A jury in Durham, North Carolina (NC) found an ophthalmologist and a hospital was negligent when they used the wrong drug during a cataract surgery. This led to severe damage in one of the patient’s eyes. He was awarded $1.5 million in the case. The…
Police stated this week that a three year-old boy died from injuries that he received in a Charlotte, North Carolina (NC) crash that killed his mother and injured his brother the day before. The three-year old died Sept. 9 at a local hospital, and his…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides insurance coverage to 100 million people and has been a vital source for information about hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) for years. HACs include a variety of hospital mistakes from preventable infections to medical instruments left in body…
It appears that drunk driving took yet another young life in North Carolina. On the evening of Aug. 31, a 2006 Subaru Forester was traveling in Hickory, NC when it hit a curb and flipped several times. It came to rest in a field next…
The death of a passenger ejected from an SUV on I-64 in James City County, Virginia (VA), is likely to raise difficult questions regarding liability and automobile insurance coverage. Even though the pain and loss will remain for the deceased man’s friends and family regardless…
A recent study by the Kessler foundation has raised a new issue in the battle to treat traumatic brain injury: ethnicity. The study, published in Neurorehabilitation, found that minorities do not have the same success rates in long-term treatment as Caucasians. The minority population in…
