poisoning a decade ago, I had a theme: Carbon […]
New Standards Must be Established for Hotel Ethics Hotel Ethics and Training must focus more on the safety of guests than just reservation and brand consistency. Franchisors must demand more training of managers and engineers. By Rebecca Martin There are topics we would like to explore in depth regarding the hospitality industry. The hospitality industry […]
Attorney Gordon Johnson was a source for the July 30, 2022 story calling for more carbon monoxide alarms in hotels. Brain Injury Law Group Founder, Attorney Gordon Johnson was quoted in the major piece on carbon monoxide in hotels published Saturday in the New York Times Travel Section: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/travel/hotels-carbon-monoxide.html?searchResultPosition=2 The article entitled: Why Don’t More […]
Stonegate Lodge Eureka Springs Arkansas Evacuated The Stonegate Lodge in Eureka Springs, Arkansas is the latest in a long line of public spaces that has been hit by the avoidable catastrophe that is carbon monoxide poisoning. By Rebecca Martin and Attorney Gordon Johnson Just as we were getting ready to follow up to our last […]
Long Island Chabab Camp carbon monoxide poisoning While 15 people were treating for carbon monoxide poisoning at the Chabab camp on Long Island, most of those didn’t get checked out at the hospital, as should be required. By Attorney Gordon Johnson Early reports are that fifteen people were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning at the […]
Carbon Monoxide Diagnosis Requires Epidemiological Thinking More must be done to improve carbon monoxide diagnosis at hotels and emergency rooms. CO Poisoning must always be considered when multiple people are getting sick contemporaneously. By Rebecca Martin The deaths of three tourists ostensibly due to carbon monoxide poisoning in a Sandals Resort in the Bahamas raised […]
Carbon Monoxide Detectors in the News Month after month, deaths and brain damage occur because hotels don’t put carbon monoxide detectors in all hotel rooms. By Rebecca Martin A headline in The Washington Post says it all: Sandals will add carbon monoxide detectors after 3 deaths in Bahamas, “after” being the operative word. Although information […]
Following the Clues of Carbon Monoxide Exposure Too often important questions are never asked in identifying CO as in the Madison Apartment Carbon Monoxide Exposure. Carbon monoxide poisoning must be ruled out first. By Rebecca Martin Our blog last week about the Bahamian Sandals Resort preceded findings that carbon monoxide exposure had been the culprit […]