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Missouri injury and accident Law including car accidents, medical malpractice, defective medical devices, burn injuries, and product liability.
By Jeff Lowe, Esq.

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Last Entry: March 30, 2011 at 03:41:30

Suffocation Dangers Trigger Crib Recalls

Posted on October 27, 2008
Last week, the Consumer Products Safety Commission recalled about 1.6 million cribs because of defects that can trap and smother infants. The recalls involve drop side cribs made for New York-based Delta Enterprise Corp. There are two hazardous defects, one involves a spring peg and the other involves missing safety pegs...

Illinois State Trooper Arrested for Drunk Driving

Posted on October 26, 2008
In 2008 an Illinois state trooper driving 120 miles an hour slammed into a car killing to sisters. Near that site another state trooper has been involved in an accident, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. This time the trooper, Jeffrey Gagen, was driving the wrong way on Interstate 64 near the Scott Air Force Base exit when he struck an oncoming car...

Missouri Teen Injured in Rollover ATV Accident

Posted on October 08, 2008
A Missouri teen was seriously injured when the all-terrain vehicle he was driving overturned and landed on top of him. According to the Springfield News-Leader, Michael W. Wilson, 17, was driving a 1988 Suzuki on Missouri NN in Pulaski County when the ATV went off of the right side of the road...

Hundreds of Operating Room Patients Set Ablaze Each Year

Posted on September 25, 2008
Surgical flash fires were once thought to be freak occurrences. But a new report reveals that about 600 people are set ablaze each year in the operating room, 20 to 30 of those patients suffer serious disfigurement and one or two die. The data was gleaned from information collected by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System, MSNBC...

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Mini-ATV Recalled Due to Defective Throttle

Posted on September 25, 2008
A recall has been issued on the four-wheeled Razor Dirt Quad because a defective throttle causes the vehicle to surge forward unexpectedly. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of the mini all-terrain vehicle on Sept. 25. Approximately 30,000 of the electric ride-on vehicles designed for children were sold nationwide from August 2006 through September 2007...

Texting While Operating Cars, Trucks and Trains can be Hazardous to Your Health and Everybody Around You.

Posted on September 19, 2008
In the wake of a deadly train crash outside of Los Angeles, attention has turned to the hazards associated with text-messaging. On Sept. 12, a Metrolink commuter train ran a red light and collided head-on with a freight train. Twenty-five people, including the engineer of the commuter train, Robert M...

Colon Cancer Patients Failed by Many U.S. Hospitals

Posted on September 11, 2008
When it comes to colon cancer, many hospitals have failed their patients. That?s the conclusion of a study released this week by Northwestern University?s Feinberg School of Medicine and the American College of Surgeons. The new study found that only 38 percent of approximately 1,300 hospitals checked a minimum of 12 lymph nodes to determine whether colon cancer has spread...

Reckless Illinois Driver who Caused Auto Accident is Convicted of Reckless Homicide

Posted on September 11, 2008
A woman who was driving an estimated 70 miles per hour in a 35 mile per hour zone and weaving in and out of traffic has been convicted of reckless homicide in the death of a 9-year-old boy. According to The News-Gazette, Melissa K. Darr, 42, of Gifford, Ill...

Missouri Motorcyclists Involved in Head-On Crash

Posted on September 03, 2008
Two Missouri motorcyclists were injured in a Labor Day crash, when a pick-up truck crashed head on into the motorcycle they were riding, The Carthage Press reports. The accident occurred on County Road 130 just south of Carthage. The driver of the pick-up truck failed to remain on his side of the road and crashed into the motorcycle when the vehicles reached the crest of a hill...

Motorcycle Riders Deaths Increase

Posted on September 01, 2008
As the number of motorcycle riders continues to climb, so, too, does the number of motorcycle-related fatalities. In the Illinois area of Champaign-Urbana, ten people in the past five months have died in motorcycle accidents, The News-Gazette reports...

Philadelphia Jury Awards $11 Million in Malpractice Case

Posted on August 20, 2008
A woman with a brain tumor who was left blind, paralyzed and brain damaged after emergency room doctors failed to order a simple CT scan has been awarded $11.2 million by a Philadelphia jury, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Yanira Montanez, a 20-year-old mother with a four-month-old baby, arrived at the Episcopal Hospital emergency room in Philadelphia complaining of headaches, numbness, nausea, and vomiting...

Diabetes Drug Byetta Linked to Two Deaths

Posted on August 18, 2008
At least two deaths have been linked to the diabetes drug Byetta, the Food and Drug Administration announced on Aug. 18. Byetta, an injectable drug used to treat adults with type 2 diabetes, is made by San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In October of last year, the FDA issued an alert indicating that it had reviewed 30 postmarketing reports of acute pancreatitis in patients taking Byetta, also known by the generic name exenatide...

Legislation Would Impact Chinese-made ATVs

Posted on August 05, 2008
Last week, lawmakers passed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 which is expected to be signed by the president. The new law would subject all-terrain vehicles made in China to U.S.-industry rules. The measure would also give the Consumer Product Safety Commission more authority to regulate ATVs...

Allstate?s Bad Faith Justifies $16 Million Verdict

Posted on July 30, 2008
The failure to respond to a settlement offer arising out of an auto accident demonstrated bad faith on the part of Allstate Insurance Co. and justified a $16 million verdict against it, a Missouri Court of Appeals has ruled. Allstate was the insurance carrier for Wayne Davis Jr...

