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Possible Link Between Singulair and Suicide

Posted on March 31, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration said it is investigating a possible connection between the use of Merck & Co.?s asthma drug Singulair and moods of depression and suicidal behavior. Conclusions and recommendations to the public will be told as soon as a review is complete, but the FDA estimates it may take up to nine [...

Negligence Lawsuit Against County

Posted on March 27, 2008
Negligence lawsuits were filed earlier this month against Harris County, Cloverleaf Volunteer Fire Department and its former members Jason Southard and Marvin Romero, Department Chief Michael Battise and the county?s Emergency Service District 12. It claims they were negligent when officials hired, trained and supervised two volunteer firefighters later accused of starting blazes at homes [...

Nursing Home Will Fight $22,500 Fine

Posted on March 27, 2008
Asta Care nursing home is appealing a $22,500 fine levied by the Illinois Department of Public Health for allegedly failing to protect residents from a sex offender who was a patient at the facility. Asta Care was charged with failure to screen a male resident who made inappropriate sexual advances to staff and two mentally [...

Drug Recall of Heparin

Posted on March 24, 2008
The product recall of Heparin was initiated due to a notification received from the supplier, Scientific Protein Laboratories, disclosing that one lot of Heparin Sodium acquired by B. Braun Medical Inc. has a heparin-like contaminant. The Food and Drug Administration has received reports of serious injuries and/or deaths in patients who have been administered Heparin [...

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Thousands of Personal Injury Lawsuits Against Vioxx

Posted on March 24, 2008
There are over 44,000 personal injury lawsuits being exacted against Pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck & Co. The drug Vioxx has caused several incidences of heart ailments, strokes, and death from its side effects. In anticipation of the upcoming personal injury cases, Merck & Co...

Reebok Fined for Dangerous Product

Posted on March 20, 2008
Failing to abide by the Federal Hazardous Substances Act, the Government hit Reebok with a $1 million fine. The fine stems from a silver charm attached to a bracelet Reebok included with some shoes. The charm was filled with lead. Two years ago, Jarnell Brown from Minneapolis died after he accidentally swallowed the charm...

Contamination in Heparin Drug

Posted on March 20, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration believe they have discovered what?s contaminating the blood-thinning medication heparin and are trying to determine whether it was put in the drug intentionally. FDA officials said the man-made chemical compound known as over-sulfated chondroitin sulfate is cheap and abundant...

Blood Thinner Drug, Heparin, Recalled

Posted on March 19, 2008
On February 28th the Food and Drug Administration recalled the drug heparin. U.S. health officials identified a contaminant in batches of the blood thinner heparin associated with 19 deaths. ?Dr. Janet Woodcock, head of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said the contaminant is oversulfated condroitin sulfate, a chemical that does [...

Auto Runs Red Light Causing Fatal Accident

Posted on March 11, 2008
Austin Police responded to a collision that left one driver dead. According to witnesses, a Honda Accord and a Toyota Camry collided at an intersection. The driver of the Honda Accord was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries...

Woman Sent to Hospital After Dog Attack

Posted on March 11, 2008
As Sabrina Campbell was trying to save her 1 year-old Labrador Retriever, Paulie, from a dog attack the Pit Bull and Chow/Lab Mix turned on her. “He bit me on my leg,” she said, pulling up her pant leg to reveal multiple, deep bite marks on her thigh...

Plastic Surgeons Negligence Results in Patients Death

Posted on March 06, 2008
The state of New York has yanked the medical license of plastic surgeon, Dr. Michael Sachs, after being accused of negligence in the death of Kay Creagan, who died after a face-lift in 2005. Dr. Sachs is one of the state?s most-sued doctors and has been charged with four counts of negligence by the state [...

Wrongful Termination of Employee at Wal-Mart

Posted on March 06, 2008
James W. Lynn is seeking to have his wrongful termination lawsuit against Bentonville-based Wal-Mart reinstated after a Benton County circuit judge threw it out. Lynn, a former mid-level manager for Wal-Mart, says he was fired for reporting poor working conditions in Central American factories...

Chain of Collisions on Freeway

Posted on March 03, 2008
A chain of collisions occurred Sunday morning when a man was run over while trying to cross the freeway on foot and ended with another car in flames. The series of accidents started when the driver of a Honda Accord lost control of his car and crashed into the center median...

Nursing Home Fined $12,000 by State

Posted on February 28, 2008
St. Anthony?s Nursing and Rehabilitation was fined $12,000 for failure to monitor a resident who sexually abused one woman and was found an hour later fondling another. He also made sexually inappropriate comments to staff members, state officials said, and was combative when staff attempted to redirect him, including hitting, pushing, scratching, spitting, throwing water [...

Plaintiff Seeks Negligence

Posted on February 28, 2008
Sherry Castro has filed a negligence lawsuit against Sparks Regional Medical Center accusing them of employing a food service worker who sexually assaulted her 6-year-old son while he was a patient in May 2005, a year after the employee was accused of molesting an elderly woman patient...

