Some people say lightening never strikes twice. However in Louisville, KY there have been two different fatal accidents in the last six months that involved an Advance Ready Mix concrete truck and pedestrians. The latest truck accident occurred when a concrete truck failed to yield the right of way and hit two women in a crosswalk…
Some people hate going to the dentist. Well, a recent study revealing a connection between certain dental x-rays and brain tumors probably won’t assuage people’s fears of a dental office. The study interviewed a test group and asked , among other things, about the person’s history of dental work and the number of times they…
The federal appeals court in Norfolk, Virginia (VA), on December 8, 2011, upheld a $900,000 malpractice award a woman from Portsmouth had won from Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center. In the original case, stemming from a botched Caesarean section conducted to deliver the woman’s fourth child in 2005, the woman and her Norfolk attorney, Kim Michelle…
A Virginia woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in Shenandoah County after her doctor failed to remove an inter-uterine device from her abdomen.
Implanting medical devices in patients without first obtaining informed consent to do so has resulted in a Huntington, West Virginia (WV), obstetrician and gynecologist defending himself against two medical malpractice lawsuits at the same time. According to the West Virginia Record, the surgeon, operating at St. Mary’s Medical Center, implanted Avaulta Anterior and Posterior BioSynthetic Support…