Wrongful Death

• Medication Mistakes Cause Thousands of Deaths each Year

  RLF Staff | January 25, 2008 4:10 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• ER Wait Death Ruled Homicide

  Clint Gilbert | September 18, 2006 12:27 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• Disney Sued Over Death of Young Boy at Epcot

  Clint Gilbert | June 15, 2006 11:05 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

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

  Clint Gilbert | March 08, 2006 8:51 AM | 1 CommentDallas, TX

  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...

• Frat Gets Sued For Wrongful Death

  Staff Writer | January 30, 2006 1:19 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  The family of an 18 year old recently inducted new fraternity member sued the fraternity and some its active members in a Texa court house early this morning. The new member died from alcohol poisoning during a party at an off campus frat house at the University of Texas at Austin. Khongsavay and Soukha Phoummarath, parents of Phanta "Jack" Phoummarath, named Lambda Phi Epsilon national...

• Should Drug Maker Be Responsible for Death?

  Staff Writer | January 12, 2006 3:04 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  If drug companies knew that drug addicts were buying every day over the counter cold medicines to extract the ingredients needed to make methamphetamine to get high, could you award monetary damages and send a message to the drug companies that they should have done something to prevent to it? Linda Green believes that people are sick and tired of drug companies not taking responsibility for...

• Wrongful Death Suit Planned Against Southwest

  Staff Writer | January 12, 2006 2:31 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  The family of a six year-old boy who was killed when a Southwest jet skidded off a runway at Midway airport in Chicago plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the Dallas-based airline.Joshua Woods was riding in the family car when the jet crashed through a runway barrier on a snowy evening in early December. The airplane hit the car on central avenue. Joshua died of compression...

• Make Sure You are Covered Before Hosting That Super Bowl Party

  Robert Wolf | December 28, 2006 12:54 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...