The AP (6/11) reports, “Texas jury has awarded $82.5 million in damages to the family of a man who died in a 2007 explosion at a natural gas processing plant in Hood County. Houston-based Hanover Compressions L.P., which has since been renamed Exterran Energy Solutions L.P., constructed, engineered and installed…
The Wall Street Journal (6/11, B4, Whalen, Mundy) reports that David Graham, an FDA drug-safety official argues in a new study that the diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) may have led to thousands of heart problems that could have been prevented if patients had been using a different medication. The agency…
Federal officials investigating Johnson & Johnson over the massive recall of children’s medicine earlier this year have said that the drug maker is stalling their investigation. New York Rep. Edolphus Towns said that J&J has provided the Congressional committee false information and is being much less cooperative than other companies…
An Ohio jury has awarded a local couple $1.63 million in a lawsuit filed against two doctors that delivered their son four years ago and allegedly caused him injury. The lawsuit claims that the mother requested a Caesarian section due to the size of the baby, but the doctors refused.…
More than 5,400 battery packs used in some automated external defibrillators have been recalled due to a defect. The recalled was issued by the FDA because the batteries had the potential to falsely detect an error condition during charging for a shock and then cancel the charge. The batteries were…
An Alabama woman has filed a lawsuit against the city of Huntsville, Ala., and three police officers that were involved in a police chase in May 2008, which resulted in the death of her husband. Darren Spurlock was killed in a car accident when he was hit by a woman…
McDonald’s has recalled 12 million of its Shrek-themed glasses sold in the last month due to the toxic chemical cadmium found on the glasses’ design. Long-term exposure to cadmium can lead to adverse health affects, and consumers who have purchased any of the glasses are urged to stop using them…
A subcontractor trying to install an electrical pole hit a 36-inch natural gas transmission line south of Pecan Plantation today, leading to a huge gas explosion that burned for more than two hours. Two or three people, most likely workers at the scene of the blast, were missing, officials said,…
The widow of long-time actor David Carradine has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against film production company MS2 S.A., claiming they did not provide Carradine with “sufficient assistance” while he was shooting a movie for them. Carradine died last June and his death, which was initially thought to have been…
A Myrtle Beach hospital has been ordered to pay $2.88 million to the husband of a woman who died from a seizure after being treated by a hospital doctor in 2002. The South Carolina jury determined that Grand Strand Regional Medical Center and Dr. Stephen Law were negligent in the…