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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more