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Report: More Than 90 Percent of Nursing Homes Cited for Safety Violations

Posted on September 30, 2008
A new federal report found that nine of every 10 nursing homes were cited for violating federal health and safety standards last year. For-profit homes were more likely to have problems than other types of nursing homes, according to the report. Problems included infected bedsores, medication mix-ups and poor nutrition...

COPD Drugs Tied to Increased Risk of Stroke, Heart Attack

Posted on September 23, 2008
Common drugs that patients take for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have been linked to an increased risk of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular problems, researchers report. Scientists in North Carolina found a 58 percent increased risk of cardiac death, heart attack or stroke in people taking these drugs, said Dr...

FDA Considers Food Label Change for Allergies

Posted on September 16, 2008
Responding to concerns that food labels aren't doing enough to alert consumers to the presence of allergens, or that the labels are just plain confusing, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration hosted a public hearing Sept. 16 on what it can do to improve things...

FDA to Compile Quarterly List Of Drugs Being Investigated

Posted on September 08, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration will begin a quarterly posting of drugs whose safety is under investigation because of complaints filed by drug companies, physicians and patients. The FDA will name the drug and the nature of the "adverse events" but will not describe the number of complaints or how serious the events were, FDA officials said...

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Wash. Jury Awards $14.8 Million To Woman After Unsuccessful Jaw Surgeries

Posted on August 27, 2008
A Spokane, Wash. jury has awarded $14.8 million to a woman who alleged a local dentist was negligent in a series of jaw surgeries in 2000 and 2001 that left her permanently disabled. Medical and dental malpractice is a politically charged issue, which has led to an extremely complex set of state laws governing malpractice lawsuits...

Widow Sues Pfizer, Alleging Husband's Suicide Was Linked To Stop-Smoking Drug

Posted on August 22, 2008
An Indiana woman whose husband committed suicide in January 2008 has filed a lawsuit against Pfizer, the manufacturer of Chantix, a smoking-cessation drug her husband was taking. The woman alleges that the company failed to warn consumers that the prescription medication might cause serious psychiatric symptoms such as suicidal thoughts...

Skin Warning Issued About Alcoholism Therapy

Posted on August 13, 2008
The FDA is warning doctors about severe skin reactions in alcoholism patients who use Vivitrol, an injectable treatment made and marketed by Cephalon Inc. Doctors and patients should watch for swelling, infection, and other complications where the drug is injected...

S.C. Courts? Openness in Settlements Could Spread to Other Jurisdictions

Posted on August 04, 2008
In South Carolina, thanks to U.S. Judge Joe Anderson and State Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal, settlement records in cases involving public safety have been open for several years. That is a benefit to the public, according to a recent news report, because it lets consumers know just how dangerous a product might be...

Securities Arbitration Cases for Retirees

Posted on March 31, 2008
Continuing our conversation of Securities Arbitration cases for defrauded retirees, the common plaintiff in these cases all share similar characteristics: ? The individual has taken early retirement in the past three to five years ? The person purchased a variable annuity with retirement funds which was then placed in an individual retirement account (IRA) or; ? The retirement fund consisted of a cost-basis employer stock plan which was then converted to a rollover IRA or; ? The individual was advised to invest retirement funds into leveraged funds...

Avondale Seeks $420 Million from Norfolk Southern Railroad

Posted on March 31, 2008
When a Norfolk Southern train wreck caused a toxic chlorine spill in the mill town of Graniteville, the Avondale textile company?s flagship canvas plant had to be closed for eight days for safety reasons. The company closed its doors for good in May 2006 after experts determined it would have cost more than the business was worth to clean the buildings and replace the machinery...

Securities Arbitration: New Hope for Defrauded Retirees

Posted on March 17, 2008
Two recent awards in retirement securities arbitrations are bringing hope to retirees who have disputes with brokerage firms that gambled away their retirement funds. The first, in the case of Cain v. Securities America, concerns a retiree whose hard-earned savings were liquidated in favor of more aggressive investments...

New Ammo in the Fight for Subprime Loan Securities Victims

Posted on March 15, 2008
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal points out a strategy that has given victims of the subprime loan crisis new hope: using the 1921 Martin Act as a legal tool to crack down on misleading mortgage-backed securities offerings. Why is the Act so powerful? Simple: it takes away the burden for a plaintiff to prove intent to defraud, making filing a lawsuit against an unethical securities company that much easier for plaintiffs...

Should South Carolina Speed Limits Be Raised?

Posted on March 10, 2008
An interesting debate on South Carolina speed limits is heating up the pages of the Charleston Post and Courier. A recent editorial on speeding prompted community response from readers who debate speed limits, enforcement of limits, and lack of driver education...

Tabor City Crash Racks Up Mighty List of Charges

Posted on March 10, 2008
Driving while impaired. Felony hit-and-run. Open container in vehicle. Driving with a revoked license. Felony speeding to elude arrest. Running a stop sign. Any one of these violations could result in a brush with law enforcement. But when Richard Green of Tabor City got behind the wheel on Monday, March 3, he racked up all six charges in a car chase that led to a South Carolina Car Accident involving four other vehicles...

One-Car Crash Cuts Vet?s Life Short

Posted on March 07, 2008
A 21-year-old Iraq war veteran will never get the chance to reunite with his young wife, who remained in Iraq at the time of the South Carolina car crash that claimed his life. The man, George Elizondo, had served his tour of duty in Iraq as a naval medic and hospital corpsman...

