CNN recently uncovered the auto insurance companies mantra “delay, deny, defend.” The original story uncovered the truth about insurance carriers failure to pay on minor car accident claims. After the story aired many more people came forward telling a similar story.It is clear that CNN is amazed at
In 2006, there was an increase in the reports of wrong site operations in the United States. There were 86 reports in 2006 to the Joint Commission of surgeries performed on the wrong site. Universal precautions were institututed two years ago but may not be helping. The number of reported incidents
A wrongful death lawsuit against the University of Rhode Island continues to move forward this week with depositions. The lawsuit alleges that a university student, Francis Marx V, was killed in 2004 during a pub crawl that the university was aware of but failed to do anything about.The university a
It is believed that a Pennsylvania woman died in January as a result of being infected with salmonella after eating tainted peanut butter. The peanut butter is part of a recent recall of ConAgra peanut butter. This is not the first death that is believed to be related to the peanut butter. A family
An Illinois man who died on February 2, 2007, may have died as a result of ingesting peanut butter that was affected by the recent salmonella outbreak. The man died just three days after he ate a peanut butter sandwich that contained the recently recalled ConAgra peanut butter.The death is the first
Ryan Owens died in July 2006 after he collapsed after football practice. Ryan was attending Henderson County High School in Indiana at the time. His family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the school and its coaches alleging they were the cause of 16 year old Ryan’s death.The parents belie
A Florida family was awarded over $30 million after a jury found that the Lee Memorial hospital failed to properly care for a mother and her baby while the mother was giving birth. The failure of the hospital to properly care for the mother resulted in the baby, who is now nine years old, having per
A five year old girl waiting for the school bus this morning was attacked by a pit bull. She was taken to Holy Cross Hospital after the incident. The police then began a search and were able to track the pit bull down. They found the dog covered in the girl’s blood.The 5 year old suffered various in
The first lawsuit in Illinois has been filed against ConAgra Foods, Inc. due to the outbreak of Salmonella from its Peter Pan peanut butter. A Chicago woman filed the lawsuit on February 21, 2007, alleging that her and her family ate the tainted peanut butter and fell ill because of it.The woman cla
A Delta airplane that landed at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport skidded off the runway and into a fence on Sunday February 18, 2007. The plane likely skidded because of the snowy weather. None of the 75 passengers were injured as a result of the skid, and passengers were shuttled back to the
A jury in Madison Country recently awarded James Halloway $450,000 because he suffered from a botched spinal x-ray. The man was injected with the wrong x-ray dye which caused severe complications, including a two week hospital stay. The defendant doctor admitted to injecting the Halloway with the wr
The FDA released an update to its original release regarding the outbreak of salmonella in Peter Pan peanut butter. The original outbreak information was released on February 14, 2007, with an update follwing on February 16, 2007. The updated release gives new information on infected peanut butter a