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Insurance Companies Forced to Prove Material Misrepresentations

Posted on December 27, 2007
It is a more routine practice from insurance companies than you'd think. You sign up for a policy, filling out the complicated forms to the best of your ability. The insurance company gives you a policy, takes your premium payments for months or years...

$6 million settlement in Big Dig tunnel collapse death

Posted on December 26, 2007
The epoxy supplier whose product was blamed for the fatal tunnel collapse in one of Boston's Big Dig tunnels on July 10, 2006, has agreed to a $6 million settlement. The company, Powers Fasteners, Inc, has said that it informed contractors that its epoxy was unsafe to use for ceiling panels and would pull away over time...

Rampant abuse of antipsychotic drugs in nursing homes

Posted on December 21, 2007
In recent years, nursing homes have increasingly turned to antipsychotic drugs as a cost-effective solution to caring for more patients with less staff. As the nursing home industry has moved toward larger institutions with more residents, the managing companies have sought to streamline their operations by reducing the number of staff members...

Nursing Home Abuse Citations Up 22%

Posted on December 20, 2007
From 2000 to 2006, citations for nursing homes putting residents in "imminent jeopardy" rose by 22%. Imminent jeopardy means that patients were suffering from physical abuse, injurious falls, malnutrition, bedsores, left unmedicated, and other potentially fatal circumstances...

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Colorado's New Election Machine Rules May Mean Return to Paper Ballots

Posted on December 19, 2007
On December 17, the Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman decided that the majority of voting machines used by the counties of Colorado were unreliable and not secure. What Coffman's office termed "decertification" of the voting machines may have a profound effect on election law nationwide...

Golf balls rain regret on house purchase

Posted on December 18, 2007
A family in Ventura County, California, is trying to get their purchase of a $2.1 million house rescinded because the house suffers a daily rain of potentially deadly golf balls. When the man mows his lawn, he dons a suit of improvised gear to protect himself against severe brain and spinal injury from falling golf balls...

Targeted Cancer Drugs Cause Heart Trouble

Posted on December 17, 2007
The promise of molecular-based targeted cancer drugs has always been that they would attack only the cancer and reduce possible side effects to small effects with a low probability. However, they are proving to come with just as many dangerous side effects as more traditional drug therapies...

Ohio: Dangerous Crossroads of US Trucking Industry

Posted on December 14, 2007
As a central crossroads in the United States, Ohio highways carry more freight per mile than any other state in the Union. North-South on I-71 or east-west on I-70, traffic travels from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from sea to shining sea goes through Ohio...

Jury gives woman $2.5 million for misdiagnosis, 9 years of HIV treatment

Posted on December 13, 2007
A Boston, MA jury awarded $2.5 million in damages to a woman who was told she had the HIV virus, then underwent treatment for almost nine years before learning she never contracted the virus. As a result of the potent cocktail of dangerous drugs she took to kill the virus she never had, the woman suffered numerous side effects, including depression, fatigue, loss of weight and appetite, and inflamed intestines, all of which no doubt confirmed the AIDS hypothesis in the minds of doctors and nurses...

New Study Confirms Avandia Danger

Posted on December 12, 2007
A recent study by the Canadian Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) has increased concerns about Avandia and drugs in its class that are used to treat type 2 diabetes. The study showed patients treated with glitazones had a 60 percent higher risk of heart failure requiring hospitalization compared to patients given another class of diabetes pill...

If no-one is at fault, who should pay for serious accidents?

Posted on December 11, 2007
The case of a Hartford, Connecticut man brings up an interesting ethical dilemma at the heart of defective product litigation. The man, a 51-year-old carpenter with 20 years of experience was injured in early 2003 in a nail gun accident. The man was working on the rafters of a church when a nail rebounded off a subsurface layer of metal...

Clinics Fighting Back when Their Physicians Get Sued

Posted on December 10, 2007
Following up on my entry on the strain in doctor-patient relations, it seems that medical institutions have decided to play hard-ball with their patients over medical malpractice suits. In one case in Wichita, a clinic has severed relationships with patients who file medical malpractice suits, even though there was no accusation of hospital malpractice...

Bargaining Advantages for Doctors in Med-Mal Settlements

Posted on December 07, 2007
Although lobbyists for the insurance companies and the AMA are winning the PR battle over the representation of medical malpractice litigation (as they are winning the battle over health care reform), the truth is that physicians and their insurers rarely are forced to settle outrageous medical malpractice claims for significant amounts of money...

Medmal Case Outcome Linked to Merit

Posted on December 06, 2007
Although critics of the tort system for settling medical malpractice claims have long charged that the legal system is nothing more than a lottery system that can hurt good doctors and reward crooked lawyers, the truth is that the tort system works surprisingly well...

Couple Would Give back $5.5 million to Have Old Life

Posted on December 05, 2007
A couple that was awarded $5.5 million in October following a crash with a tractor-trailer on Highway I-35 in central Texas said they would rather have their lives before the accident than the money. On June 16, 2006, the couple was driving in the right-hand lane of the highway when they witnessed traffic slowing ahead...

Ortho Evra Patch Coming Under Fire For Withholding Information

Posted on December 05, 2007
Johnson & Johnson company has allegedly misled doctors and regulators for years by altering and withholding medical information about the risks of its Ortho Evra birth control patch according to lawyers for women suing the company. Johnson & Johnson are facing lawsuits by almost 2,500 women who claim the patch releases high levels of estrogen that cause strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots in the legs and lungs...

First Lawsuit Filed in Nov 30 Chicago Train Accident

Posted on December 04, 2007
It is common to hear about truck accidents and auto accidents, but far less common are train accidents. However, when they occur, they can be serious. On November 30, just such an accident occurred on Chicago's South Side, causing 60 people on an Amtrak train to suffer injuries when it struck a Norfolk Southern freight train...

Imprint of License Plate, Logo Brings Semi-Truck Operator to Settle Lawsuit

Posted on December 03, 2007
Two men who were injured when their pickup was run off the road by an 18-wheeler, then insulted with a ticket that accused them of being at fault, received a $900,000 dollar settlement when the trucking company realized the men could prove they were not at fault...

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