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By Edward ("Ted") Bills

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Lawsuit: Surgeon Left Drill Bit In Woman?s Sinus

Posted on January 28, 2010
A Florida woman filed a lawsuit against an oral surgeon who allegedly left a drill bit burr in her right sinus cavity for over a year. According to the lawsuit, Donna Delgado had been experiencing severe pain, bleeding and dizziness since her surgery in August 2008...

Family Files Lawsuit Over Checkpoint Death

Posted on January 27, 2010
A Massachusetts family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against more than 36 police officers they claim are directly and indirectly responsible for the fatal beating of Kenneth R. Howe at a North Andover sobriety checkpoint on Thanksgiving Day. While Massachusetts police authorities claimed Howe died of natural causes, the medical examiner?s report cited the [...

Owner, Employee Negligent In Hotel Fire, Lawsuit Claims

Posted on January 27, 2010
A lawsuit has been filed in Alabama against a Days Inn motel owner and an employee for the death of two girls in a Jan. 16 fire at the hotel. According to the lawsuit, maintenance worker Dhirajlal Bhagat left incense burning in one of the rooms, causing the fire...

Suit Filed After Monorail Crash At Disney World

Posted on January 27, 2010
The Disney World theme park in Orlando is the target of a lawsuit after the death of a 21-year-old monorail driver at the park in July 2009. According to the lawsuit, filed by the victim?s mother, the monorail drivers at the park had been instructed to ignore certain safety issues in the driver?s manual to [...

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Lawsuit Filed Over Recalled Meat

Posted on January 27, 2010
A Chicago family filed a lawsuit Tuesday against salami maker Danielle International after the wife and infant child became ill with salmonella poisoning after eating the meat in early January. According to the lawsuit, Molly Keppler and her son became seriously ill after ingesting the food...

City of Houston Settles Suit Over Fatal Fire Truck Crash

Posted on January 27, 2010
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against the city of Houston after two fire trucks collided in March 2009, killing a nearby cyclist. The Houston City Council will approve the $225,000 settlement to be paid to the family of Leigh Boone who died two weeks after a ladder truck rolled over onto her...

Toyota Knew Of Problem Before Recall

Posted on January 27, 2010
Just a few days after recalling more than 2.3 million vehicles due to a sticky gas pedal, Toyota Motors revealed it knew of the issue last year, but didn’t think it covered enough vehicles to warrant a recall. While Toyota claims the problems have not caused any injuries or deaths, ABC News reported that four [...

Vegas Hotel Settles Suit Involving Overdose Death

Posted on January 27, 2010
The family of a 23-year-old girl who died of drug overdose last year has reached an undisclosed settlement with Morgans Hotel Group and Hard Rock hotel-casino executive Ed Scheetz after he allegedly supplied her with cocaine and oxycodone. According to the lawsuit, Scheetz lives a lifestyle of drug addiction and prescription medication abuse that involved [...

Lawsuit: Hospital to Blame in Deaths of Children

Posted on January 27, 2010
A family has filed a lawsuit against McLean Hospital in Belmont Monday for allegedly failing to properly treat a woman’s mental illness, which they claim resulted in the death of their two children. In January 2008, Marcelle Thibault walked her twin sister?s young children into traffic on Interstate 495, killing the children and herself...

Bus Driver Unfit To Drive, Lawsuit Says

Posted on January 27, 2010
The family of a boy who was severely injured in a school bus accident on Jan. 9 has filed a lawsuit against the bus driver and the bus company, claiming the driver should not have legally been driving the bus that injured their son and killed another boy...

Medical Device Firm Ordered to Pay for Shoulder Injury

Posted on January 26, 2010
A California-based medical device company was negligent for urging doctors to use a pain pump in an unapproved and unsafe manner among patients recovering from shoulder surgery, an Oregon jury has found. In the lawsuit, Matthew Beale claimed that use of the pump, manufactured by I-Flow Corp...

City Settles Lawsuits Over Alleged Police Misconduct

Posted on January 26, 2010
The city of New Orleans settled two lawsuits last week centering around police brutality and misconduct. In one case, a lawsuit alleged that the owner of the Sportsman?s Corner bar was arrested, tased and beaten after police executed an illegal search of the bar...

Connecticut DOT Settles Lawsuit

Posted on January 26, 2010
The Connecticut Department of Transportation settled a lawsuit last week filed by an employee who alleged she was bypassed for promotions and wrongly accused of harassment. Christine Aubrey says that she was suspended for 15 days in 2006 based on a false harassment claim by a male co-worker and was subsequently passed over for a [...

Toyota Issues Massive Vehicle Recall

Posted on January 23, 2010
Toyota Motors issued a 2.3 million automobile recall Thursday when it was discovered that accelerator pads may stick, causing the vehicle to unintentionally speed up. The recall covers car and truck models 2005 to 2010. This recall includes the 2005-10 Avalon; 2007-10 Camry and Tundra; 2008-10 Sequoia; 2009-10 RAV4, Corolla and Matrix; and 2010 Highlander...

Agency Ordered to Pay Damages for Fatal Crash

Posted on January 23, 2010
A Pennsylvania jury has ordered the Mercer County Housing Authority to pay $1.6 million to the widow of man killed in a 2007 accident with a truck owned by the agency. In the verdict, jurors found the agency and the driver of the truck were negligent in the crash...

