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Family Dealt Another Blow in Blackwater Case

Posted on February 14, 2009
A federal administrative law judge has ruled that the children of a Blackwater Worldwide contractor killed during a surprise assault in Iraq are entitled to government insurance payments that prohibit them from seeking damages against the company. An attorney for the children?s mother had argued that the Defense Base Act should not apply to Blackwater [...

Groups Settle Wrongful Eviction Claims

Posted on February 14, 2009
A group of developers and the city of Los Angeles have agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle allegations that they sought to force low-income residents from their homes in a downtown hotel. Under the settlement, Amerland Group, Logan Property Management, the city and its Community Redevelopment Agency will pay $950,000 to residents who [...

Families File Lawsuits Over Helicopter Crash

Posted on February 14, 2009
The owner and manufacturers of a helicopter that crashed last year killing two firefighters are liable for the crash and men?s deaths, according to lawsuits filed Thursday. In the lawsuits, the families of Matthew Hammer and Bryan Rich allege that negligence by Carson Helicopters, General Electric, Columbia Helicopters, Sikorsky Aircraft and United Technologies contributed to [...

Death Prompts Lawsuit Against Center for Disabled

Posted on February 14, 2009
The family of a mentally disabled Nebraska woman who died while in the care of a state-run center has filed a lawsuit accusing the facility of negligence. According to the lawsuit, bungling by administrative staff at the Beatrice State Developmental Center caused Olivia Manes to die about three hours after suffering a seizure...

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Widow Wins First Round of Fla. Smoker Suit

Posted on February 14, 2009
A Florida man died of lung cancer because of his addiction to nicotine, a Fort Lauderdale jury ruled on Thursday. The finding now sets the stage for jurors to decide whether to order damages against Altria Group Inc.?s Philip Morris unit in connection with the man?s death...

Clinic?s refusal to Treat HIV-Positive Patient bring Lawsuit

Posted on February 14, 2009
A Wisconsin clinic refused to treat a woman who tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, a lawsuit filed Thursday says. According to the lawsuit, Dr. Steven M. Cahee, Agnesian HealthCare Inc. and Fond du Lac Regional Clinic violated state and federal laws when they opted not to perform gallbladder surgery on an inmate [...

Court Rules Against Vaccine-Autism Link

Posted on February 14, 2009
Three special court judges have ruled against a group of families who claimed that common childhood vaccines caused their kids to develop autism. In one ruling issued Thursday, a special master, George L. Hastings Jr., found that evidence in the case overwhelmingly contradicted claims that the measles virus in the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine [...

Colorado Trial Lawyers Association Seminar

Posted on February 14, 2009
The Colorado Trial Lawyers Association (CTLA) offers attorneys, legal staff, full-time judges and students the opportunity to register for its upcoming Subrogation Seminar 2009 scheduled for Friday, Feb. 27 in Denver. The seminar features guest speaker Matthew Garretson, a national expert on solving subrogation issues...

Health Net agrees to settle rescission lawsuits

Posted on February 12, 2009
The Woodland Hills, California insurer will pay as much as $14 million to close the books on litigation over the canceling of health policies. The lawsuits were brought on behalf of 800 former policyholders whose coverage was dropped after they submitted substantial medical bills...

Peanut-borne salmonella is the subject of outrage in Congress

Posted on February 12, 2009
Relatives of victims of the outbreak that has killed nine call for better safeguards while the officials of Peanut Corp. of America take the 5th when asked why tainted products were released. Refusing to answer questions on the grounds of ’self-incrimination’ (taking the 5th) was wise for there will be plenty of law suits and criminal [...

Technology Can Tax Jurors? Attention Spans

Posted on February 09, 2009
An overload of digital media and online connectivity can make it extremely difficult to keep the attention of the modern juror, according to commentary originally published in the National Law Journal. From iPods to BlackBerries, jurors can find it hard to focus on important things in their own lives, much less complicated issues at trial...

Salmonella Outbreak Exposes Wider Safety Problems

Posted on February 09, 2009
The New York Times reported that conditions at a Georgia peanut plant blamed for a nationwide salmonella outbreak were only a small element of the unmasking of major problems in the food safety system. Investigations into the outbreak revealed major disconnects between government oversight and corporate accountability...

Victims Seek Legal Relief for Madoff Losses

Posted on February 09, 2009
Investors taken by the alleged Ponzi scheme by Bernard Madoff are increasingly turning to attorneys in hopes of recovering their losses. While some of the cases represent huge classes of investors, some are being filed by individuals who lost relatively small amounts in the plot...

Companies Negligent in Death of Contractor, Lawsuit Says

Posted on February 09, 2009
The family of a civilian contractor killed in Iraq has filed a lawsuit against Halliburton Co. and KBR Inc. alleging that the companies were negligent in the man?s death. According to the lawsuit, errors by the military contractors led U.S. troops to open fire on the man?s truck after they wrongly concluded that he was [...

