The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration greatly expanded the fishing ban in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday in response to spreading oil from the BP well blowout. The prohibited area now covers 19 percent of the gulf, nearly double what it was, according to the agency. In Washington, Interior…
A Maryland woman was awarded $3.5 million by a local jury in a malpractice lawsuit over an alleged botched surgery that left her unable to walk. Victoria Little underwent surgery for blocked arteries in 2007, and the lawsuit claims the doctors used an improper grafting technique. The surgery caused severe…
A sexual assault lawsuit against a University of Iowa anesthesiologist has been settled. In the lawsuit, Pauline Longoria claimed that Dr. Samir Haddad sexually assaulted her in his office on campus in May 2007. Haddad claims the “sexual contact” was consensual, and the local district attorney’s office has not yet…
A lawsuit has been filed against CVS and a Chicago store employee who allegedly strangled a man to death for shoplifting crayons and toothpaste. Michael Johnson said in his lawsuit that an unnamed employee chased his son, Anthony Kyser, from the store and put him in a choke hold that…
Tonight’s 60 minutes show on CBS, reported the harrowing story of the BP TransOcean’s rig, the Deep Horizon. As the world knows on April 20, 2010 there was a tremendous explosion on the oil rig, located some 40 miles of the Louisiana coast. In the gas explosion 11 oil rig…
Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots. The discovery is evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well is worse than estimates that the…
The city has offered a record-setting $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who was killed with a Taser during a confrontation with police last year. The City Council is scheduled to vote on the settlement according to an agenda posted online. It’s the…
A medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed against a New York cancer specialist, claiming he treated a woman for pancreatic cancer when she in fact was not sick, and that the treatment killed her. Giuseppa Bono went to see Dr. Gilbert Lederman on referral from an Italian doctor who, as…
A Houston judge agreed Thursday to stay pending cases against Transocean arising from the April 20 disaster that destroyed its Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, killed 11 workers and created a growing oil spill. U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison issued an order suspending the cases against Transocean at the company’s request…
The Harris County Commissioner’s Court approved a $167,500 settlement in a lawsuit over a woman who died while in a county jail in 2008. The lawsuit alleged that Margarita Saavedra had begged for medical treatment from the jail staff for a staph infection in the days before she died. She…