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A new study finds that almost a quarter of a sample of people exposed to toxic dust after the 9/11 attack in New York City still suffer from diminished lung capacity.
The rate of lung problems is about 2.5 times more than would be expected in people who smoke, according to co-author Dr. Jacqueline Moline, director of the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program Clinical Center.
A N.J., judge has blocked an attempt to dismiss a toxic-tort suit over a mercury-contaminated building, rejecting defense arguments that the plaintiff’s expert proofs of emotional distress were inadmissible net opinions.
In Schley v. General Electric Co., L-251-07, former owners and residents of 722 Grand St. in Hoboken, N.J., seek damages from GE, a previous owner. The plaintiffs claim physical injury and emotional distress allegedly caused by contamination so severe that authorities ordered them to evacuate the building.
The LA City Council agreed to pay nearly $13 million to people injured or mistreated in a May Day melee in MacArthur Park, bringing to more than $30 million the money spent over the last two weeks to settle lawsuits alleging LAPD misconduct.
For the LAPD, the $12.85-million payout — covering most of the claims by immigration demonstrators and bystanders injured May 1, 2007, in MacArthur Park — has a few strings attached.
A peanut processing plant in Texas run by the Peanut Corp. of America, which is being investigated for a national salmonella outbreak, operated for years uninspected and unlicensed by Texas health officials.
The Peanut Corp. of America plant in Plainview was never inspected until after the company fell under investigation by the Food and Drug Administration.
Once inspectors learned about the Texas plant, they found no sign of salmonella there. This finding raises questions; how it could have operated unlicensed for nearly four years and about the adequacy of government efforts to keep the nation’s food supply safe. Texas is among states where the FDA relies on state inspectors to oversee food safety.
Independent water quality tests conducted by environmental activists show high levels of arsenic and other toxins in river water near the site of a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee and several miles downstream.
The samples were collected about one to two weeks after 1.1 billion gallons of ash sludge and water breached an earthen containment area at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant, about 40 miles west of Knoxville. No one was seriously injured in the spill, but several residents were displaced.
Federal health officials opened a criminal investigation into the Georgia peanut-processing plant at the center of the national salmonella outbreak.
The investigation into Peanut Corp. of America follows reports of poor sanitation practices and inspections that found the company sold contaminated peanut products to food makers.
At least 529 people have been sickened as a result of the outbreak, and at least eight might have died because of it. More than 430 products have been recalled.
A lawsuit by the widow whose husband died of lung cancer is headed to trial again. Nearly two months after ending in a mistrial, the first of about 8,000 cases against tobacco companies in Florida is scheduled to head to trial again in Florida.
Elaine Hess is suing cigarette maker Philip Morris, alleging her husband’s death was caused by his addiction to cigarettes containing nicotine. Stuart Hess, a locksmith, died of lung cancer at age 55 in 1997.
The case originally went to trial in December, but ended on the second day of testimony after an expert witness for Hess used a racial slur.
On Dec. 12, 2008, a pipefitter recovered $90,780 after a jury found that he was partially responsible for injuries he sustained in an accident at a refinery in Port Arthur.
In 2005, James Levine was working on a scaffold owned and erected by United Scaffolding when a piece of plywood covering a hole in the scaffold moved. He fell into the hole but caught himself with his arms. He was later diagnosed with neck injuries allegedly caused by the incident.
In 2004, a 24-year-old mother found blood in her stool and kept having pain when she went to the bathroom. When she went to her local doctor, she was repeatedly told that she was merely suffering from hemorrhoids.
Seven months after she visited the doctor, she was rushed to University Medical Center’s emergency room because of major pain. Shortly after that, she was diagnosed with colon and rectal cancer. She died in 2007 at the age of 27.
The Las Vegas District Court jury awarded her family $2.5 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit. The suit contended that the doctor and a nurse at the family practice, were negligent and did not examine her properly.
The jury determined that the doctor was mostly responsible for the negligence that contributed to the woman’s death and that he “fell below the standard of care,” according to the verdict.
If she had been properly diagnosed when she first visited her doctor, her chances of surviving the cancer would have been 97 percent. Her chances dropped to 50 percent by the time she was diagnosed in December 2004.
High school cheerleading is a contact sport and therefore its participants cannot be sued for accidentally causing injuries, according to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
The court ruled that a former high school cheerleader cannot sue a teammate who failed to stop her fall while she was practicing a stunt. The court also said the injured cheerleader cannot sue her school district.
The National Cheer Safety Foundation said the decision is the first of its kind in the nation.
At issue in the case was whether cheerleaders qualify for immunity under a Wisconsin law that prevents participants in contact sports from suing each other for unintentional injuries.
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