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Beware of Faulty Smoke Detectors

Posted on October 27, 2008
While you may feel safe knowing that the smoke detectors in your home will alert you of impending fires, you can't always bank on them. Smoke detectors fail to perform all the time, and the results are frequently catastrophic for the family involved.There are very few defective products that are more dangerous to our lives than a faulty smoke detector...

Woman Sues Hospital over Failed Operation

Posted on October 24, 2008
A woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the hospital where she had her tubes tied, claiming they didn't perform the operation correctly.The woman became pregnant five years after undergoing the procedure. The surgeon who delivered her baby discovered that one of the clips used in the operation had been placed on a ligament instead of the right fallopian tube...

Jury Awards Florida Condominium $1M from Insurance Company

Posted on October 23, 2008
On October 17, a Florida jury ordered the Citizens Property Insurance Corp. to pay close to $1 million in damages to the Sunglow Condominium Resorts for failure to provide proper coverage after hurricanes Charley and Frances in 2004.The jury found that the $370,000 Citizens paid out to the condo complex did not nearly come close to fulfilling their financial obligations to cover damage created from the hurricanes...

Veterans Hospital Investigated for Poor Treatment of Vets

Posted on October 22, 2008
The Philadelphia VA Medical Center has recently come under investigation after errors were discovered in the treatment plans administered to cancer patients.The hospital has been running a treatment program for veterans suffering from prostate cancer since 2002...

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Man Dies After Being Tasered Nine Times by Police

Posted on October 21, 2008
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against former Louisiana police officer Scott Nugent, Louisiana city officials, and Taser International in relation to a police brutality incident last January.Baron Pikes, a 21-year-old from Winnfield, LA, died of cardiac arrest brought on by multiple taser shots...

School District Sued in Murder of Gay Teen

Posted on October 20, 2008
The Hueneme school district in Ventura County, California has been sued in relation to a shooting at one of its middle schools last February.Larry King, a 15-year-old eighth-grader at E.O. Green Junior High School, was shot and killed by a classmate, Brandon McInerney last winter...

Pfizer Settles Drug Lawsuits for $894 Million

Posted on October 17, 2008
Pfizer Inc. has recently reached a settlement for the legal claims against two of their products, Celebrex and Bextra. They will pay $894 million, avoiding litigation on many of the claims against these two painkillers for causing heart attacks and strokes...

Pennsylvania Takes its Dog Laws Seriously

Posted on October 16, 2008
The state of Pennsylvania has enacted a series of laws that clearly outline the responsibilities of owners of dangerous dogs, and the consequences for failing to abide by them.Pennsylvania has set up the following criteria for classifying a dog as "dangerous...

Man Charged with Felony DUI after Killing Two People

Posted on October 15, 2008
A Myrtle Beach grand jury has indicted a local man on felony DUI and reckless homicide charges in relation to an accident occurring on May 11.On the night of the accident, the local man hit two people on a motorcycle at the corner of Kings Highway and Wild Wood Dunes Trail...

Young Boy Dies Due to Hospital Error

Posted on October 14, 2008
The New York State Health Department concluded that Stony Brook University Medical Center failed to diagnose a heart condition in one of their patients, leading to his untimely death.William Gonzalez, a 6-year-old boy, was treated by Stony Brook Medical Center on three separate occasions in August and September of 2007...

Chemical Plant Leak Puts a Scare into Pennsylvania Town

Posted on October 13, 2008
On Saturday, October 11, a tank at the Indspec Chemical Corp. plant in Petrolia, Pennyslvania overflowed releasing a toxic liquid. The chemical, olueum, is similar in composition to sulfuric acid. It evaporated into a toxic cloud that spread through the town...

Man Waits 19 Hours in Emergency Room While Having Heart Attack

Posted on October 10, 2008
Mike Herrera, a 58-year-old restaurant owner in Dallas, died of a heart attack after waiting 19 hours in the emergency room before seeing a doctor.Mike went to Parkland Memorial Hospital with stabbing pains in his stomach. At the time of his arrival, 164 people were in the emergency room waiting to see a doctor...

Hospital Declares Living Woman Dead

Posted on October 09, 2008
The Beebe Medical Center in Lewes, Delaware, is being sued for medical malpractice in a case where they declared a living woman dead.In May, 2007, Judith Johnson went to the Beebe Medical Center believing she had indigestion. In reality, she was having a heart attack...

Mother and Daughter Rescued from Carnival Ride

Posted on October 08, 2008
A mother and daughter were rescued from a carnival ride just outside of Daytona Beach, Florida on October 4. One woman watched the incident for over 10 minutes, fearing that the woman would lose her grip and fall at any minute.Sherri Pinkerton and her daughter Gracie were dangling 35 feet above the ground from the carnival's "Crazy Bus" ride...

Don't Drive on Election Day!

Posted on October 07, 2008
A recent study indicates that traffic deaths occur more frequently on days when we have a presidential election. The study analyzes auto accident statistics on presidential election days from the 1976 election to the present compared with other Tuesdays in October and November...