Lawsuit: Hospital Mishandled Care of Young Girl

Posted on February 09, 2009
A Houston, Texas-area hospital was negligent in the care of a 3-year-old girl who underwent emergency surgery to remove a corroded lithium battery from her nose, a lawsuit filed by the family claims. According to the lawsuit, doctors at St. Luke?s Hospital in the Woodlands failed to perform X-rays during an initial emergency room visit [...

Supreme Court to Weigh Superfund Costs

Posted on February 09, 2009
Three companies are asking the Supreme Court to let them off the hook for $40 million in cleanup costs for federal Superfund sites. At issue in the consolidated cases before the justices is the concept of arranger liability, or how costs of cleanup projects are apportioned...

Trooper Files Lawsuit Against Taser

Posted on February 09, 2009
A Massachusetts state trooper who was shocked with a Taser during a training demonstration has filed a lawsuit against the Arizona-based company. In the lawsuit, the trooper claims the shock bent a surgical screw in his leg causing pain, suffering and a reduction in pay...

Lawsuit Claims Banks are Liable for Ponzi Schemes

Posted on February 09, 2009
The retail bank Sovereign and its parent company Banco Santander S.A. were liable for investor losses arising from Ponzi schemes, according to a pair of federal lawsuits filed recently. In the lawsuits, plaintiffs claim that Sovereign and its parent failed to take precautions to guard investors from funds that operated as Ponzi schemes...

Which antidepressant drug is the best?

Posted on February 09, 2009
The Studies conflict as Zoloft, Lexapro and other drugs are tested for effectiveness and side effects and the study says Zoloft and Lexapro are not the best. The study, published online last month in the medical journal Lancet, compared 12 newer generation antidepressant drugs using data from 117 published clinical studies with nearly 26,000 subjects...

Failure of L.A. County safeguards let convicted rapist work at clinic

Posted on February 08, 2009
And the government wants to run medical care for us all. Duh. If Los Angeles County had followed procedures, a health department official says, a convicted rapist would not have returned to work as an X-ray technologist. A breakdown in county procedures meant to protect patients and ensure standards for health professionals allowed a temporary employment agency [...

Abortion may be murder - but Octuplets is child abuse

Posted on February 07, 2009
A beaming Dr. Karen Mapes appeared on “Larry King Live” this week to discuss the epic birth of octuplets she supervised at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower, but the ticker at the bottom of the screen said it all: “OCTUPLETS OUTRAGE...

Your government protecting you after the fact.

Posted on February 07, 2009
Some batches of peanuts tainted with salmonella were not retested before shipping, and the FDA agency says Peanut Corp. of America lied to Food and Drug Administration investigators (sitting in their ivory towers and not at the plant) about shipping batches of the food known to be tainted with salmonella bacteria...

Let the seller always beware

Posted on February 06, 2009
The Better Business Bureau and the Florida attorney general’s office have received hundreds of complaints about Cash4Gold’s jewelry exchange and most of them say the company shortchanged them. The Florida attorney general’s office says it is examining nearly 60 complaints about Cash4Gold, including some from people who were disappointed by the amount of money they received [...

Kellogg Added to Salmonella Suit

Posted on February 06, 2009
An attorney for a Vermont family whose child was sickened after eating tainted peanut butter crackers said Thursday that they will add Kellogg Co. to their lawsuit. The addition of Kellogg as a defendant comes as the Peanut Corporation of America?s sole insurance carrier announced it would seek to limit liability in connection with the [...

Judge Shuts Loophole in Toy Safety Law

Posted on February 06, 2009
A judge has ruled that federal safety regulators must remove toys containing toxic manufacturing chemicals from shelves in order to comply with an impending ban. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe forces the Consumer Product Safety Commission to close a loophole that allowed some toys containing phthalates to remain on the market...

Changes at the High Court?

Posted on February 06, 2009
The reported surgery of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg?s for early-stage pancreatic cancer emphasizes the potential for change in the makeup of the court during the Obama administration. Illnesses and aging have contributed to a prevailing sentiment that President Obama could have several seats to fill in the coming years...

Allstate cooks the books?

Posted on February 06, 2009
A report by Allstate has some questioning whether the insurer?s bookkeeping practices could hurt investors and policyholders in the long run, the Washington Post reports. According to the newspaper, accounting changes provided year-end boosts of $347 million and $365 million, respectively, to company coffers...

Diabetics at Risk from Insulin Error, Army Says

Posted on February 06, 2009
A suspected flaw in insulin injection procedures may have exposed more than 2,000 diabetic patients to hepatitis or HIV, officials at William Beaumont Army Medical Center said Thursday. According to Army officials, staff might have incorrectly used injection pens on multiple diabetics...

Illnesses Linger Among World Trade Center Workers

Posted on February 06, 2009
Many World Trade Center responders who worked at Ground Zero in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks still suffer from lung ailments years later, researchers report. According to a study conducted by Mount Sinai Medical Center, more than 24 percent of 3,000 responders tracked showed signs of abnormal lung function between 2004 and 2007...

Government May Have Bought Tainted Peanuts

Posted on February 06, 2009
The federal government has acknowledged it received 32 truckloads of potentially tainted roasted peanuts and peanut butter from a peanut producer linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak, raising new questions about the government?s ability to keep dangerous substances out of the food supply...

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