Authored By: James C. LewisIt has long been known that medical mistakes that occur in our hospitals resulting in personal injuries frequently go unreported. In a recent investigation by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAHO) this continued problem with medical mistakes was highlighted in a prominent and well know hospital in the northeastern United States with a...
A $6 million settlement was reached earlier this week for a wrongful-death lawsuit involving the family of a woman who was killed when a Big Dig highway tunnel in Boston collapsed on her car in 2006.The lawsuit involved the epoxy supplier, Powers Fasteners Inc. The woman, Milena Del Valle, was crushed when 26 tons of concreted ceiling panels collapsed while driving through the tunnel.It was...
Ah the new and complicated world of how email production is handled by courts.Scott Roseland, at cybercontrols (www.cybercontrols.net), cites to Benton v. Dlorah, Inc., 2007 U.S. Dist. D. Kan, Oct. 30, 2007. There, the plaintiff informed defendant at her deposition that she had deleted e-mails, and defendant filed a motion to compel plaintiff to produce relevant documents, to produce her hard...
Dennis Ray Lunde, 60, of Poulsbo, Washington, has been charged with first-degree theft in an alleged Internet commerce scam. The scam involved Lunde posing online as a Navy captain and selling model ship kits. Buyers of these kits would send money to Lunde but never received the kits. Several buyers received an e-mail from Lunde's "wife," claiming that Lunde had suffered a heart attack, was...
This Christmas, like those before it, will be a time for joy and a time for tears. Please do what you can to try to avoid those things that can cause harm. Many will be killed and seriously injured in car crashes after having too much "holiday spirit". In parts of the country where the roads are bad, folks will still speed and will get hurt. Christmas trees will not be properly watered...
Empire Silver, in conjunction with the CPSC, is recalling around 1,000 sterling silver teething rings due to a choking hazard.The silver ball that holds the ring in place can separate and release the beads inside. This poses a choking and aspiration hazard to infants.The teething rings were sold in three different styles. The first had a single ring with a ball, another had a single ring with a...
While not a typical automobile post, I'd like to draw your attention to this weeks story about a health insurer who denied a liver transpant to a young insured girl. It seems that liver transplants, to the health insurer, is still considered an "experimental" procedure, so they denied coverage for the procedure.The young girls family hired a well known TV lawyer to get some media coverage. ...
A man working as a glazier on an Atlantic City hotel under construction was injured in a fall. He was installing windows on the Borgata Hotel & Casino. Rescue workers credit his safety harness for saving the construction workers life. The construction accident happened on Thursday. Instead of falling to the ground, the man wound up wedged in a roughly 2-foot-wide space between the tower wall...
DeWALT, in cooperation with CPSC, announced a voluntary product recall of 350,000 cordless drills because the trigger switch on the drill can overheat, posing a fire hazard.To date the company has received 11 reports of trigger switches overheating. No property damage or injuries have been reported. Cordless Drills Included in the Recall are:DC920 Heavy-Duty XRPâ„¢ 1/2" (13mm) 18 Volt Cordless...
Yamaha's Rhino 660 has been the object of much criticism and debate over the last few months due to its alleged design defects that cause the popular ATV to unnecessarily rollover without warning. The Rhino 660 has been cited as the cause of hundreds of injuries across the U.S. to its consumers since its introduction by Yamaha in 2003. The typical injuries sustained involve broken legs, ankles,...