Man Sues Cancer Center for Wife’s Death

Posted on February 27, 2008
Ron Weidenfeller has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Schaumburg-based Cancer Treatment Centers of America and its Midwestern Regional Medical Center in Zion on behalf of his wife Maria who his says died from an undiagnosed colon obstruction. Maria Weidenfeller died at the Zion facility at the end of her third weeklong visit for treatments [...

Court Upholds $65 Million in Wrongful Death

Posted on February 27, 2008
Army Pvt. Van Ryan Marcum was accidentally electrocuted in 2004 during a basic training exercise at Fort Benning, Ga. An investigation later found the latrine, which was insufficiently grounded, had a faulty circuit breaker and a short in the wiring to a fan...

Driver of Auto Accident Charged with DUI

Posted on February 26, 2008
George Alan Elmore, 23, has been charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol. Elmore was driving his vehicle went it went left of center and struck a Pontiac driven by 40-year-old Linda Spears head-on. Elmore?s vehicle overturned but he was not injured...

Suspect Identified in Auto Accident that Killed Four

Posted on February 26, 2008
Olga Marina Franco, 24, from Guatemala has been charged with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide, driving without a license and running a stop sign. Franco was driving a van that allegedly barreled through a stop sign and hit a school bus, killing four Minnesota school children...

Jury Awards $24 Million in Medical Malpractice

Posted on February 20, 2008
Adam Porter, 34, was awarded by a jury almost $24 million for brain damage he suffered after going to the hospital to have a kidney stone removed. In 2001 Porter went to St. Mary?s Hospital and while having his kidney stone removed he suffered cardiac arrest, which interrupted the flow of oxygen to his brain...

How To Know If You Are A Victim Of Medical Malpractice

Posted on February 20, 2008
It is important for you and your family to know if you have been a victim of medical malpractice since you may be entitled to financial compensation. ?The Center for Disease Control estimates that medical mistakes kill or injure 100,000 people each year...

8 Killed While Watching Street Race

Posted on February 18, 2008
An illegal street race left 8 people dead and 5 injured. After the two cars sped off down the highway, some spectators moved onto the road to watch when a white sedan came from behind crashing into the crowd. It?s believed smoke from the spinning tires of the two cars had made it difficult for [...

Teenager Dies in Weekend Car Accident

Posted on February 18, 2008
A tragic car accident took the life of 16-year-old Garret Russell. Troopers said about 5 p.m. Sunday, a 1991 white BMW driven by an unnamed 16-year-old smashed into a 2006 Chevy pickup. There were four teenagers inside the BMW and Russell was in the passenger seat at the time of the accident...

Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed by Family

Posted on February 14, 2008
The mother and brother of Cassie Jo Stoddart filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Torey Adamcik, Brian Draper, their parents, and School District 25. The lawsuit also includes the owners of the Chubbuck home as a plaintiff where Stoddart was house sitting when she was stabbed to death on September 22, 2006...

Employee Sues After Wrongful Termination

Posted on February 14, 2008
Heidi Borjesson, a former accountant at the University of Utah physics department, filed a lawsuit against the U claiming she was wrongfully terminated. Borjesson claims she was fired for “arbitrary and personal reasons” rather than for her work performance because of her sexual orientation and appearance, and because she cared for animals instead of children [...

Major Lawsuit after Medical Device Destroys Mans Heart

Posted on February 11, 2008
Paramjit Singh went into Providence Everett Medical Center for bypass surgery after he had suffered a small heart attack. It wasn?t until six weeks later that Singh opened his eyes from the surgery. Doctors determined Singh needed a new heart. When the operation on Oct...

Wrongful Death Suit Settles for $1.6 Million

Posted on February 04, 2008
Edward Kasza, 37, was killed Sept. 15, 2005, when he came in contact with exposed live wires at The Andrews House, a hotel that was under construction. Mrs. Kasza has settled her wrongful death suit for $1.6 million. Kasza, an employee of Advanced Plumbing Enterprises Inc...

Mother Receives Surprising Wrongful Death Settlement

Posted on February 04, 2008
Carissa Tucker sued her mother and stepfather, after her 23-month-old son Sean Taylor Mink-Chisholm drowned in the pool at their home. According to the wrongful death and negligence suit, the child was in the care of his grandmother while Tucker was at work...

Hit-and-Run Driver Needs to be Found

Posted on January 31, 2008
A father is offering a substantial reward for any information leading to the identification of the individual responsible for striking his daughter with their car while she was on her bike and then fleeing the scene. Evidence indicates that this was not accidental but rather an intentional and deliberate act on the part of the [...

Motorcycle Deaths Rise as People Try to Save

Posted on January 31, 2008
If you are thinking about purchasing a motorcycle to save on gas or travel time, you may want to think again. In Florida, people who have motorcycle accidents are six times more likely to die than automobile drivers. In 2002, 274 people died in motorcycle crashes; by 2006, the number was 521, according to the [...

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