On Monday, the office manager of a former Roanoke pain specialist, Cecil Knox, was dropped from a civil lawsuit.Beverly Gale Boone was named with Knox and Southwest Virginia Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in a $1.5M medical malpractice suit filed in Roanoke County back in 2004. The lawsuit was filed by Tammy Walton, whose late brother, Tracy Akers, was a patient of Knox.Akers, a...
After touching a 7,200-volt power line with his head, the worker is okay and without serious injury!Alton Fire Chief Al Johnson said the 28-year-old White Mountain Cable worker was pulling cable lines from a bucket truck when his head touched the line. "It was just a huge spark, and he wasn't responding," said a cable worker on the scene.The shock entered through his head and went through his...
Regal Lager Inc. is recalling approximately 14,000 "Phil & Ted's" double strollers. When in the stroller's add-on seat, children can touch the rear tires which can result in an abrasion hazard to the child.To date, Regal Lager has received one report of a child whom has scraped his arm from touching the tire while the stroller was in motion.The recall involves the e3 Buggy that is a three-wheel...
Dr. Joel S. Lippman, former vice president at two Johnson & Johnson alleges in a lawsuit that he was fired for seeking recalls on numerous faulty products that include the Ortho Evra birth control patch with at least 1,000 product liability suits.In Lippman's civil complaint, he alleges he was unlawfully let go on May 15, after 15 years of employment because he repeatedly complained about...
A former executive for Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ortho-McNeil is suing the company after being fired. The ex-VP claims that the company fired him unjustly after he continually expressed safety concerns about a number of their drug products, including the Ortho Evra birth control patch.
The New York Times reports on a decision by the Ohio Supreme Court that makes no sense under the no-fault-based workers' compensation system in that state and in Florida. Ohio Ruling Denying Pay in Job Injury Draws Debate The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld a KFC franchise's petition to deny workers' compensation payments to a teenage boy who was severely burned while cleaning a pressure cooker,...
The recent case of a young person dying during a wisdom-tooth removal has raised questions over the safe use of anesthesia in office-based surgical procedures. Anesthesia complications or deaths are not limited to office surgery, (such as oral surgery, plastic surgery, etc.), yet in hospital or ambulatory situations there are perhaps more precautions taken, better monitoring and certainly more...
An FDA Advisory Committee has recommended that Pfizer be allowed to market Celebrex to children ages 2 and older who suffer from Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA). The panel voted 15-1 that the drug was an effective treatment and that its benefits outweighed its risks. The panel members split on the issue of safety, voting 8-7 (with one abstention) that available data does not demonstrate...
Parents of Natalee Holloway have filed a wrongful death suit today against two brothers that were suspects in the case at one time.According to Birmingham News, a civil suit was filed by Beth Twitty and Dave Holloway that claims Deepak and Satish Kalpoe - quote "intentionally, negligently, wantonly" caused fatal injury to their daughter.The suit was filed in California Superior Court in Los...
The Oklahoma Supreme Court finally weighed in on tort reform a few weeks ago by addressing the constitutionality of merit letters required under 2003 tort reform. If you do not know, thecourt ruled as unconstitutional a provision of a 2003 tort reform law that required someone suing a medical professional to get an expert in the field, usually a doctor, to say in an affidavit that the lawsuit...
