InjuryBoard Fayetteville Archives

• Hotel Shower Burns Causes Scarring and Disfigurement

  Brent Adams | March 27, 2008 11:07 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A 79-year-old Hurricane Katrina refugee from New Orleans has filed a $100 million negligence suit against a New York, New York hotel, claiming that she fainted and suffered personal injuries due to being scalded while taking a shower in the hotel.According to Ethel Tropez, who now resides in Live Oak, Texas, the March 29, 2007 incident in the Hotel Chandler resulted in being badly burned and...

• COPD Drug May Be Harmful

  Brent Adams | March 26, 2008 2:49 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  According to a statement made on Tuesday, March 18 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a drug used for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be harmful to those who use it. As if the disabling condition of COPD was not difficult enough, the FDA says that Spiriva, a lung drug manufactured by Pfizer Inc. and German-based Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutical...

• Oprah Winfrey Sued By Audience Member

  Brent Adams | March 25, 2008 2:27 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A woman has filed a lawsuit claiming that while she was in Chicago, Illinois, she received personal injuries in a rush for seating at the set of the Oprah Winfrey talk show.According to the claims of Orit Greenberg, Harpo Studios exhibited negligence through their failure to control the audience during the December 5, 2006 incident. She filed the suit seeking damages in excess of...

• Defendant claims fainting is valid excuse for the death of five children

  Brent Adams | March 09, 2008 7:00 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Is a driver liable if he passes out at the wheel and injures someone? The answer in North Carlina is: it depends.A driver is obligated to operate his vehicle as a reasonable prudent person would do. If he fails to act in that manner and if someone is injured by that failure, that driver is responsible for all injuries that resultIf a driver has absolutely no reason to believe that he may be...

• Injured employee claims he was fired because he filed a workers' compensation claim.

  Brent Adams | March 08, 2008 10:37 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  A man from Fayette County, West Virginia has filed suit against a company in Kanawha County, West Virginia claiming that during his employment there, the company fired him in retaliation for his filing a workers' compensation claim. He also claims that his employer violated the West Virginia Human Rights Act.The suit was filed against Mountaineer Grading Company and Mickey Farmer on January 29...

• Hormone-replacement drug manufacturers must pay$ 27 Million punitive damages

  Brent Adams | March 07, 2008 2:22 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A federal jury awarded an Arkansas breast cancer victim $ 27.2 million punitive damages award yesterday on top of $ 2.7 million in compensatory damages after she developed breast cancer from taking the defendants' hormone replacement drugs.The jury found that the defendants had not adequately warned Donna Scroggin that the drugs caused an increased risk of developing breast cancer.She had...