International Law

Fatal Ambulance Suit
Two negligent lawsuits against Rampart Emergency Services and a Rampart employee involved in a fatal ambulance crash last year have been set for a mediation. On March 5, 2007, Lisa Hanson, 32, Cornell, a registered nurse, and Carrie Roberts, 38, Escanaba, a patient, were both killed when a Rampart ambulance crashed into a semi truck [...

No liability for city despite wait for ambulance
If you are ill or injured, but after the 911 call the ambulance arrives late and you subsequently die, is the city liable? A new opinion issued by the 5th Court of Appeals in Dallas on March 11 answers that...

Average ER Waiting Time Nears One Hour, CDC Says
The Washington Post reports that the CDC has found the average wait time in hospital emergency rooms to be about one hour. This wait is largely due to the increase in emergency visits, the drop in the number of hospital...

Nurse Gives Wrong Medication to Nursing Home Resident
A civil claim was filed against a nursing home charging that one of its nurses negligently contributed to the death of a resident. The resident died about two days after he was given the wrong medication by a nurse at the facility...

Nurse Admits to Body Looting From Corpses
Nurse Lee Cruceta in Philadelphia has admitted to cutting out body parts from corpses to sell on the illegal body part market — a crime that included harvesting material from the corpse of “Masterpiece Theatre” host Alistair Cooke, who died in 2004...

Next time, you're better off just suffering through your angina attack on your own
In England, I gather that 999 is the equivalent of our 911 here in the states. So when an 83-year-old heart patient called 999 and asked for help, an ambulance was sent to the scene...

Recall of TYLENOL 8 Hour Caplets 50 Count Sold in The United States and Puerto Rico
TYLENOL 8 Hour Caplets 50 Count One Lot Recalled in US and Puerto Rico

Restraining Chair
Santa Cruz County agree to $3 million wrongful death settlement after an inmate died while in jail.

Critical Alarm Goes Unheard
Nurse and agency to pay undisclosed settlement in wrongful death lawsuit.

Serial Killer
Hospitals agree to confidential wrongful death settlement for employing former registered nurse Charles Cullen.

Morton’s
Settles Wages and Hour Class Action

Hooters
Former Employees Launch Wage and Hour Class Action