Some flow generators used in the treatment of sleep apnea have been recalled. ResMed is voluntarily recalling S8 flow generators made between July 2004 and May 15, 2006 because the power supply connector may short circuit. This creates a potential for machine failure, sparks and fire. Patients may continue to use their S8 flow generators until they receive a replacement device. As with any...
I read today that a female Circle K clerk in Tucson filed a lawsuit against her employer alleging that the company provided negligent security which allowed a customer to abduct and sexually assault her. According to the newspaper article in the Arizona Daily Star, Circle K should have known of "criminal dangers" at that store. . . . [T]he company should have staffed at least two employees...
Saturday afternoon was a dangerous time to be on the road in north Mobile County, according to a report from the Mobile Press-Register detailing a series of car accidents presumably caused by one man.The Theodore man who is believed to be responsible for one death and three other motor vehicle accidents has been arrested and charged. He was reportedly driving a Dodge pickup truck when he hit a...
Last week newspapers across the country reported on another pet food scare over the possible presence of melamine, a dangerous chemical that may be linked to the recent pet deaths and pet food recalls, in farm feed. These defective products have raised serious concerns among many consumers.Articles from various papers, including the Baltimore Sun, claimed that testing found melamine in hogs and...
Doctors make me chuckle. They hate lawyers, they hate lawsuits, and they especially hate class action lawsuits. Unless it's their own. A group of 900,000 doctors just settled a class action lawsuit against Blue Cross and Blue Shield for $128 Million. That after they received $405 Million from other insurers, including Aetna, Wellpoint, HeathNet, CIGNA, and Humana. The claims were based...
Unfortunately, there is a relationship between the field of personal injury law and the field of bankruptcy law. At my law firm, Hajek, Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis, and Appleton, "all we do is personal injury law"; however, I have had to learn over 18 years in injury practice about the relationship of bankruptcy to what I do representing injured people. One of the main reasons that people end up in...
In another very sad case, a 13 year Brooklyn boy was killed as he rode a bike back from a family party. As he crossed the street, an SUV went around a slower moving car and stuck and killed the boy. The driver of the SUV did not stop and police are now trying to locate him. Drivers have to be ever vigilant to make sure they are aware of pedestrians or bike riders. There are over...
In the continuing news about the pet food recall, food fed to pigs at a small number of farms in the country contained melamine. The FDA has announced that they consider any pork from the pigs as safe. 345 pigs that had eaten the contaminated food have entered the human food supply. In the Saturday statement, the FDA and the USDA said the possibility of human illness from eating swine exposed...
Friday morning in Conyers, Georgia a motorist drove his vehicle into the local Cingular store on Dogwood drive and injured three people in doing so. Police say the elderly man apparently hit the gas instead of his brake and that caused his vehicle to slam into the business. Two employees and one customer sustained injuries in the auto accident and were rushed to the Atlanta Medical Center but...
A judge said on April 26, 2006, that he will approve a $64 million national class action settlement for parents who bought Paxil, once a blockbuster drug, for their teens who were struggling with depression.Sales of Paxil specifically for minors totaled more than $500 million. GlaxoSmithKline has repeatedly been accused of not revealing all that it knew about the drug, This goes to show that...