Rosa Eubanks, 54, was killed in a car accident involving 3 vehicles Tuesday morning. Rosa, a city bus driver, was driving to her depot when her car slammed into another car and and the course struck a tractor trailer truck at the intersection of Ralph and Foster Aves in East…
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Hopsital Negligence: patient missing for 17 days found dead in hospital stairwell after orderly stepped over her body a week earlier
A worker at San Francisco General Hospital reported to a nurse that he had to step over the passed out body of a woman while going up and down a fire escape stairwell. The nurse contacted the Sheriff’s Department who is in charge of the security at the hospital but…
Product Liability – Defective Car: serious issue related to defective brake system prompts Hyundai to announce a second recall of its Genesis Sedan
Last march Hyundai recalled its Genesis Sedan model manufactured between April 1, 2008 and March 16, 2012 to fix a defective brake system but only 60% have been repaired. After the NHTSA received 23 complaints of incidents related to increased brake pedal travel and reduced brake effectiveness in model year…
One man died from burns and another one was critically injured while jumping out of the window after a house with no smoke alarms caught fire in New York
One person died and one was seriously injured in a blaze that tore through a home on Springfield Blvd. in Queens Village New York. Fire officials don’t know yet what sparked the blaze but said there were no working smoke detectors in the home. Read more in the New york…
New York Car Accident: pedestrian dies after being struck by a minivan in Brooklyn
Ethel Rubenstein, a 69 year old pedestrian died after being hit by a minivan on Sunday night. She was crossing 11th Ave. at 49th St. in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York. The police are still investigating the cause of the accident. Read more in the New York Daily News According…
How to deal with medical errors?
After a surgeon realized he operated on the wrong leg of the patient he immediately reported the error to the hospital and offered a thorough apology to the patient. Should he be punished for this medical error? This was the question asked by The New York Times to its readers…
Personal Injury: The New York Times, Retro Report and the Daily Beast revisit the McDonald Hot Coffee Lawsuit
The personal injury case verdict in which Stella Liebeck was awarded $2.9 million after being severely burned by a McDonald cup of coffee that she spilled on her lap became an immediate media sensation. Corporations used it to push tort reform and the case gave rise to the attacks on…
Elevator Accident: the death of a worker with 43 years experience in the elevator construction trade stays unexplained
A man died in an elevator accident last July at the 49ers stadium construction site but OSHA recently concluded that Schindler Elevator Corp., the elevator Construction Company and project’s general contractor, Turner/Devcon, a joint venture between Turner Construction Co. of New York and Devcon Construction Inc. of Milpitas didn’t merit…
Product Liability – Defective Medical Device: FDA initiates Class 1 recall of some Bard LifeStent Solo Vascular Stents because they may fail to deploy
The defective stents may cause serious personal injury such as complications of bleeding, loss of limb, heart attack (myocardial infarction), stroke, vascular surgery, and/or death if they fail to deploy properly. The LifeStent Solo Vascular Stent manufactured by Bard Peripheral Vascular is an implantable self-expanding stent and delivery system used…
Medical Malpractice: To keep its Cath Lab running, a Negligent Hospital paid a high price for an unqualified surgeon who butchered multiple patients and killed one while performing unnecessary stent procedures
Medical Malpractice related to Cath Lab procedures are on the rise as overuse of Cardiac Stents lead to an increase of deaths linked to this type of procedure. In a recent article on Bloomberg, Sydney P. Freedberg, describes the shocking extreme the administrators at Satilla Regional Medical Center in Waycross,…