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Flights Cancelled to Insure FAA Compliance

Posted on April 02, 2008
After it was recently reported that Southwest Airlines had been flying dozens of jets that had not been properly inspected for structural damage, as well as a recent crackdown on other airline maintenance issues, United Airlines has announced it will ground its fleet of 777s for maintenance checks...

Makers of Vytorin Withheld Findings

Posted on April 01, 2008
The Senate's Finance Committee and the House's Energy and Commerce Committee allege that the makers of the cholesterol drug, Vytorin, withheld negative findings to boost sales. Drug makers Merck & Co. and Schering-Plough Corp. are accused of suppressing data that shows Vytorin is only as effective as another generic drug called Zocor, made by Merck...

Just in Time for Spring, Salmonella in Your Cantaloupe

Posted on March 31, 2008
Products containing Honduran grown cantaloupe are being recalled because of the risk of salmonella. The Honduran company, Agropecuaria Montelibano, has been linked to a multistate outbreak of the bacteria. The FDA ha s asked grocers across the country to remove the cantaloupe from grocery stores and blocked imports from the Honduran company after dozens of cases of salmonella were reported in 16 states...

Rocker Recall

Posted on March 28, 2008
In yet another example of why it's safer for children to watch TV, than play, Tek Nek Toys International L.P. has announced it is recalling the Rock 'N Ride plush rocker due to their unstable base. The base of the rocker has the potential to tip over, spilling the child riding it to the cold, hard ground...

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$8 Million Claim Filed Against City of Phoenix

Posted on March 27, 2008
The family of a woman who died last year at Sky Harbor International Airport while in police custody has filed $8 million wrongful death claim against the city of Phoenix and the police department. This is the first step taken before a wrongful death suit is filed...

Young Girl Injured in Pool Drain Accident Dies

Posted on March 26, 2008
A young girl who had her part of her lower intestines ripped out by an uncovered pool drain last summer has died. Six-year-old Abigail Taylor was in the wading pool at the Minneapolis Gold Club last June when she sat, or got stuck, over the uncovered drain...

New Spokesperson to Warn about Medical Errors?

Posted on March 25, 2008
Last year, actor Dennis Quaid's newborn twins were given an accidental drug overdose by hospital staff. According to Quaid, the drug heparin "basically turned their blood to the consistency of water." Heparin is an anti-coagulant given to patients during surgery or kidney dialysis...

Another Attempt at a Settlement in Wrongful Death Case Involving Congressman

Posted on March 24, 2008
In 2003, Bill Janklow, a Republican senator from South Dakota, was driving at least 70 mph in a 55 mph zone when he ran a stop sign and hit a motorcyclist. The motorcyclist, Randolph Scott, was killed instantly. Janklow escaped the worst with a broken hand and bleeding on the brain...

Contaminant in Heparin Identified

Posted on March 21, 2008
Federal officials have announced that a fairly common ingredient in nutritional supplements has been identified as the contaminant in heparin, a blood thinner used in surgery and kidney dialysis. Heparin helps to prevent blood clots that may cause heart attacks and strokes...

15-Count Wrongful Death Suit Filed Against Illinois Hospital

Posted on March 20, 2008
In October, 2006, Rosella Beckley was admitted for treatment of a fractured hip at Gateway Regional Medical Center in Madison County, Illinois. After her surgery, she was admitted to the coronary care unit to be placed on a ventilator. According to the wrongful death suit filed by Rosella's husband, Donald, an "improperly manipulated" endotracheal tube changer caused a tracheal bronchial laceration which lead to an anoxic brain injury...

Akron Family Sues Police for Son?s Death

Posted on March 19, 2008
The family of 19-year-old Demetrus Vinson is suing the Akron police for $10 million citing wrongful death and violation of civil rights. Vinson was killed last March after police pulled his car over. Police officers, Michael Orrand and Michael Koubek, allegedly saw Vinson's car leave a known drug house around 2:00 a...

Blood Thinner Imports Stopped at Border

Posted on March 18, 2008
Imports of heparin, a blood thinner used in surgery and kidney dialysis to prevent clotting, have been stopped at the border by the FDA to test for a contaminant. The contaminant was found in the drug thinner's raw ingredient, pig intestines, and is linked to hundreds of allergic reactions and 19 deaths...

$82.6 Million Award Upheld by Appeals Court in San Diego

Posted on March 17, 2008
The 4th District Court of Appeals has upheld an $82.6 million award given to a woman whose back was crushed when her Ford Explorer flipped in 2002. $55 million is for punitive damages. Ford plans to appeal this latest ruling. Ford Motor Co. attorney, Theodore Boutrous Jr...

Street Race Kills Taxi Driver

Posted on March 14, 2008
A taxi driver was killed in Toronto, Ontario when his taxi was hit by one of two Mercedes Benzs allegedly street racing in January 2006. Tahir Khan was a Pakistani immigrant, and was three days from obtaining Canadian citizenship when he died. Khan was killed almost instantly when he was hit by the Mercedes Benz, which then slammed his taxi into a light pole at a busy Toronto intersection...

Chiquita's FARC Relationship Center of Wrongful Death Suit

Posted on March 13, 2008
The banana company, Chiquita Brands International Inc., is involved in yet another legal battle for its payouts to Columbia's left-wing paramilitary group, the Fuerza Amadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC). Families of five missionaries killed by the FARC in the 1990s have filed a wrongful death suit claiming that Chiquita's payments to the rebel group contributed to the deaths...

