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• Can Time Travel Really Prevent Medical Malpractice???(2)

  Robert Wolf | September 29, 2006 10:33 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  I know this isn't one of my customary topics, but news like this just doesn't come up all that often. We've all been to a doctor or nurse whose bedside manner or treatment practices we have questioned. Most health care litigation attorneys have even met (and deposed) some real nut jobs (that is the technical legal term), but this one really takes the cake.An Ohio chiropractor who claimed to...

• Playskool Recalls Tool Bench Toys After Multiple Deaths

  Robert Wolf | September 22, 2006 8:51 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Toymaker Playskool and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall Friday of about 255,000 of its "Team Talkin' Tool Bench" toys following the deaths of two young children.Playskool, a unit of Hasbro Inc., said it received reports that a 19-month-old boy from Martinsburg, W.Va., and a 2-year-old boy from League City, Texas, suffocated when oversized, plastic toy nails sold with...

• Preventable Medication Error Responsible for Infant Deaths

  Robert Wolf | September 19, 2006 2:29 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  We've all read the articles that medical errors harm hundreds of thousands, if not over a million people every year. This time, an easily preventable medication error took the life of multiple infants. Lena Nelson had looked forward to buying dolls and other presents for her first granddaughter, who was born prematurely last week. Instead, she was planning Monday for the girl's funeral.D'myia...

• ER Wait Death Ruled Homicide

  Clint Gilbert | September 18, 2006 12:27 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  A coroner's jury in Illinois has ruled that the death of a 49 year old woman while she waited in an emergency room in Lake County, Ill was a homicide. The woman, Beatrice Vance, entered the hospital emergency room in July of 2006, complaining of neasea, shortness of breath and chest pain. Ms. Vance spoke briefly to a nurse upopn arriving and was told to sit and wait for her admission. Two hours...

• Lawsuit Claims Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch Caused Blood Clots and Miscarriage

  Robert Wolf | September 13, 2006 10:05 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  A Plano, Texas woman who suffered a miscarriage and developed potentially life-threatening blood clots after using the Ortho Evra birth control patch has filed a federal lawsuit against drug manufacturing giant Johnson & Johnson inMarshall, Texas.According to an article on PR Newswire, Elizabeth Barroso, now 24, began experiencing chest pains and difficulty breathing after using Ortho Evra(R)...

• Woman spots rapist on TV; awarded $20 Million in Civil Suit

  Clint Gilbert | September 06, 2006 1:07 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A Ventura, California woman received a $20 million civil court judgment against the man that forcibly raped her in 2003. The attacker was recognized weeks later by the victim, after he appeared on the television show "Blind Date."Ulrick Kevin White was convicted of rape and false imprisonment for the 2003 crime. The civil suit alledged emotional distress. Superior Court Judge Vincent O'Neill...