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• Some Potentially Dire Consequences of Bariatric Surgery Are Not Always Properly Disclosed to Patients

  Robert Wolf | May 30, 2006 3:22 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Bariatric surgery -- a stomach-shrinking operation performed to help overcome obesity -- is becoming more popular than ever. But there's a catch often not understood by those who undergo the procedure: Once they lose the weight the surgery helps them lose, there may be more surgery to come -- surgery that is costlier and riskier and that requires a longer recovery time than the original...

• Treatment Center Settles Lawsuit Related to Teen Suicide

  Robert Wolf | May 22, 2006 10:55 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A wilderness treatment center has agreed to pay $1.2 million and admit responsibility to settle a lawsuit filed by the parents of a Massachusetts teenager who killed himself while in its care, the parents' lawyers said Tuesday.Paul and Diana Lewis of East Longmeadow, Mass., sued the Aldredge Academy, also known as the Ayne Institute, in 2002 in Kanawha County Circuit Court alleging negligence...

• Failure to Prevent Potential Contamination by Bausch & Lomb Draws Sharp Criticism From The FDA

  Robert Wolf | May 18, 2006 9:54 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Bausch & Lomb failed to notify United States regulators within 30 days about 35 serious bacterial infections reported in Singapore in users of its ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution, the Food and Drug Administration said in a report released on Tuesday. The finding was among 20 observations of potential violations the F.D.A. listed after inspecting Bausch & Lomb plants in Greenville,...

• Senate Rejects Efforts to Limit Right of Medical Malpractice Victims

  Jeremi Young | May 09, 2006 1:25 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  An initiative backed by Republicans and President Bush to limit jury awards in medical malpractice cases was rebuffed by the United States Senate.The Senate voted down two measures, one that would have capped jury awards in lawsuits and doctors and health care institutions and another that would have capped awards against obstetricians only. Caps on recover would have been set at $250,000 in...

• Carnival Cruise Lines Settles Unpaid Overtime Lawsuit

  Robert Wolf | May 08, 2006 4:31 PM | 4 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  From a honeymooner going overboard to alleged medical malpractice (update: not to mention the filing of Princess cruise lawsuits), it has not been a banner year for public relations of cruise lines. To add to the growing list of bad PR, Carnival Cruise Lines will pay $6.25 million to thousands of current and former crew members who alleged in federal lawsuits they were not paid enough overtime,...

• Faulty Air Masks Could Be Responsible for Deaths of West Virginia Miners

  Robert Wolf | May 03, 2006 1:06 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  There is new and understandable outrage from the families of the twelve deceased mine workers who perished in Sago Mine in West Virginia last year. In the final Sago Mine disaster that left these 12 men dead, at least four of the air masks meant to protect the miners from dangerous smoke and fumes did not work, the sole survivor wrote in a letter to victims' families this week."The first thing...

• Employee or Contractor Under Overtime Laws

  Jeremi Young | May 03, 2006 10:31 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  Are you treated as an independent contractor by the company you work for? If so, you should take a closer look at whether you are being legally treated that way.Many company's tell workers they are "independent contractors" in order to avoid the obligations tha come with employment. However, the mere fact that taxes are not withheld from your check does not mean you are properly classified as...

• Woman Left in Vegetative State After C-Section Receives $17 Million

  Clint Gilbert | May 01, 2006 11:32 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Norwalk Hospital, located in Norwalk, Conn has settled a lawsuit involving themselves and a former doctor for nearly $17 million. The lawsuit was filed by the parents of Mia House, who suffered permanent brain damage after her blood-oxygen levels were allowed to drop dangerously low during a routine Caesarean section. Mia House has been in a vegetative state since the procedure.The C-section was...