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By Edward ("Ted") Bills

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Last Entry: January 08, 2020 at 18:47:54

New Lawsuits Filed Over Tainted Blood Thinner

Posted on January 15, 2010
More than 30 lawsuits have been filed in Chicago against Baxter International Inc. after it was found in 2008 that they blood thinner they manufactured was contaminated. The lawsuits accused Baxter of negligence, claiming the drug was unsafe for public use...

The Eastern Los Angeles County

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...

Malpractice Suit Filed Against W.Va. Dentist

Posted on January 14, 2010
A West Virginia woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a South Charleston, W.Va., dentist, alleging he ?failed to exercise a degree of care, skill and learning? while treating her. According to the lawsuit, because of Dr. James A. Kennedy?s negligence, Beverly Frame suffered fractured teeth, bone loss and significant pain and suffering, among [...

Lawsuit: Document Search Costs Too High

Posted on January 12, 2010
A Florida man has filed a lawsuit against University Community Hospital in Tampa Bay after the hospital said it would cost the man more than $1 million to search their records for adverse incident reports on his surgeon. The lawsuit demands the hospital reveal how much it actually costs for them to search through their [...

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Lawsuit Filed After Needle Stuck In Girl?s Eye

Posted on January 12, 2010
The family of a Chicago girl has filed a lawsuit against the Westside Family Health Center after a needle punctured her left eye during an immunization in 2007. According to the lawsuit, hospital employees failed to properly restrain the girl during the immunization, and that she experienced “pain, suffering, disability and visual impairment” as a [...

Lawsuit: Laptop Caused Fire, Injuries

Posted on January 12, 2010
A Massachusetts man has filed a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard after his HP laptop allegedly overheated, causing a fire that destroyed his home and left his seriously injured. The lawsuit claims the Hewlett-Packard was negligent by distributing laptops that were defective or unfit for consumer use and should have warned consumers of the risks...

Wash. Crash Victim Gets $7 Million Settlement

Posted on January 11, 2010
King County, Wash., resident Rochelle Ogershok received a $7 million settlement from the county after she was struck by a Metro van while on her way to work in November 2007. According to the lawsuit, the driver of the van failed to yield the right-of-way to Ogershok at an intersection and broadsided her scooter...

Hospital Settles False Claims Lawsuit

Posted on January 11, 2010
A Minnesota hospital has agreed to pay the federal government $846,461 after allegations that they use unreasonable and unnecessary hospital admissions to make false claims to Medicare. According to the lawsuit, Wheaton Community Hospital ?admitted some patients and kept others admitted to acute care when doing so was not medically necessary...

Lawsuit Filed Over Fatal Canal Collapse

Posted on January 11, 2010
A Nevada city was negligent in the deaths of a mother and her two children who were killed when a canal collapsed last year, a lawsuit filed by a family member alleges. The lawsuit claims the city of Logan was aware of problems with the canal days before it collapsed, sending a mudslide down a [...

Abbott Labs Settles Generic Drug Lawsuit

Posted on January 11, 2010
Abbott Laboratories and two other drug companies settled a $22 million lawsuit with 25 states and the District of Columbia after the attorney general of Connecticut accused the companies of blocking a cheaper, generic version of one of their drugs from reaching the market...

Prison Officials Settle Wrongful Death Suit

Posted on January 11, 2010
Officials from the prison firm Wackenhut Corrections Corp. and Willacy County, Texas jail warden David Forrest reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount with the family of a man who was beaten to death in 2001 while in a Texas prison. The lawsuit claims that Gregorio de la Rosa Jr...

Family of Amputee Files Medical Negligence Lawsuit

Posted on January 11, 2010
An Ohio family has filed a lawsuit against doctors at two hospitals, claiming their son was not properly treated after his legs were amputated last year. According to the lawsuit, Steven “Blake” Haxton had both of his legs amputated after contracting a flesh-eating bacteria, but that the post-operative care fell ?below medical standards? and the [...

Lawsuit: Wisconsin Man Unlawfully Beaten, Tased

Posted on January 08, 2010
A Green Bay man has filed suit against three city police officers for allegedly violating his Fourth Amendment rights when they beat and tased him outside a Green Bay nightclub in September 2006. According to the lawsuit, three officers grabbed Christopher Santos as he was walking home from Confetti’s nightclub, beat and tased him and [...

Lawsuit: Unlit Pier Caused Boating Accident, Death.

Posted on January 05, 2010
A New York woman has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, claiming they should have better lit the Summerville Pier that the boat her husband was in crashed into in June 2008, killing him in the process. She has also filed a suit against four bars near the pier that served [...

Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against W.Va. Surgeon

Posted on January 05, 2010
A West Virginia family has filed a malpractice lawsuit against Charleston Area Medical Center and Dr. Robert W. Letton Jr., alleging Letton violated his duty to operate on an infant female ?within an acceptable standard of medical care.? According to the lawsuit, Letton lacerated the spleen of infant Savannah Lovejoy during surgery in December 2005, [...