Medical Malpractice Verdict for $4.3 Million in ?Switched? Surgeon Case

Posted on July 15, 2008
A Massachusetts jury awarded a 39-year-old mother $4.3 million after a non-board-certified doctor performed a heart procedure instead of the noted specialist she had retained, the Salem News reports. Denyse Richter had a heart arrhythmia that required medication...

Lasik Doctor Settles Malpractice Claim for $2.1 Million

Posted on July 09, 2008
A prominent eye surgeon has agreed to pay $2.1 million to settle the medical malpractice claim of a patient who claimed Lasik surgery left him legally blind, The Star-Ledger reports. The patient, James Dell?Ermo, hoped Lasik surgery would rid him of the glasses and contact lenses he wore for nearsightedness...

Doctors Upset by Plan to Publish Medical Malpractice Payments in Malpractice Cases

Posted on July 07, 2008
A proposal by North Carolina?s Medical Board to post medical malpractice payment information on its Web site has upset doctors, the News & Observer reports. In ?Plan to post malpractice data irks docs,? staff writer Sarah Avery explains that doctors, their insurers and lawyers who represent doctors are vocal opponents of the measure...

Illinois Surgeon?s License Suspended

Posted on June 16, 2008
The license of an Illinois surgeon who allegedly tried to fill an OxyContin prescription at a pharmacy using a deceased patient?s name has been suspended. Last month, Bradford Roberg, 53, a plastic surgeon with the Northern Illinois Plastic Surgery Center, was arrested after he tried to fill the OxyContin prescription at a CVS pharmacy, the Northwest Herald reports in an article written by Tom Musick...

Three Missouri Teens Killed in Car Crash were not Wearing Seatbelts

Posted on June 12, 2008
A car crash killed three Missouri teens and the deaths may have been preventable; this maybe one of the worst thing that could happen to a parent. Three Missouri teens died after a crash Saturday in Morgan County. The crash happened at 12:44 a.m. on Missouri 135, near state Route BB in Florence, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol...

Three IDOT Workers Killed in Two Accidents

Posted on June 12, 2008
In Illinois, Two separate accidents left three Illinois Department of Transportation workers dead and one severely injured. According to the Associated Press, two contract workers died on the morning of June 11 while painting a bridge in a Chicago suburb...

Missouri Ranks Ninth for ATV-Related Deaths

Posted on June 11, 2008
Missouri, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, ranked ninth in the nation for all-terrain vehicle-related deaths in 2006. The CPSC also reports that from 2003 to 2006, there were 146,600 ATV-related injuries across the U.S., 27 percent of which were kids under 16...

Misdiagnosed Student Lost Arm From Flesh Eating Bacteria

Posted on June 04, 2008
A medical malpractice lawsuit maybe filed by the family of a college freshman who lost her arm as a result of a flesh-eating bacteria against the student medical center at Ohio University, reports the student-run newspaper The Post. On Sept. 6, 2007, a pain in her right arm sent Molly Millsop to the Hudson Health Center...

Driver Hurt in ATV Rollover Accident

Posted on June 02, 2008
As the weather heats up, all-terrain vehicle enthusiasts are taking to the trails. Unfortunately, some are getting hurt. On Sunday evening, a 40-year-old man suffered a head injury when the four-wheel, all-terrain vehicle he was riding crashed, rolled and landed on a bed of rocks at the bottom of a hill...

Missouri Teens Killed in ATV Crashes

Posted on May 29, 2008
Two Missouri teens were killed last week and one was seriously injured while riding all-terrain vehicles, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Yesterday, Zachary T. Barker, a 15-year-old from Potosi, died. He was a passenger on an ATV being driven by a 14-year-old...

Medical Malpractice--Woman Awarded $17M for Botched C-Section

Posted on May 28, 2008
In a medical malpractice lawsuit a woman claimed her doctor during a Caesarean section damaged her abdominal organs, caused pancreatic fluid and urine to burn through her abdominal wall and required the removal of her pancreas was awarded $17 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit, the Democrat and Chronicle reports...

Illinois Mother Settles Birth Injury Case for $15 million

Posted on May 22, 2008
An Illinois mother who claimed that a doctor?s repeated and futile attempts to deliver her son using a vacuum extractor delayed a timely Cesarean section and led to her son?s brain damage has received a $15.35 million settlement. The pregnant woman was admitted to Valley West Community Hospital in October 2001...

Highway Safety--Missouri Completes Cable Barrier Project to Prevent Cross Over Accidents

Posted on May 19, 2008
The last stretch of median cable barriers designed to reduce cross-over accidents on Missouri?s busiest highways has been installed in Jefferson County. To mark the occasion, the Missouri Department of Transportation has scheduled a ceremony in Herculaneum this afternoon...

Trasylol Pulled From the Market and Can Only be Used for Investigational Use

Posted on May 16, 2008
According to an announcement made by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Bayer?s clotting drug Trasylol will now only be available for investigational use. To use Trasylol, a doctor must conclude that a heart surgery patient has a high risk for blood loss, no other medication will work and that the ?benefits of the drug clearly outweighs the risks...

Trasylol Supplies Finally Pulled by Bayer

Posted on May 15, 2008
Bayer is finally removing the remaining supplies of Trasylol from the U.S. market after a long-awaited Canadian study confirmed yet again that the anti-bleeding drug is dangerous. On May 14, the BART study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine...

Canadian Trasylol Study Results Announced

Posted on May 14, 2008
The results of the long-awaited Canadian study on the anti-bleeding drug Trasylol were announced today in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers found that patients who were given Trasylol, known generically as aprotinin, had a 53 percent higher death rate than patients who were given comparable drugs...

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