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Child Injuries and Deaths Lead to Drop-Side Crib and Stroller Recalls and CPSC Warnings About Infant Sleep Positioners and Baby Monitor Cords

Posted on October 31, 2010
Our Charlotte, North Carolina personal injury lawyers know how important it is for parents and caregivers to feel that they are doing everything possible to keep their kids? safe. This includes buying furniture, appliances, accessories, other products that do not pose a danger to their child...

Eye Complications Can Develop in Children Suffering from North Carolina Dog Bite Injuries to the Face

Posted on October 29, 2010
According to a recent study, approximately one in seven children who are treated for facial dog bite injuries end up with ophthalmic injuries. These injuries can lead to health complications and the need for revision surgery. The retrospective review examined 537 kids who were treated at a hospital for their facial dog bite injuries between 2003 and 2008...

Charlotte, North Carolina Injury Accident: Exploding Pen Injures CMS Student

Posted on October 18, 2010
A spokesperson for Turning Point Academy in north Charlotte is reporting that a student sustained minor injuries this morning when a pen that he was holding exploded. A bomb squad was called to the scene. At this time, no one is sure about exactly what caused the ink pen to send shards of plastic into the 14-year-old?s hands as he took off its top...

Evenflo Recalls 13,792 Maestro Child Safety Seats

Posted on October 15, 2010
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Evenflo is recalling 13,792 Maestro child safety seats because of a possible crack that can form near the harness adjuster that could result in a child becoming improperly restrained. Evenflo will fix the safety issue by giving consumers a metal reinforcement plate to better support the area of the adjuster...

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City of Charlotte Settles North Carolina Personal Injury Lawsuits Alleging Police Sexual Harassment by former CMPD Cop

Posted on October 09, 2010
The City of Charlotte has settled the North Carolina injury lawsuits filed by the two alleged victims of former Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officer Marcus Jackson for $225,000. The plaintiffs, a male and a female, are a couple. They contend that Jackson sexually assaulted her and harassed him after he pulled them over on December 28, 2009...

North Carolina Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed in Carbon Monoxide Death

Posted on October 06, 2010
The family of Monique L. Carpenter is suing Old Republic Home Protection, homeowner Willie McKinney, Windham Heating and Air Conditioning, and its owner Paul ?Eddie? Windham for her North Carolina wrongful death. Carpenter and her friend Darryl Gregory died on November 14, 2008 from carbon monoxide poisoning...

Family Files North Carolina Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Inmate Who Was Tasered While in Jail

Posted on September 30, 2010
The family of Ronald Eugene Cobbs is suing the Guilford County Sheriff?s Office and Prison Health Services for his North Carolina wrongful death. Cobbs, 38, died on August 19, 2009 after he was shocked with a Taser while in the Guilford County Jail. Cobb?s wife, Tricolia Cobbs, is accusing the defendants of using excessive force...

North Carolina Sex Abuse Lawsuit Filed Against Bishop Eddie Long

Posted on September 27, 2010
A North Carolina sexual abuse lawsuit has been filed against Bishop Eddie Long, the senior pastor of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Georgia. The complaint was filed in Huntsville where the Long runs New Birth Charlotte, a satellite church...

$21 Million Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Verdict Awarded to Woman Who Took Anti-Inflammatory Drug Sulindac

Posted on September 22, 2010
A federal jury has awarded Karen Bartlett a $21 million products liability award against Mutual Pharmaceutical Company. The 51-year-old woman developed Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) after taking Sulindac, an anti-inflammatory medication that is the generic version of Clinoril...

DePuy ASR Hip Replacement Products Recalled

Posted on September 16, 2010
DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., a Johnson and Johnson unit, is recalling its ASR Hip Resurfacing Systems and ASR XL Acetabular Hip Replacement products. ASR Hip Resurfacing Systems is a partial hip replacement product, and ASR XL Acetabular Hip Replacement is a total hip replacement system...

