Rocky Mountain News tells the story of Manuela Beltran who died in a nursing home from starvation and dehydration after she was given almost nothing to drink or eat for nine days, according to a lawsuit filed last week in Denver. The details of this lawsuit show just how rocky life was for the deceased during 10 days in December.From the Rocky Mountain News comes the story of Manuela Beltran who...
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When there were kings and subjects nobody could mess with the king. Sovereign Immunity was the rule of the land. You could sue your neighbor or a business or a manufacturer, but you could never,sue the king. He could do no wrong. Soon our government will bestow upon gun manufacturers immunity from suit for acts of negligence. Once again, the king can do no wrong.Once upon a time when the...
In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Far East Brokers and Consultants, Inc., of Jacksonville, Fla., is warning consumers about 48,500 Jack ‘O Lantern buckets containing eight tea lights.In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Far East Brokers and Consultants, Inc., of Jacksonville, Fla., is warning consumers about 48,500 Jack...
In a Harvard study funded by the FDA, researchers concluded that recalls this year by defibrillator manufacturers Guidant, Medtronic and St. Jude Medical show a steady rise in the number of failures among the devices. The study shows that nearly one in every 50 defibrillators malfunctions and blames those failures for 31 deaths. In 2002, doctors were replacing almost 21 of every 1000 devices...
Humana settled a class-action suit filed by more than 700,000 doctors who claimed the company, along with several other insurers, was delaying payments as well as shortchanging the doctors when they did pay. Humana was the sixth of ten companies to settle, agreeing to pay up to $58 million - $40 million to the doctors and $18 million in legal fees. The Louisville Courier-Journal provides more...
Vioxx was pulled from the market after the arthritis drug was linked to heart attacks, strokes and blood clots. The second Vioxx trial is currently taking place in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where Superior Court Judge Carol Higbee struck the testimony of a Merck researcher (the defense’s first witness). Vioxx was pulled from the market after the arthritis drug was linked to heart attacks,...
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a Virginia nonprofit organization, studied the cell phone records of 500 drivers involved in accidents in Perth, Australia from 2002-2004 and discovered that drivers using cell phones are four times more likely to have a serious accident.Cell-phone records in the United States are not public record, so the IIHS sent investigators to Perth, where...
The adjectives most often used to describe the case include outrageous, ridiculous, insane and stupid. But, the evidence established a gross and deliberate violation of the industry safety standard for the temperature of coffee that caused a painful and permanent injury of a customer, an injury that was entirely predictable by McDonald's.Try to select a jury from almost any group of citizens...
Rural drivers using cell phones while driving are nearly four times more likely to cause automobile accidents than rural drivers not using cell phones, according to a new study from Montana State University. What could the increased accident rate of cell phone users be in Tampa Bay?When cell phone users are causing 4 times the accidents than non-cell phone using rural drivers in Montana, what...