Drug Maker Settles False Statement Suit

Posted on January 05, 2010
A New Jersey U.S. District Judge has approved a $165 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit against Schering-Plough Corp., that accused the drug maker of failing to adequately disclose ?serious and widespread deficiencies? in manufacturing and quality operations of the drug Clarinex between May 2000 and February 2001...

Air France Settles $11.5 Million Crash Lawsuit

Posted on January 04, 2010
An $11.5 million settlement was reached last week in a lawsuit against Air France related to a 2005 airplane crash that sent 33 passengers to the hospital. The plane overshot a runway a Pearson International Airport in Toronto during a rainstorm and crashed into a nearby ravine...

Woman Files Suit Againt Sheriff?s Dept. For Husband?s Death

Posted on January 04, 2010
An Illinois widow is suing the Kane County sheriff’s department and Linda Knotts, saying officers should have arrested Knotts during a March traffic stop ? instead she was issued a citation and later killed the plaintiff?s husband in a two-car accident...

Wash. Hospital Settles $1.3 Million Lawsuit

Posted on January 04, 2010
The family of a mentally disturbed man who fell 20 feet from a hospital window reached a $1.3 million settlement with Pierce County, Wash., in late December. The lawsuit filed by the family claimed that officials at Puget Sound Hospital did not provide Jeffery Fontinel with adequate supervision or a properly secured room...

Staten Island Ferry Crash Victim Awarded $813K

Posted on January 04, 2010
A New York woman who was one of many injured in a 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash was awarded $813,480 by a federal judge Thursday for back, arm, neck and shoulder injuries along with pain and suffering damages. Annamarie Trombetta testified that she has been experiencing chronic pain since the accident...

Second Lawsuit Filed Against Nevada Hospital

Posted on December 31, 2009
A lawsuit has been filed against University Medical Center in Nevada which alleges the hospital did not provide proper treatment to a woman in labor, leading to the death of the child. The lawsuit claims that Latricia Richard was complaining of labor pains but was not seen by a single doctor or advanced nurse...

Lawsuit Filed Against Apt. in Three Fire Deaths

Posted on December 31, 2009
Three Indiana families have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Bradford Schools and the owners of an apartment complex in which their three daughters died in a January fire. The cause of the fire was determined to be faulty wiring. According to the lawsuit, Dial Equities, the owner of the apartment complex, and the school, [...

Lawsuit: Morgan Stanley Defrauded Investors

Posted on December 31, 2009
A Virgin Islands pension fund filed a lawsuit last week against Morgan Stanley, alleging the bank defrauded investors by marketing $1.2 billion in notes that they knew were going to fail. According to the lawsuit, Morgan Stanley worked with a credit agency to bolster the ranking of the notes even though they were backed by [...

Jury Awards Damages to Cruise Ship Passenger

Posted on December 30, 2009
A Miami jury awarded a fitness instructor $9.5 million in a lawsuit in which he claims he injured his back by slipping on a wet floor on a cruise ship. The lawsuit claims that Danny Simpson became incontinent and impotent as a result of the injury that occurred on a Norwegian cruse line during 2006...

Lawsuit: Rehab Center Abandoned Patient

Posted on December 30, 2009
An Iowa nursing home abandoned a brain damaged patient at a local hospital and refused to resume care once the patient was treated, a lawsuit filed by the hospital claims. The lawsuit states that Broadlawns Medical Center informed the patient?s family a week after he arrived that he was ready to return to the Granger [...

Colo. County Settles Taser-Related Lawsuit

Posted on December 30, 2009
El Paso County officials agreed Tuesday to a $56,000 settlement with a Peyton, Colo., man who was shot twice in the chest with a Taser during a 2007 incident. According to the lawsuit, Jiles Theron Bennett was shocked twice after being pulled over for driving too slowly...

Ruling: Tased Man Can File Suit Against Officer

Posted on December 30, 2009
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a tennis instructor has the right to pursue damages against a Coronado, Calif. police officer for tasering him without notice in 2005. Court documents show that Officer Brian McPherson shocked Carl Bryan during a traffic stop after he became upset...

Malpractice Suit Filed Against Calif. Hospital

Posted on December 29, 2009
A lawsuit has been filed on the behalf of Penny Louise Prevezich against San Mateo County, Calif., alleging her 2008 death was the result of hospital negligence. According to the lawsuit, staff at the San Mateo Medical Center left Prevezich in a waiting area unattended for about 90 minutes, during which she died from cardiac [...

Lawsuit: Company Illegally Changed Health Benefits

Posted on December 29, 2009
NewPage Corp. retirees in Dayton, Ohio, are claiming in a lawsuit filed last week that the company has violated a collective bargaining agreement to eliminate subsidies for their healthcare premiums. The lawsuit states that labor agreements give NewPage no right to unilaterally shift health-care costs to employees once they have retired...

Class Action Suit Filed Against Trucking Firm

Posted on December 29, 2009
Employees of Arrow Trucking filed a class-action lawsuit Monday against the company in response to the sudden company shutdown without notice. According to the lawsuit, the company violated the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act by not giving their employees 60 days notice of their perilous financial state...

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