Man hit by police car awarded $16.25M A Connecticut man was walking across the street when a car traveling at least 30 mph in excess of the speed limit hit him, severing his leg. The vehicle was being driven by someone who was sworn to uphold the law and protect the citizenry – a state […]
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Awareness has been growing in recent years over the danger of concussions suffered by football players, with lawsuits filed at every level of the game including the highly publicized case being pressed by thousands of former NFL players. In Colorado, a jury recently awarded an $11.5 million verdict in the case of a high school player
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A case of breaking the rules resulted in a huge verdict in a Maryland courtroom recently. It involved the death of a teenager who was struck by a car as she crossed the street to get to her school bus in the early days of the school year in September 2009. In a wrongful death
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: PT Domusindo Perdana Recalls 73,000> Drop-Side Cribs Due to Entrapment and Suffocation Hazards Bell Sports Recalls 2,500 BMX Bike Helmets Due to Risk of Head Injury WRSI Recalls Kayaking and Rafting Helmets Due to Head Injury Hazard 2,000 BabyHome USA Recalls 1,100 High
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Between 80,000 and 160,000 patients suffer preventable injury or death because of a medical misdiagnoses each year in the United States. That was the conclusion of an extensive study by researchers from Johns Hopkins Medical Center which found that mistakes made in diagnoses – including missed, wrong or delayed diagnoses – happened more often and with
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A review recently found that the Wisconsin Medical Board failed to severely discipline doctors who committed egregious errors, many in which patients suffered serious injuries or even death. The report by the State Journal reviewed 218 cases that led to board discipline from 2010 to 2012 and found that in more than half the cases doctors received
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: Haier America Expands Recall of Chest Freezers Due to Fire Hazard (41,000) Baby Socks Recalled by Trumpette Due to Choking Hazard (33,000 pairs) Battenfeld Technologies Recalls Three-Digit Combination Locking Handgun Vaults Due to Lock Malfunction (3,900) Home
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A woman who lost her leg and suffered other injuries when her car was struck by a drunk driver has won a $2.7 million jury verdict – against a bar at which the drunk driver was a customer. The accident occurred in 2011 in Medina County, Texas, when the intoxicated patron drove the wrong way
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The toddler was checked into a Chicago hospital in December 2011 for relatively routine surgery to repair an undescended testicle. But the child suffered cardiac arrest after the operation and it took five minutes for medical personnel to respond. It was too long and too late. The child suffered brain damage due to oxygen deprivation.
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On top of federal fines totaling more than $66 million over of unintended acceleration in its vehicles, Toyota Motors has also agreed to pay $1.1 billion to settle a class-action suit by car owners who claimed economic loss because of the gas pedal problem. The Japanese carmaker also agreed to install a brake-override system in
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IKEA North America of Conshohocken, Pa., announced the recall for repair of 23 million children’s wall mounted-lamps due to strangulation hazards. There have been two separate incidents to date of children becoming entangled in the lamp’s cord. In one incident, a 16-month old child died as a result of strangulation after he pulled the lamp’s
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More and more these days medical procedures are being outsourced by hospitals, sometimes to countries halfway around the world. On March 18, 2008, Sharron Juno was discharged from an Alabama hospital with her discharge summary – unknown to her treating physician — outsourced by the hospital and ultimately transcribed in India. The transcript and various
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: Triaminic and Theraflu Products Recalled Due to Failure to Meet Child-Resistant Closure Requirement (Risk of Poisoning – 2.3 Million) Sportspower Expands Trampoline Recall (Fall Hazard – 120,000) (92,000 units were recalled in May 2012) Million Dollar Baby
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Toyota Motor Corp. had already paid a hefty fine for not promptly recalling defective autos but also has been slapped with another required payment of $17.35 million to federal safety regulators. The fine is for not recalling certain vehicles in a timely fashion, namely the Lexus RX 350 and RX 450h sport-utility vehicle. The problem
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: Progressive International Recalls Canning Jar Lifters ( Laceration Hazard – 26,500) BRP Recalls Ski-Doo Snowmobiles (Fire Hazard – 10,200) Play Yard Sheets Recalled by 4moms (Entrapment Hazard – 1,440) KTM North America Recalls Enduro Motorcycles (Fuel Leak,
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