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The Miami Herald (7/7, Tasker) says that the Department of Veterans Affairs, “which in March 2009 revealed that more than 2,400 Miami-area veterans were given colonoscopies with improperly cleaned equipment, announced Tuesday that 79 veterans mistakenly were not notified they are at risk of contracting a disease such as HIV…
On the front page of its Business Day section, the New York Times (7/7, B1, Greenhouse) reports, “Wal-Mart Stores has spent a year and more than a million dollars in legal fees battling a $7,000 fine that federal safety officials assessed after shoppers trampled a Wal-Mart employee to death at…
A Maryland jury awarded $2.025 million to the family of an inmate who was hit by a truck and killed while he was picking up trash on work detail in 2007. According to the lawsuit, Rodney Jennings was crushed by a speeding dump truck that was exiting the highway he…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune (6/23, Levy) reports on a case before the Minnesota Court of Appeals in which Burlington Northern Santa Fe is appealing “a record $21.6 million” verdict awarded “to the families of four young people killed in a 2003 train-car accident in Anoka,” MN. BNSF attorney Sam Hanson…
A Dayton, Ohio, couple will receive $27,000 from the city in a settlement for their involvement in a car crash with a local police officer. The lawsuit claimed that Officer Adam Sharp caused the accident with the couple when he was driving the wrong way on a one-way road without…
ABC World News (6/28, story 7, 2:20, Sawyer) reported, “Two major studies have found the medicine called Avandia [rosiglitazone] could create a significant new risk of heart attack and other serious problems.” The Washington Post (6/29, Stein) reports that one study, “involving more than 35,500 people, found that Avandia significantly…
A lawsuit has been filed against the University of Cincinnati police and the University Hospital in the Taser death of a psychiatric patient. Kelly Brinson was tased by police officers while under restraints at the hospital, the lawsuit claims, sending him into cardiac arrest and killing him three days later.…
The diabetes drug Avandia, once the world’s top-selling diabetes medication, took two more hits with one new study linking it to an increased risk of heart attacks and a separate study linking it to an increased risk of heart failure and stroke. The research comes only weeks before an upcoming…
A settlement has been reached between Bethany First Church of the Nazarene and Southern Nazarene University and five young girls who claimed to have been molested by the church’s elementary pastor. The lawsuit claimed that Ryan Martin Wonderly molested the girls sometime before 2003 and that church and SNU officials…