Mother Stuffed Her Kids in the Freezer

Posted on October 06, 2008
Police were investigating a child abuse complaint in a Maryland home when they stumbled upon the frozen remains of two girls. Their adoptive mother claims that the girls have been the freezer for at least 7 months. They were 9 and 11 years old.Police came to the house following up on a case regarding a 7-year-old runaway...

Nursing Home Employees Charged with Murdering 6 Patients

Posted on October 03, 2008
A Woodstock, Illinois nursing home has been the subject of scandal and controversy. The nursing home is being investigated for six suspicious deaths occurring in 2006.Two former employees may face criminal charges for the deaths. The primary charge they are facing is neglect...

Drug Manufacturer Guilty of Improper Marketing Tactics

Posted on October 02, 2008
Cephalon, Inc., a major drug manufacturing company in the United States, settled a lawsuit in which they were charged with "off-label" marketing of their pharmaceuticals. "Off-label" marketing refers to the practice of marketing a drug for a use other than what it received FDA approval for...

Most Nursing Homes around the Country Guilty of Violations

Posted on October 01, 2008
A federal report issued earlier this week declared that over 90% of nursing homes across the country were cited with violations of federal health and safety codes in 2007. According to the report, for-profit homes were the worst offenders, racking up more violations than their non-profit counterparts...

Doctor Accused of Medical Malpractice in Bowel Surgery Case

Posted on September 30, 2008
A Maryland doctor has been sued for surgical complications resulting in a severe rectal blockage. Ronald Watkins, a 64-year-old from West Virginia, has claimed that as a result of his doctor's botched surgery, he now suffers from permanent bowel issues...

Not Your Typical Circumcision

Posted on September 29, 2008
In Kentucky, a man has sued his doctor for malpractice due to a botched circumcision. The 61 year old man went in for a routine circumcision to treat an inflammation in his penis. When he awoke from the anesthesia, he found that the doctor had amputated his penis...

Prevent Needless Dog Bites

Posted on September 26, 2008
Dog bites happen all the time. They can be very serious injuries, causing major infections, psychological trauma, and scarring that can leave you disfigured. Any dog can bite any person at any time. Even dogs with the friendliest dispositions have the potential to bite or attack a human if they feel threatened...

Middle School Girl Dies in School Bus Crash

Posted on September 25, 2008
A 13 year old girl died Tuesday when a tractor-trailer crashed into her school bus. Frances M. Schee, was an 8th grader at North Marion Middle School in Florida. There were 21 students on the bus. Eight others were injured in the crash.The tractor-trailer rear-ended the bus while it was dropping students off on its after school route...

Regulator Calls for Strict Heparin Measures

Posted on September 24, 2008
�Heparin, a blood thinner produced by Baxter Healthcare and others, has been the subject of a number of high-profile drug recalls. First, questions were raised about the labeling of the drug after the high-profile medical error in which Dennis Quaid's twelve-day-old twins were administered a dose from an adult strength vial...

Los Angeles Transit Trains Have Second Accident in One Week

Posted on September 19, 2008
Last week, the driver of a Metrolink train was texting and distracted and allowed the train he was driving to collide with a freight train in the San Fernando Valley. The accident killed 25 people and injured over 130, making it the worst railroad accident in 15 years...

Study Shows Private Equity Owners Do Not Sacrifice Care for Profit

Posted on September 17, 2008
A recent study of nursing homes revealed that levels of nursing home neglect and abuse did not increase when the nursing home was purchased by private equity groups. In a study published in the September/October issue of the journal Health Affairs, researchers from Harvard University looked at the quality of care both before and after the nursing homes were purchased by private investors, and found that the level of care did not significantly suffer...

Insurer Asks Doctors to Reconsider C-Sections

Posted on September 16, 2008
Although insurers generally rig the game so they make a profit no matter what the outcome, they have learned that preventing undesirable outcomes gives them a much more predictable return. This is part of the reason why they're moving more toward increasing preventive care (often slandered with the name "defensive medicine," although the two are very distinctly different paradigms)...

Stronger Warnings Ordered for Arthritis Drugs

Posted on September 11, 2008
The FDA announced today that four drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses will now have stronger black box warnings due to the increased risk of fatal fungal infections. A black box warning is the strongest warning the FDA gives before pulling the product from commercial use...

9/11's Legacy: Honor the Dead, Cheat the Living

Posted on September 11, 2008
All across the country, government officials, especially elected officials and those who hope soon to be elected, are trying to curry favor with the public by calling our attention to the thousands of Americans who were killed seven years ago today. It's very convenient to trot out the honored dead every once in a while to stir up positive sentiment for you by showing how much you really care...

Don't Take "No" for an Answer in Denied Insurance Claims

Posted on September 10, 2008
If you made a claim for a medically necessary procedure which your insurance company denied, there are two things you should not do: take no for an answer and rush out to get a lawyer.If your insurance carrier is routinely denying a claim that should be covered, you may be able to file a bad faith insurance lawsuit, but if you run right out and get a lawyer, the insurance company may be able to label you as acting in bad faith, hurting your chances of receiving any compensation whatsoever...

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