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Boston Scientific Sued for Wrongful Death Caused By Defective Cardiac Defibrillator

Posted on May 20, 2008
The family of a man who died after he was implanted with a cardiac defibrillator is suing Boston Scientific for his wrongful death. They allege that the defibrillator was defective and caused his death. Boston Scientific used to be called Guidant Corp...

North Carolina Doctor Groups and N.C. Medical Board Disagree on Whether Medical Malpractice Settlements Should Be Made Public

Posted on May 13, 2008
The North Carolina Medical Board wants doctors in the state to list online any medical malpractice settlements that they?ve been involved in. Data would include the doctor?s name and the settlement?although the amount of the settlement would not be published...

Two North Carolina Police Officers Are Injured After Falling Through Building Skylights

Posted on May 08, 2008
In Catawba County, North Carolina, two Longview police officers were injured after falling through a roof. The men were inspecting what they thought was a break-in at a roofing equipment and tools company E.L. Hilts & Co. The two officers saw that the gate to the building was unlocked and a ladder was leaning against the building...

Return of North Carolina Motorcyclists In Spring Followed By Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month

Posted on May 05, 2008
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has dubbed the month of May as Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month to promote motorcycle safety and road sharing between motorcyclists and other drivers. The national safety campaign comes less than a week after the end of North Carolina?s Motorcycle Safety Awareness Week, which took place from April 21 to April 25...

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Woman Injured In Raleigh, North Carolina Bicycle Accident Dies

Posted on April 30, 2008
Nancy Leady, 60, died last week after her bicycle was struck by a 21-year-old North Carolina State student. Brian Reid had been celebrating his 21st birthday when the tragic accident happened. He has been charged with driving while intoxicated, failure to control speed, and misdemeanor death by motor vehicle...

Plaintiff Mother In Ag-Mart Birth Defect Lawsuit Worked in North Carolina Tomato Fields While Pregnant With Son Born Without Limbs

Posted on April 22, 2008
Ag-Mart Produce has agreed to settle the birth defects lawsuit filed by the parents of Carlitos Candelario, a 3-year-old boy born without arms or legs. The boys? parents Abraham Candelario and Francisca Herrera had worked for the tomato grower in fields in North Carolina and South Carolina that had been sprayed with pesticide while Francisca was pregnant...

Pitt County Grand Jury Indicts North Carolina Two Drivers Involved in Separate Deadly Car Accidents

Posted on April 18, 2008
In Pitt County, North Carolina, a grand jury this week indicted two men involved in separate deadly motor vehicle accidents that took place earlier this year. Pablo Delacruz, was speeding in his Chevrolet Camaro on March 22 when he hit Harold Mills, a 75-year-old man on a bicycle...

UNC Pediatrician Being Sued For Sex Abuse Asks North Carolina Medical Board to Suspend His Medical License

Posted on April 08, 2008
Dr. Mel Levine, a doctor and adjunct professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill?s School of Medicine has asked the North Carolina Medical Board to put his medical license to practice medicine in the state in inactive status...

North Carolina Parents File Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Stokes County Department of Social Services For Son?s Drowning Deaths

Posted on April 02, 2008
In North Carolina, Melissa White is suing the Stokes County Department of Social Services for wrongful death. Her sons, Jeffrey, 4, and Jacob, 3, White, drowned in the Dan River in 2006 after the social services department had taken the boys from their home and placed them under their paternal grandparents? care...

University of North Carolina Wilmington Student Dies and Three Others Are Injured In Car Accident Involving Alcohol

Posted on April 01, 2008
Annie McLeod, a University of North Carolina Wilmington Student, died on Sunday following a deadly car accident on North College Road in Wilmington over the weekend. McLeod, 22, and two of her UNCW schoolmates, 19-year-old Tyler Roberts of Raleigh and 18-year-old Sarah Brown of Colerain, were on the road at around 2am on Sunday when they were struck by a Blue Lincoln that crossed the median...