Mother Dies in North Carolina Fall Accident From Dorm Bunk Bed While Visiting Daughter at UNC-Chapel Hill

Posted on September 13, 2010
The mother of a 19-year-old UNC-Chapel Hill student died last month from a fatal head injury she sustained during a fall from her daughter?s dorm room bunk bed. The bed did not have safety rails. Donna Sykes was 49. Donna was reportedly helping her daughter Jesse, who has cerebral palsy, adjust to dorm life...

North Carolina Police Brutality: Inmate Wins $10,000 Personal Injury Settlement Over Alleged Pepper Spray Abuse

Posted on September 08, 2010
Prison inmate Bill Rayburn will receive a $10,000 North Carolina personal injury settlement from the state over alleged incidents of pepper spray abuse. State officials say that they are not admitting liability by settling. Rather, they are reaching a compromise over the dispute...

North Carolina Dog Attack Injures Jogger

Posted on August 30, 2010
A Mocksville men was injured on Sunday evening in a North Carolina dog attack when he was bitten three boxers. David Potts was jogging when the animals surrounded him. They didn?t stop biting him until their owner, Ralph Kinary, called them off. Potts had to undergo surgery to repair his arm tendon...

Charlotte, North Carolina Medical Malpractice: AMA Says 95 Liability Claims Filed for Every 100 US Physicians

Posted on August 25, 2010
The American Medical Association says that an average of 95 medical malpractice claims are filed for every 100 doctors. The AMA reveals this and other key findings in its report, which includes data based on a 2008 survey of 5,825 doctors from 42 specialties...

Dangerous Drug Lawsuit Seeks Injury Compensation for Rituxan User Who is Now A Quadriplegic

Posted on August 20, 2010
A 23-year-old man who is now a quadriplegic has filed a dangerous drug lawsuit against the makers of Rituxan. The defendants of this products liability complaint are Biogen Idec. and Genentech Inc. Jesse Peetz started taking the immunosuppressant in 2003 to treat thrombotic thrombocytopenia purpura, an autoimmune disorder that he had been suffering from since he was 11...

North Carolina Nursing Home Abuse, Medical Malpractice, and Inadequate Care Among Reasons Given for Why State Wants to Fine Chapel Hill Assisted Living Facility $20K

Posted on August 18, 2010
North Carolina?s Department of Health and Human Services is recommending that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services fine the Britthaven of Chapel Hill nursing home $20,000 in penalties. This amount is the federal maximum allowed for violations, which investigators say took place in February...

Charlotte, North Carolina Injury Attorney Michael A. DeMayo Now a Member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum

Posted on August 10, 2010
Michael A. DeMayo, a Charlotte, North Carolina personal injury lawyer, is now a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, one of the most prestigious groups of trial lawyers in the country. Members must have won multi-million dollar verdicts, settlements, and awards for their clients...

Dangerous Drug Lawsuit Involving Levaquin and Ruptured Tendons Will Go to Trial

Posted on August 06, 2010
Edward Karkoska?s dangerous drug lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, the makers of Levaquin, will go to trial, ruled a federal judge?despite efforts by the manufacturer and subsidiary Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Inc. to have the case dismissed. Karkoska maintains that if there had been more information available about the side effects linked to the antibiotic, his doctor would have prescribed a different medication...

At Least Four North Carolina Nursing Home Residents Killed by Mentally Ill and Violent Patients in the Last Two Years

Posted on July 31, 2010
According to Disability Rights North Carolina, the state has violated the Americans With Disabilities Act by neglecting to give mentally ill patients the correct type of housing, as well as not properly overseeing the sometimes hazardous and poor conditions at these state-licensed and inspected facilities...

Medical Device-Related Complications Send Over 70,000 Children to the ER Every Year

Posted on July 27, 2010
According to a new study, more than 70,000 teenagers and children end up in the emergency room every year because of medical device complications. Other findings by the US Food and Drug Administration researchers: ? Approximately � of the issues involve contact lenses use, which can lead to eye abrasions and infections...

