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• Family Awarded $1.5 Million In Fraternity Hazing Death of Son

  Amy Rothschild | December 11, 2007 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  In 2003, a student who pledged Psi Epsilon Chi fraternity died of water intoxication at the hands of fourteen fraternity members during a hazing incident. Eleven of the students pleaded guilty to the death of the student. The family brought a claim for wrongful death against all fourteen members of the fraterinity including John Burnius, one of the convicted tormentors. The New York State...

• Jury Awards $3.4 Million To Man Injured Using Tool Gun Which Must Be Paid By Stanley Works and Home Depot

  Amy Rothschild | December 10, 2007 2:10 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  After 8 hours of deliberatations, a jury in Hartford Connecticut issued a jury verdict of $3.4 million to a construction worker who was seriously injured when a nail became embedded in his brain as he worked with a nail gun. The jury held that Stanley Works and Home Depot, which sold the nail gun, were partly for the worker's injury in 2003. The court held that the worker was 55% at fault,...

• Old Navy Voluntarily Recalls Performance Fleece-Lined Boys' Jackets Because of Waist Drawstring Toggle

  Amy Rothschild | December 03, 2007 2:19 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  In cooperation with the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Old Navy LLC, of San Francisco, Calif., is voluntarily recalling about 17,200 Performance Fleece-Lined boys' jackets. The jackets have a waist drawstring with a toggle that could become snagged or caught in small spaces or doorways, which can pose an entrapment hazard to children. In February 1996, CPSC issued...

• New Research Study Links Avandia, a Diabetes Drug, to Osteoporosis

  Amy Rothschild | December 03, 2007 2:08 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  New research has found that the diabetes drug Avandia may increase the risk of osteoporosis. According to the study, authored by a Salk Institute for Biological Studies physician, the drug increased the activity of cells that degrade bones, often leading to fractures which explains why diabetics are can have increased risk of fractures. Avandia recently was labeled with warnings about the risk...

• 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...

• 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 $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...

• Maine Jury Awards $8 Million Malpractice Verdict Against Hospital and Midwife

  Amy Rothschild | October 29, 2007 10:22 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  A severely brain damaged boy and his mother received almost $8 million in damages on Thursday, October 26, 2007, in a lawsuit against a Maine hospital and one of its midwives. The verdict was rendered in Auburn, Maine. The verdict in favor of Sasha Emond of Lewiston and her son, Odysseus, was described as the largest malpractice award ever handed down in Androscoggin County Superior Court. It...