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A recent Associated Press story in the Boston Herald contained one U.S. Representative’s assertion how traumatic brain injury (TBI) has become the signature injury in the Iraq War and then detailed how legislators are trying to improve treatment for this devastating personal injury. Representative Michael Michaud of Maine explained that many men and women could be currently serving in the Iraq War and have TBI without even knowing it since some of its symptoms present themselves in more subtle ways. Some war analysts estimated in the story that TBI symptoms may manifest themselves in as many as 15 percent of military personnel who have served or will serve in the Iraq War.

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he parents of a 13-year-old boy who was killed in a 2002 Florida ATV accident were awarded a $20 million personal injury settlement earlier this month by a Pasco County civil jury. A St. Petersburg Times story detailed that Donald “D.J.” Roberts was killed when he lost control of someone else’s four-wheel all-terrain vehicle and crashed head-first into a barbed wire fence. Donald and Terry Roberts, the parents of the deceased boy, had alleged in their personal injury lawsuit that the defendant, Timothy Mark Taylor, had invited the boy to ride the ATV. The story said that neither Taylor nor any lawyers showed up to court for his defense. Hendrik Uiterwyk, the family’s Tampa personal injury attorney, said that while the family got the settlement they wanted, they could never bring back to their 13-year-old son.

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