Charlotte, North Carolina Teenager Dies After Police Apprehend Him with Taser

Posted on March 23, 2008
Darryl Wayne Turner, a 17-year-old Charlotte, North Carolina teenager died on Friday after police shocked him with a Taser. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police was called to a local Food Lion store where the teenager worked as a bagger and a cashier. The police say that Turner appeared agitated and threw something at a manager...

North Carolina Highway Patrol Go Into Auto Accident-Prevention Mode for Easter Weekend

Posted on March 21, 2008
The North Carolina Highway Patrol says it will be on the lookout over the Easter weekend for drunk drivers, speeding drivers, aggressive drivers, erratic drivers, and drivers without seatbelts. The crackdown is intended to keep auto accident injuries and wrongful death incidents low...

Deadly New York Crane Accident Highlights Safety Issues As Multiple Cranes Operate in Charlotte, North Carolina

Posted on March 19, 2008
The deadly New York crane collapse that left seven people dead has brought the issue of crane safety to attention?especially in Charlotte, North Carolina where a number of cranes are in operation. Heade Southeast, Inc. operates 20 cranes in Center City Charlotte alone, not to mention another 20 cranes in the rest of the region...

Teenage Son Files Lawsuit Against North Carolina Domestic Violence Shelter For Mother?s Murder

Posted on March 12, 2008
In North Carolina, Jeffrey Mertz is suing the REACH Shelter of Jackson County, a Sylvia domestic violence shelter for women, for the murder of his mother, Bonnie Woodring. Mertz is accusing the shelter of not providing adequate security in September 2006 to prevent his stepfather, John "Woody" Woodring, from locating and entering the shelter...

Does Raleigh, North Carolina?s Dog Bite Rules ?Go Easy on the Dogs??

Posted on March 10, 2008
In Raleigh, North Carolina last year, police responded to 367 reports of animal attacks?a 56% increase since 2000. According to the News & Observer.com, someone is bitten by a dog every day in Raleigh. The newspaper goes on to report that many dog bite victims in the city are not happy with the way dog bite cases are handled, saying that the burden of proof and the costs of the injuries frequently lie with the dog bite victims...

John Ritter?s Wife Actress Amy Yasbeck Testifies During Wrongful Death Trial

Posted on March 03, 2008
Amy Yasbeck, the wife of late actor John Ritter, resumed her testimony today in the wrongful death trial against the two doctors who treated her husband before his death. Yasbeck and Ritter?s children are suing radiologist Matthew Lotysch and cardiologist Joseph Lee for $67 million...

AAA Carolinas Releases Its List of Most Dangerous Places to Drive in North Carolina

Posted on February 28, 2008
A report released by AAA Carolina ranks the most dangerous places to drive in North Carolina. Haywood County was named the place where there is the ?Best chance of being in a collision? under the category ?Top 5 Dangerous Counties for Tractor-Trailers...

Duke Lacrosse Players File Lawsuit Against Duke University and the City of Durham, North Carolina

Posted on February 21, 2008
Over three dozen current and ex-Duke Lacrosse players are suing Duke University, the North Carolina city of Durham, and a number of police and school officers. The federal lawsuit alleges abuse, fraud, and breach of duty during the high profile case, now dismissed rape case against three team members...

Supreme Court Places New Limits on Products Liability Lawsuits Filed Against Medical Device Manufacturers

Posted on February 20, 2008
Now, more than ever, it is important to speak with an experienced defective medical device attorney to discuss your case. In an 8-1 vote today, the U.S. Supreme Court voted to place new limits on defective medical device lawsuits filed against Medtronic Inc...

North Carolina Says Care Facility?s Failure To Properly Supervise 10-Year-Old Autistic Boy Led To Drowning Death

Posted on February 14, 2008
North Carolina Officials say that the RHA Howell Center-Clear Creek failed to properly supervise 10-year-old Brandon Parrish Johnson, an autistic boy that they had been warned would run off if he was not closely watched by staffers. On January 27, Brandon did just that and drowned...