Sugar Refinery Fire Extinguished, Death Toll At 8

Posted on March 04, 2008
A week after the fires at the Imperial Sugar Co. plant in Port Wentworth started, firefighters finally managed to douse the last remnants of the refinery blast, but not before another victim was pronounced dead. Seven other people have been found dead in the rubble at the Imperial Sugar Co...

USDA Orders Largest Meat Recall in U.S. History

Posted on February 29, 2008
The USDA ordered a meat recall after an investigation revealed a disturbing story about the inhumane methods by which one of our nation?s slaughterhouses treats its animals. According to an Associated Press report, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse which is the subject of an animal abuse investigation...

South Carolina Rural Roads Ranked Among Nation?s Most Dangerous

Posted on February 27, 2008
In an alarming statement on the lack of safety on the roads in South Carolina, a group of business leaders released a report on Tuesday, February 12th that details the loss of life and economic toll of accidents on South Carolina roads. The statistics paint a grim picture: Someone dies in a South Carolina auto accident about every eight hours...

Poultry Plant Forces Injured Workers Back On The Job

Posted on February 24, 2008
In a prime example of the lengths to which an employer will go to maintain profits and maintain a seemingly spotless safety record, a Greenville poultry plant has been accused of forcing workers with on-the-job injuries back on the job only hours after having medical procedures to repair things like lost digits and broken bones, according to an Associated Press report...

Wal-Mart, Toys ?R? Us Impose Stricter Safety Measures

Posted on February 21, 2008
In response to the laundry list of unsafe toys and recalled children?s products in the past calendar year, the nation?s top two toy sellers in the U.S., Wal-Mart and Toys ?R? Us, have announced that they will be imposing stricter measures on their suppliers ? including tougher lead content standards...

FDA Suspends Marketing of Trasylol

Posted on February 18, 2008
Trasylol, a defective drug manufactured by Bayer AG, may have claimed as many as ?1,000 lives per month? in the time before it was recalled, according to a doctor who presented a study to the FDA in September 2006. It wasn?t until November 2007, however, when the Canadian Data Safety Monitoring Board had stopped a Trasylol trial after a data analysis indicated that the 30-day mortality risk in the study?s patients was nearing ?statistical significance?, that Bayer suspended sales of the drug in the US at the FDA?s request...

Bridge Victims Prepare To Sue

Posted on February 13, 2008
Victims of last summer?s August 1st bridge collapse in Minneapolis, which claimed the lives of 13 people while injuring 145 others, have filed preliminary paperwork to sue the state, according to an Associated Press report published on January 22nd. The dozens of victims who were injured when the Interstate 35W bridge plummeted 60 feet into the Mississippi River had a deadline of 180 days from the accident to notify the state of their intent to sue for personal injury, that deadline date was January 27th...

Lawmakers Demand Toymaker Stop Selling Toys With Lead

Posted on February 11, 2008
If you have read our blog for any amount of time, you have seen countless entries about the recall of toys that contain lead paint. This recent rash of unsafe toy recalls reached a predictable end on Wednesday, January 30th when according to an AP article, lawmakers have stepped up and are asking the largest toy manufacturer in the U...

Children Injured When Church Bus Overturns

Posted on February 07, 2008
In a tragic example of the worst kind of South Carolina Bus Accident, ten children and their driver were injured when their bus overturned, according to an AP Report posted January 24th. The church bus overturned in Pickens County on the evening of Wednesday, January 23rd on U...

Uninsured Drivers Put South Carolina At Risk

Posted on February 04, 2008
The state Department of Motor Vehicles came out with some good news for South Carolina drivers this month. According to The State, the number of uninsured drivers involved in accidents in our state has dropped by half in the past few years, from 18% in 2003 to 9% in 2006, thanks to laws passed in 2002 and 2005...

Truck Accident Shows Importance of Maintenance

Posted on February 01, 2008
Our neighbors in Georgia bore the brunt of a South Carolina company?s mistake on Jan. 24, when bad brake maintenance caused an avoidable accident in Effingham County. According to an article in the Savannah Morning News, a tractor-trailer that belonged to Smith Logging of Grays tried to stop for a stop sign and discovered that his brakes were not working...

Third Lawsuit Filed in New Year?s Eve Accident

Posted on January 31, 2008
In a case that reads like a nightmare, a lawsuit asking for $10 million has been filed against a man who caused a car wreck in Anderson County on New Year?s Eve. According to the Anderson Independent-Mail News, it?s the third lawsuit against driver Robert Blair and his employer, Craft Construction, over the fatal three-car accident...

Intersection With Repeated Accidents Called Unsafe

Posted on January 28, 2008
In the wake of a fatal accident this month, residents are questioning the safety of an intersection in Darlington County. According to a story posted on the website of news station WBTW, the intersection of S.C. 340 and Rogers Road saw 62 crashes in the five years between 2002 and 2007...

Bill Would Be Good for Teen Drivers -- And All of Us

Posted on January 25, 2008
Because the Louthian Law Firm has handled South Carolina auto accident cases for nearly 50 years, unfortunately we?ve seen firsthand that younger drivers are more likely to make bad decisions out of inexperience. That?s why we were pleased to see that the South Carolina legislature is considering a bill that would require defensive driving courses for teens...

GE Recalls Close to 100,000 Microwave Ovens

Posted on January 21, 2008
General Electric has recalled 92,000 combination wall and microwave ovens. The product recalls come after the discovery that the door switch in the ovens can overheat and ignite plastic components in the appliance. The defective units were built by GE Consumer & Industrial, of Louisville, KY and sold under the Kenmore, GE, and GE Profile Brands...

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