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A subcontractor trying to install an electrical pole hit a 36-inch natural gas transmission line south of Pecan Plantation today, leading to a huge gas explosion that burned for more than two hours.
Two or three people, most likely workers at the scene of the blast, were missing, officials said, presumably dead..
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The widow of long-time actor David Carradine has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against film production company MS2 S.A., claiming they did not provide Carradine with “sufficient assistance” while he was shooting a movie for them.
Carradine died last June and his death, which was initially thought to have been a suicide, has been ruled not to have been. The lawsuit is seeking unspecified damages from the production company for allegedly violating their contract with Carradine. Staff Report, United Press International 06/04/2010
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A Myrtle Beach hospital has been ordered to pay $2.88 million to the husband of a woman who died from a seizure after being treated by a hospital doctor in 2002.
The South Carolina jury determined that Grand Strand Regional Medical Center and Dr. Stephen Law were negligent in the care of Kelly Fay, who went to the hospital in January 2002 complaining of stomach pain and was diagnosed with kidney stones.
According to the lawsuit, Fay was sent home after a few hours with some pain medication. While at home, she had a seizure and went into septic shock, dying two days after leaving the hospital, the suit claims.
Adva Saldinger and Dawn Bryant, The Myrtle Beach Sun News 05/28/2010
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A New York man has been awarded $40 million in a lawsuit he filed against Verizon after he was struck and almost killed by one of the company’s vans.
Matthew Falcone was hit by a van going about 50 mph four years ago and spent weeks in the hospital in a coma. He suffers from brain damage and is partially paralyzed.
Scott Shifrel , New York Daily News 05/28/2010
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The company at the center of a massive recall of children’s Tylenol and other popular over-the-counter products tried to perform a “phantom recall” of defective Motrin by sending contractors around the country to buy up the medicine from stores without alerting regulators or the public.
When faced last year with Motrin IB caplets that were not dissolving properly, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a division of Johnson and Johnson, hired contractors to buy the products under orders not to mention the term “recall.”
After the Food and Drug Administration discovered the effort — because one of the contractors accidentally dropped an instruction sheet on the floor of a store — McNeil announced a recall of roughly 88,000 packages of the product.
In another setback in the effort to stem the flow of oil gushing from a well a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico, BP engineers said that the “top kill” technique had failed and they had decided to move on to another strategy.
The abandonment of the top kill technique, was the latest in a series of failures. First, BP failed in efforts to repair a blowout preventer with submarine robots. Then its initial efforts to cap the well with a containment dome failed when it became clogged with a frothy mix of frigid water and gas.
BP has started work on two relief wells, but officials have said that they will not be completed until August — further contributing to what is already the worst oil spill in United States history.
Plaintiff Andrew McCarrell was awarded $25.16 M in damages in his lawsuit against Roche Holding AG, maker of Accutane. McCarrell alleged in his lawsuit that his use of Accutane resulted in inflammatory bowel disease. McCarrell underwent five surgeries, including one to remove his colon.
According to Bloomberg on 2/16/10, McCarrell initially was awarded $2.62 M in his lawsuit, but that award was overturned and a new trial was ordered.
Accutane was introduced to the market in 1982 with a list of serious side effects including birth defects and depression. More than 13 million people reportedly used Accutane before Roche removed it from the market in June 2009, citing the cost of personal injury lawsuits.
May 22, 2010. By Heidi Turner Read full story here Lawyers and Settlements
Lawsuits in California state court against Toyota Motor Corp. related to sudden acceleration of its vehicles should be coordinated so they can be handled more efficiently, a judge said.
Judge West said he will recommend to the California Supreme Court’s chief justice that the cases be coordinated in either Los Angeles or Orange County. He also said he would recommend that the personal injury cases either proceed as a separate group before the same judge or in one group on separate tracks with the class-action lawsuits alleging economic loss.
Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, faces at least 228 federal and 99 state lawsuits including proposed class actions over economic loss and claims of personal injuries or deaths allegedly caused by sudden-acceleration incidents. The federal lawsuits were combined April 9, before U.S. District Judge James V. Selna in Santa Ana, California.
Health workers tracking Libby’s plight estimate at least 400 people have died of asbestos-related illnesses — from W.R. Grace mine workers and family members who breathed in the dust they brought home in their clothes, to those who played as kids in waste piles dumped by the company behind the community baseball field.
Some 1,500 locals and others who were exposed have chest X-rays revealing the faint, cloudy shadows of asbestos scarring on their lungs. Even though research long showed cause for concern — up to 70 percent of miners in a 1980s study had fibers in their lungs — it took news reports about the deaths to drive officials to action, beginning a decade ago.
After the cleanup began, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency confidently predicted it would be done in two years at a cost of $5.8 million. Ten years on, the price tag has exceeded $333 million, the deaths continue, and more asbestos keeps showing up — in schools, in businesses, in hundreds of houses.
The scope of contamination has at times overwhelmed environmental regulators, dragging out the cleanup, an Associated Press review of hundreds of pages of government documents and interviews with current and former agency officials revealed.
Actor Dennis Quaid has filed a lawsuit against drug maker Baxter Healthcare Corp. over two easily confused drugs that, when mixed up, almost killed his twin infants.
The lawsuit claims that the blood thinner Heparin and a less potent drug, Hep-lock, have such similar labels that the two are easily confused. In late 2007, Quaid’s twins were given an almost fatal dose of Heparin instead of Hep-lock at a local hospital. The lawsuit also states that the company should have recalled the Heparin because they knew that similar incidents had occurred before.
Staff and Wire Reports, Contra Costa Times 05/25/2010
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