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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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In a move that could lead to a rash of products liability suits, Chattern, Inc. , the manufacturer of Icy Hot and related products announced that it was voluntarily recalling its' Icy Hot Heat Therapy and a number of related products.Consumers have reported first, second and third degree burns after using these products. Some users reported having skin irritation after use of the...

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Trek Bicycle Corp., based out of Waterloo, Wisconsin, has issued a voluntary recall of approximately 49,000 girls bicycles due to the risk of frames possibly breaking during use of the bikes. According to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, the company has already received reports of 13 incidents of frames breaking The CPSC also said that four of those incidents were reported...

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The nation appears to be angered by the suit brought against an 8 year old boy who skied into an adult skier in ColoradoAccording to a lawyer in Pennsylvania , the personal injury lawsuit a couple from South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania filed against an 8-year-old boy who crashed into the husband while skiing in Colorado may be unpopular, but it is justifiable. According to Jim Chalat, the...

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Wary about potential premises liability issues and personal injuries, many stores and malls are taking precautions when it comes to trendy wheeled sneakers. One such place is Dubuque, Iowa, where stores are implementing policy changes and new signage.According to Zach Shank, manager of a Hy-Vee in the city, the shoes have been banned in his store. He said the decision was prompted by complaints...

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Here'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,...

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According 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...

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Many 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,...

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The 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...

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A 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...

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If 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...

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A former high school football player is suing the town of Coventry, Connecticut and his former coach over a leg injury that was the alleged result of carrying a player twice his size in a practice drill in 2005. The personal injury suit, filed in Rockville's Superior Court, alleges that Peter John Francis Murphy, a junior at Coventry High School at the time of the incident, was injured as a...

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