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Ground Beef Recalled Over Fear of Foodborne Illness, E. Coli Infections

Posted on May 22, 2009
An Illinois meatpacker has recalled nearly 96,000 pounds of ground-beef products after receiving reports of E. coli infections that may be linked to the beef, said the federal Agriculture Department. The meatpacker, Valley Meats LLC, distributed the beef in 10-pound to 40-pound packages in March, according to the federal agency...

$1 Million Awarded In Medical Malpractice Death

Posted on May 20, 2009
A federal jury awarded almost $1 million to a 79-year-old Vermont resident's family on May 15, ending a lawsuit filed in 2006 against Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. The woman underwent coronary bypass surgery at the medical center in August 2005 and was readmitted two days later because she had difficulty breathing...

Chantix Causes Serious Side Effects

Posted on May 14, 2009
In 2006, the website, Chantix Home, stated the drug ?has no match among the smoking cessation drugs at present.? The site lists side effects, based on the clinical trials performed by Pfizer (the maker of Chantix) are pretty common ones such as nausea, sleep disorder, gas, constipation, headache, and loss of taste...

Ed McMahon Settles Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

Posted on May 08, 2009
Ed McMahon has settled a medical malpractice lawsuit against Cedars Sinai Medical center for an undisclosed amount reports Entertainment Tonight. The long time TV personality claims the doctors failed to correctly diagnose a broken neck he sustained in a 2007 after a fall at a friend?s house...

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Washington State Woman Awarded $5.5 Million in Car Crash

Posted on April 30, 2009
Washington State?s Bellingham Herald reports Whatcom County and the state must pay $5.5 million because their negligence allowed a drunk driver to injure a Washington woman in January 2007. The jury found the county and the State Patrol were negligent in not preventing the other woman from driving drunk before the crash...

Sales of Three Yamaha Rhino ATV / UTV Vehicles Suspended Because of Rollover Risk

Posted on April 15, 2009
Following reports of 46 deaths and hundreds of injuries -- many from rollover accidents -- sales of three Rhino off-highway recreational vehicles have been halted until free safety repairs can be made by Yamaha Motor Corp., the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced in late March...

Prescription Drug Raptiva Removed From Market

Posted on April 09, 2009
The Genentech unit of drug maker Roche Holding AG, makers of the psoriasis drug Raptiva, is removing the drug from the market after learning it can cause a rare fatal disease of the central nervous system. Raptiva was approved in 2003 for the treatment of chronic moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, a condition of the skin characterized by red, scaly, inflamed patches of skin...

Most of $8.5 Million Award Upheld In Medical Misdiagnosis Case

Posted on March 30, 2009
USA Today reports a federal judge has upheld most of the $8.5 million he awarded in a medical misdiagnosis case. In 2002, a doctor at Scott Air Force Base, in southern Illinois, misdiagnosed the ex-wife of a captain when she came to him with a rash on her arm and he assumed she was an addict wanting prescription drugs...

$4 Million Verdict For Family Whose Son Had Severe Birth Injuries

Posted on March 26, 2009
A Palm Beach County, Fla. jury has awarded $4 million to a family whose child was born with severe mental retardation more than 11 years ago at a Florida Hospital. The family's lawsuit contended that problems getting an operating room led to several hours of delay...

Nev. Surgeon May Lose Medical License

Posted on March 11, 2009
At an emergency meeting on March 11, 2009, the Medical Board of Nevada is meeting to consider suspending the license of a Las Vegas surgeon after he has been accused of multiple counts of dangerous conduct, reports the Las Vegas Sun. Most of the doctor?s incidents have occurred at Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center...

Patients Right to Sue Drug Makers Upheld By Supreme Court

Posted on March 05, 2009

NC Tainted Syringe Case Reveals Flaws In Agency Oversight

Posted on February 27, 2009

Pfizer Runs Anti-Smoking Ad Without Naming Chantix

Posted on February 19, 2009
With the increasing reports of suicidal thoughts and other serious neuropsychiatric symptoms tied to the anti-smoking drug Chantix, the drug's maker has launched a new ad that does not even mention the product by name. Consumer Reports says such ads are known as "help-seeking" ads come in handy for drugs "that have a particularly nasty list of side effects...

Possible Salmonella Found At Texas Peanut Plant

Posted on February 10, 2009
The Peanut Corp. of America, the company at the center of a national salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds of people, has temporarily closed its plant in Plainview, Texas, after test results showed "the possible presence of salmonella" in some of its products...

Radiologists Misjudge Risk of Being Sued For Medical Malpractice

Posted on February 06, 2009
Radiologists who work in breast imaging estimate their chances of being sued as four times higher than the actual number of lawsuits, reports the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), the nation?s oldest radiology society. The University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine in Seattle, WA, released the results of studies conducted in 2002 and 2006...

GA Peanut Processor Linked To Salmonella Outbreak Shipped Contaminated Products 12 Times in Past Two Years

Posted on January 28, 2009
Peanut Corporation of America's Georgia plant, which has been linked to salmonella in peanut butter that has made 500 people ill and killed eight, shipped out contaminated peanut butter 12 times in the past two years, federal officials said yesterday...

