Saturday, December 12, 2009 By Katherine Sayre, www.al.com A Mobile County jury awarded $20 million this week to the family of a woman who plaintiffs’ lawyers said died after receiving improper anesthesia care. The jury returned the wrongful death verdict against medical group Coastal Anesthesia, Dr. Randall Boudreaux and Don Ortego, a certified [...]
Posted December 28, 2009 By: Chris Wagner, KHASTV.com A Nebraska teenager is dead after being hit by a snow removing machine in a school parking lot early this morning. According to police, 19–year–old Christopher Johnson was struck by the pay–loader after he went to talk to the vehicle’s driver and slipped on the [...]
Posted December 23, 2009 By Larry Hartstein, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A 32-year-old Lawrenceville woman has been charged with felony hit and run and DUI in an Interstate 85 crash that injured 13 developmentally disabled adults and their bus driver Wednesday. Joy Christine Wilson was being held without bond at the Gwinnett County [...]
Posted December 21, 2009 By Mike McIntire, the New York Times By the time Bryan Lee headed to work along Highway 51 in Texas on Sept. 15, 2005, the road-building industry and its government overseers were painfully aware of a deadly, though easily corrected, construction hazard: pavement-edge drop-offs. Accidents involving dangerous drop-offs kill [...]
Posted December 21, 2009 By UPI.com SAN DIEGO, Dec. 21 (UPI) — An 8-year-old boy died and five adults were seriously injured when their pleasure boat collided with a U.S. Coast Guard vessel off San Diego, officials said. The Coast Guard vessel, responding to a report of a grounded boat, crashed against the [...]
Posted December 19, 2009 By: www.thedenverchannel.com EVERGREEN, Colo. — A 3-year-old boy was in critical condition after being struck and dragged by a car on Saturday afternoon in Evergreen. Evergreen Fire Rescue Chief Garry Dejong said firefighters were called to the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store at 952 Swede Gulch Road in [...]
Posted December 18, 2009 By: channel3000.com MERRIMAC, Wis. — Fourteen people were hurt after a ski lift accident at the Devil’s Head resort near the Town of Merrimac on Thursday night. The Sauk County Sheriff’s Department said that the state Department of Commerce has taken over an investigation into a malfunctioning chair lift [...]
Posted December 17, 2009 The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A Los Angeles toy importer is recalling about 22,000 toy dart gun sets after an 8-year-old child’s death. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says children can choke on the soft plastic darts included in the Action Team toy dart gun imported by OKK [...]
Medical malpractice is any action or omission by a medical professional that injuriously deviates from accepted standards and practices or causes accelerated injury or death. As such, malpractice can be considered those actions or inactions that cause damage that would have otherwise been avoided. From that definition, we are able to dive into the [...]
Many families have to deal with the tough decision of putting parents and grandparents in nursing homes. They know that the homes can provide more complete care, but at the same time you are putting your loved one in the trust of complete strangers. Under most normal circumstances, nursing home treatment is adequate and [...]
