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By Edward ("Ted") Bills

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Doctor Liable in Wrongful Death Case, Jury Finds

Posted on March 30, 2010
A Massachusetts jury has awarded the family of Antwoine Key more than $2 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against a Massachusetts doctor allegedly responsible for his death. In 2001, Dr. Dorina R. Abdulah had deemed Key medically eligible to play collegiate basketball at Eastern Connecticut State University...

Lawsuit: Bank of America Bilked Homeowners Facing Foreclosure

Posted on March 30, 2010
Washington homeowners filed a class-action lawsuit last week against Bank of America, claiming the bank has failed to use the $25 billion in government money it received last year to help struggling homeowners facing foreclosure. The bank participated in the Troubled Asset Relief Program and agreed to reduce loan payments to affordable levels as part [...

Texas Supreme Court Weighs Malpractice Case

Posted on March 29, 2010
A malpractice lawsuit was filed in 2007 against a Texas doctor who was delivering babies while addicted to Valium and hydrocodone. However, when the lawsuit was filed, Dr. Howard Offenbach suddenly disappeared, and has yet to be found. The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week claiming that the 120-day limit to serve a [...

Walmart to Pay $9 Million to Houston Woman

Posted on March 29, 2010
A Texas jury has awarded $9 million to a woman who filed a lawsuit against WalMart after she was arrested at a Houston-area store in 2008. Nitra Gipson was accused of and arrested for trying to exchange allegedly counterfeit Walmart money orders for cash...

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Suit: Officers? Wreckless Driving Caused Death

Posted on March 29, 2010
A civil trial began in Maryland last week that accuses Baltimore police officers of driving recklessly while transporting a suspect and causing his death. The $100 million lawsuit claims that officers failed to seat-belt Dondi Johnson Sr., whom they had arrested for public urination, and then proceeded to drive wildly, throwing Johnson around in the [...

Settlement Reached in Dam Collapse Case

Posted on March 29, 2010
A $1.1 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed by 123 plaintiffs in Mississippi over the collapse of Big Bay Lake Dam in 2004. The money will go towards repairs of over 100 homes that were damaged when the dam broke. Many of the those affected by the floods have not been able [...

Judge Awards Damages in Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Posted on March 26, 2010
An Ohio judge has awarded $2.8 million in a wrongful death lawsuit to the family of a high school student who was murdered in July 2007. Jacob Feichtner and two others were shot and killed by former Cleveland firefighter Terrance Hough Jr. during an argument about fireworks in their neighborhood...

Fatal Traffic Crash in Colorado Springs

Posted on March 26, 2010
At 7:51 pm Thursday, 3/25/2010, Police Dispatch was notified of a one vehicle roll-over crash on Stetson Hills Blvd. east of Tutt Blvd. Upon arrival officers found a white passenger vehicle facing southbound in the eastbound lanes of Stetson Hills Blvd...

Disney Seeks Trial in Monorail Crash Lawsuit

Posted on March 25, 2010
The Walt Disney World theme park has requested a trial by jury in a lawsuit stemming from a fatal monorail crash last summer, according to recently filed court documents. The Orlando-area theme park maintains that it was not a fault in the death of Disney monorail pilot Austin Wuennenberg...

Power Lines to Blame for Fatal Copter Crash, Suit Claims

Posted on March 25, 2010
A fatal helicopter crash earlier this year in the Sierra foothills in California has prompted a lawsuit from the family of one of the victims. The lawsuit claims that the grounding wire that caused the crash was negligently hung more than 100 feet above the power lines...

Fatal Cave-In Prompts Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Posted on March 25, 2010
The family of one of the three men who died in a cave-in at Hattiesburg-Forrest County Industrial Park in 2008 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The three men died when a trench collapsed in on them while they were installing a sewer pipe at the park...

D.C. Woman Files Suit Against In-Home Nurse

Posted on March 25, 2010
Washington, D.C., socialite Karen Feld has filed a lawsuit against her former private nurse and home-care companion, claiming the woman lied about her qualifications as a registered nurse. Feld hired Inger Sheinbaum in 2008 to care for her after she had brain surgery...

Regulators Urge Temporary Moratorium on Diarrhea Vaccine

Posted on March 24, 2010
The discovery of a harmless yet unexplained pig virus in a pediatric diarrhea vaccine has prompted the Food and Drug Administration to urge doctors to stop giving the product to children, The New York Times reports. Officials said the vaccine, Rotarix, is not harmful to children and that parents need not worry if their child [...

Slings Recalled After Three Infant Deaths

Posted on March 24, 2010
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall of around 1 million baby slings made by Infantino LLC after it was reported that the slings caused three infant deaths in 2009. The recalled slings are the Infantino “SlingRider” and “Wendy Bellissimo...

Judge Orders Dialysis Firm to Repay Medicare

Posted on March 24, 2010
A U.S. District Court Judge in St. Louis has ordered Renal Care Group, a kidney dialysis company, to pay $19.4 million back to Medicare in a whistle-blower lawsuit. The suit claimed that the firm created a shell company to earn an extra 30 percent on dialysis supplies ? money that is supposed to go only [...

