Wrongful Death

• Young Hollywood, Old Problems

  Cheryl Buchanan | December 29, 2007 12:50 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  For whatever reason, 2007 is the year that mug shots became the new head shots and rehab became the second best way to get headlines for Young Hollywood. Unfortunately for any of the rest of you who may also be on the roads between midnight and 6 a.m., DUIs seem to have become the best way to get headlines in an industry where almost all publicity is still good publicity. When...

• Medical Malpracticed Stockton Californians Cannot Receive Justice

  Larry Knapp | December 10, 2007 1:27 PM | 0 CommentsStockton, CA

  This is a great video on the outdated laws in the state of California regarding medical malpractice. While it advocates amending the 1975 cap that was established on non-economic damages so long ago and has not changed since, it does not go far enough. MICRA was established by coercive means, under circumstances whereby the insurance industry held the legislature hostage, using doctors to...

• Product Liabilty: FDA Requires New Warning For Avandia

  Scott Barber | November 15, 2007 10:48 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA

  The FDA has required GlaxoSmithKline to place a "black box" warning on its Diabetes drug, Avandia. The warning requirement is based upon 42 studies which show an increased risk of heart attack or chest pain associated with the use of Avandia. A May 21 report in the New England Journal of Medicine linked Avandia to a 43 percent increased risk of heart attacks. Avandia was the world's...

• City of Encinitas, School District Sued for Wrongful Death

  Randy Walton | November 10, 2007 8:17 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA

  The family of a San Dieguito Academy teenager who died after being hit by a fellow student's car has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Vista Superior Court. Named in the lawsuit are the City of Encinitas, San Dieguito Academy, San Dieguito Union High School and the State Department of Transportation. The driver of the vehicle and his father were also named.The lawsuit alleges that the district...

• Student's Death Leads to Wrongful Death Lawsuit

  David Rowell | October 19, 2007 8:51 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Jodi Woods was a student at the University of Tennessee, studying to be a teacher. In June 2006 she felt so sick that she went to the Emergency Department at Community Hospital in Martin, Tennessee. She told the staff that she had a severe headache (she described it as "the worst in her life"), and had other symptoms of bacterial meningitis, a life-threatening infection of tissue around the...

• Three Die in Fiery Truck Accident

  Randy Walton | October 15, 2007 10:43 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA

  A fiery truck accident on Interstate 5 killed three people and injured at least ten last Friday evening. The chain-reaction accident occurred on southbound lanes near Santa Clarita, closing the southbound lanes.The Los Angeles Times reported that the accident occurred inside a southbound tunnel that is used primarily by big-rig truckers and caused a fire that was so intense that firefighters...

• Elderly Man Dies in Nursing Home Due to Negligence

  Greg Owen | October 14, 2007 5:37 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  A Pike County nursing home is facing wrongful death allegations for the second time in one month. Before being transported to Good Shepard, were he later died, John Young, Jr. was a resident at Parkview from May 2005 until November 2005 Young's daughter Elvie Slone claims that officials at Good Shepherd caused Young to loose as much as 17 pounds in one month. Additionally, through various...

• Wrongful Death: Rash of Motorcycle Crashes Continues

  Randy Walton | October 13, 2007 12:52 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA

  It is simply remarkable how many motorcycle accidents there have been in San Diego County in the last month or so. I have counted at least ten. Sadly, the most recent involved a fatality. The San Diego Union has reported that 22-year-old Michael Duffy Jr. was killed in the Midway area. Apparently the Pacific Beach resident was riding along Sports Arena Boulevard when a sport utility vehicle...

• Four Million Verdict to Family of Boy Who Drowned

  Greg Owen | October 06, 2007 12:33 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  On June 22, 2006, 5-year-old Connor Freed's lifeless body was found floating in the swimming pool of the Crofton Country Club in Maryland at 4:30 p.m. in the afternoon.On that day young Conner had gone swimming along with a 36-year-old friend of the family and two other children. At the time of the incident there was a 16-year-old lifeguard on duty. That particular lifeguard had only been on the...

• Nursing Home Death Leads to Wrongful Death Lawsuit

  David Rowell | October 05, 2007 7:10 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  The family of Helen Edwards has filed a wrongful death lawsuit based on nursing home abuse againt Manor Care, a nursing and rehabilitation facility, following Ms. Edwards' death. Ms. Edwards was a resident of the facility for four weeks and, according to the family's attorney, during that time she developed an infected State IV pressure sore and other problems that led to her death. The...