April 03, 2013
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…
March 27, 2013
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…
March 22, 2013
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…
March 20, 2013
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…
March 16, 2013
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…
March 14, 2013
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…
March 09, 2013
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…
March 06, 2013
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 death. The City…
February 27, 2013
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…
February 22, 2013
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…
February 13, 2013
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…
February 06, 2013
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…
January 30, 2013
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…
January 23, 2013
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…
January 16, 2013
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…