Posts tagged wrongful death

• Falsified and Missing Records Cover Up Medical Malpractice

  Will Parker | July 28, 2009 2:04 PM | 2 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Most of trust that doctors and hospitals will do the right thing and put us, the patients, first. I mean, doctors take an oath to the effect, right? Well, if you do put all your trust in their...

• Wal-Mart Settles Lawsuit for Giving Customer Wrong Medication Resulting in Customer's Death

  Amy Rothschild | August 13, 2007 6:22 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  In December of 2005, Keith Scofield ordered an over-the counter drug from a Wal-Mart pharmacy in Frederick, Maryland. Mr. Schofield ordered Humulin R (u-100). Instead, Mr. Schofield was puportedly given Humulin R (u-500). Humulin R (u-500) is a prescription drug that has five times more the insulin of the medication that Mr. Schofield requested from the pharmacy. According to his family who...

• Family Sues Over Six-Year-Old Son's Pool Drowning

  Amy Rothschild | January 29, 2008 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  On January 28, 2008, the parents of a six-year-old boy who drowned when his arm got caught in a strong underwater swimming pool suction drain, filed a law suit agains the the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, Shoreline Pools and other defendants. The lawsuit, which asks for more than $15,000 in damages, states that Shoreline Pools ad a history of violating building code requirements. The lawsuit...

• Florida Jury Awards $25.8 Million Against Walgreen's Pharmacy for Misfilled Prescription

  Amy Rothschild | August 21, 2007 9:28 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A jury in Bartown, Florida, rendered a $25.8 million on August 17, 2007, to a cancer patient's family who was given a wrong prescription by Walgreen's pharmacy. The wrong prescription resulted in the cancer patient having a stroke and dying several days later. The patient, who was being treated for breast cancer, was prescribed Warfarin, a blood thinner, in 2002 to treat the breast cancer....

• Family Of Man Killed In Bus Crash Files Wrongful Death Action

  Amy Rothschild | January 17, 2008 1:54 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Pedro Mendez was killed on January 2, 2008, when a chartered bus owned by Capricorn Bus Lines Inc. of Houston, and in which he was a passenger, crashed. The crash occurred when the driver of the bus became sleepy, veered off the highway and and tried to pull back onto the highway. The driver overcorrected resulting in the bus zigzagging across the highway. The bus then rolled over before...

• Widow Sues Disney Cruise Line For Wrongful Death Of Husband

  Amy Rothschild | January 28, 2008 9:28 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Marilyn Piazza of New York, has brought a wrongful death suit against Disney Cruise Line claiming that the company is at fault in the August 14, 2007, death of Santo L. Piazza, her husband. Mr. Piazza was 78 years old at the time of his death.Mrs. Piazza alleges that her husband died on a Mediterranean cruise in the summer of 2007 as a result of poorly designed raised threshold on bathroom...

• Cases Settled Involving Helicopter Crash

  Amy Rothschild | February 25, 2008 9:29 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  In 2002, a medical helicopter crashed in Norfolk, killing three people aboard. The helicopter had just left a Norfolk hospital on June 21, 2002. when the pilot reported trouble. The helicopter subsequently crashed at the airpoirt. The pilot, an emergency room nurse and a paramedic were killed. The families of the thre three victims filed suit. On February 19, 2008, the the famiilies'...

• First-Ever Chewing Tobacco Settlement

  Gray Ervin | December 08, 2010 9:03 AM | 0 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC Category: Toxic Substances
  

  We all remember the huge tobacco settlements stemming from cigarretes. Now, the lid is off of another product that could result in more trouble for tobacco companies. The maker of Skoal and...

• Three Million Dollar Verdict in Myrtle Beach Wrongful Death

  Will Parker | June 02, 2010 11:23 AM | 0 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Late last week, an Horry County jury awarded our client, Sean Fay, a $3 Million verdict in a medical malpractice/wrongful death case. In 2002, the Plaintiff took his 25 year old wife, Kelly Fay,...

• Medical Malpractice Caps May Be Removed by Two State Supreme Courts

  Will Parker | September 29, 2009 4:08 PM | 3 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A recent article from American Medical News by Amy Lynn Sorrel states Supreme Court judges in two states are set to decide whether or not to do away with limits on non-economic damages in medical...