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• 96,000 Pounds of Ground Beef Recalled After Possible E-Coli Contamination

  Amy Rothschild | November 26, 2007 2:30 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  Nearly 96,000 pounds of ground beef were voluntarily recalled last week following an investigation by Illinois health officials. The Food Safety and Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture announced the recall Saturday after two people reported symptoms that could have been caused by E. coli poisoning. The beef was produced by American Foods Group of Green Bay and was distributed to...

• Woman Awarded $3 Million in Malpractice Action for Misdiagnosis

  Amy Rothschild | November 26, 2007 2:20 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  Lynn and James Flaherty of Bethel Park, Pittsburgh couple won a $3 million malpractice lawsuit against two doctors and a physician's assistant after the woman was misdiagnosed as having a sinus infection. Mrs. Flaherty visited the doctors' office in 2001 complaining of headaches and nasal discharge. The doctors were not available. The physician's assistant recommended additional testing and...

• Settlement of Wrongful Death Case Reached For $2.25 Million In Plant Explosion Case

  Amy Rothschild | November 19, 2007 2:04 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  The mother of a masonry worker who was 24 years old when he was killed in an explosion on October 12, 2005, as he was finishing a wall at Triumph Food Plant, a nearly completed pork processing plant in Missouri., filed a wrongful death lawsuit for the death of her son. The wrongful-death case was settled for $2.25 million. Investigators determined that gas leaking from an uncapped valve fueled...

• Mother Files Lawsuit Alleging Death of Child Resulted from Taking Over-the-Counter Children's Cough Medicine

  Amy Rothschild | November 15, 2007 3:00 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  An Illinois woman whose child died after taking children's cough medicines filed a lawsuit Wednesday, November 14, 2007, alleging that drug makers should have warned of the medicines' dangers sooner. The lawsuit names Walgreen Co. and McNeil, a unit of Johnson & Johnson. Experts testified before the Food and Drug Administration last month that the medicines posed a major health threat to...

• Lawsuit Filed Against School District In Drowning of Boy on Property Owned By School District

  Amy Rothschild | November 14, 2007 3:23 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  The family of a nine year old boy who drowned in a drainage ditch in Kansas City, Kansas, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the boy's school district. The boy was walking with friends through a field near his elementary school when rainwater swept him off his feet and into a drainage ditch. The boy was trapped in the opening of a drainage ditch and was submerged under water for...

• Jury Awards Almost $11 Million in Railroad Death

  Amy Rothschild | November 12, 2007 2:17 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  After a 2 1/2 week trial, a jury in Jefferson County, Texas awarded around $10.9 million to the family of a woman killed when her truck was hit by a train at a Louisiana railroad crossing. The money will be used to help the family take care of the woman's young daughter who was paralyzed from the chest down as a result of the crash.In July 2005, the decedent was traveling in a truck with her...

• Curious George Plush Dolls Recalled Due to Dangerous Levels of Lead

  Amy Rothschild | November 09, 2007 2:54 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  On Thursday, November 8, 2007, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled about 175,000 Curious George plush dolls due to contamination by dangerous levels of lead. These dolls as well as many other children's toys that have been recalled because of dangerous levels of lead were likewise, manufactured in China. Manufactured by Marvel Toys, of New York, N.Y., the Curious...

• Aqua Dot Toys Recalled Because They Contain "Date Rape" Drug

  Amy Rothschild | November 09, 2007 2:31 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled 4.2 million Aqua Dots toys for possibly containing a "date rape" drug. The Aqua Dots craft toys are being recalled because they include a chemical on their beads which, if swallowed, can turn toxic and cause unconsciousness, respiratory depression, or seizures. To date, two children in the United States swallowed the Aqua Dots and...

• Jury Awards $3 Million Dollars in Nursing Home Neglect Case That Results in Patient's Death

  Amy Rothschild | November 05, 2007 5:52 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  A jury in Platte County, Missouri rendered a verdict requiring the owner and operator of Barry Manor and White Oak nursing facilities to pay more than $3 million to the estate of a former patient who died in 2004. Of this amount, $500,000 was awarded in actual or compensatory damages. The balance of the award or $2.5 million was awarded as punitive damages or as punishment for the aggregiousness...

• General Mills Recalls More Than 400,000 Frozen Jeno's and Tortino Brand Pizzas With Pepperoni Due to Possible E-Coli

  Amy Rothschild | November 02, 2007 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  General Mills recalled almost 5 million Totino's and Jeno's frozen pepperoni pizzas on Thursday, November 1, 2007, because of possible E. coli contamination. State and federal investigators uncovered the possible contamination after 9 people with E. coli poisoning reported eating the pizzas. The recall covers Totino's and Jeno's pizzas with pepperoni topping or a combination of pepperoni and...