Posts tagged General Personal Injury

• Hotel Shower Burns Causes Scarring and Disfigurement

  Brent Adams | March 27, 2008 11:07 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC 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 CommentsFayetteville, NC 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 CommentsFayetteville, NC 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...

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

  Brent Adams | March 07, 2008 2:22 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC 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...

• Icy Hot Is Recalled After Users Are Burned

  Brent Adams | February 13, 2008 1:09 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  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...

• Another Chinese Disaster: Defective Bicycles Folgged Off on The United States

  Brent Adams | February 11, 2008 11:30 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  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...

• Suit Against 8 Year Old Causes Outrage

  Brent Adams | January 03, 2008 10:50 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  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...

• Retail Stores Becoming Concerned About "Heelys"

  Brent Adams | January 02, 2008 11:30 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  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...

• Warning To Those Suffering From Diabetes

  Brent Adams | December 30, 2007 12:17 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  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,...

• Mass Settlement in Defective Cardiac Defibrillator Claims

  Brent Adams | December 29, 2007 11:52 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  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...