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Foam Manufacturers Agree to Settle in R.I. Nightclub Fire

Posted on May 14, 2008
The fire that killed 100 people in 2003 at a Great White rock show in Rhode Island has seen another chapter close. Foam manufacturers including Leggett & Platt, Inc. and Wm. T. Burnett & Co. have agreed to pay $30 million to settle lawsuits brought by survivors and family members of those killed at the Station night club...

CVS/Wal-mart Face Premises Liability Suits

Posted on May 13, 2008
An ATM that was not properly secured fell on a customer's foot in a CVS store recently. The suit claims the ATM became unsecured and came to rest on the customer's foot and that CVS failed to properly operate, manage and control the machine. Allegedly, screws were missing from the ATM...

Sinkhole Suspicion Points toward Company Involvement

Posted on May 12, 2008
A massive sinkhole that opened up near Daisetta, Texas may have been the result of too much saltwater being pumped into the ground by a company called Deloach Vacuum Services. Deloach was given a permit by the Texas Railroad Commission to dispose saltwater waste...

Family of Woman Injured at Hospital Files Suit

Posted on May 09, 2008
Nine months after going into Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan for a heart catheterization, 74-year-old Rosa Kashat is still there. A lawsuit filed by her family alleges that Kashat fell off a table and suffered a serious head injury and "other sever damage" while she was there...

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Oil Companies Agree to Settle Water Suit

Posted on May 08, 2008
Some of the largest oil companies, including Citgo, Sunoco, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Conoco Phillips, Chevron, Valero, and Marathon Oil have agreed to pay out nearly $424 million to settle a lawsuit brought by over a hundred public water companies. They will also pay for 70 percent of future cleanup costs over the next 30 years...

Med Mal Claim Targets Meridian Village Care Center

Posted on May 07, 2008
The estate of Irmona Browning filed a medical malpractice suit against Meridian Village Care Center in Madison County (Illinois) alleging they violated the Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. The claim states that Browning fell on two separate occasions, just hours apart where she sustained permanent injuries...

Air Safety Bill Fails in Senate

Posted on May 07, 2008
A bill meant to modernize the nation's air traffic control system, improve the inspection of commercial airlines, and ensure that stranded passengers on delayed flights are given food and water failed in the Senate after Republicans blocked the bill. They claim Democrats were trying to add provisions into the bill that had nothing to do with aviation, and were angry that they were not allowed to add in their own amendments...

Digitek Recall

Posted on May 06, 2008
The FDA has announced that, Actavis Totowa, formerly Amide Pharmaceutical, Inc., has recalled all Digitek (digoxin) tablets due to a double dose of the active ingredient, digitalis, in each tablet. This is a Class I recall, meaning the level of toxicity in each tablet may cause serious health problems or even death, especially to those with renal failure or impaired kidney function...

Wrongfully Terminated Paramedic Reinstated by Judge

Posted on May 05, 2008
An Eagle Mountain, Utah paramedic was ordered reinstated and to be given back pay after he was fired in March. Bryan Miner had reported cases of possible medical malpractice and sexual harassment to his superiors and was allegedly let go for blowing the whistle...

Blood Substitute Tests Allowed by FDA Despite Known Risks

Posted on May 02, 2008
In a report to be released this Monday, May 5, by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), experimental blood substitute tests allowed by US regulators raised the risk of heart attack and death. The report is written by scientists with the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and advocates from the watchdog organization Public Citizen...

Government Admits Negligence in Cancer Death

Posted on May 01, 2008
A federal judge ruled in March that an illegal immigrant who was being held in custody in San Diego died as a result of denial of medical treatment, and that this was "beyond cruel and unusual punishment." Francisco Castaneda, 36, was placed in immigration custody after serving an eight month prison term in 2005 for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute...

Port Authority Liable in 1993 WTC Attack

Posted on April 30, 2008
In 1984, the Port Authority's executive director, Peter Goldmark, asked Scotland Yard to assess security at the World Trade Center complex. Scotland Yard's assessment was that they were "appalled" that there was public underground parking at the complex...

Families of Heparin Victims Meet with Subcommittee

Posted on April 29, 2008
A congressional subcommittee allowed the families of victims who died due to tainted heparin to say their piece today. They told stories of family members looking forward to birthday dinners planned for the night of the day they died, and of multiple family members lost for the same reason...

Father Accidentally Kills Own Toddler with Car

Posted on April 28, 2008
An 18-month-old girl was killed when her own father backed over her in front of the family's home. The child wandered out of her home in Ohio and walked behind her father's Chevrolet Suburban as he was backing out of the driveway to go to church. The car struck his daughter, pulling her beneath the sport utility vehicle; she was pronounced dead at a local children's hospital...

New Study Helps with Understanding Concussions

Posted on April 28, 2008
Concussions in young athletes are a very common form of traumatic brain injury, but the changes that occur in brain function because of those concussions have been poorly understood in the past. A recent University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study linked changes in brain function directly to the recovery of the injured athlete...

