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A wrongful death takes place when an individual is killed as a result of the negligence pf another individual. A lawsuit for wrongful death may only be brought by the personal representative of...

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What is a wrongful death claim? A wrongful death lawsuit is a claim that is brought against a person who may be held liable for a death. This is a claim that is brought in a civil court and is...

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Two separate deaths have risen more than a few eyebrows about the responsibilities of healthcare systems. Recently, a video was released of a woman dying on the floor of an emergency psychiatric...

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According to the Associated Press, a jury has found a former McMinnville, Tenn. day care owner guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a 6-year-old and the abuse of her two older brothers. On Tuesday, March 4, the jury recommended a life sentence for 41-year-old Sherri Mathis, with sentencing scheduled for April 23.The jury found guilty verdicts on nine criminal counts, including two...

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A California nursing home received its second state citation in two years following the death of a 94-year-old woman who wandered away from the nursing home last November.The California Department of Public Health fined the Palomar Heights Care Center $100,000 in January for not providing adequate supervision.A nurse told police that the elderly woman was checked and found sleeping 12 minutes...

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When a prescription is needed, there are several places the patient can end up with the wrong medication. The doctor could prescribe the wrong medication in the first place. When you give the prescription to the pharmacy, the person taking the prescription could misread the medication's name or dosage or mistype the information in the computer. The pharmacist could misread the information or...

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So far, 15 West Dallas workers and residents show signs of asbestos-related illnesses such as mesothelioma, asbestosis and cancer. The cause is asbestos exposure from a local mineral processing plant. These findings came from chest X-rays on former workers, family members and current and former local residents. Doctors have reviewed 252 of the 421 exams. fifteen of those displayed signs of an...

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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist requested a $5,000,000 settlement for the parents of Martin Anderson, a 14-year-old who died at a Panama City boot camp last year, allegedly due to injuries from the boot camp's guards. The settlement needs to be approved by the state legislature and came shortly after incriminating evidence was released to the public.The state payout would settle only a portion of the...

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Joseph Erin Hamley, who had cerebral palsy, was shot while officers searched for a Michigan prison escapee. Police have signed an agreement with Hamley's estate that's dependent on the state's approval of $1 million for the settlement.Arkansas governor Mike Beebe requested $1 million of the state's surplus funds to be appropriated for a settlement to the family of a man shot and killed by a...

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State officials have agreed to pay $135,000 to settle a lawsuit from the death of a Cerebral Palsy patient.According to a story from KFDA CBS 10 in Amarillo, state officials have agreed to pay $135,000 to settle a lawsuit from the death of a Cerebral Palsy patient who drown after being left unattended in a bath tub at a center for the developmentally disabled.Click here to read the full story.

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Two million patients are infected in hospitals each year and more than 90,000 patients die. Do you think we can find a cure? As hospitals work harder to stop infections, bugs become more resistant to to antibiotics. Some studies suggest that hospital acquired infections are the 8th leading cause of death in the United States. This is ridiculous because the spread of infections can be prevented...

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Having a few friends over for New Year's Eve? Hosting a Super Bowl Party? If so, you'd better be sure that you have plenty of insurance in case the worst case scenario occurs.Most of the 28.5 million Americans who plan to host a party between Thanksgiving and the Super Bowl are underinsured, according to a new study by Trusted Choice.Of those 28.5 million party hosts, 21.3 million do not have...

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Two new deadly 18-wheeler accidents, which have occurred in consecutive days along I-20 (which connects Louisiana and Texas, among other states), raise new concerns over 18 Wheelers and the lack of regulation for this industry. How many more people are going to have to be seriously injured or killed before there is a loud enough public outcry such that state (and federal) legislatures will take...

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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...

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A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Walt Disney World by the family of a 4 year old boy that died after riding Epcot's Mission: Space ride. An autopsy revealed that the boy's death was caused by an irregular heartbeat brought about by the stress of the ride on the boy's body.The ride, Mission: Space, spins riders in a centrifuge, subjecting the rider to twice the normal force of...

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