2011 - Page 48 of 319 - Shapiro, Washburn & Sharp

Three High School Students Burned When Chemistry Experiment Went Wrong

An accident at E.E. Smith High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina (NC), on October 25, 2011, sent three teens to area hospitals with burn injuries The advanced placement chemistry students had mixed and heated potassium nitrate and table sugar, and the mixture burst into flames. According to the Fayetteville Fire Department, other students were treated for injuries…

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Chesapeake, VA Personal Injury Attorney Reports: Doctor Sued in West Virginia for Failure to Diagnose Cancer

My colleague Emily Mapp Brannon has written a new post for our firm’s VA-NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Attorneys blog site site about a lawsuit in which a couple from West Virginia (WV) is seeking compensaion form and punitve damages against a doctor they claim failed to diagnose the wife’s skin cancer despite the presence and…

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Extreme Medical Malpractice May Be Considered Criminal

Prosecutors rested their case against Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, on October 24, 2011. Murray has pled not guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter for administering a fatal overdose of propofol, but prosecutors have argued that Murray demonstrated negligence so extreme he should be in prison.. According to Reuters, the final prosecution witness told…

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