Day Care Overmedicated Child, Lawsuit Claims

Posted on January 23, 2010
A church day care gave a 5-month-old child an unknown amount of over-the-counter pain medication leaving the child in a state of distress, a lawsuit filed by the child?s parents claims. According to the lawsuit, the child?s mother made an announced visit to the day care and found her child smelling of medicine and near [...

Lawsuit: Hospital Failed to Supervise Doctor

Posted on January 23, 2010
A Delaware hospital that employed a pediatrician accused of sexually assaulting patients was negligent for failing to properly supervise the doctor, a lawsuit filed the parents of one of the victims claims. In the lawsuit, the family alleges that Beebe Medical Center was aware of complaints against Dr...

Utah Family Files Lawsuit Against Meat Producer

Posted on January 23, 2010
An Oklahoma meat manufacturer was hit with a lawsuit this week from a Utah family after their child was sickened by E. coli bacteria from some of the manufacturer?s meat. The 14-year-old boy contracted the bacteria in October and spent two days in the hospital with gastrointestinal bleeding...

Research: Opioid Overdose On The Rise

Posted on January 21, 2010
A new study has found that as more and more doctors across the country prescribe opioid painkillers to treat chronic pain, more and more consumers are suffering fatal overdoses. An article published Monday found that 51 patients overdosed on opioids in the past three months, with six of those cases resulting in death...

Toddler Death Sparks Crib Recall in U.S.

Posted on January 21, 2010
The recent death of a six-month-old child has prompted the recall of about 635,000 Dorel Asia cribs, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Tuesday. The cribs feature a defect that can cause the drop-side to detach from the frame, creating a small space a child could become trapped in and suffocate...

Plaintiff Experts OK to Testify in HRT Litigation, Judge Rules

Posted on January 21, 2010
Plaintiffs involved in pending mass tort litigation over hormone replacement therapy may admit evidence from key expert witnesses, a judge presiding over the litigation has ruled. In the ruling, Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Sandra Mazer rejected arguments by the defense that the experts? methodologies were flawed...

Settlement Reached In Train Deaths

Posted on January 21, 2010
The families of two boys that were hit and killed by a Maryland light rail train in July 2008 received a $1.5 million settlement from the state of Maryland Wednesday. The boys were struck by a northbound train that was on southbound tracks due to vandalism on the northbound tracks...

Brake Problem Prompts Chrysler Recall

Posted on January 20, 2010
Automobile giant Chrysler Group LLC announced this week it will recall more than 20,000 vehicles from some of its top lines due to improperly formed or installed clip retention tab on the brake pedal pin that could result in brake failure. The recall applies to 2010 model-year Chrysler Sebring, Dodge Avenger and Nitro, and Jeep [...

Lawsuit Filed In Toddler?s Drowning

Posted on January 20, 2010
A Montana family has filed a lawsuit against their local water and sewer district after their 3-year-old son fell into a septic tank and drowned. Loic Rogers fell into the tank that was located near the driveway of a family friend?s home in January 2007...

Crane Co. Ordered To Pay $1.72 Million

Posted on January 19, 2010
A Galveston County jury has ordered Maxime Crane Works to pay $1.72 million to Ernesto Tamez after he was severely injured in an accident at BP America Inc. oil refinery in Texas City. Tamez was struck by an oil burner being lifted by a Maximum Crane Works crane operator while at the plant in January [...

Johnson & Johnson Recalls Medicines

Posted on January 19, 2010
McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a division of Johnson & Johnson, recalled several hundred batches of many of its popular medicines, including Benadryl, Motrin, Rolaids, Simply Sleep, St. Joseph Aspirin and Tylenol, due to consumer complaints of a moldy smell upon opening...

Tyson Foods Settles In Consumer Lawsuit

Posted on January 19, 2010
A federal judge signed off on a preliminary settlement between Tyson Foods and consumers that could result in a $5 million payment from the poultry giant. The lawsuit accused Tyson of lying about the use of antibiotics while raising the chickens. Consumers could be eligible for a $10 or $5 coupon, and the judge said [...

Biotech Co. Settles Class-Action Lawsuit

Posted on January 19, 2010
Biotechnology company Sequenom announced a $14 million settlement last week with a group of shareholders that filed a class-action lawsuit against the company in April after their stock plummeted 80 percent. The company had announced that data and results from trials and tests of their product SEQureDX, a prenatal test for Down syndrome that eliminates [...

Lawsuit: Medical Stents Illegally Marketed

Posted on January 15, 2010
A whistleblower lawsuit unsealed this week in Dallas accuses medical device manufacturer Guidant of marketing biliary stents to doctors for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. In the lawsuit, Kevin N. Colquitt claimed that while he was employed with Guidant, he was instructed to market the stents to treat blocked blood vessels [...

Elimination Of Autism Therapy Spurs Lawsuit

Posted on January 15, 2010
The Eastern Los Angeles County Regional Center was hit with a lawsuit yesterday filed by more than 100 parents of autistic children after the center eliminated their autism therapy. The lawsuit claims the center illegally cut the therapy even though it has proven clinically effective and is still used in 20 other regional centers...

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