An $835,000 settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed against the city of Louisville over an accident with a police cruiser that killed a local man in 2006. Donnie Puente was standing next to his car in the emergency lane on a Kentucky highway when a police car driven…
The AP (6/4) reported, “A former physician-owner and two former employees at a Las Vegas-area colonoscopy clinic were indicted on 28 felony charges, including racketeering, negligence and insurance fraud stemming from a 2008 hepatitis C outbreak. A judge in Las Vegas issued arrest warrants for physician Dipak Desai and former…
The New York Law Journal (6/7, Walder) reports, “A man who says he contracted a sexually transmitted disease after his wife had an affair with her allegedly infected psychiatrist can bring a negligence action against the doctor, a state judge has ruled. The man, Carl Levine, claimed that Dr. Robert…
The National Law Journal (6/11, Bronstad) reports, “Dozens of sudden-acceleration lawsuits filed against Toyota Motor Corp. in California’s state courts will be coordinated in Los Angeles. California Chief Justice Ronald George issued an order to that effect on Tuesday, following a hearing on May 21 when Los Angeles County, Calif.,…
The AP (6/11) reports, “Texas jury has awarded $82.5 million in damages to the family of a man who died in a 2007 explosion at a natural gas processing plant in Hood County. Houston-based Hanover Compressions L.P., which has since been renamed Exterran Energy Solutions L.P., constructed, engineered and installed…
The Wall Street Journal (6/11, B4, Whalen, Mundy) reports that David Graham, an FDA drug-safety official argues in a new study that the diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) may have led to thousands of heart problems that could have been prevented if patients had been using a different medication. The agency…
Federal officials investigating Johnson & Johnson over the massive recall of children’s medicine earlier this year have said that the drug maker is stalling their investigation. New York Rep. Edolphus Towns said that J&J has provided the Congressional committee false information and is being much less cooperative than other companies…
An Ohio jury has awarded a local couple $1.63 million in a lawsuit filed against two doctors that delivered their son four years ago and allegedly caused him injury. The lawsuit claims that the mother requested a Caesarian section due to the size of the baby, but the doctors refused.…
More than 5,400 battery packs used in some automated external defibrillators have been recalled due to a defect. The recalled was issued by the FDA because the batteries had the potential to falsely detect an error condition during charging for a shock and then cancel the charge. The batteries were…
An Alabama woman has filed a lawsuit against the city of Huntsville, Ala., and three police officers that were involved in a police chase in May 2008, which resulted in the death of her husband. Darren Spurlock was killed in a car accident when he was hit by a woman…