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Facebook Settles Class Action Over Online Privacy

Posted on March 18, 2010
Social networking site Facebook has agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over a marketing program that published what users were buying. The settlement was approved by a California federal judge this week. Plaintiffs contested that the Beacon program violated their right to privacy...

Jury Awards Damages to Family Injured by Drunken Driver

Posted on March 18, 2010
A Georgia jury this week awarded $15 million to a family who was hit by a drunken driver and whose daughter suffered severe brain damage from the crash. The drunken driver ran a red light, crashing into the Maybaum family?s car. Eleven-year-old Erica?s seatbelt became dislodged and she was thrown into the back of the [...

Anthem Blue Cross Ordered to Pay Cost of Liver Transplant, Legal Fees

Posted on March 18, 2010
A Los Angeles jury recently awarded a California man more than $200,000 to cover the cost of a liver transplant after his insurance company, Anthem Blue Cross, refused to pay. Ephram Nehme was on the transplant list at UCLA in 2006. When his condition deteriorated, he decided to have the operation in Indiana, where the [...

Study Questions Safety of Diabetic Heart Treatments

Posted on March 16, 2010
A newly released study has found that three aggressive treatments to prevent heart attacks among Type 2 diabetics could be more harmful than helpful to patients. Doctors have been trying three strategies to reduce the risk of heart attack for diabetics: getting blood pressure to a normal range; raising levels of good cholesterol and lowering [...

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Document show Toyota Asked to Fix Acceleration in 2007

Posted on March 16, 2010
Toyota Motors Inc. had the opportunity to install software to prevent sudden acceleration in their cars in 2007, and yet only began doing so in January of this year after a 2009 accident in San Diego left four dead. The Los Angeles Times reported than in 2007, federal regulators asked Toyota to install the software [...

Lost Toyota Value at Heart of New Lawsuit

Posted on March 16, 2010
A couple in Washington state has filed a putative class-action lawsuit accusing Toyota of violating the state?s Consumer Protection. The lawsuit claims that the couple recently tried to sell the car, which they bought in September, and were told that its value had decreased by 20 percent in the past six months...

Car versus Police Motorcycle

Posted on March 16, 2010
On 03/13/10 at approximately 0105 hours CSPD Sergeant Philip LeBeau was riding a Honda Police Motorcycle southbound on Tejon at Vermijo when a red KIA Optima driven by Raymond Laracuente (27 YOA) turned left in front of him. Sgt. LeBeau?s motorcycle struck the right side of the car and he was launched over the vehicle, [...

Speed the likely cause of Traffic Crash

Posted on March 16, 2010
At 0113 hours on 3/14/2010, Police Dispatch was notified of a traffic crash on Nevada Ave. at Cheyenne Rd. which involved a power outage. The investigation revealed that Traffic Unit #1 was southbound on Nevada Ave. at a high rate of speed when the driver lost control of the vehicle and struck a major power-line pole [...

Traffic Crash Fatality - Palmer High School Student

Posted on March 16, 2010
CSPD received a report of an automobile vs. pedestrian traffic accident at Circle Dr and Winnepeg Dr. on 3/15/2010. Officers responded to the scene and learned that a male pedestrian had been struck in the street by a southbound automobile. The pedestrian was deceased at the scene of the collision...

FDA: Device Maker Failed to Report Death of Patient

Posted on March 15, 2010
A Texas-based medical device maker failed to report the death of a 4-year-old patient fitted with a one-of-its-kind pediatric heart pump, according to a warning letter by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In the letter, the agency said MicroMed Cardiovascular should have reported that the DeBakey VAD Child Device may have caused or contributed [...

R.J. Reynolds Ordered to Pay Damages to Widow

Posted on March 15, 2010
A Florida jury has awarded the widow of a long-time smoker $17.5 million in damages in a lawsuit filed against a tobacco company. The lawsuit accused R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. of being responsible for Arthur Hall?s lung cancer and death in 1995. The lawsuit was formerly part of a class-action lawsuit against the tobacco company [...

Judge Approves Suit Challenging Bank Overdraft Fees

Posted on March 15, 2010
A U.S. District Court judge in Miami dismissed a request by a group of banks to throw out a lawsuit that accuses the banks of manipulating overdraft fees and charging excessive penalties when customers overdraft on their debit cards. Judge James Lawrence King said in his decision that that lawsuit has merit because it challenges [...

Toyota Deceived Consumers, Lawsuit Claims

Posted on March 15, 2010
The Orange County District Attorney has filed a lawsuit against Toyota Motors Inc., claiming the car company was aware of the potential for sudden acceleration in their vehicles and sold them anyway. The lawsuit is one of many brought against the automaker in the months following the massive recall of many Toyota models...

Jury Awards Damages for Botched Breast Surgery

Posted on March 11, 2010
A New York jury has awarded $3.5 million to a Staten Island woman who claimed a plastic surgeon botched her breast augmentation surgery. According to the lawsuit, Dr. Keith S. Berman performed a breast lift on Maria Alaimo that left her with “double-bubble deformities” in 2003...

Technology in First Responder Vehicles May Pose Risk

Posted on March 11, 2010
Technology in police cars and ambulances is becoming more and more sophisticated, but many wonder if that sophistication comes with a price: safety. While there is no official data regarding in-dash technology as it relates to car accidents, some law enforcement officials say that the technology provides great “potential for disaster...

