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Jury Awards Damages for Birth Injury

Posted on February 20, 2009
A South Carolina jury has ordered a Rock Hill hospital to pay $4.4 million to the family of a girl who died four years after sustaining brain injuries at birth. According to the lawsuit, filed by the parents, Piedmont Medical Center staff failed to act on signs that the baby was suffering from fetal [...

Wal-Mart Trampling may result in Lawsuit

Posted on February 20, 2009
The parents of a Wal-Mart security guard trampled to death by shoppers may pursue a lawsuit against Nassau County and its police department, according to a court filing. An attorney for the family filed a notice of claim Tuesday indicating that they may seek damages up to $35 million...

Jury Gets Cast Against Eye Doctor

Posted on February 20, 2009
A Vermont jury began deliberations in a case that accuses a Burlington eye doctor of pressuring a patient into unnecessary cataract surgery. In closing statements, an attorney for the plaintiff argued that the Doctor intentionally misinterpreted test results in order to perform surgeries...

Report questions science, reliability of crime lab evidence

Posted on February 19, 2009
The National Academy of Sciences says many courtroom claims about fingerprints, bite marks and other evidence lack scientific verification. It finds forensics inconsistent and in disarray nationwide. Sweeping claims made in courtrooms about fingerprints, ballistics, bite marks and other forensic evidence often have little or no basis in science, according to a landmark report released Wednesday [...

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Federal Judge freezes assets of Stanford and others

Posted on February 18, 2009
A federal judge froze the assets of Stanford and three of his financial services companies and appointed a receiver to marshal what funds could be located. R. Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire charged Tuesday with perpetrating an $8-billion investment fraud, cast himself as offshore investment guru to the transatlantic jet set and benefactor to the Caribbean [...

Briargate and Powers ranked most dangerous intersection in 2008

Posted on February 18, 2009
For the second year in a row, Briargate Parkway and Powers Boulevard was identified as the most dangerous intersection of the year in Colorado Springs. The unfinished interchange in northeast Colorado Springs topped the city’s list of the 25 most crash-prone locations.

Doctors Warn of New Drug-Resistant Infections

Posted on February 18, 2009
Doctors are concerned that a lesser known class of drug-resistant infections could soon pose a major health threat to hospital patients. Known as “gram-negative” bacteria, infections such as Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae are especially difficult to treat because of their ability t fight off even the most advanced antibiotics...

Damages Awarded to Widow of Deer Hunter

Posted on February 18, 2009
An Indiana jury has ordered three companies to pay $157 million to the family of a man who died after the tree stand he was using to hunt deer malfunctioned. Jurors reached the verdict after the defendants, L & L Enterprises in Hattiesburg, Miss...

San Francisco Zoo Settles Tiger Attack Lawsuit

Posted on February 18, 2009
The family of a boy who was mauled to death in a 2007 tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo has agreed to settle their wrongful death lawsuit against the zoo. The financial terms of the settlement were not disclosed but attorneys confirmed that the zoo would erect a memorial in the boy?s honor...

Lawsuit Filed Over Lead-Tainted Water

Posted on February 18, 2009
The father of twin 8-year-old boys filed a lawsuit accusing the Washington D.C. Water and Sewer Authority of covering up lead contamination in the city?s tap water. According to the lawsuit filed by the father, his sons were poisoned by lead-tainted water used to prepare baby formula...

Texas Firm Charged with ?Shocking? Fraud

Posted on February 18, 2009
Federal investigators charged a billionaire financier and his Texas-based companies with what one Securities and Exchange Commission official characterized as ?a fraud of shocking magnitude.? According to the SEC, R. Allen Stanford, his companies and two other executives masterminded a scheme to sell $8 billion in CDs that offered fraudulent returns...

Lawsuit Seeks Disclosure of Cleaning Product Ingredients

Posted on February 18, 2009
A non-profit environmental group filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to force Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and two other major firms to disclose the ingredients and effects of their cleaning products. According to Earthjustice, the firms failed to comply with Article 35 of New York?s Environmental Conservation Law which requires companies to submit semiannual reports of [...

Lawsuit Filed by Inmate Paralyzed in Taser Incident

Posted on February 18, 2009
According to a lawsuit recently filed, the Los Angeles County Sheriff?s Department violated the civil rights of an inmate who was paralyzed below the chest after being shocked by a stun gun. The attorney for the inmate says that deputies should have known that shocking the man while he was standing on a top bunk [...

Study Reports that MRSA Infections are on the Decline

Posted on February 18, 2009
The number of patients infected with drug-resistant bloodstream infections during stays in hospital intensive care units dropped dramatically during the past decade, government researchers report. According to the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, catheter-based MRSA infections dropped nearly 50 percent from 1997 to 2007...

Overtime Class Action

Posted on February 17, 2009
A federal judge last week certified class-action status for a lawsuit by Kansas meatpacking workers who claim they were denied overtime and other benefits. In the lawsuit, thousands of workers allege that Tyson?s Foods Inc. violated state and federal labor laws by failing to pay them for time spent donning protective equipment...

