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A Connecticut man was walking across the street when a car traveling at least 30 mph in excess of the speed limit clipped him, severing his leg. The vehicle was being driven by someone who was sworn to uphold the law and protect the citizenry – a state police officer. The cruiser was moving at […]
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In a strange case of a “vanishing” ovary, Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld a $2.4 million medical malpractice award for the family of a woman who died of ovarian cancer. The husband of Sharon Zawatski filed suit against a surgeon and Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center claiming her treatment was negligent because only ovary was removed,
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An elderly Washington state woman was seriously injured when a shuttle driver pushed her wheelchair out a back door before the wheelchair lift had been opened and set in place. Labeeba Alim fell to the ground and an employee fell on top of her, according to a news report of the case. She suffered bleeding
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The use of robotics is the latest thing in operating rooms these days. A multi-armed robot named “da Vinci” was used in 367,000 surgeries nationwide last year, triple the number of four years earlier. But now, according to an Associated Press report out of Chicago, the high-tech – and heavily marketed — device is coming
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: Gerber Recalls 80,000 Machetes with Stitched Sheaths Due to Laceration Hazard IKEA Recalls 11,000 LYDA Jumbo Coffee/Tea Cups Due to Burn Hazard Philips Recalls 8,100 Metal Halide Lamps Due to Fire, Laceration Hazards 2,500 DiveAlert Emergency Signaling
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An elderly Washington state woman was seriously injured when a shuttle driver pushed her wheelchair out a back door before the wheelchair lift had been opened and set in place. Labeeba Alim fell to the ground and an employee fell on top of her, according to a news report of the case. She suffered bleeding
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: 96,000 Strollers Recalled by Kolcraft Due to Projectile Hazard Kichler Lighting Recalls 48,900 Chandeliers Due to Injury Hazard; Sold Exclusively at Lowe’s Stores 20,700 Axis Arrows Recalled by Easton Due to Injury Hazard Best Buy Recalls 5,100
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Improper roadway cleanup from an earlier storm and “ponding” that resulting from poor drainage made the Oakwood Beach intersection on Staten Island, N.Y, a hazardous place in the winter of 2004. On one particular afternoon, Christopher Litrell Jr., 10 years old at the time and attempting to walk his scooter across the street, slipped and
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In yet another terrible car crash involving a police vehicle, the City of Lansing recently agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man seriously injured in a 2009 accident. Christopher Morofsky, now 26, was a back-seat passenger in a car that was struck by a police cruiser that was racing to
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Routine wisdom tooth surgery that ended in the death of a teenager in 2011 recently ended in a legal settlement of the case. The Baltimore Sun, reporting on the medical malpractice case recently, noted that 17-year-old Jennifer Michelle “Jenny” Olenick died after being deprived of oxygen during the procedure two years ago. The lack of oxygen
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: Pottery Barn Kids Recalls 12,000 Sweet Lambie Crib Bumpers Due to Entanglement Hazard KTM North America Recalls 7,000 KTM and Husaberg Motorcycles Due to Crash Hazard 6,800 pairs of GNU Snowboard Bindings Recalled by Mervin Manufacturing Due to Fall Hazard H&M Recalls 2,900 Children’s
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A wrong diagnosis resulted in the amputation of a woman’s foot, a jury in Spokane found in awarding $813,000 to the woman in a medical malpractice case. Darlene Turner claimed in a civil suit that her doctor failed to perform an appropriate physical when he diagnosed her as having terminal cancer. According to a news
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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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