Lawsuit Filed in Death of Junior Lifeguard

Posted on March 24, 2010
A lawsuit has been filed against the Huntington Beach Marine Safety Department after the death of an 11-year-old girl during one of the department’s junior lifeguard training exercises. Junior lifeguard Allyssa Squirrell was killed last July when she was struck by the propellers of a boat that was picking up the group during a water [...

Noneconomic Damages Cap Declared Unconstitutional by Ga. Supreme Court

Posted on March 24, 2010
The cap on noneconomic damages in Georgia was unanimously struck down by the Georgia Supreme Court, who stated in their opinion that caps are ?violative of the right to trial by jury.? The issue was brought before the court in a case involving a woman whose face was permanently disfigured after a face-lift operation...

Fatal Crash Result Of Bad Tire, Jury Says

Posted on March 23, 2010
An Iowa jury has ruled that a Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. tire was the cause of a fatal rollover of a minivan in 2007, saying that the tire “was not state of the art when it was designed and manufactured.” The accident left one dead and another paralyzed from the neck down...

Colorado State Trooper Arrested for DUI

Posted on March 22, 2010
A Colorado State Trooper has been arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence. The office was pulled over on C-470 after several people reported a market Colorado State Patrol vehicle driving erratically. Watch here for follow-ups and to see if this person gets special treatment that a citizen would not.

Safety Problems Force High Chair Recall

Posted on March 20, 2010
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced this week that the Harmony High Chair was unsafe for use, prompting the recall of 1.2 million chairs produced by Graco Children’s Products Inc. Safety issues with the chair involve several potentially defective parts that may cause the chair to topple over...

Lawsuit Filed in Car Versus Motorcycle Crash

Posted on March 20, 2010
A Michigan man has filed a lawsuit against former Fox 2 broadcaster Fanchon Stinger after her ex-boyfriend crashed her Ferrari into the man in 2007. The lawsuit claims that David Sugg suffered shock and lingering physical and mental pain after Rayford Jackson crashed the car into him while he was riding his motorcycle...

Rare Damages Awarded in Nursing Home Suit

Posted on March 20, 2010
A Philadelphia jury awarded $5 million in punitive damages to the widow of a man who died of bed sores in 2008. The damages are divided between Jeanes Hospital and a Wyncote nursing home. The lawsuit had accused both the hospital and the nursing home of failing to provide adequate care for Joe N...

Osteoporosis Drug Fails After 5 Years, Study Shows

Posted on March 18, 2010
Two recently released studies have found that a popular drug to fights osteoporosis may increase the risk of bones breaking if taken for more than five years. Doctors say that the bisphosphonates drugs initially work well to halt bone deterioration, but for some reason begin to have the opposite effect after a number of years...

Toyota Findings Inconsistent with Prius Claims

Posted on March 18, 2010
Toyota Motors Inc. has announced that it believes that the account given by a man whose Prius allegedly speed wildly out of control in San Diego earlier this year does not match up with the initial examination of the car by the company. Investigators for Toyota found that the brakes would have worked had they [...

Lawsuit: Jail Left Inmate Bloodied, Without Medical Help

Posted on March 18, 2010
The Nashville-area Metro Council has agreed to pay nearly $100,000 to a man who claims a sheriff?s deputy ripped out his teeth and left him bloodied and in jail without medical attention for 10 days. Anthony McCoy was arrested last November for failing to pay child support...

Judges Rule Against Claims That Vaccines Cause Autism

Posted on March 18, 2010
Three judges ruled last week against families in three separate cases that claimed a vaccine preservative caused autism in their children. The judges ruled in all three cases that there was little or no chance that the children?s autism were caused by the vaccines, and one judge wrote that the families ?relied upon practitioners and [...

Cancer Treatment Costs Skyrocketing, Study Finds

Posted on March 18, 2010
Newly released research suggests that the rising cost of cancer treatments may cause some patients to turn down the care they need. According to the analysis, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, from 1990 to 2008, cancer care costs increased from $27 billion to $90 billion as new drugs were created and [...

Honda Issues Recall Over Brake Problems

Posted on March 18, 2010
Honda Motors Co. recently announced their own brake problems, prompting a recall of 410,000 Odyssey minivans and Element small trucks from the 2007 and 2008 model years. According to Honda officials, the brake pedals could wear down over time and lose braking power, making it almost impossible to stop the vehicles unless fixed...

Birth Control Pill Causes Organ Failure, Lawsuit Claims

Posted on March 18, 2010
A lawsuit has been filed against Bayer Pharmaceuticals, claiming the company sold birth control pills they knew could cause organ failure. In her lawsuit, Louise Thanos claimed that she experienced gall bladder failure after taking the birth control pill Yaz...

Fatal Wheelchair Accident Prompts Lawsuit

Posted on March 18, 2010
The family of a quadriplegic who died in 2007 has filed a lawsuit against a Tennessee-based wheelchair company, claiming their son suffered fatal injuries while they were repairing his wheelchair. According to the lawsuit, technicians with National Seating and Mobility were repairing Jeffrey Thompson?s wheelchair when it suddenly jumped forward, trapping Jeffrey under a nearby [...

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