A jury in Illinois handed down a $4.16 million verdict against the City of Elmhurst in a workplace injury case. The verdict, a record in DuPage County in a non-medical malpractice case, went to a garage door technician, Joshua Jaeger, who was severely injured in a 2009 fall from city equipment while estimating repairs on a broken […]
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A study focusing on brain injuries in New Hampshire shows an alarming increase in recent years, with thousands more people winding up in that state’s emergency rooms. Data compiled by the Department of Health and Human Services revealed an increase in traumatic brain injuries nearly doubling from 2001 to 2009, with ER visits rising from 6,514 to
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: Master Forge Gas Grills Sold at Lowe’s Stores Recalled Due to Fire and Burn Hazards – 37,000 Bose Recalls Dual-Voltage CineMate II Home Theater Speaker Systems Due to Fire Hazard – 20,500 Excel Industries Recalls Hustler and
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: LG Electronics Recalls Electric Ranges Due to Burn and Fire Hazards – 161,000 LaJobi Recalls Glider Rockers Due to Fall Hazard – 38,600 Fireplaces and Inserts Recalled by Monessen Hearth Systems Due to Risk of Fire –
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A motorcycle rider who was seriously injured in an accident at a dangerous intersection has been awarded more than $31.5 million by a jury which found the California Department of Transportation partly responsible. The accident occurred in 2009 on Highway 138 in Pinon Hills and resulted in David Evans, 66, suffering severe brain and spinal
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: JELD-WEN Recalls Interior Bifold Doors Due to Impact Hazard – 170,800 Dorel Juvenile Group Recalls Eddie Bauer Rocking Wood Bassinets Due to Infant Suffocation Hazard – 97,000 Tricam Industries Recalls Easy Reach Step Stools Due to Fall
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In 2004, 12-year-old Jonathan Reynolds fell on a nail. The Tennessee boy was taken to Dyersburg Regional Medical Center but hospital personnel reportedly failed to take adequate procedures to avoid an infection and did not administer the proper antibiotics. The result was catastrophic. Jonathan contracted a flesh-eating bacterium that required numerous skin grafts and he
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: Taphandles Recalls Ceramic Beer Tap Handles Due to Laceration Hazard – 24,000 Trend Lab Recalls Children’s Upholstered Chairs Due to Laceration and Choking Hazards – 16,850 units Children’s Apparel Network Recalls Fleece Hoodie and T-Shirt Sets Due
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After a rash of spine operations went bad, it was discovered that one of the doctors performing the procedure at a New Mexico hospital had allegedly faked his credentials — he wasn’t even a surgeon at all. That revelation and other problems resulted in the Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center agreeing to settle 80 malpractice
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: Sharper Image USB Wall Chargers Recalled by Atomi Due to Fire and Burn Hazards – 80,000 Graco Recalls Classic Wood Highchairs Due to Fall Hazard – 86,000 GE Recalls Front Load Washers Due to Injury Hazard –
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New York City has paid out more than a half billion dollars over the last four fiscal years to pay for medical mistakes at its 11 public hospitals, according to a report in the New York Daily News citing city records. The tab – paid ultimately by taxpayers — came to $134 million in the last fiscal
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A jury handed down a $100 million verdict against a hospital for a Staten Island teenager who suffers from cerebral palsy as a result of a premature birth. The case took years to litigate. The baby is now 17-year-old Stephanie Debes, who, along with a twin sister, was born three months early after staff at St.
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Cases of colon cancer among younger people is on the rise even as the rate for those older than 50 decreases, a phenomenon that is leading to more missed diagnoses. Such was the case for a 44-year-old Maryland woman who seven years ago went to doctors with all the symptoms of colorectal cancer, including diarrhea,
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A new report out of Johns Hopkins estimates that diagnostic errors may cause as many as 40,500 patient deaths in hospital intensive care units. The university’s patient safety experts say the number of deaths of critically ill hospital patients die with unknown medical conditions may exceed the annual number of deaths due to breast cancer
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