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South Carolina (SC) Jury Awards $12M in Rehab Hospital Negligence Case

In her latest post to our firm’s VA & NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Attorneys Blog, my colleague Emily Mapp Brannon shares her thoughts on a jury verdict against a South Carolina rehabilitation hospital. She notes that evidence in the case indicated a paralyzed patient developed bedsores — one “the size of a saucer plate” —…

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DC Metro Cited for Failing to Ensure Workers’ Safety in Wake of Fatal Track Maintenance Accident

The agency that operates the DC Metro systems has been cited for lax workplace safety by Maryland (MD) regulators. The citations stem from a January 2010 incident in which two Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Agency employees died when a maintenance truck backed over them while they were repairing light rail tracks near Metro’s Rockville Red…

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