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More Penalties Possible For Johnson & Johnson After April Recall

Posted on June 03, 2010
Last week, F.D.A. officials told the New York Times that McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a Johnson & Johnson unit, may face stiff additional penalties or even criminal charges over a pattern of “violations in manufacturing and quality control practices led to a number of recent recalls...

Jury Finds Hospital Negligent in Death of Patient

Posted on June 03, 2010
A Myrtle Beach hospital has been ordered to pay $2.88 million to the husband of a woman who died from a seizure after being treated by a hospital doctor in 2002. The South Carolina jury determined that Grand Strand Regional Medical Center and Dr. Stephen Law were negligent in the care of Kelly Fay, who [...

Woman Awarded Damages Over Bad Injection

Posted on June 03, 2010
A New York jury awarded a Syracuse woman $1.7 million in a lawsuit she filed over an improper injection she received during the birth of her third child. In October 2007, Tina Holstein was giving birth to her third child. Due to complications, a nurse gave her an injection in her back, but went too [...

Soldier killed in a rollover accident

Posted on June 01, 2010
Colorado state troopers say a man who is stationed at Fort Carson was killed in a rollover accident. It happened on Bradley Road about 2.5 miles east of Marksheffel Road in El Paso County. Troopers say a 2003 GMC Sierra pickup was traveling westbound on Bradley Road when it traveled off the northern side of the [...

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New DUI laws take effect 1 month from today (July 1, 2010)

Posted on June 01, 2010
Starting July 1st, 2010, a new Colordo-wide DUI law is going into effect that will make penalties a lot tougher for repeat offenders. Under the new law, you could spend five days behind bars for your first DUI, and for second-time offenders, the penalty is at least a mandatory ten days, and for third-time offenders, at [...

Toyota Must Turn Over Documents in Acceleration Cases, Judge Rules

Posted on June 01, 2010
Toyota must turn over tens of thousands documents related to complaints about uncontrolled acceleration, a federal judge ruled last week. The ruling marks a victory for attorneys representing plaintiffs with personal injury, wrongful death or consumer claims against the automaker...

Google Maps to Blame for Accident, Lawsuit Claims

Posted on June 01, 2010
A Los Angeles woman has filed a lawsuit against Google and a Salt Lake County man after she was hit by a car while walking down a street as directed by Google Maps. Lauren Rosenberg said in her lawsuit that she used Google Maps to find walking directions in Park City, Utah...

Jurors Award Damages to Man Injured in Bus Fall

Posted on June 01, 2010
A Washington state jury last week awarded a man $1.3 million in a lawsuit he filed against the King County Department of Transportation after slipping on a step while exiting a Metro bus. Keith Knappett said in his lawsuit that he slipped on a step that had become slick with water and ice...

Verizon Ordered to Pay Damages to Brain Injured Man

Posted on June 01, 2010
A New York man has been awarded $40 million in a lawsuit he filed against Verizon after he was struck and almost killed by one of the company’s vans. Matthew Falcone was hit by a van going about 50 mph four years ago and spent weeks in the hospital in a coma...

$5.6 Million Settlement Reached In Helicopter Crash

Posted on May 28, 2010
A helicopter rotor blade manufacturer has agreed to a $5.6 million settlement with the family of a flight nurse who was killed in a helicopter crash in August 2008 near Indianapolis. Sandra Pearson and two others were killed in the crash that was caused by a flawed main rotor blade had broken apart just after [...

Atty. Generals Support Suit Over Peaceful Funerals

Posted on May 28, 2010
Eighteen state attorney generals across the country have thrown their support behind a lawsuit filed by the family of a fallen solider who were taunted and harassed by a radical church group at their son’s funeral. The Snyder family filed the lawsuit in 2006 against the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church for defamation, intentional infliction of [...

Doctors Botched Surgery With Robot, Suit Says

Posted on May 26, 2010
A Dover woman has filed a lawsuit against two Wentworth-Douglass Hospital surgeons over a botched surgery they preformed with a da Vinci robot. In her lawsuit, Sherry Long claimed the doctors severed her ureters during the surgery and that neither doctor was fully qualified to use the robotic device...

Fatal Crash With Train Prompts Suit Against Driver

Posted on May 26, 2010
A lawsuit has been filed by the family of one of the survivors of a fatal accident in Utah in which a car was hit by a TRAX train. The family of Kristine Velasquez has filed suit against the family of Alex Amundson, who was driving the car and died in the accident...

Wrongful Death Suit With Former Yankee Settled

Posted on May 26, 2010
Former New York Yankee Jim Leyritz has reached a settlement with a Florida family over the wrongful death of Fredia Ann Veitch, who was hit by Leyritz in December 2007 while he was driving drunk. As part of the settlement, Leyritz will pay the family $250,000 and, starting next April, $1,000 a month for 100 [...

Alfalfa Sprouts Recalled Due to Salmonella

Posted on May 24, 2010
Raw alfalfa sprouts have been recalled by the F.D.A. due to their link to Salmonella. Twenty-two cases of Salmonella have been reported in 10 states in various parts of the country, reportedly caused by the alfalfa sprouts. The recall affects sprouts distributed by Caldwell Fresh Foods of Maywood, Calif...

