- Brent Adams | December 30, 2007 12:17 AM |
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MiscellaneousHere's a warning for those suffering from the disabling condition of diabetes. A recall has been announced of testing strips for diabetes produced by Bayer Diabetes Care due to the strips providing results that are false for tests of blood glucose.The strips the recall was announced for are used with the Contour TS Blood Glucose Meter and are from lots designated with a WK followed by 7D, 7E,...
- Brent Adams | December 29, 2007 11:52 PM |
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MiscellaneousAccording to Medtronic Inc., it has reached a settlement agreement of $114.1 million in order to settle product liability lawsuits related to the company's Marquis line of implanted cardiac defibrillators.The Minneapolis-based company, which makes implantable biomedical devices, will settle 2,682 cases for $95.6 million and $18.5 million in attorney's fees. However, according to the company, the...
- Brent Adams | December 12, 2007 11:09 PM |
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MiscellaneousTwo Nebraska women are warning those retired, on disability, or otherwise to be careful of phone calls from individuals claiming to be from the Social Security Administration.According to Gina Slavik, she took one such call and as a result, ended up losing money. Slavik referred to the individual she received the phone call from as "smooth." He called her with the message that she was owed a...
- Brent Adams | December 11, 2007 10:02 PM |
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MiscellaneousMany children in the United States are injured as a result of their rubber shoes being caught in escalators. One popular brand known as "Crocs," swept across America being marketed as shoes that were "comfortable, cool, and molded to your feet," as their website says. Personal injury attorneys in Toledo, Ohio have seen many injuries that have occurred from accidents on elevators and escalators,...
- Brent Adams | December 10, 2007 9:30 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe United States Consumer Product Safety Commission has recently released a statement which announced a voluntary recall of Starbucks children's plastic cups. Reportedly, the cups easily fracture, which leaves sharp edges and broken pieces that can pose a choking or laceration hazard for children.There have been seven reports received by Starbucks of cups breaking and two of those reports...
- Brent Adams | December 09, 2007 1:59 AM |
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MiscellaneousSuzanne Guest dedicated her entire law career to Allstate Insurance Co. She spent years defending Allstate insured defendants who had been sued by the victims of motor vehicle negligence.All she did was work for Allstate. Allstate had agreed to defend her if she was ever sued in connection with her work for Allstate.How did Allstate repay Suzanne Guest for her dedicated years or hard work and...
- Brent Adams | December 06, 2007 10:52 PM |
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MiscellaneousNorth Dakota Senator Bryan Dorgan questions the high rate of social security disability claims denials. The fact that there is a high win rate at the appeal level suggests that too many claims are denied on the initial application.Dan Neer, A Bismarck, North Dakota man who suffers from chronic back pain has been battling the Social Security Administration to receive disability benefits. Neer...
- Brent Adams | December 06, 2007 10:37 PM |
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MiscellaneousA New York, NY man, Jason DeJesus, has filed a novel premises liability law suit against the Roxy, a popular New York City night club, for a stabbing that occurred outside the premises. His lawyer David Perecman has made the argument that his client was improperly protected by The Beer Garden, Inc., which owns the Roxy, after Mr. DeJesus was stabbed by another club patron a block and a half...
- Brent Adams | December 05, 2007 10:36 PM |
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MiscellaneousAn Omaha, Nebraska orphan has been asked by the Social Security Administration to refund money that was paid to him 30 years ago.Jay Rovang, 50, said that he received a letter from the SSA which said that they wanted to be paid benefits that he was overpaid which total $662. Rovang is disabled and lives on a fixed income.According to Rovang, he began receiving survivor benefits at the age of...
- Brent Adams | December 04, 2007 10:56 PM |
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MiscellaneousMen and women who have become disabled while on active duty serving in the U.S. military are receiving 'expedited processing' of disability claims from Social Security. The expedited process is for those members of the U.S. military who were disabled on or after the date of October 1, 2001, no matter where the disability occurred. Benefits can be applied for and received by those in the military...
- Brent Adams | December 03, 2007 10:37 PM |
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MiscellaneousIf anybody believes the false the inurance industry generated propaganda that there is a medical malpractice crisis, they should consider the recent revelation concerning Medical Mutual Insurance Company of North Carolina and its four top executives including its CEO. According to the Raleigh, North Carolina News and Observer, the North Carolina Department of Insurance, after an...
- Brent Adams | December 02, 2007 7:32 AM |
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MiscellaneousMinnesota schoolteacher Tom Carey mortgaged his house in order to finance a medical malpractice lawsuit against the doctors and hospital whose medical blunders resulted in the prolonged, agonizing and painful death of his wife, Barbara. When the doctors settled, his wife's health insurance company tried to take it all away. A radiologist missed a spot on his wife's CT scan. The spot the doctor...