Brianna Smith is a freelance writer and editor in Southwest Michigan. A graduate of Grand Valley State University, Brianna has a passion for politics, social issues, education, science, and more. When she’s not writing, she enjoys the simple life with her husband, daughter, and son.
Earlier this week a wrongful death and medical malpractice lawsuit was filed in D.C. Superior Court over allegations that “doctors at GW Hospital could have prevented a patient’s death after a spine surgery.” The lawsuit was filed by Sedrick Drayton, the son of the deceased patient, Lillie Ann Drayton and is seeking $15 million in punitive damages. But what happened, exactly?
If you enjoy the occasional ham sandwich made with Land O’Frost ham, you may want to double check the package in your refrigerator. According to a new recall issued by Madisonville, Kentucky-based Land O’Frost Inc., nearly 4,944 pounds of its ham products have been recalled “because of incorrect package labeling, resulting in misbranding.”
For a child, being separated from a parent is one of the most difficult things to endure. Unfortunately, it’s been happening at an alarming rate recently down near the border, and understandably some children are having a difficult time adjusting and coping with being ripped from the arms of their mothers and fathers. For example, one migrant boy from South America who was forcibly separated from his parents under the current border policy was “rushed to the hospital after he said he wanted to jump out a window because he missed his parents,” according to a new lawsuit.
A wrongful death lawsuit involving the city of Seattle and the family of a Kokomo couple who died after being “struck by a habitual driver” recently settled for $13 million. The lawsuit was filed by the couple’s family against the city of Seattle and claimed that city “officials were negligent in keeping track” of the driver, Mark Mullan. Prior to the accident, Mullan had “five previous drunk driving arrests,” according to the lawsuit. Because of that, the family argued throughout the court proceedings that, “had Mullan been properly supervised, he would not have been behind the wheel on the day of the crash.”
A settlement was recently reached between two African-American students, the city of Yerington, and the Lyon County School District. In a federal discrimination lawsuit filed earlier this year, the students, 15-year-old sisters, Jayla Tolliver and Taylissa Marriott were allegedly subjected to “repeated racial bullying at their rural Nevada high school.” The bullying and discrimination occurred when the sisters were freshmen at Yerington High. Their parents decided to file the lawsuit back in January alleging the girls “had been subjected to repeated racial slurs and threats for at least six months.”
If you’re a history buff then you probably already know that the Nazis were tinkering with a secret program throughout World War II to construct flying saucers. While the program never actually took off, a model toy company, Revell, recently “released a set in Germany that makes it look like one of the Nazi saucers actually worked.” Understandably, historians aren’t too pleased and a recall has now been issued for the flying saucers toys.
Losing a parent is a difficult ordeal for any child, but even more difficult when both parents are lost. Sadly, this is exactly what happened to the children of Kari Dunn, a woman who was needlessly murdered back in 2013. As a result of her death, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed that recently settled in favor of the late mother’s family after a jury determined that “Kari’s estranged husband and killer Brad Dunn as well as the hotel he fatally stabbed her at, were both at fault for her death.” The jury deliberated for a handful of hours before agreeing to award the family $42 million in damages.
A $200,000 settlement has been reached in a lawsuit between landlord David Kantz and the son of woman Kantz evicted to “make way for redevelopment of his California Drive property.” The evicted woman was Marie Hatch and she filed the lawsuit against Kantz after he evicted her from her “longtime Burlingame home.” Unfortunately, she passed away at the age of 97 in 2016, leaving her son Gary to take her place in the financial elder abuse case.
After losing her husband over complications following a stay at Lompoc Valley Medical Center, Crystal Rodriguez filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the medical center. In the lawsuit, Rodriguez accuses the medical center of “negligence after her husband allegedly developed cellulitis, Toxic Shock Syndrome, and other complications while under the hospital’s care.” According to the suit, Lompoc Valley Medical Center staff allegedly failed to “closely monitoring Daniel Rodriguez and released him early, despite his condition worsening just a few days after his admittance to the hospital in May 2017.” Sadly, he died May 19, 2017, at the young age of 32.
A group of Amazon warehouse workers is celebrating after California Cartage Co. and the staffing companies agreed to pay up to $1.9 million to resolve the worker’s allegations of wage-and-hour violations and retaliation.