Senate Passes Wage Discrimination Bill

Posted on January 23, 2009
A wage discrimination bill that reverses a 2007 Supreme Court ruling cleared the Senate Jan. 22 and could be ready for signing by President Barack Obama within days. The bill is aimed at negating a high court ruling that narrowly defined the time period during which a worker can file a claim of wage discrimination...

Louthian Law Firm Makes News in Employment Law Filing

Posted on January 17, 2009
South Carolina Attorney Herbert Louthian is one of the attorneys representing an assistant superintendent in a lawsuit against Hampton School District Two. The South Carolina school official alleges she was wrongfully placed on administrative leave twice in less than one year...

Federal Leaders Urge Caution As Mortgage Fraud Grows

Posted on December 30, 2008
Mortgage fraud is turning into a blight on the national economy, and federal authorities are warning homeowners, including those in South Carolina, to tread carefully when buying or selling property. Mortgage fraud is now estimated as costing Americans $4 billion to $6 billion annually, according to the FBI...

Jury Awards $1.25 Million To Family For Neglect By Nursing Home

Posted on December 23, 2008
The family of a man who died four years at a Georgia nursing home have been awarded $1.25 million after a DeKalb County jury concluded that nursing home neglect was responsible for the man's death. Tucker Nursing Center allegedly provided inadequate care to the man when he was admitted in 2002 at the age of 67...

Jury Awards $48 Million To Worker Paralyzed In Steel Mill Accident

Posted on December 16, 2008
A jury has awarded $48 million in damages to a worker rendered paraplegic after a fall from a ladder at an Indiana steel mill. Anthony Arciniega fell from a ladder at ISG Burns Harbor -- now ArcelorMittal -- in November 2004. Court documents said the ladder was covered with refractory concrete due to the negligence of a subcontractor...

$13 Million Verdict Reached Over Alleged Injury From Acne Drug

Posted on December 02, 2008
A New Jersey jury has awarded nearly $13 million to three acne drug users who developed severe inflammatory bowel disease after taking the medication. The three plaintiffs are Florida residents who used the drug to treat adolescent acne. All three developed bowel disorders, including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease...

Family wins $20.5M for Son's Childbirth Injuries

Posted on November 24, 2008
A Pennsylvania jury has awarded $20.5 million to a family after alleged mistakes made during childbirth led to serious medical problems for their newborn son. The family will receive $2 million for health care expenses and related costs while the son, who is developmentally impaired, will receive $18...

Court Verdict Demonstrates Serious Consequences of Bike-Car Accidents

Posted on November 21, 2008
A recent court verdict in Missouri demonstrates the kind of traumatic injuries that can occur in a bicycle-car collision. A jury returned a $1.8 million verdict in a personal injury case brought by a University of Missouri student. She was seriously injured in 2005 when she was struck by two vehicles at an intersection near campus...

Hot Dogs Recalled due to Possible Listeria Contamination

Posted on November 12, 2008
R.L. Zeigler Co., Inc in Selma, Alabama has issued a recall on approximately 28,610 pounds of hot dog products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria monocytogenes can cause listeriosis which can be fatal for people with weak immune systems, infants, and the elderly...

Family Awarded $13.3M in Pain Patch Wrongful Death

Posted on November 07, 2008
A Florida jury has awarded $13.3 million to the family of a woman who died when her pain patch failed and flooded her system with too much medication. Susan Diane Hodgemire, 34, suffered from violent vomiting and fell into a coma after the contents of the patch came into direct contact of her skin...

Report: More Marine Deaths From Motorcycle Crashes In Past 12 Months Than Iraq Combat

Posted on October 31, 2008
Motorcycle accidents during the past 12 months have killed more Marines than combat duty in Iraq, a new report says. The alarming death rate has prompted military officials to call a meeting to address the issue. Since last November, 25 U.S. Marines have died in motorcycle crashes, compared to 20 Marines killed during fighting in Iraq...

Infant Death Prompts Recall of More than 1.5 Million Cribs

Posted on October 22, 2008
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the voluntary recall of about 1.5 million cribs following the death of an 8-month-old child. Two separate drop side cribs made by Delta Enterprise Corp., of New York, New York are involved in the recall notice...

Legal Experts Predict Increase In Lawsuits Over Heart Drug Trasylol

Posted on October 16, 2008
The drug Trasylol was used during open-heart surgery to reduce blood loss in thousands of patients. However, the FDA suspended sales of the drug in 2007 over a possible link to kidney failures, heart attacks and strokes. Because so many heart surgery patients received Trasylol during the 14 years it was on the market, attorneys told legal newspaper Lawyers USA that litigation is likely to develop into a mass tort...

Patient Awarded $9.8 Million For Malpractice During Heart Surgery

Posted on October 09, 2008
A Lexington, KY hairdresser who became paraplegic after a routine heart surgery has been awarded $9.89 million in the largest medical malpractice verdict ever in Fayette County. The plaintiff had valve surgery in April 2006. The surgery took less than an hour and was successful, but medical experts testified that the surgeon misplaced a hose to a machine that pumps blood during the surgery, causing too much blood and oxygen to be pumped to her right hand -- and too little to her brain and thoracic spinal cord...

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