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A lawsuit has been filed against the University of Cincinnati police and the University Hospital in the Taser death of a psychiatric patient.

Kelly Brinson was tased by police officers while under restraints at the hospital, the lawsuit claims, sending him into cardiac arrest and killing him three days later.

Brinson suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, delusions and other mental disorders. The lawsuit accuses police of using extreme force and hospital officials of negligence in caring for Brinson. Eileen Kelle, The Cincinnati Enquirer 06/28/2010
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The diabetes drug Avandia, once the world’s top-selling diabetes medication, took two more hits with one new study linking it to an increased risk of heart attacks and a separate study linking it to an increased risk of heart failure and stroke.

The research comes only weeks before an upcoming federal hearing to reconsider its fate. Shari Roan, LA Times 06/29/2010
The drug, known by its generic name, rosiglitazone, was approved in 1999 to help people with Type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar. At the time, it was considered a safer alternative than existing diabetes drugs used instead of insulin. Soon after approval, the drug was linked to an increased risk of heart failure and bone fractures; worries about the drug’s safety increased in 2007 when a meta-analysis — a pooling of previous studies — concluded that the drug increased the risk of heart attack.

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A settlement has been reached between Bethany First Church of the Nazarene and Southern Nazarene University and five young girls who claimed to have been molested by the church’s elementary pastor.

The lawsuit claimed that Ryan Martin Wonderly molested the girls sometime before 2003 and that church and SNU officials were aware of his struggles with child pornography but still put him in charge of young kids. Wonderly is currently serving a 35-year prison sentence for child molestation. The exact monetary value of the settlement was not disclosed.

Nolan Clay, NewsOK.com 06/24/2010
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In the first frantic days after the blowout of the oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, crisis managers in Houston, concerned about the potential for an even greater catastrophe, weighed the risks of using more aggressive methods to try to control the well or leaving it alone, according to meeting notes and other documents.

A handwritten log was among hundreds of pages of unreleased documents obtained by The New York Times in which managers describe the desperate bid to control the subsea gusher that has spewed millions of gallons of oil into the gulf. Henry Fountain, The New York Times 06/22/2010
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The Los Angeles Times (6/28, Weber, Ornstein) reports that California’s “Board of Registered Nursing has discovered that some 3,500 of its nurses have been punished for misconduct by other states — hundreds even had their licenses revoked — while maintaining clean licenses in California.”

Now, “as many as 2,000 of these nurses…will face discipline in California, officials estimate.” According to the Times, “The board’s discovery was prompted by a Times/ProPublica investigation last year that found hundreds of instances in which California nurses had been sanctioned elsewhere for sexual abuse, neglect, rampant drug use and criminality but could work freely in California.”

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A jury has ruled that Enterprise Rent-A-Car must pay $15 million to the family of two girls who died in a fiery car crash in 2004 in one of the company’s rental cars.

Raechel and Jacqueline Houck were riding in a rented Chrysler PT Cruiser when the car crashed, killing the girls, the lawsuit stated.

The month before the crash, Chrysler had issued a recall of PT Cruisers for a defect that could cause the car to catch on fire, but the company had not returned its PT Cruisers for repairs.

Enterprise admitted in May through a signed statement that “their negligence was the sole proximate cause of the fatal injuries.” Jondi Gumz, San Jose Mercury News 06/21/2010
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Bloomberg News (6/18, Feeley) reported, “Pfizer Inc. faces a Texas trial over its hormone-replacement drugs after a court overseeing lawsuits over the medicines sent 200 cases back to their home courts.”

At issue in the suit is whether “the Prempro [conjugated estrogens and medroxyprogesterone] menopause drug helped cause” the plaintiff’s breast cancer.

Over “8,000 lawsuits over the medicine consolidated in federal court in Arkansas” will be “returned for trial.” Still, “Pfizer…has won dismissals of more than 3,000 cases at either the pretrial stage or after the cases have been set for trials.”

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The city of New York has agreed to a $750,000 settlement with a Queens woman who was mauled by a pack of wild dogs in 2001, leaving her with severe scarring and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Marlene Fils-Aime was trying to rescue a man who was being attacked by the dogs on a Queens boardwalk when the dogs attacked her, the lawsuit claims.

Her lawsuit stated that the city was responsible because they left garbage in empty lots around the boardwalk, which attracted the packs of stray dogs.

The man who was being attacked, Lev Liberman, settled with the city for $3 million in 2007. Thomas Zambito , New York Daily News 06/23/2010
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A Florida couple who fled their dream home because of foul-smelling, ruinous Chinese drywall was awarded $2.4 million in damages in the nation’s first jury trial over the defective wallboard that could have legal ramifications for thousands of similar cases.

The defendant, drywall distributor Banner Supply, is named in thousands of other lawsuits. Associated Press, The Washington Post 06/21/2010
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An Atlanta homebuilder has agreed to a $378,500 settlement in a lawsuit that accused the company of racial discrimination.

The lawsuit claimed that John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods Inc. intentionally steered African-American sales agents to lower-priced subdivisions, which prevented them from earning similar commissions as their white counterparts in higher-cost subdivisions.

Over the next six years, Wieland will hire at least 10 African-Americans and women for management positions as part of the settlement. Péralte C. Paul , Atlanta Journal-Constitution 06/23/2010
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