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By Edward ("Ted") Bills

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

Doctors Group Settles False Claims Suit

Posted on December 28, 2009
A Michigan doctors group agreed to pay $9.5 million in a settlement to the federal government and the state of Michigan in a lawsuit that alleged they submitted false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE. According to the lawsuit, the Visiting Physicians Association sent in false reports regarding unnecessary home visits, tests and procedures and [...

Suit Filed Against Store In Shooting

Posted on December 28, 2009
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in Galveston, Texas, against owners of a convenience store whose clerk was killed during a January 2008 robbery. The lawsuit, filed by the family of Abdul H. Meje, claims the store owner did not provide adequate security for Meje, who was shot while behind the counter...

Lawsuit: Hospitals Refuse Woman In Labor

Posted on December 28, 2009
A lawsuit was filed last week by a Las Vegas woman against University Medical Center and Valley Hospital, claiming the hospitals refused to admit her for severe abdominal pains that turned out to be labor. According to the lawsuit, employees at both hospitals ignored Roshunda Abney, who did not know she was pregnant, for hours [...

Wrongful Death Suit Filed After Crash

Posted on December 24, 2009
The family of a boy who was killed in a car accident in St. Charles, Ill., in June while riding in the passenger seat filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver, Onofrio J. Lorusso. The lawsuit states Lorusso was driving negligently and without regard for the safety of the passengers...

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Texas Must Destroy Newborn Blood Samples

Posted on December 24, 2009
A lawsuit settlement in Texas Tuesday is forcing the state to destroy more than 5 million blood samples taken from newborns since 2002. According to the lawsuit, the blood samples, while legally taken, were kept without parental consent and violated privacy laws...

Pharmacy Negligent in Death, Lawsuit Claims

Posted on December 22, 2009
A lawsuit has been filed by the family of a Troy, Mich., man against a Rite Aid pharmacy that allegedly filled an incorrectly written prescription that resulted in his death. According to the lawsuit, John Sheridan was prescribed 10 times the recommended dosage of Temodar in September 2007, and the pharmacist should have recognized the [...

Mo. Hospital Settles Malpractice Suit for $2.5 Million

Posted on December 22, 2009
A Missouri woman received a $2.5 million settlement from University Hospital in Columbia, Mo., stemming from a 2005 medical malpractice lawsuit. According to the suit, doctors improperly placed an IV in Susan Martin?s upper chest instead of her wrist, which caused fatty blockages to travel to her brain, resulting in strokes and brain damage...

Doctors Negligent for Malpractice, Jury Finds

Posted on December 21, 2009
A Boston jury awarded $15 million to the parents of a 3-year-old Pennsylvania child whose 2004 death at Children?s Hospital Boston was the focus of a malpractice lawsuit. The jury found that former physician-in-chief at Children?s Dr. James Lock and anesthesiologist Dr...

Lawsuit: Gauze Caused Infection

Posted on December 21, 2009
A Staten Island, N.Y., woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Staten Island University Hospital and two doctors for a piece of gauze allegedly left inside her abdomen during a 2000 surgery. According to the lawsuit, the gauze caused in infection in Margaret Palombo?s belly, requiring another surgery to clean up the infection...

BP Pays $100 Million To Contract Workers

Posted on December 21, 2009
Contract workers at British Petroleum?s Texas City oil refinery were awarded $100 million by a federal jury Friday in a lawsuit alleging the workers were exposed to toxic substances in April 2007. According to the lawsuit, the 10 plaintiffs were exposed to carbon disulfide, a harmful compound that allegedly gave them flu-like symptoms, while working [...

Responsibility in KBR Convoy Deaths Back in Question

Posted on December 18, 2009
Newly gathered e-mails could provide a different view on who could have prevented the deaths of six civilian truck drivers during a 2004 attack of a KBR convoy in Iraq. A Houston judge initially ruled that the U.S. Army had control over the deployment of the convoy, but new-found e-mails may point the other way...

Lawsuit: Field Conditions Caused Injury

Posted on December 18, 2009
An Arizona school district is facing a $350,000 lawsuit filed by a high school football player who was injured in 2008 on a high school practice field. The lawsuit claims that Blake Garcia severely injured his ankle in September 2008 because of ?deplorable? condition on the Lake Havasu High School practice field and, as a [...

Window Blind Recall Largest in U.S. History

Posted on December 17, 2009
The Consumer Product Safety Commission on Tuesday recalled all Roman-style shades and roll-up blinds with cords ? around 50 million ? due to the risk of child strangulation and death. The Chicago Tribune reports that eight child deaths and 16 near-strangulations from these types of shades have occurred since 2001...

Philly Hospitals Settle in Medicare Suit

Posted on December 17, 2009
A four-year lawsuit initially brought on by a whistleblower against Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County, Penn., was settled this week. Lourdes Health System agreed to pay the federal government $7.9 million to settle claims against two of its Philadelphia suburb hospitals, Lourdes Medical and Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, who allegedly inflated charges [...

Md. Police Officer Files Workers? Comp. Lawsuit

Posted on December 17, 2009
A former Montgomery County, Md., police officer has filed a workers’ compensation lawsuit against the county, claiming he developed heart problems in 2005 while on the job. According to the lawsuit, Steven Hood was treated for hypertension in 2005...