Man Hit With Stray Police Bullet Files Lawsuit

Posted on May 24, 2010
A Green Bay man has filed a lawsuit against the city and local police department after he was hit with a stray bullet during a 2007 shooting of another man in front of a night club. Officers had chased Ben Sonnenberg to the front of Studio 720, and opened fire on him when he appeared [...

Injury On Movie Set Prompts Lawsuit

Posted on May 24, 2010
A Chicago man filed a lawsuit against NBC Universal Inc. over an injury he sustained while walking through the set of the movie “Public Enemies” in the streets of Chicago in 2008. In his lawsuit, John McManus said he tripped on one of the fake rubber cobblestones installed by set designers and sustained serious injuries...

Jury Awards Damages to Woman Injured in Bridge Accident

Posted on May 23, 2010
A California woman whose car was crushed by a counterweight on a Sacramento-area bridge has been awarded $380,000 for injuries sustained in the incident, the Sacramento Bee reports. Shannon Raymond drove onto the Walnut Grove Bridge just as it was rising to let a barge pass...

Congress, Auto Makers Closer to Black Boxes in Cars

Posted on May 20, 2010
It appears that in the next few years, cars will be equipped with black boxes, much like in airplanes, that can record data during a crash. The debate now, between Congress and safety groups, is how much and what type of data these boxes should record...

Toxic Metal Prompts Wal-Mart to Recall Kids? Jewelry

Posted on May 20, 2010
High levels of the toxic metal cadmium have forced Wal-Mart stores across the country to pull its Miley Cyrus line of children’s jewelry from the shelves. The Associated Press reported earlier this week that Wal-Mart received information about the high cadmium levels in February, but continued to sell the product...

Class-Action Suit Filed Over Ariz. Immigration Law

Posted on May 19, 2010
Another lawsuit has been filed against the new Arizona state law that requires local police to enforce federal immigration regulations. An attorney for the America Civil Liberties Union, one of the groups involved in filing the suit, called the law “shameful, un-American, it will undermine public safety and it is unconstitutional...

CFO Fired for Reporting Rules Violations, Suit Says

Posted on May 19, 2010
Tennessee Commerce Bancorp has been named with a lawsuit over the firing of its former Chief Financial Officer George Fort. The lawsuit, filed by the U.S. Department of Labor, claims that Fort was fired as retaliation for reporting possible accounting rules violations...

Girl Shot by Detroit Police, Lawsuit Filed

Posted on May 19, 2010
A lawsuit has been filed against the Detroit Police Department over the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old girl and an alleged police attempt to cover up the facts of the case. On May 16, Aiyana Stanley-Jones was shot in the neck during a police raid of an apartment complex...

Judge: NYC Wrongful Death Lawsuit to Proceed

Posted on May 19, 2010
A judge has ruled that a lawsuit over the fatal shooting of a man by five city New York City police officers may proceed. Sean Bell was shot and killed in 2006 after he accidentally hit a police officer in the leg with his car while leaving a bachelor party...

Florida Orders Insurers to Repay Policyholders

Posted on May 19, 2010
In Florida, a group of workers’ compensation insurance companies has been ordered to repay millions of dollars in excess profits to policyholders. Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty announced this week that 16 insurers must pay a total of $9...

Toy Dart Gun Recalled After Two Child Deaths

Posted on May 18, 2010
On Monday, federal regulators issued a mandatory recall of 1.8 million toy dart gun sets after two separate deaths of children who inhaled the darts and suffocated when the suction cup blocked their airways. The recall has prompted safety officials to rethink an old safety standard that assumes that children over the age of 3 [...

City Settles Over Police Chase That Injured Couple

Posted on May 18, 2010
The City of Charleston, W.Va., have agreed to a $25,000 settlement with a local family who filed a lawsuit against the city after their car was hit by a drug dealer who was fleeing from police. Marjorie E. and Samuel Cavender both suffered injuries in the crash, and Marjorie was hospitalized for days...

Regulators Failing to Police Rig Drilling, Suit Claims

Posted on May 18, 2010
In the wake of the April 20 rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, a lawsuit has been filed against British Petroleum in an attempt to stop drilling at the company’s Atlantis platform, the deepest offshore well in the world. The lawsuit, filed by former BP safety consultant Kenneth Abbott, claims that cut safety corners [...

Traffic Crash on I-25 at Cimarron

Posted on May 17, 2010
On 05-16-10 at approximately 3:45am, the Colorado Springs Police Department received a call reporting that a car carrier semi truck had rolled over off the west side of southbound I-25, south of Cimarron Street. Investigation revealed that the semi had 10 cars on the carrier at the time of the incident...

City of Fort Worth, TX Seeks to Settle Taser-Death Lawsuit

Posted on May 17, 2010
The city of Fort Worth has offered to settle a taser-death lawsuit with local family for $2 million, the largest settlement the city has ever offered in a lawsuit involving death or injury. Michael Patrick Jacobs died in April 2009 after being shocked for 54 seconds by police...

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