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CALL A LAWYER ASAP 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

CALL A LAWYER ASAP

I was reading a case summary today, on how parents could recover for assault that occurred to their child. They recovered for their own emotional damages and the emotional damages experienced by their child. In Virginia, emotional distress claims must be brought WITHIN 1 YEAR. That means, from the date of the ACCIDENT you only…

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$26 MILLION TO FAMILY 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

$26 MILLION TO FAMILY

Check out the full article in the Boston Harold – written by Jessica Fargen, here. ” A Brockton family whose brain-damaged boy will never walk or talk because of a botched delivery at a Boston teaching hospital says they have the answers they’ve long sought after a $26.5 million jury verdict in their favor.“It’s a…

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LIMITING AWARDS FOR PAIN AND SUFFERING CAN HURT! 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

LIMITING AWARDS FOR PAIN AND SUFFERING CAN HURT!

Darrie Eason is an excellent example of what’s wrong with proposals to cap damages for pain and suffering in medical malpractice cases. The high cost of malpractice insurance is a problem. But adding insult to patients’ injuries by arbitrarily limiting jury awards is not the answer. Eason was told she had cancer and decided to…

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ANOTHER CANCER STUDY – 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

ANOTHER CANCER STUDY –

An article in yesterday’s Washington Post: Long-Hidden Dangers?Early Exposure to DDT May Raise Risk of Breast CancerBy Rick WeissWashington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 9, 2007; Page HE01A new study has found a significant link between women’s exposure to DDT as young girls and the development of breast cancer later in life.The results are something…

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Summary of Nursing Home negligence 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Summary of Nursing Home negligence

Not a weekend goes by, when I am not asking in some social setting “What type of law do you practice?” Typically, I answer directly – “I sue nursing homes.” The last time I said this, the other person, a nurse, asked “I hope you sue the corporations and remind them they don’t hire enough…

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CHICAGO AREA NURSING HOME ALLOWED SEXUAL ABUSE 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

CHICAGO AREA NURSING HOME ALLOWED SEXUAL ABUSE

This sad story comes to us from the Chicago Sun Times. A Lake County-owned nursing home failed to protect an 82-year-old woman resident, allowing repeated, unsupervised visits by a man who later admitted sexually molesting her, a lawsuit filed by her family contends. Duane Stapher, 64, was sentenced to probation last month after he pleaded…

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OKLAHOMA COURT HOLDS NON-COMPETE VIOLATES ANTITRUST LAW 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

OKLAHOMA COURT HOLDS NON-COMPETE VIOLATES ANTITRUST LAW

This is good news! A Tulsa company’s lawsuit against a former employee accused of violating a non-compete agreement has been shot down by the Oklahoma Court of Appeals. The court found the non-compete agreement to be unenforceable and in violation of antitrust law. The ruling in Vanguard Environmental Inc. vs. Misty Lynn Curler was based…

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CASE REPORT: PATIENT SUES LAB OVER FALSE CANCER DIAGNOSIS 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

CASE REPORT: PATIENT SUES LAB OVER FALSE CANCER DIAGNOSIS

Imagine this…you are 35 years old, a single mother, and your doctor informs you that you have lobular cancer! You are scared and worried! Are you going to die? You decide to undergo a double mastectomy to remove the cancer. The next thing you hear is that it was all a mistake – you never…

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FAMILY DENIED TREATMENT 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

FAMILY DENIED TREATMENT

We have heard rumors about this… Physicians refusing to treat families who have filed medical malpractice cases. We often thought it would be the attorneys denied care first, but sadly, we were wrong. READ HERE. MALPRACTICE FINDING AGAINST WICHITA CLINIC PHYSICIANClinic barred family after suitBY RON SYLVESTERThe Wichita EagleWhen Karie Zimmer challenged one doctor at…

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NON-SOLICITATION AND CUSTOMER LISTS 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

NON-SOLICITATION AND CUSTOMER LISTS

If you have read our previous blogs you know that we are advocates of the employee in non-competition and non-solicitation disputes. We believe that such agreements should be void as contrary to public policy and a detriment to the free market economy. Our biases aside, we thought we would pass along an article published by…

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WHO TRIED TO INFLUENCE THE COURT OR JURORS? 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

WHO TRIED TO INFLUENCE THE COURT OR JURORS?

This is unbelievable! I don’t know which side was “playing dirty” but if the guilty party is ever identified they should be sent to jail! 122 medical malpractice cases had been filed against a former West Virginia osteopathic physician, Dr. John A. King. Separate suits were filed against Putnam General Hospital (at the time owned…

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TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SUSPENDS ADMISSIONS AT NURSING HOME 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SUSPENDS ADMISSIONS AT NURSING HOME

The Tennessee Department of Health has suspended new admissions to the Rivermont Care and Rehabilitation Center in Marion County until it gets its act together! The facility must also must pay a $1,500 state fine and a federal penalty of $4,200 a day until violations are corrected. New admissions may be suspended any time conditions…

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