Lawsuit: Daycare Allegedly Gave Kids Sleeping Pills

Posted on December 17, 2009
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against an Ohio daycare by parents of children who were allegedly given the supplement Melatonin to make them sleep during the day. The lawsuit accuses the daycare and the church that owns it of negligence, battery and negligent supervision...

Lawsuit: Dallas Tollway Median Unsafe

Posted on December 16, 2009
An Irving, Texas, family has filed suit against the North Texas Toll Authority, claiming the median wall on the Dallas North Tollway is unsafe. In December 2007, William Bond was killed on the tollway when a driver traveling in the opposite direction struck the median, sending chucks of concrete through Bond?s windshield, killing him instantly...

Lawsuit: Scanners Use Too Much Radiation

Posted on December 16, 2009
A class-action lawsuit was filed against G.E. Healthcare Tuesday in Huntsville, Ala., on behalf of 16 people who allegedly received high doses of radiation from the company?s CT perfusion scanners. According to the lawsuit, G. E. Healthcare ?carelessly researched the design and failed to adequately test its products, and that the scanners lacked safety features [...

W.Va. City Pays in Police Beating Suit

Posted on December 16, 2009
The city of Montgomery, W.Va., has agreed to pay $500,000 to a Charleston, W.Va., couple were falsely arrested and beaten by a former Montgomery police officer in September 2008. The Charleston Gazette reported that Twan and Lauren Reynolds were assaulted by Officer Matthew Leavitt during a traffic stop...

Drowning Victims Win $5.75 Million Lawsuit

Posted on December 16, 2009
The city of Miami Beach has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of Zachary Breaux who drowned in 1997 while trying to save a woman who was caught in a riptide. According to a 2005 Florida Supreme Court ruling, cities have a responsibility to warn beachgoers of dangerous conditions that are known or [...

Second Lawsuit Filed in Death of Highway Workers

Posted on December 11, 2009
A second $5 million lawsuit has been filed in Anderson County, Tenn., over the deaths of two teenagers killed by an out-of-control truck while working in the median of Interstate 75. Cheyenne Dakota Burke, 18, and Jeffery Brian Thompson II, 19, were killed Nov...

City Settles in Taser Injury Lawsuit

Posted on December 11, 2009
The city of Columbia, Mo., has agreed to pay $300,000 to a man who was severely injured by a police Taser during an arrest last year. Police shocked Phillip Lee McDuffy on Interstate 70 in Missouri while trying to keep him from jumping off an overpass in July 2008...

Winery Settles Suit Over Alcohol-Related Crash

Posted on December 11, 2009
A winery in Santa Rosa, Calif. has agreed to pay $3 million in a settlement with a Sebastopol man, Joshua Apodaca, who was permanently disabled in an alcohol-related car crash in 2006. The lawsuit states that Paradise Ridge Winery allegedly served alcohol to a minor at a wedding reception who then crashed his car with [...

Contamination Leads to Slim-Fast Beverage Recall

Posted on December 10, 2009
The maker of a popular diet drink has issued a nationwide recall of its canned beverages over potential bacterial contamination. Unilever said the recall covers all canned Slim-Fast products sold in cartons or individually. It remains unclear exactly what caused the contamination...

Infant Deaths Prompt Baby Hammock Recall

Posted on December 10, 2009
Federal safety officials have announced the recall of about 24,000 baby hammocks following the deaths of two infants. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, babies can become trapped and could suffocate against the sides of the mesh and fabric Amby Baby Motion Beds...

Doctor Liable for Medical Malpractice, Jury Finds

Posted on December 10, 2009
A Kentucky jury has ordered a Pikeville doctor to pay more than $4.6 million for injuries sustained by a local man during a 2007 medical procedure, the Williamson Daily New reports. After deliberating for about three hours, jurors found that Dr. Mark Swofford was liable for medical malpractice, according to an attorney for the plaintiff...

Family Files Suit Over Wrong-Way Crash

Posted on December 10, 2009
The family of two people killed earlier this year in a collision with a woman who was traveling the wrong way on a New York highway have filed a lawsuit against the other driver?s estate. In the lawsuit, the family alleges that 36-year-old Diane Schuler was impaired by drugs and alcohol at the time of [...

Nevada Court Weighs Award in Wrongful Death Case

Posted on December 10, 2009
The Nevada Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a challenge to a $14.1 million wrongful death verdict stemming from a 2001 car crash, the Las Vegas Review Journal reports. In the accident, 58-year-old Rosa Delgado was struck and killed by truck owned by a gas station company and driven by temporary workers...

Lawmaker Asks Medical Groups to Disclose Payments

Posted on December 10, 2009
Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa has asked more than 30 medical groups to disclose payments from pharmaceutical companies and medical device makers, reports the New York Times. Critics contend that such payments place undue influence on medical advocacy organizations and their directors...

Lawsuit Filed Over Amputation

Posted on December 09, 2009
A Pennsylvania hospital was negligent in the treatment of a woman whose legs were partially amputated after she was admitted while intoxicated, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. In the lawsuit, Shanna Hiles argues that Uniontown Hospital, Fayette Regional Health System and an emergency room physician ignored symptoms of acute compartment syndrome because she was [...

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