Wrongful Death

• Let Me Count The Ways Mistakes Killed The Comair Passengers

  Bob Carroll | January 21, 2007 6:24 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The causes of airplane crashes are rarely singular. They tend to be combinations of multiple errors and defects. This story from Kentucky.com shows just some of the individual causes that came together in Lexington to take the lives of 49 people.Attorneys say revelations in crash investigation help lawsuitsThe plane crashed on takeoff from Lexington's Blue Grass Airport after the pilots taxied...

• The Glove Compartment Is Not A Gun Safe

  Bob Carroll | January 19, 2007 6:37 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Firearms and children continue to find each other. And, the combination is deadly.Six year old finds gun in glove compartmentA six-year old Chicago boy, Jaylen Parker, died at the University of Chicago Hospital after shooting himself in a car belonging to his grandmother, a 17-year Cook County correctional officer, while she was retrieving the boy's younger brother from the Mighty God Christian...

• Boot Camp Wrongful Death Lawsuit Postponed

  Staff Writer | January 18, 2007 11:29 AM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  A judge announced yesterday that the wrongful death lawsuit filed against two boot camp guards will not begin until the criminal trial is over. Guards at a Panama City Boot Camp beat and kicked Martin Lee Anderson in early January 2006. The beating was caught on videotape and has been seen on local and national news stations around the country.Seven drill instructors and a camp nurse stand...

• Fiery Train Crash in Kentucky

  John Hopkins | January 16, 2007 3:40 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Reports of several train cars crashing in Kentucky have apparently closed highways and forced mass evacuations of schools, businesses and homes in Bullitt County, Kentucky.It appears that several of the derailing train cars were carrying flammable liquids, which resulted in explosions and flaming liquid flowing along ditches at the train crash site. CBS reports that the wreck involved (4)...

• Wrongful Death By Sales Promotion Contest

  Bob Carroll | January 15, 2007 6:40 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Promotions sometimes get a little out of hand. We have seen the huge pileup that occurs when wads of money are dropped from the balcony onto the crowd below. And, the mad dash when the doors are flung open for the midnight sale. But, this promotion was dumb, dumb, dumb. Woman Dies after Water Drinking ContestDid this radio station not consider the implications of their stunt? Via...

• Lobbying From The Back Of The Courtroom

  Bob Carroll | December 13, 2006 7:45 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The New York Times is running an editorial today about the limits of spectator actions during America's public trials. We are proud that our criminal and civil court systems are open to the public. But, can we allow the public to intervene as a factor in the outcome? Can we permit public access to morph into what the Times calls lobbying?Lobbying the Jury We are disappointed that the Supreme...

• Nurse Charged Criminally For Causing Death Of Pregnant Patient

  Bob Carroll | November 19, 2006 7:21 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  You be the judge.Did this nurse cross the line between a breach of the standard of care and criminal misconduct? Former St. Mary's nurse charged in death of patient Nursing and hospital officials were outraged Thursday after the state filed a felony charge against the nurse whose medication error caused the death of a teenager at St. Mary's Hospital in July.It's the first time a health- care...

• Comair Sues U.S. And Lexington Airport

  Bob Carroll | October 14, 2006 6:12 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  You are an airline. One of your planes took off from the wrong runway and, as a result of this grossly negligent action, forty-nine people died. What are you to do?You could sue the federal government and the airport to make sure other parties that bear responsibility pay their fair share of the compensation which will have to be paid to the families of the victims. In a novel tactic that is...

• Motorcycle Safety Mission Of Clearwater Mother

  Bob Carroll | October 05, 2006 8:23 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A Clearwater woman has suffered the tragic death of her son in a motorcycle crash and is doing her best to save the lives of other motorcyclists. Mom on a mission to promote motorcycle safety Clearwater, Florida - As Diane Pearson watches cars whiz by on McMullen Booth Road, the scene revs up her fears.In May of last year, Pearson's 31-year-old son Gene died in a motorcycle crash. While going...

• Physician First Do No Harm; but if you do its OK to coerce patients

  John Hopkins | September 29, 2006 11:08 AM | 1 CommentWest Palm Beach, FL

  The St. Petersburg Times reports a startling event. Physicians who, through less than candid means, convinced voters to limit the damages that victims of medical malpractice can collect; are now going to "convince" their patients to forgive them for their malpractice. The Times reports that the waiver, which physicians will ask their patients to sign, will limit non-economic damages to...