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• Anesthesia Malpractice Award

  Staff Writer | February 27, 2006 10:04 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A Pittsburgh jury recently awarded more than $1 million to a man who suffered a permanent injury to his sciatic nerve with accompanying complications following knee surgery seven years ago. The jury concluded that none of the defendants were negligent in causing the injury but that the surgeon failed to fully inform the patient of the risks, complications and alternatives to the spinal...

• School Bus Safety

  Jeff Krasnow | February 24, 2006 8:46 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Last week, a 15 year-old child was struck by a car while crossing Route 11, south of Buchanan, Virginia. The child had been let off of an activity bus from his high school which was stopped there with its lights flashing while the child crossed Route 11, which at that location was a four-lane, 55mph highway. The problem was that it was 6:30 p.m. and it was dark and the high visibility that our...

• You're Not In Good Hands With Allstate

  Staff Writer | February 24, 2006 8:02 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  According to an article published in the July 2005 issue of "The New Mexico Trial Lawyer" Allstate insurance company has devised a plan to increase it profits at the expense of its policyholders and those injured by Allstate insureds. The article entitled "False Promises -- Allstate, McKinsey and the Zero Sum Game" by David J. Berardinelli describes how Allstate has discovered that it can...

• Laparoscopic Malpractice Case

  Staff Writer | February 20, 2006 10:00 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A jury in Oswego County in upstate New York has awarded a two million five hundred thousand dollar verdict in an unusual medical malpractice case. The patient was suffering from abdominal pain and the defendant physician decided to do a laparoscopic examination. While inserting the trocar, the defendant transected both the aorta and the vena cava. The patient suffered a major hemorrhage but...

• DUI - Driving under the influence (Dramshop Liability)

  Staff Writer | February 15, 2006 12:22 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A Rhode Island jury has awarded 10.5 million dollars in damages to a Coast Guard veteran who was paralyzed as a result of being hit by a car driven by a drunk driver. The verdict was against the driver and the restaurant that he had left minutes before the accident where he had been served alcoholic beverages. The jury found the driver, Timothy Beauregard, 75% responsible for the accident and...