North Carolina updates tagged with 'General Personal Injury'

Doctors are being urged to cut their prescriptions of the popular cholesterol-lowering drugs Vytorin and Zetia in patients. A recent clinical study showed that Vytorin and Zetia were far more expensive yet far less effective than statin drugs. The study did not raise significant safety issues among patients treated with Vytorin, but did suggest that patients need not pay the higher cost for...

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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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Cooper Tire Company has appealed to the 10th U. S. Circuit Court Of Appeals to fight an order of the lower federal court to produce records relating to the manufacture of tires.The families of several students of Utah State who died or received personal injuries from a van crash in 2005 have taken their lawsuit, which claims that the crash was caused by defective tires, to a federal court in...

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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 minivan collided with a school bus carrying 31 students to Durant Road Middle School in Raleigh, Wake County, NC. Fourteen (14) students and the bus driver were sent to the hospital. The driver of the minivan refused medical care. Although the driver of the minivan stated she had a green light, witnesses at the scene of the accident stated otherwise. The driver of the minivan was charged...

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Lawmakers in the U.S. are pushing a bill that would give the US product safety watchdog a much-needed boost, providing it with more money and authority after a wave of recalls of dangerous products which could cause personal injury.On Thursday, March 6, the U.S. Senate voted for an increase in funding for the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), which had to deal with low finances and...

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A blind spot is the area behind a vehicle that a person cannot see from the driver's seat by looking forward or in the rear-view or side mirrors. Blind spots often cause accidents on the highway or cause children to be injured or killed when drivers do not see them when backing up. To help consumers understand how large some blind spots are, Consumer Reports has measured the blind spots of a...

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The U. S. Food and Drug Administration has added to its' the recall of heparin products.This was in response to continued safety worries about the safety of the widely used blood thiner.The German version of the product manufactured by Rotexmedica GnbH Arzneimittelwerk was recalled Thursday by the FDA after reports of bad reactions in some German patients.Germany has also recalled this...

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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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On February 28, 2008, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of 24,000 cribs. Made in Indonesia, the cribs are equipped with faulty brackets which prevent the mattress from being fully lowered; therefore, children are put at risk of falling out of the crib. No deaths or injuries have been reported concerning any of the recalled cribs. Recalled cribs include: Majectice...

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The title of this article is how a Winston-Salem; North Carolina personal injury attorney describes the archaic law of contributory negligence. The comment arises in a Winston-Salem Journal article describing the injustice to 7-year-old Luly Beckles-Palomares who was riding her bike in a quiet residential neighborhood when she was struck and killed by a drunk driver who had already beaten 3...

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The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a case which could have a major effect on victims of defective products including pharmaceuticals.The case involves the validity of a Michigan law which kept Michigan victims of the defective drug Rezulin from collecting from a settlement that Rezulin victims of all other states participated it.The federal district court in Michigan...

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Deaths from all-terrain-vehicles (ATV's) due to personal injuries received in accidents involving are continually on the rise, a trend which has led to increased tensions over pending safety regulations as the popularity of the vehicles continues to rise.According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, an estimated 870 people died in ATV wrecks in 2005, an increase from 860 in the year...

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Since its introduction in 2003, the safety of the Yamaha Rhino has been called into question. With several fatalities, accidents, and serious injuries, the Rhino is considered among the most dangerous all-terrain vehicles (ATV) available to consumers. As an acknowledgement of the accidents that have occurred thus far, Yamaha offered to install doors on all Rhinos as an increased safety measure,...

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