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• Nursing Home Charged Criminally for Abuse

  Matt Christian | July 31, 2007 3:56 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  Life Care Centers of America pled not guilty this week to charges of manslaughter, abuse and neglect, and filing false Medicare claims. The charges against the Tennessee based chain come in the wake of an investigation in the death of a 74 year-old woman in Massachussetts.McCauley, a resident confined to a wheelchair at the Life Care Center of Acton, died after wheeling herself out of front...

• Elimination of Contingent Fees: A Threat to Democracy

  Ric Davis | July 26, 2007 11:37 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Contingent fees continue to stir great controversy especially in class action cases, mass torts, and medical malpractice lawsuits. The controversy most recently gained national attention when President Bush banned contingency fees in cases filed by the U.S Government. Federal judges have called contingent fees "grotesque" and plaintiffs claim they will be denied access to the courts without...

• Confidence Restored in Jury System

  Josh Christian | July 25, 2007 12:32 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  This week in South Carolina the jury system established by our founding fathers once again has proven its self to be a successful tool for justice. In two separate cases, juries in Marion County and Spartanburg County, have restored confidence in the jury system by delivering justice to injured plaintiffs. In Marion County a injured plaintiff sought damages for injuries which they received in...

• Tort Reform Funded by Big Tobacco

  Ric Davis | July 20, 2007 4:47 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  About a decade ago, the folks at the Center for Media and Democracy decided to delve into front groups that parade as citizen initiatives. Their Source Watch is one great resource. Just look at "tort reform" Their documents show the early reach of Tobacco Giant Philip Morris in the creation of the Institute for Legal Reform, today the premier organization that has helped further the so-called...

• Access to Civil Justice Will Motivate Voters

  Ric Davis | July 15, 2007 5:40 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A national poll of 2008 voters by Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Inc. reveals voters have anxiety concerning corporate misconduct. There is large support among voters for a strong civil justice system to ensure corporate accountability and fairness. A memo summarizing the poll's findings concludes: Americans are deeply worried about their nation's future, and concern about corporate...

• Defective Defibrillators(2)

  Josh Christian | July 12, 2007 5:46 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Guidant defibrillators have been the causeof many innocent victims serious health problems and even death. A recent article discusses the new development in these product liability lawsuits. As is pointed out in this article the manufacturers of the defibrillators were more interested in profits than in those who were trusting them with their lives. The Guidant story is a sorry example of a...

• Insurance Company Settles Bad Faith Action Arising Out of Automobile Collision with Drunken Driver for $20 Million

  Harold Christian | July 10, 2007 4:29 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Joseph Tuski, a former construction worker, was left a quadriplegic, after being struck by a drunken driver and thrown more than 100 feet. In addition to bringing a lawsuit against the drunken driver, Mr. Tuski appropriately brought a lawsuit against the tavern that served alcohol to the drunk driver to such a point as to make him intoxicated even after he was obviously intoxicated. On January...

• Diabetes Drug Avandia Linked to Increased Risk of Heart Attack

  Harold Christian | July 09, 2007 1:42 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A new study links the Type II Diabetes drug Avandia with a 43% increase in the risk of a heart attack, but the manufacturer of Avandia, Glaxo Smith Klein, continue to deny such claim and claim that such statements are "false and misleading". However, it appears that Avandia, much like Vioxx, was placed on the market without proper warnings for risk of harm to the patient, even though the...

• Nursing Homes Get Rich While the Neglected Suffer

  Matt Christian | July 03, 2007 3:56 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  A major factor in nursing home abuse cases is the fact that many nursing homes are underfunded and understaffed. The nursing homes consistently claim that they do not have the money to fund and appropriately run these homes but recent business trends show otherwise. The Carlyle Group announced yesterday that it is going to purchase Manor Care, a nursing home operator for $6.3 billion.Manor...

• Health Care Lobby Contests Ability of Jurors to Make Decisions in Medical Malpractice Cases

  Harold Christian | July 02, 2007 1:38 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Even though jurors sit everyday and make decisions on criminal cases on the guilt and innocence of people, deciding who will go to jail and who will remain free, and even make decisions on who will receive a death penalty or be permitted to live, medical malpractice insurance companies do not believe that these same jurors are competent to receive testimony and evidence of medical malpractice...