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Deceased Rat = $1.7 million. Deceased Human = $250,000?

Here’s to hoping I find a dead rat in my salad sometime soon! If I find a dead rat in a salad, I have the potential to recover $1.7 million for my “emotional and physical pain and suffering,” not to mention my “change in dining habits.” If one of my parents were to unfortunately die as a result of m

By The Legal Examiner

/ 1 Nov 2006

Louisiana's $500,000 Tort Reform Cap Ruled Unconstitutional

Keep in mind that Louisiana’s neighbor to the West, a little state known as Texas, has a cap on non-economic damages (i.e., all of the pain and suffering that one has to endure for a lifetime as a result of a serious injury or loss of a loved one) of $250,000 or $500,000 (depending on the number and

By The Legal Examiner

/ 13 Oct 2006

Can Time Travel Really Prevent Medical Malpractice???(2)

I know this isn’t one of my customary topics, but news like this just doesn’t come up all that often. We’ve all been to a doctor or nurse whose bedside manner or treatment practices we have questioned. Most health care litigation attorneys have even met (and deposed) some real nut jobs (that is the

By The Legal Examiner

/ 29 Sep 2006

Playskool Recalls Tool Bench Toys After Multiple Deaths

Toymaker Playskool and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall Friday of about 255,000 of its “Team Talkin’ Tool Bench” toys following the deaths of two young children.Playskool, a unit of Hasbro Inc., said it received reports that a 19-month-old boy from Martinsburg, W.Va., and

By The Legal Examiner

/ 22 Sep 2006

Preventable Medication Error Responsible for Infant Deaths

We’ve all read the articles that medical errors harm hundreds of thousands, if not over a million people every year. This time, an easily preventable medication error took the life of multiple infants. Lena Nelson had looked forward to buying dolls and other presents for her first granddaughter, who

By The Legal Examiner

/ 19 Sep 2006

ER Wait Death Ruled Homicide

A coroner’s jury in Illinois has ruled that the death of a 49 year old woman while she waited in an emergency room in Lake County, Ill was a homicide. The woman, Beatrice Vance, entered the hospital emergency room in July of 2006, complaining of neasea, shortness of breath and chest pain. Ms. Vance

By The Legal Examiner

/ 18 Sep 2006

Lawsuit Claims Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch Caused Blood Clots and Miscarriage

A Plano, Texas woman who suffered a miscarriage and developed potentially life-threatening blood clots after using the Ortho Evra birth control patch has filed a federal lawsuit against drug manufacturing giant Johnson & Johnson inMarshall, Texas.According to an article on PR Newswire, Elizabeth Bar

By The Legal Examiner

/ 13 Sep 2006

Woman spots rapist on TV; awarded $20 Million in Civil Suit

A Ventura, California woman received a $20 million civil court judgment against the man that forcibly raped her in 2003. The attacker was recognized weeks later by the victim, after he appeared on the television show “Blind Date.”Ulrick Kevin White was convicted of rape and false imprisonment for th

By The Legal Examiner

/ 6 Sep 2006

Merck had Another Bad Week – Two More Plaintiff Victories in Vioxx Lawsuits

Merck & Co. was hit with two major legal setbacks over the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx on Thursday when a federal jury in New Orleans ordered the drugmaker to pay $51 million to a heart attack victim, and a state judge in New Jersey overturned a November verdict favoring the company. In New Orleans,

By The Legal Examiner

/ 28 Aug 2006

Federal Experts Confirm Infections Caused by Bausch & Lomb's ReNu with MoistureLoc

Thousands of consumers who have suffered at the hands of Bausch & Lomb’s ReNu with MoistureLoc have finally received some of the answers they have been looking for. Federal disease control experts and leading eye doctors have formally concluded that ReNu With MoistureLoc from Bausch & Lomb was the o

By The Legal Examiner

/ 25 Aug 2006

Cerebral Palsy Lawsuits Are Decimated by Egregious Damage Caps

Imagine being held underwater for a minute and then being allowed to come up for air – briefly – only to be involuntarily dunked underwater repeatedly. Your brain will go without oxygen for extended periods of time, which can cause severe damage to a healthy adult. Now, imagine the same nightmare sc

By The Legal Examiner

/ 24 Jul 2006

Merck Facing Potential New Lawsuits With Fosamax

As Merck & Co. defends itself against a deluge of litigation involving its pain reliever Vioxx, the pharmaceutical giant also is fielding the first of what could be another wave of lawsuits involving Fosamax, its second-biggest seller. The emerging litigation targeting the osteoporosis drug, still i

By The Legal Examiner

/ 11 Jul 2006