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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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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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