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• Federal Lawsuit Filed Over Wichita Falls Inmate's Death

  Clint Gilbert | March 29, 2006 8:59 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  The family of a man who died in a Wichita Falls, Texas jail has filed a ten million dollar lawsuit against Wichita County and the sheriff of that county. Wilbert Lee Henson died in the Wichita County jail at age 61. He had been hospitalzed and was returned to the jail just prior to his death.According to the lawsuit, Henson told jail guards and medical personnel several times that he was having...

• Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants Entitled to Overtime Pay

  Jeremi Young | March 28, 2006 4:34 PM | 3 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  The Fifth Circuit court of Appeals has ruled that Nurse Practitioners ("NPs") and Physician Assistants ("PAs") who are paid on an hourly basis are entitled to overtime compensation for hours worked over 40 in a workweek.In June Belt, and others, versus EmCare, Inc and Texas EM-I Medical Services, P.A., a group of NPs and PAs sued claiming that their employer was violating federal law by...

• FDA Issues Warning Regarding Abortion Pill Risks

  Clint Gilbert | March 22, 2006 9:11 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  The recent deaths of two women, coming after both had used the abortion pill Mifepristone (also known as RU-486), has prompted the FDA to issues fresh warnings concerning the use of the drug. These most recent deaths follow at least four known previous deaths linked to the drug.RU-486 is approved to induce medical abortion through the first 49 days of pregnancy. The "pill" is actually a two-step...

• New Concerns Raised With Anti-Clotting Drug Plavix

  Robert Wolf | March 16, 2006 4:04 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  To the apparent surprise of many researchers, a major study has found no benefit -- and perhaps even some harm -- from adding the anti-clotting drug Plavix to aspirin in an attempt to prevent heart attacks in people at high risk.``Their attempt to extend those results to a larger population group failed,'' said Dr. Matthew Wolff, chief of cardiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ``They...

• Northwest Air Pension Fund Is Being Investigated

  Staff Writer | March 16, 2006 9:13 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The United States Labor Department is investigating if Northwest Airlines shortchanged its employee pension fund on a routine basis over the last three years, and then avoided having to make a $65 million payment to the fund by filing for bankruptcy protection just one day before the payment was due. The investigation suggests that the Labor Department is looking for a way to break a pattern...

• A Wal-Mart Employee Wins a False-Imprisonment Lawsuit

  Staff Writer | March 09, 2006 2:32 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A Wal-Mart employee alleged that a security guard wrongly detained her and then roughed her up after an argument with a customer. A jury awarded the employee almost $14 million for her false-imprisonment. Roslyn Campbell won a multi-million dollar judgment against Wal-Mart for the actions of a security guard who detained her and roughed her up. The incident is explained in the American City...

• Medical Patches + Heat = Potentially Dangerous Combination

  Robert Wolf | March 09, 2006 1:17 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Some medical experts now believe that medicated patches, used by over 12 million people for a range of ailments, can become unsafe when heated by exercise, soaking in a hot tub, or even a high fever. In November, the FDA issued a warning about birth-control patches after studies showed that women using them had 60 percent more estrogen in their blood than those on the pill, giving them a higher...

• ACLU Suit Claims Police Chief Caused Gay Man's Death

  Clint Gilbert | March 08, 2006 8:51 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  A small-town West Virginia police chief faces a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union for his actions in alledgedly denying a dying gay man CPR. According to the federal lawsuit, Welch, WV police chief Bobby Bowman stopped a would-be rescuer from performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on 43 year old Claude Green on June 21, 2005 after Green suffered a heart attack. The suit...

• $8 Million Awarded to Family of Student Killed by Trucker

  Jeremi Young | March 07, 2006 3:49 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A Virginia jury awarded has ordered a construction company to pay $8 million for the death of a seventeen year old student killed by a trucker who fell asleep at the wheel. Dwayne Mongold, employed by Danella Construction Corp., admitted to nodding off at the wheel but continued driving his truck, weighing more than 34,000 pounds. Davod Chu (17) and Jacob Wilens (16) were driving home from...

• Supreme Court Says US Postal Service May Be Sued For Personal Injury

  Clint Gilbert | March 01, 2006 9:27 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The US Supreme Court has ruled that the US Postal Service is not immune under federal law from personal injury lawsuits. The decision reverses conventional thinking to this point regarding the Postal Service's liability for the negligence of mail carriers. In the opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy disregarded government concerns that a tidal wave of frivolous slip-and-fall claims would follow.The...