Salmonella Contamination Prompts Pringles Chip Recall

Posted on March 10, 2010
Proctor and Gamble announced Tuesday the voluntary recall of all cans of taco- or cheeseburger-flavored Pringles. The chips contain the flavor ingredient hydrolyzed vegetable protein that has been found to contain salmonella. The chips are some of many “ready-to-eat” products that are being recalled due to salmonella because their manufacturing process does not include a [...

Lawsuit Filed Against Bar in Fatal DUI Crash

Posted on March 10, 2010
A lawsuit has been filed against a Chattanooga, Tenn., bar that claims the establishment provided its employees with free alcohol that resulted in the death of a woman in a drunk-driving accident. Chattanooga Billiard Club employee Jeremy Lane was charged with vehicular homicide and DUI in the death of Susan Berry Wood in December of [...

Man Hit by Bus Files Suit Against City

Posted on March 10, 2010
A blind Des Moines resident has filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority after he was hit by a city bus in 2008. According to his lawsuit, Roger D. Christenson claims the driver of the bus, Susan Jane Leveke-Meyers, had not been properly trained...

Trucking Firm Ordered to Pay Damages to Girl

Posted on March 09, 2010
A Sacramento jury awarded an Oregon girl $24.3 million who was run over by an 18-wheeler six years ago driven by her father. The judge in the case ruled that the fact that her father was driving the truck was irrelevant, because he had been hired by the trucking company, Freeway Transport Inc...

Toy Chest Dangerous, Lawsuit Claims

Posted on March 09, 2010
Retail giant Target has been named in a lawsuit by a Butler County, Penn., family who claim a wicker trunk they bought from the store and used as a toy chest trapped their toddler daughter’s neck and left her in a vegetative state. Eric and Laura Surman say in the lawsuit that the lid of [...

City Settles Lawsuit Over Triathalon Accident

Posted on March 09, 2010
A man who was in a car accident that left him a paraplegic while volunteering for a Los Angeles triathlon has received a $7 million settlement from the city. Steve Albala was on his motorcycle officiating the bicycle portion of the race when he was hit by a car, suffering a fractured vertebrae and spent [...

Vaccine Case to Go Before Supreme Court in Fall

Posted on March 09, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case filed by a Pennsylvania family who has filed a lawsuit against vaccine maker Wyeth, claiming the vaccines their daughter received at the age of 6 months caused permanent neurological damage. Hannah Bruesewitz suffers from sever seizures and needs 100 percent care...

As accidents go?

Posted on March 06, 2010
On 03/05/2010, 0952 hrs., CSPD received a call of a traffic hazard blocking all lanes of I-25 south of Cimarron St. Upon arrival, officers discovered approximately 40 logs between 30 ft. and 40 ft. in length blocking all lanes of the Interstate. There were no reported injuries, traffic accidents or property damage reported as a [...

Congressmen Still Have Questions For Toyota

Posted on March 05, 2010
Two U.S. Congressmen have sent letters to Toyota Motors Inc., questioning whether or not the company had any basis for claiming it was ?confident? of no defects in its electronic throttle controls or other systems. U.S. Reps. Bart Stupak and Henry Waxman said that they have not seen any evidence that Toyota has actually tested [...

FDA Cracks Down on Misleading Nutrition Labels

Posted on March 05, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week began cracking down on companies they claim offer exaggerated nutritional facts about their products and hide information about unhealthy contents. The FDA released 17 warning letters to various companies to make due on their promise to improve food information for customers...

Construction Left School Unsafe, Lawsuit Says

Posted on March 05, 2010
The Wichita, Kan. School District has filed a lawsuit against four architecture and construction firms, claiming that the work they did on one of the schools in 2000 put the lives of students and teachers at risk due to poor construction. According to the lawsuit, the repairs to Hamilton Middle School, finished in 2004, left [...

Wrongful Death Suit Filed in Fatal Cyclist Accident

Posted on March 05, 2010
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in Maryland against a truck driver and his employer after the driver accidentally hit and killed a bicyclist last year. John Yates became caught in the rear wheels of the truck as it made a right turn. The lawsuit claims that the driver was negligent because he failed [...

Bar to Blame for Fatal Drunk Driving Accident, Lawsuit Says

Posted on March 05, 2010
A lawsuit has been filed against a Fort Worth, Texas, bar for allegedly serving alcohol to an already intoxicated man who then got into a car wreck, killing a woman. According to the lawsuit, the Pour House bar continued to serve Jesus Cisneros until he was “dangerously inebriated” and then allowed him to leave in [...

Suit: Nursing Home Failed to Treat Patients

Posted on March 04, 2010
A group of patients at Lake Worth Manor nursing home in Florida have filed a lawsuit against the home, claiming it provided improper care and attempted to defraud Medicare and Medicaid. According to the lawsuit, Lake Worth Manor improperly kept patients until they developed other conditions that would restart Medicare or Medicaid payments...

Church Knew of Abuse by Priest, Suit Claims

Posted on March 04, 2010
A lawsuit has been filed by a Connecticut man who claims he was sexually molested by a priest between 1989 and 1992. The lawsuit also accuses New York’s former Edward Cardinal Egan of assigning Rev. John Castaldo to Thopsey Brooks’ parish after being warned of the man’s “bizarre sexual proclivities...

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