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| • | Truck Accidents
Every sixteen minutes someone is killed in a truck accident. Trucks that collide with a car are much more likely to be involved in a fatal accident than collisions involving two cars and 98% of ...
| | • | Hospitals Reuse Medical Devices to Lower Costs
In a bid to save costs and stem a rising tide of medical waste, hospitals are recycling a growing number of medical devices labeled as single-use, from scissors and scrubs to the sharp blades surgeons ...
| | • | Contaminated Heparin
Deaths and Allergic Reactions to Baxter Heparin
In February 2008, the United States Food and Drug Administration announced that the use of Heparin in multi-dose vials made by Baxter Internation ...
| | • | Medical Malpractice: Shoulder Dystocia and Erb's Palsy
Shoulder dystocia occurs during delivery of a baby when the baby's forward shoulder becomes impacted on the mother's pubic symphasis bone. Shoulder dystocia occurs in about 1% of all deliveries ...
| | • | Medical Malpractice and the Myth of Caps on Non-economic Damages
The Missouri and Kansas legislatures have enacted non-economic (pain and suffering, disability, mental anguish, and disfigurement) damage "caps" that apply to all medical malpractice ca ...
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| • | Kansas City Motorcycle Accidents
Kansas City is experiencing an increase in motorcyle accidents and also an increase in motorcycle fatalities. This is in keeping with a national trend. The National Highway Trafic Safety A ...
| | • | Punitive Damages and the US Supreme Court
The American civil justice system has, traditionally, consisted of two types of damage. The first is compensatory damage. These are the damages awarded to compensate an injured victim.&nbs ...
| | • | Jury Award in Obstetrical Malpractice Case
A New York jury has awarded a mother and her son $19.6 million in an obstetrical malpractice case. The child suffers from cerebral palsy as a result of trauma to his head during delivery. ...
| | • | Food Poisoning and the F.D.A.
I have written in the past regarding food safety and your right to obtain compensation when a producer of food provides unsafe or tainted food to the public. For almost a month we have been told ...
| | • | Auto Accidents and Computer Animation
Many auto accidents are easy to demonstrate to a jury. A rear end collision or an intersection collision is usually are easy for jurors to picture and understand how and why a collision occurred ...
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