InjuryBoard Charleston Archives

• State Worker Injured on the Job

  Pat Jennings | May 30, 2007 6:25 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  A mental hospital worker was stabbed with a kitchen knife late on the evening of Monday May 27. Upon his refusal to take medication connected with his mental illnesses, the 17-year-old patient went on the offensive. As soon as one supervisor to another called for assistance, the boy began to attack with the weapon.The 37 year old state-contracted victim was rushed to the hospital nearby the...

• How To Find Out If Your Vehicle is Subject to a Defect or Safety Recall

  Amy Rothschild | May 16, 2007 4:41 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Safety defects found in vehicles by manufacturers or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) are supposed to result in timely recalls of the defective vehicle or parts so as to prevent unneccessary harm to consumers. Unfortunately, many defects are not recalled and lives are unfortunately, needlessly forever changed through injury or death because defective motor vehicles...

• Man Sues Hospital in Negligence for Misdiagnosis

  Amy Rothschild | May 10, 2007 12:55 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A man in London, England is suing Royal Cornwall Hospital for compensation after he spent his entire life savings based on hospital doctors' diagnosis that he had pancreatic cancer and only had six months live. After receiving the diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, John Brandick quit his job and spent his entire life savings, staying at luxury hotels and taking friends and family members...

• Laborer Killed in School Construction Accident

  Mark Joye | May 10, 2007 11:25 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  An Ecuadorian laborer who was working at a school site in Brooklyn, NY, died in a construction accident last week when a trench he was working in collapsed and buried him under tons of dirt.Dirt, debris and tools so thoroughly covered the worker, identified by the police as Juan Amendano, 30, of Brooklyn, that it took rescue workers nearly an hour to dig him out. He was pronounced dead at the...

• General Motors Motor Vehicle Accident, Defective Vehicle Settlement Reached

  Amy Rothschild | May 04, 2007 12:21 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Prior to trial, Joye Law Firm successfully reached on behalf of clients William B. Stockton, Sr., and his wife, a large settlement of a case against General Motors Corporation for paralyzing injuries sustained by Mr. Stockton when as a result of a motor vehicle accident, his 1994 GMC Yukon was sent into an off-road rollover. In July of 2002, Mr. Stockton, a 57 year-old recently retired police...