Amputee’s Third Attempt at Holding Medical Personnel Responsible Pays Off
Amputee’s Third Attempt at Holding Medical Personnel Responsible Pays Off
Verdicts & Settlements
Peanut Corp. of America Loses Appeal
The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the salmonella-related convictions of Peanut Corp. of America exec Stewart Parnell and two others last week.
Parking Lot Strip Search Lawsuit Ends in Settlement
Roadside Strip Search Lawsuit Ends in Settlement
Court Says Oil Company Lawsuit Can Move Forward
Court Says Oil Company Lawsuit Can Move Forward
Judge Still Skeptical of Claims that Saudi Arabia was Behind the 9/11 Attacks
A district judge who’d rejected claims that Saudi Arabia was behind the 9/11 attacks seemed skeptical after a congressional action revived a dying series of lawsuits. According to U.S. News¸ the latest arguments swung into being after Congress passed the 2016 Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. Originally vetoed by then-President Barack Obama, its newfound
Overdose Lawsuit Between Family of Slipknot Bassist and Doctor Ends with Settlement
A lawsuit connected to the 2010 drug overdose death of Slipknot bass player Paul Gray recently reached a settlement. The lawsuit itself was filed by members of Gray’s family against “health care providers whom they blamed for his drug-overdose death.” But what happened, exactly, and why did the family blame Gray’s healthcare providers?
$40M Settlement Reached Between Delaware County Family and Hospital, Ending Medical Malpractice Case
Recently, a Delaware County jury awarded “$40 million to the family of a 6-year-old who suffered a spinal injury during birth.” The settlement is the largest of its kind in the county, but how will it be divided up, and what was the lawsuit about that resulted in such a large settlement? For starters, the settlement is related to a lawsuit filed on behalf of Grayson Charlton, a young girl who has been paralyzed “from her mid-chest down” since birth due to a medical error. According to the settlement agreement, “$10 million will go towards past and future pain and suffering, while the rest of the award will go toward future economic damages.”
Prestigious Institution Accused of Having Culture of Sexual Assault
Prestigious Academy Accused of Having Culture of Sexual Assault
$12M Settlement Awarded in Medical Malpractice Case
A recent medical malpractice lawsuit ruled against the University of Arizona Health Network, now Banner-University Medical Center Tucson and awarded $12 million to a “Tucson woman in a vegetative state” due to a medical error. The largest medical malpractice lawsuit in Pima County in the last decade, the suit stems from an incident that occurred on September 13, 2013. In that day, Esmeralda Tripp visited the ER alone and had “been to the same emergency room multiple times dealing with the same issue,” seizures. According to her daughter, Jamaica Tripp-Serrano, she was “generally treated with a Vitamin K shot or plasma and released.” In addition to the frequent seizures, Tripp was also on “Coumadin, a blood thinner medication.”
Infant Death Results in Lawsuit Against West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources
Losing a child is always hard, especially when the death could have been prevented. One father who lost a child in such a manner recently decided to file a wrongful death lawsuit against those he feels are responsible for his child’s untimely death, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. Eric Gillispie lost his three-month-old daughter, Raynna Rae Boggs, in May 2010 when the child’s mother “passed out on top of her while under the influence of drugs and alcohol at her home in South Charleston.”