Another Suit Filed Against Boston Scientific For Faulty Defibrillator

Posted on April 24, 2008
When Boston Scientific bought Guidant Corp. for $27.5 billion, they also bought the company's faulty defibrillators. Now, Patsy Roberts has filed a wrongful death suit against Boston Scientific alleging that a faulty defibrillator was the cause of her husband, Joseph Roberts', death...

Troubled Airlines are Literally Falling Apart

Posted on April 23, 2008
US Airways Flight 1250, traveling from Orlando, Florida to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has become the latest chapter in the saga of airlines struggling with fuel prices, lost luggage, and stressed out, well, everybody. While American Airlines grounded over a thousand flights recently to make sure they were up to FAA standards, and Southwest was exposed for flying planes with structural cracks, Flight 1250 is this fear put in motion...

Heparin Contamination Spreads to Other Countries

Posted on April 22, 2008
As the Chinese government continues to insist that it had nothing to do with the tainted anti-coagulant heparin supplies found in stocks in the U.S. supply, officials have found contaminated heparin in 11 other countries. Meanwhile, the tainted heparin is now suspected in 81 deaths here...

Family of Woman Killed by Bus Files Suit

Posted on April 21, 2008
The family of a woman hit by a bus as she was crossing the street in Daly City, California has filed a wrongful death suit against the bus driver, as well as the San Mateo County Transit District. In November of last year, 50-year-old Amy Aiwa Leong Chan was crossing inside the crosswalk when she was struck...

Mother Claims County Negligent in Daughter?s Murder

Posted on April 18, 2008
Though it occurred nearly ten years ago, the mother of Deborah Kirk, Phyllis May, believes Franklin County, Ohio should still be held responsible for her daughter's murder. Records show Kirk called 911 three times before a Franklin Township officer showed up...

CDOT Aims to Lower Motorcycle Fatalities through Safety Campaign

Posted on April 17, 2008
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has started a new safety program, called "Live to Ride," due to the rising number of motorcycle accident fatalities. According to CDOT, a record high of 90 deaths were recorded last year. This number has doubled in just over ten years...

Bipartisan Panel Wants FDA to Have More Funding

Posted on April 16, 2008
Members of both political parties believe that the Food and Drug Administration needs further funding if it is to continue to protect American lives. As it stands now, a report sent out last year by a panel of outside advisers stated the FDA does not have the staff, scientific expertise, or the money to do all it can...

Maybe Toby Keith could Write a Song about it

Posted on April 15, 2008
Cruise control switches in Ford Motor Company vehicles are continuing to cause problems. Specifically, they're heating up and causing the vehicle to burn. Nearly 1,500 fires are alleged to be due to a faulty switch that was installed in millions of Ford, Mercury, and Lincoln vehicles from 1999 to 2004...

Family Sues Mall and Security Company for Son?s Death

Posted on April 14, 2008
When one thinks of mall security, chances are the images that pop into the head range from gangly pimply-faced teenagers, elderly men asleep at the station, or something in between. Whether fair or not, due to the media portrayal, mall security guards get little, if any, respect...

Food-Borne Illnesses and Recalls Rising

Posted on April 10, 2008
William Marler, a Seattle lawyer and food safety expert, testified before the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to discuss why illnesses resulting from E. coli O157:H7 bacteria soared in 2007. The panel believes that the last time any significant positive changes occurred in this area was at the beginning of the decade...

Insulin Inhaler Tied to Lung Cancer

Posted on April 09, 2008
Clinical trials of Exubera, an insulin inhaler, have shown an increased incidence of lung cancer. Exubera is made by Pfizer, Inc. in a partnership with Nektar Therapeutics. The findings have lead Nektar to end talks about marketing Exubera with potential partners...

Claims Denied for Families of Six Shooting Victims

Posted on April 08, 2008
Six families whose loved ones were killed in an off-duty officer's shooting rampage last October have had their claims denied by the Crandon (Wisconsin) City Council. Claims are the first step in filing a wrongful death suit. 20-year-old Tyler Peterson gunned down his ex-girlfriend and five other people in an apartment, and left one young man injured...

Number of Children Harmed in Hospitals Higher than Originally Thought

Posted on April 07, 2008
The National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality reports that o ne out of every fifteen hospitalized children is harmed by accidental overdoses, bad drug reactions, and mix-ups with medicine. This is much higher than previously reported; prior reports showed two out of every 100 children are harmed, but the rate has gone up to 11 for every 100 children...

NuvaRing is a fairly new birth

Posted on April 04, 2008
NuvaRing is a fairly new birth control method for women; it is a small flexible contraceptive ring about the size of a silver dollar. NuvaRing contains the same hormones as many birth control pills and is inserted into the vagina, where it stays for three weeks...

Three Killed in Scaffolding Collapse

Posted on April 03, 2008
Three men working to install a water main beneath a bridge fell into the Arkansas River when the scaffolding they were on collapsed Wednesday morning. Two of the men have not been located and are presumed drowned. The third man's body was found entangled in rope that was attached to the platform...

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