North Carolina Convicted Murderer Mike Peterson Now Owes $35 Million for Wrongful Death of His Wife

Posted on February 11, 2008
Michael Peterson, the Durham North Carolina man convicted of the 2001 first-degree murder of his wife, Kathleen Peterson, agreed a year ago to settle the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him by Kathleen?s daughter, Caitlin Atwater. Atwater claims that Peterson maliciously assaulted Kathleen...

Cause of North Carolina Plane Crash That Killed Six People is Still Under Investigation

Posted on February 04, 2008
The National Transportation Safety Board says that they have ruled out several possible causes of the fatal plane crash in North Carolina last Friday that killed all six people on the plane. The Beechcraft King Air C90A twin-engine turboprop?s cockpit voice recorder has been recovered, and it will be sent to Washington D...

Tractor-Trailer Accident on North Carolina Highway Kills One Man and Injures Another

Posted on January 28, 2008
One man is dead and another person was injured in North Carolina last week in a three-vehicle collision that occurred when a tractor-trailer?s brakes failed while headed south on NC 89. The tractor-trailer then crossed the center line, striking a Nissan pickup truck and then a Chevrolet van before slamming into a mountain and catching fire...

Davidson County Settles North Carolina Wrongful Death Lawsuit by Family of Inmate Beaten in Jail

Posted on January 22, 2008
The family of Carlos Claros Castro will receive a settlement payment in the wrongful death of Castro, who died in Davidson County, North Carolina after being beaten by two county jailers. The family of the Honduran immigrant had filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking $100 million--$50 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages...

Medtronic Injury Case Before the Supreme Court Will Impact Fate of Defective Medical Device Lawsuits

Posted on January 17, 2008
Medical device manufacturer Medtronic wants the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that medical device makers are exempt from products liability lawsuits, if a device that caused the injury is FDA approved. The specific case, Riegel v. Medtronic, stems from a personal injury lawsuit filed by the family of Charles Riegel, a man whose Medtronic-manufactured balloon catheter burst while he was undergoing a medical procedure to clear his arteries...

Parents of North Carolina Man Sue Franklin County Medical Officers for Son?s Wrongly Declared Death

Posted on January 15, 2008
In North Carolina, the parents of Larry D. Green, the man who Franklin County medical officers wrongly declared dead in January 2005, have filed a personal injury lawsuit against Franklin County?s medical examiner, Franklin County Emergency Medical Services, the emergency responders who were at Green?s pedestrian accident scene, Louisburg Rescue, and EMS...

Four People Injured On North Carolina Highway When Driver Going the Wrong Way Causes Multi-Car Collision Near New Bern

Posted on January 10, 2008
North Carolina?s State Highway Patrol is reporting four injuries from a multi-car collision that occurred on Monday on N.C. 55. The multi-car crash occurred because New Bern resident Richard Kenneth Walter Jr was headed east in the westbound lane. The accident occurred eight miles east of New Bern...

2005 Graniteville, South Carolina Train Accident and Chemical Spill Left Hundreds Injured, Says Latest Official Report

Posted on January 07, 2008
Three years after the deadly train collision and toxic chlorine gas spill in Graniteville, South Carolina that killed nine people and forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control is saying that over 1300 people can be considered victims of the train crash that involved a Norfolk Southern freight train striking a parked train located close to an Avondale Mills plant...

At Least 50 People Sent Hospitals After Greyhound Bus-Tractor-Trailer Accident Near Henderson, North Carolina

Posted on January 02, 2008
Two people were taken to a hospital in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in critical condition and at least 48 others were transported to a Henderson hospital after a Greyhound Bus and a tractor-trailer collided near Henderson. The bus was headed toward Raleigh on U...

North Carolina Workers at Butner Mental Hospital Accused of Beating Patient

Posted on December 26, 2007
Three workers at John Umstead Hospital in North Carolina are accused of beating a 51-year-old patient who staying at the state mental hospital while she was strapped to her bed. She was reportedly hit in the head because she attacked a clerk. A health care technician at the hospital reports hearing noises from a room that sounded like someone was being struck...

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