Robeson County Nursing Home Negligence?: North Carolina Regulators Shuts Down Facility Following Series of Bad Performance Evaluations

Posted on July 23, 2010
The Robeson County Department of Social Services has found new assisted living facilities for the 43 people who had been living at St. Mary's Assisted Living. The North Carolina nursing home was shut down by the state last week after it received a series of poor performance reviews...

Pilot Error May Have Been a Factor In North Carolina Plane Crash at Horace Williams Airport

Posted on July 20, 2010
According to the National Transportation Safety Board?s preliminary report, pilot error may have been a factor in the Chapel Hill, North Carolina aviation accident on July 12. Per the report, a Cirrus SR20 touched down on the runway at Horace Williams Airport so hard that the plane bounced several times before crashing into a fence and trees...

Former Inmate Files North Carolina Personal Injury Lawsuit Over Tuberculosis Outbreak

Posted on July 13, 2010
Lumberton resident Floyd Baldwin is suing Brunswick County officials for North Carolina personal injury. The plaintiff, a former inmate, claims that negligence contributed to the tuberculosis outbreak that occurred in jail last summer. The defendants include Brunswick County?s sheriff, health department, commissioners, and Southern Health Partners Inc...

North Carolina Nursing Home Negligence: Britthaven of Chapel Hill Sued for Inadequate Care

Posted on July 10, 2010
The widow of Marian Orlowski is suing Britthaven of Chapel Hill for North Carolina nursing home neglect. Marian, who suffered from dementia, died from pneumonia at age 86. His wife, Jadwiga Orlowski, had him admitted to the Chapel Hill nursing home two years prior to his death after he underwent surgery...

Woman Shot During Police Pursuit Sues City of Asheville for North Carolina Personal Injury

Posted on June 30, 2010
Mary Wilcox is suing the city of Asheville and its police department for North Carolina personal injury involving use of excessive use of police force. Wilcox was shot in the leg, liver, and spleen during a police pursuit on May 31, 2007 in the Haw Creek neighborhood...

Families of Two Parasailing Victims Killed in Ocean Isle Beach Sue for North Carolina Wrongful Death

Posted on June 25, 2010
The families of Lorrie Shoup and Cindy Woodcock are suing Ocean Isle Beach Water Sports, North Carolina Water Sports, and owner Barrett McMullan for wrongful death. The two women died during a parasailing accident on August 28. Woodcock, 60, and Shoup, 55, fell 500 feet into the water off Ocean Isle Beach when the tow rope linking their parachute to the boat snapped...

High Point Pool Drowning Accident Claims the Life of Teenager in North Carolina

Posted on June 22, 2010
17-year-old Anthony Hayes died earlier this month in what appears to be a North Carolina drowning accident at High Point pool. City officials are trying to determine exactly what happened at the Washington Terrace Park Pool. Hayes did not know how to swim...

Hickory, North Carolina Personal Injury: Collapse of Church Ceiling Sends 12 to the Hospital

Posted on June 16, 2010
12 people were injured on Sunday when a section of the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church collapsed during service. Fortunately, non of the injuries were fatal and all of the North Carolina injury victims were treated and released. At least 150 people were at service when the ceiling collapsed...

5-Month-Old Baby Dies After 911 Calls in Cleveland County, North Carolina

Posted on June 10, 2010
Would 5-month-old Allyson Ray Smith be alive today if only someone had responded to all of the six 911 calls made by her family on Friday morning when she stopped breathing? That?s what her family is saying. Now, Cleveland County, North Carolina officials are trying to determine what happened...

Chapel Hill Nursing Home Abuse?: Cary Nurse Indicted in Murder of Alzheimer?s Patient

Posted on June 07, 2010
Angela Almore, a registered nurse from Cary, is charged with six counts of felony patient abuse and second-degree murder in the death of 84-year-old Rachel Holliday on February 16. The 84-year-old Alzheimer?s patient was a resident at Britthaven of Chapel Hill when she died...

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