The incident was caught on video. On June 7, 2011, a Chicago police officer fired three shots into the back of a man as he lay bleeding on a roadway. It turned out that the shooting, according to news reports, was the third by the officer in six months and the second that ended in […]
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A new study reports that each year in the United States doctors commit more than 4,000 “never events” — the kind of medical mistake that should never happen. These errors include operating on the wrong part of the body or performing the wrong procedure or even performing surgery on the wrong patient altogether. Another common
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Kline & Specter’s settlement in Goretzka v. West Penn Power not only resulted in a record $105 million payment by the utility but also is expected to bring much-needed safety improvements along 26,000 miles of electric power lines in western Pennsylvania. The record $105 million settlement was announced earlier this week by Shanin Specter, attorney for
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A jury in Syracuse awarded $1.5 million in the case of a teacher and beloved coach at an upstate New York high school who killed himself while under the effects of antidepressants. The state Supreme Court jury found that Joe Mazella had been overmedicated and that negligent medical treatment contributed to his suicide in 2009. The
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An Illinois man who suffered a severe brain injury on the job when a pile of lumber fell on him from three stories above settled the case for $5.1 million recently. But the unusual facet of the litigation was evidence used by lawyers for Willie Wakefield, 56, after he was injured at a Chicago workplace. His lawsuit
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The Washington Hospital in western Pennsylvania said it would review at least 500 Pap smear slides after one woman claimed the hospital’s pathologists misread her tests for five consecutive years. A later review of the woman’s slides revealed a clear progression from pre-cancerous cells to an invasive carcinoma. Luckily, after finally being diagnosed with cervical
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When doctors at an Ohio hospital finished colon surgery on a woman, they failed to notice that something was missing from the operating room that was there before – a towel. It was nearly five months after her June 2009 surgery before the location of the towel was discovered. It was inside the patient, 43-year-old
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Sacramento Kings basketball player Francisco Garcia was working out with 90-pound weights in each hand while balancing on an exercise ball when the ball exploded. The guard-forward fell forcibly to the ground in the 2009 incident and suffered severe injuries, including a broken right forearm. The team and the player sued the maker of the
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: Ridgid Pneumatic Nailers Recalled by One World Technologies (Laceration or Injury Hazard – 8,400 Coil Roofing Nailers and 4,400 Clipped Head Framing Nailers) Home Depot Recalls Homer’s All-Purpose Bucket Mug (Fire Hazard – 3,700) Grandin Road Recalls
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It took 13 years and more than three weeks at trial, but a jury in Chicago came to a conclusion that it was medical malpractice that caused brain damage in a birth injury case. Attorneys for the doctor involved and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Comprehensive Women’s Heath Care denied any wrongdoing. But the jury decided otherwise and delivered a large
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Chicago police were on a high-speed car chase when their supervising sergeant radioed to tell  them to call off pursuit. But the officers in the car did not hear the command. The reason: they were playing the vehicle’s commercial radio during the pursuit, according to news reports of one officer’s testimony, and their vehicle had
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