Wrongful Death | InjuryBoard Charleston

A 33-year-old man complaining of chest pains and pains going down his left arm, died outside Olive View-UCLA Medical Center Sunday. After waiting for medical treatment for more than three hours, the man walked out of the emergency room, collapsed on the pavement and died minutes later. Health official have cited the hospital for medical problems five times this year.While the man's pulse,...

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A jury in Arizona issued a verdict on Friday, October 19, 2007, which will require Pima County and a drunken driver to pay a combined total of $8.5 million to the family of a girl who was killed in August 2004, while crossing the street. Of this amount, the County will have to be $520,000. The balance of the verdict must be paid by the drunk driver who is serving almost 11 years in jail for...

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Sharon Miller, the speicial administrator of the estate of her mother, Elizabeth Massears, filed a wrongful death suit on October 2, 2007, against Central Illinois Taxi in Madison County Circuit for the death of her mother. The lawsuit alleges that on October 4, 2005, her mother was being transported by a taxi company from her residence at the Blue Fountain Nursing Home to a doctor's...

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In Jackson, Mississippi, the family of Martha Burns initiated a wrongful death case against General Motors Corporation. Ms. Burns, an educator who was committed to children with disabilities and special needs, died in a one-car accident in Alabama about five years ago. Ms. Burns' family's lawyer claims that Ms. Burns died because and interior switch improperly opened the door when it was hit...

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Rene Green, the mother of twenty (20) year old Jonathon Green, filed wrongful death and survival actions on August 28, 2007, against Blitz, USA, in the Eastern District of Texas. In late winter in Texas, Ms. Green's son was burning brush in a barrel. He tried to pour additonal gasoline onto the brush but the gas container manufactured by Blitz, USA, exploded resulting in the boy becoming...

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A jury in Bartown, Florida, rendered a $25.8 million on August 17, 2007, to a cancer patient's family who was given a wrong prescription by Walgreen's pharmacy. The wrong prescription resulted in the cancer patient having a stroke and dying several days later. The patient, who was being treated for breast cancer, was prescribed Warfarin, a blood thinner, in 2002 to treat the breast cancer....

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The daughter of an eighty-two (82) year old resident who died at a nursing home has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the nursing home. The resident, who had been residing at the nursing home since 2004, died three days after she fell and fractured her leg and hip at the nursing home. The daughter's complaint alleges wrongful death and claims that the nursing home's abuse and neglect...

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In December of 2005, Keith Scofield ordered an over-the counter drug from a Wal-Mart pharmacy in Frederick, Maryland. Mr. Schofield ordered Humulin R (u-100). Instead, Mr. Schofield was puportedly given Humulin R (u-500). Humulin R (u-500) is a prescription drug that has five times more the insulin of the medication that Mr. Schofield requested from the pharmacy. According to his family who...

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The family of an Iraq war veteran recently filed a lawsuit in Springfield, Massachusetts, on July 30, 2007, alleging negligence against Jim Nicholson, the secretary of Veterans Affairs Secretary, in the suicide death of their son. The action states that the Veterans Affairs (VA)is at fault for the death of Jeffrey Lucey, a 23 year old Marine who committed suicide in June 2004, after he was...

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