Wisconsin Court Dismissed Medical Device Lawsuit

Posted on February 17, 2009
A man who had surgery to remove a potentially defective medical device cannot seek damages against the company that manufactured it, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled. Citing federal law and a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, the high court found the man?s lawsuit was barred because the device had been approved by the Food [...

Lost your Job? - Look out for scams

Posted on February 17, 2009
In the current ailing economy, consumer advocates are warning job seekers to be wary of scams promising the perfect job for a price. According to the Consumer Protection Agency, 6,000 people filed complaints about headhunters and employment and placement agencies during 2007...

Fatal Train Accident = Lawsuit

Posted on February 17, 2009
The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, Amtrak and others were negligent in the death of a Denver man struck by a train near Las Vegas, claims a lawsuit filed by family members. According to the lawsuit, the deceased could not see the oncoming Amtrak train because vegetation blocked his view at the crossing...

Hospital Named in Patient Death Suit

Posted on February 17, 2009
A Washington state psychiatric hospital was negligent in the death of a 27-year-old man, according to a two lawsuits filed by family members. In the lawsuits, the family claims that staff at Western State Hospital in Lakewood failed to take adequate measures to prevent the man?s suicide and attempted to cover up mistakes...

Former spokesman for Winston Cigarettes asks for damages from companies

Posted on February 17, 2009
A Florida jury is scheduled to decide whether a former cigarette spokesman should receive damages from tobacco companies for his smoking-related illnesses. Alan Landers, who worked as a model for Winston cigarettes during the 1960s and 1970s, claims that current throat cancer, past lung cancer and other problems were caused by smoking...

Damages for Birth Injury Awarded by Jury

Posted on February 17, 2009
A South Carolina jury has ordered a Rock Hill hospital to pay $4.4 million to the family of a girl who died four years after sustaining brain injuries at birth. According to the lawsuit, filed by the family, Piedmont Medical Center staff failed to act on signs that the baby was suffering from fetal [...

Damages Awarded to MRSA Amputee

Posted on February 17, 2009
A Dallas-area jury has awarded $17.5 million to a man who lost his arms and legs to an MRSA infection. In the ruling, jurors found that a Doctor was negligent for medical malpractice in treating the man following a 2003 surgical procedure. State medical malpractice caps limit the total award to $7...

Not worth peanuts?

Posted on February 17, 2009
The company blamed for a nationwide salmonella outbreak and peanut recall has announced that it has filed for bankruptcy protection. The Peanut Corporation of America said Friday through an attorney that the recent recalls and potential litigation made liquidation of the company?s assets inevitable...

Attorneys file ERISA-related lawsuit in the Madoff scandal

Posted on February 17, 2009
A Pennsylvania law firm has filed what is thought to be the first ERISA-related class-action lawsuit stemming from the Bernard Madoff scandal. According to the lawsuit, filed on behalf of the Pension Fund for Hospital and Health Care Employees ? Philadelphia and Vicinity and a class of similar funds, Austin Capital Management Ltd...

Cyclists and Swimmers at risk for bone loss?

Posted on February 16, 2009
The low-impact nature of Cycling may not be conducive to building strong bones and high-impact exercises can ease the risks of injury. Cyclists are no strangers to breaks and fractures, and the sport, known for its low-impact nature, may not be conducive to building strong bones...

California DMV is sued over Medical Marijuana

Posted on February 16, 2009
The lawsuit says patients taking medical marijuana under doctor’s orders are unfairly targeted for license suspensions. A California man was pulled over for speeding on the Interstate and the California Highway Patrol officer smelled weed, searched the car, took the marijuana and pipe and gave the man a sobriety test, which he passed...

Hard time ahead for Lawyers?

Posted on February 16, 2009
More than three-quarters of lawyers in Massachusetts believe they will be hard hit by the recession and that the legal field will remain rocky for some time to come. That is the conclusion of a survey published this week by the Massachusetts Bar Association...

For the less romantically-inclined?

Posted on February 16, 2009
If you’ve got 60 minutes, you can get a divorce: The ABA Journal reports on the “60 Minute Divorce,” the brainchild of New York’s Brodsky Law Firm. Essentially, married couples seeking to separate can show up at the law firm, pick up a $10 gift card for lunch at McDonald’s or Starbucks and enjoy a [...

Advice from Lawyer Abraham Lincoln

Posted on February 16, 2009
A lawyer’s time and advice are his stock in trade, said one of our nation’s most famous lawyers, Abraham Lincoln. But in honor of President’s Day, you can have the privilege of some of Lincoln’s advice at no charge, courtesy of an article in USA Today...

Officials Order Recall for Texas Peanut Plant

Posted on February 14, 2009
A Texas peanut plant linked to the company blamed for a nationwide salmonella outbreak has been ordered to recall all products shipped since 2005 after inspectors found evidence of contamination at the plant. According to state health officials, inspectors found dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers at the Peanut Corp...

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