Record $250 Million Settlement Announced in Superfund Case

Posted on March 12, 2008
The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday that W.R. Grace & Company has agreed to pay a record $250 million to clean up past mining operations in Libby, Montana. The settlement results from asbestos poisoning claims that helped to drive the chemical company into bankruptcy...

Pharmaceuticals in Our Water Supply

Posted on March 11, 2008
An Associated Press investigation has shown that drinking water supplies in at least 24 major metropolitan areas across the country have trace amounts of a variety of pharmaceuticals in them. These 24 cities supply drinking water to 41 million Americans...

Anemia Drug Warning Expanded by FDA

Posted on March 10, 2008
Amgen, Inc. has announced that their anemia drugs Aranesp and Epogen, as well as Johnson & Johnson's Procrit, have had their black box warnings expanded by the FDA. The warning approved by the FDA in November, 2007, state that using these anemia drugs may increase the risks of death and tumor growth in patients who have been taking them...

Misdiagnosis Leads to Blindness

Posted on March 07, 2008
In June, 2006, Juanita Tomlinson went to the Paris (Illinois) Community Hospital emergency room complaining of double vision, a headache and pain in her eyes. The doctors who evaluated Tomlinson diagnosed her with a urinary tract infection and sent her home with antibiotics...

Pennsylvania State Trooper on Trial in Wrongful Death Case

Posted on March 06, 2008
Pennsylvania State Trooper, Samuel Nassan, took the stand on Tuesday to explain his actions in the Christmas Eve 2002 shooting death of a 12-year-old boy named Michael Ellerbe. Nassan claims that he shot Ellerbe, in the back while he was running away from an SUV he had stolen, because Nassan's then-partner, Juan Curry, had just fallen over a fence and accidentally discharged his weapon...

Wrongful Death Suit Hits the College of New Jersey

Posted on March 05, 2008
John Fiocco, Jr., a student at the College of New Jersey, went missing from his dorm room in the early hours of March 25, 2006. His body was found in a landfill a month later in Tulleytown, Pennsylvania. While the cause of Fiocco's death has not been determined, it is thought he may have somehow fallen through the door of the compactor room and into the trash container inside...

Transplant Surgeon Allegedly Hastens Patient's Death for His Organs

Posted on March 04, 2008
Ruben Navarro, a 25-year-old who suffered a nerve disease for most of his life, died at the beginning of February while in the operating room at a San Luis Obispo, California hospital. In a criminal complaint against Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, prosecutors allege Navarro's death was hastened by a mix of sedatives usually given to dying patients...

Las Vegas Clinic May Have Infected 40,000 with Hepatitis C

Posted on March 03, 2008
A Las Vegas clinic has been accused of reusing single-dose vials and syringes leading to the largest national hepatitis C scare the U.S. has seen. Officials say up to 40,000 people may be at risk for contracting the disease, as well as being exposed to HIV...

Alleged Nursing Home Abuse in a Place that Doesn't Exist

Posted on February 28, 2008
When you take your loved ones to a nursing home, it can be an emotionally draining experience. Now, imagine that nursing home doesn't "exist" in a legal sense. That's exactly what has happened in Glens Falls, New York, where the Eden Park Health Care Center was found to be operating illegally...

Drug Ad Deception Brings Down Lipitor's Famous Face

Posted on February 27, 2008
How the mighty fall. Dr. Robert Jarvik was recently fired as the pitchman for Lipitor by Pfizer. The advertising practice Pfizer used for its cholesterol lowering drug, Lipitor, has been called into question by a Congressional committee investigating the ads' credibility...

Time for a Rewrite?

Posted on February 26, 2008
In 1857, when the Oregon constitution was written, the law claimed that the only way you could recover damages from an assailant was if they injured you, not if they killed you. So, if someone got into a fight over something, it was better to kill the opponent so the attacker didn't have to pay damages...

O.J. Tests Long Arm of the Law and Loses. Again.

Posted on February 25, 2008
Remember, during the 1994 O.J. Simpson murder trial, when Johnnie Cochran said, "If the glove don?t fit, you must acquit"? Some people might remember that, but most may only remember the recent reasons Simpson has been in the news. The book Simpson wrote called If I Did It, whose rights were signed over to Fred Goldman, Ron Goldman's father, and retitled If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer made a bit of news a few years ago...

O.J. Tests Long Arm of the Law and Loses. Again.

Posted on February 25, 2008
Remember, during the 1994 O.J. Simpson murder trial, when Johnnie Cochran said, "If the glove don't fit, you must acquit"? Some people might remember that, but most may only remember the recent reasons Simpson has been in the news. The book Simpson wrote called If I Did It, whose rights were signed over to Fred Goldman, Ron Goldman's father, and retitled If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer made a bit of news a few years ago...

O.J. Tests Long Arm of the Law and Loses. Again.

Posted on February 22, 2008
Remember, during the 1994 O.J. Simpson murder trial, when Johnnie Cochran said, "If the glove don?t fit, you must acquit"? Some people might remember that, but most may only remember the recent reasons Simpson has been in the news. The book Simpson wrote called If I Did It, whose rights were signed over to Fred Goldman, Ron Goldman?s father, and retitled If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer made a bit of news not long ago...

A "nonsensical situation"

Posted on February 21, 2008
In an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court overrode tough state regulations, claiming that makers of medical devices, such as breast implants or defibrillators, are now immune from liability for personal injuries if the device in question had premarket approval from the F...

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