A wrongful death suit was recently brought against the Salvation Army thrift store, as well as others, by the family of Danny C. Johnson, 59, who lived 23 days after being pulled from the rubble of last year’s Salvation Army thrift store wall collapse. Filed…
A fatal 2007 auto accident occurred on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland while the westbound span was carrying two-way traffic to relieve eastbound congestion. Randy Orff and his son were killed after their Ford pick-up truck was hit by a homemade trailer that came…
Mosquitos have long been an annoyance, but now they pose increasing danger to people. West Nile Virus, spread by mosquitoes, has been a threat for several years but this year there is a new mosquito-borne threat called chikungunya, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease…
Medical devices known as power morcellators are a set of spinning blades used during laparoscopic surgeries to cut tissues. Morcellation refers to the division of tissue into small fragments, which allows the surgeon to remove the tissue through small incission sites. Power morcellation has been…
The Minnesota Child Victims Act is now a year old and has two more years to go. (update) Due to the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis Bankruptcy the deadline there is now Aug. 3, 2015 The Minneapolis Tribune took time for the anniversary to…
Personal injury clients need to feel comfortable talking with their attorneys about their case, and attorneys need to be able to give candid legal advice to offer more effective representation. But what protects clients and attorneys from having to reveal what is said in these…
On June 6, 2014, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) ordered all federal lawsuits concerning testosterone replacement products (like AndroGel and Testim) be centralized into one court in the Northern District of Illinois. The panel determined that though some manufacturers have only a…
Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc. is asking doctors to return a surgical device used in a now controversial hysterectomy procedure that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned could spread cancerous tissue into a patient’s abdomen, according to Wednesday reports. Johnson &…
Brachial neuritis, also referred to as neuralgic amyotrophy or Parsonage-Turner syndrome, is an extremely painful condition that results in intense muscle soreness and weakness. A person with brachial neuritis can suffer intense pain for a few hours or a few weeks. Residual low grade pain…
In his blog with a photo of a young boy experimenting on two potatoes, the president of OkCupid, Christian Rudder, is unrepentant about manipulating his customers in an undisclosed experiment that runs directly counter to the service they paid for or traded their access for…