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A 77 year old Boston woman crashed her car leading to the death of a bystander. Now the dead man’s widow is suing the doctors, alleging that they should have warned the negligent driver not to drive while taking the prescribed pain medicines.
Jane Berghold, the driver, crashed it through a hospital entrance last year killing two people. She plead guilty to criminal charges, and settled a civil lawsuit.
Plaintiff attorneys are seeking a new trial in a medical malpractice case in which a jury found a hospital negligent in a patient’s death but awarded $0 survival damages because the jury said “no amount of damages will adequately punish” the hospital.
A 24 year old man died after his brain abscess was not timely treated by the Pittsburgh hospital staff. The jury found that the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center at Shadyside’s care of the patient fell below the standard of medical care and was a factual cause of harm to the plaintiff. The jury awarded $2.5 million in Wrongful Death Act damages, but awarded zero dollars in Survival Act damages.
An employee alleged that Brookshire Grocery Company caused her back injuries when the worker Barbara Goss was trying to step over a “lowboy” cart.
The Texas Supreme Court ruled against her: To the extent that stepping over a lowboy is dangerous, it is a danger apparent to anyone, including Goss. A lowboy stands about 42 inches high, measures about two and a half feet by five feet, and rolls on four wheels.
Goss stepped over one as she entered a freezer, but on the way out her shin struck the lowboy and she hurt herself grabbing a shelf to stop her fall.
Another lawsuit has been filed in the Texas bus crash that killed 17 people earlier in August 2008. The lawsuit was filed by the estate of Cham Nguyen, who alleges that negligence on the part of the owner and driver of the bus, as well as the vehicle’s manufacturer, caused her death.
The August 8th 2008, bus accident was the nation’s deadliest since 2005. The charter bus, which was taking a group of Vietnamese Catholics to a religious festival in Missouri, blew an illegally treaded tire, skidded off the highway and overturned. In addition to the deaths, 38 people were injured.
Diabetes patients who use the drug Avandia face an increased risk of serious and potentially fatal injuries of heart attack, stroke, congestive heart failure, bone fractures or death.
Federal lawsuits have been consolidated in an MDL (Multi-District Litigation) in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Avandia is a type 2 diabetes medication which is used to control blood sugar levels. Until 2007, it was one of the best selling medications in the United States, with annual sales in excess of $2 billion.
The family of a man who was killed in the October 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash settled its case against New York City for $8.75 million. This ferry crash killed 11 people and many ferry passengers were injured.
Last week, the FDA said it had received reports of six new cases of pancreatitis – including two deaths – associated with the diabetes drug Byetta. Today, Amylin and Eli Lilly said that they had reported four additional deaths to the agency as well, which the FDA hasn’t yet made public.
The companies, which co-market the drug, chose to disclose the additional information in order to “provide context” about each of the cases, according to Amylin President and Chief Executive Daniel Bradbury.
Duragesic brand and generic fentanyl pain patches have been associated with cases of overdose and death. Poor design, inadequate warnings and poor quality controls during the manufacturing process could result in excessive amounts of fentanyl entering the body.
Lawsuits have been filed throughout the United States for users who have died or become comatosed from a fentanyl overdose.
A construction worker, Clifford Moncrieffe, was operating a Bobcat X320 compact excavator when the machine tipped over. Moncrieffe’s left foot was outside the operator’s compartment and his foot was crushed. Ultimately he underwent a knee amputation.
Moncrieffe sued manufacturer Clark Equipment Co., in Federal Court in Florida, for products liability (strict liability, negligence, breach of warranty and failure to warn).
Mesothelioma is a rare form of lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos and breathing asbestos fibers. It is a very serious disease, which is often at a very advanced stage when a diagnosis is made. The disease is uniformally fatal. The first asbestos lawsuit was filed in 1929, and with thousands of people being diagnosed with this condition each year.
Mesothelioma is almost always caused by exposure to asbestos either directly or indirectly through family members who worked with the material. A mesothelioma cancer diagnosis can be made years after a family member carried home asbestos dust or fibers on their clothing, shoes, skin or in their hair.
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