Posts tagged General Personal Injury

• Amtrak Train Collided with Woman's Body.

  Susy Owen | September 07, 2007 9:13 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Police in North Carolina are looking into what could be a wrongful death. At approximately five a.m. on Friday, a train collided with the body of a woman. Initally, it was believed that the woman's death was caused by the train. Now, authorities are not so certain. The engineer of the train has been interviewed. He did see a woman on the tracks, but it was too late to stop by the time he saw...

• $25.8 Million Awarded In Wrongful Death Suit

  Susy Owen | August 28, 2007 3:52 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In 2002 a Florida woman, Beth Hippely, was prescribed the blood thinner Warfarin as part of her cancer treatment. However, when she received her filled prescription from the Deerfield, Illinois based Walgreens, it was ten times the strength that her doctor has prescribed and subsequently caused her to have a stroke and eventually die. As a result, The company was sued for negligent breach of...

• More bodies found after bridge collapses

  Susy Owen | August 17, 2007 7:00 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Tragically, two more bodies have been found since the fall of the I-35W bridge. The remains of Vera Peck, 50, and Christina Sacorafas-Mosher, 45, have been identified. They are the 10th and 11th victims. Ms. Mosher had recently moved from San Diego. Vera Peck was a mother of three. Vera died from drowning and Christina died from blunt-force injuries. The remains of Vera's 20-year-old son,...

• Infant Ejected from Vehicle Dies Due to Defective Product

  Susy Owen | August 03, 2007 12:33 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  There is nothing more tragic than an avoidable death of an infant. Tragically, four-month-old Tyler Malcomb died after his mother swerved to avoid a driver who was passing her Suburban illegally. Tyler's Evenflo-manufactured child-safety seat broke in a rollover. When the incident occurred, the "On My Way" seat broke off, and Tyler was ejected about 60 feet from the site of the incident. It is...

• Bridge Collapses at Least Six People Dead

  Susy Owen | August 02, 2007 12:24 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  To the shock and dismay of Minnesotans, Interstate 35W bridge, which stretches between Minneapolis and St. Paul, was in the midst of being repaired when it collapsed yesterday during rush hour traffic. According to Mayor R.T. Ryback announcement, four hours after the disaster, there are at least six people known to be dead and another 20 are missing. Given the severity of the collapse and the...

• New Procedures in Hospitals Can Reduce MRSA Infections

  Jenny Albano | July 27, 2007 1:16 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  New procedures in hospitals could drastically reduce the number of infections patients receive during their stay at hospitals. Some hospitals have started having nurses swab the nasal passage of every incoming patient to test for drug-resistant bacteria. Those who are found positive are put in isolation rooms so other patients and medical personnel won't contract an infection. Also, hospitals...

• Chinese Chemical Kills 94 and Counting

  Susy Owen | July 08, 2007 6:38 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It has recently come to light that in Panama, a chemical that was made in China and was fraudulently passed off as a product that is 99.5 percent pure glycerin - a sweetner commonly found in drugs- is responsible for the deaths of 94 people. Prosecutor Dimas Guevara, a top Panamanian prosecutor said " tests show at least 94 people have died from taking medicine contaminated with diethylene...

• Avandia Hearing - FDA Exposed as Negligent

  Susy Owen | June 17, 2007 12:52 PM | 2 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Avandia is a type 2 diabetes drug that has been taken by a millions of people all over the world. According the IMS Health, a medical tracking firm, in 2006 alone, US doctors wrote 13 million Avandia prescriptions. It is known that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ignored repeated warning pertaining to increaded cardiac risks associated with this drug for years. The numbers are really...

• Auto Accident Becomes a Hit-and-Run

  Susy Owen | June 01, 2007 2:03 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Early this morning in San Francisco, a 70-year-old male pedestrian was struck by a hit-run-driver. After the auto accident, San Francisco police Sargent Neville Gittens said "He ended up on the hood of the vehicle and the vehicle continued for about 25 feet with the victim on the hood. "The suspect stopped the vehicle, and the victim rolled off the hood onto the street." Imagine, the driver only...

• Another Defective Product Leading to Eye Disease

  Susy Owen | June 01, 2007 12:37 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  This is not the first time that contact lens wearers have been told that they have a defective product on their hands, or rather in their eyes. Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) has pulled Complete MoisturePlus from the shelves globally. Apparently, they have received reports that 21 users have contracted Acanthamoeba, a water-borne parasite that occurs naturally but in the human eye can lead to...