Miscellaneous

• DEATH IN GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY RESULTS IN WRONGFUL DEATH MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAWSUIT

  Bruce Roberts | March 23, 2007 1:32 PM | 1 CommentTyler, TX

  The mother of a Houston woman who died after undergoing gastric bypass surgery filed a wrongful death medical malpractice lawsuit against the surgeon, Dr. Younan Nowzaradan, and Houston Community Hospital. In her wrongful death lawsuit the mother claims that the doctor and the hospital did not sufficiently warn her daughter who weighed 520 pounds that the surgery would be especially risky for...

• Victims of Hurricane Katrina file lawsuit against Army Corp of Engineers

  Bruce Roberts | May 21, 2007 4:08 PM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  With the deadline approaching for filing claims against the United States government and the Corps of Engineers more than a quarter of a million people have filed personal injury and property damage claims against the court demanding compensation. These lawsuits claim that the Corps of Engineers was negligent in designing the waterworks that go throughout New Orleans and the surrounding...

• Harris County, Texas jury finds County not liable for inmate's death.

  Bruce Roberts | April 04, 2007 10:26 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  The estate of a former inmate at Harris County Jail filed suit against Harris County, Texas for violating his civil rights during a 20 day jail stay. The inmate died hours after being discharged from the jail. According to the lawsuit, the inmate, Jimmie Lee O'Neal died of congestive heart failure within hours after being discharged from the county jail. The lawsuit claims that the county...

• TB Patient from Arkansas Flees Hospital

  Jenny Albano | July 12, 2007 12:17 PM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  Franklin Greenwood, 50, was placed under isolation at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital on June 29. He was seen coughing up blood outside the building for traffic court. After being held at the hospital for a few days Greenwood broke a window and fled the hospital. Hosptial authorities kept a civilian worker outside his room so he would be unable to leave. Arkansas...

• OSHA TO DOUBLE REFINERY INSPECTORS

  Bruce Roberts | April 09, 2007 10:23 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  The Occupational Health and Safety Administration announced that it would double the number of workers trained to perform safety inspections at oil refineries. The announcement came only after a report by the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board chastised the agency's inspection of British Petroleum's refinery in Texas. An explosion at the Texas refinery in 2005 killed 15 workers...

• Tap Water Burns

  Bruce Roberts | March 21, 2007 10:18 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  Almost every day nearly 300 children end up in emergency rooms around the country suffering from serious burns caused by tap water that is simply too hot. It only takes a few seconds for a child or an elderly person in water with temperatures about 130 degrees to be severely burned requiring hospitalization, skin grafts, and lifetime scars.Too often when these events happen, it is the parents...

• Is the Medical Malpractice Crisis Real?

  Bruce Roberts | March 19, 2007 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  On every television channel and in every newspaper it seems at least once a week you hear some story about the medical malpractice crisis. Politicians and tort reformers use this alleged epidemic of frivolous lawsuits against doctors to assert that this epidemic is forcing doctors to leave whatever state the politician is in; and that patients cannot get necessary medical care because doctors...

• California Moves to Ban Flavoring in Popcorn Linked to Workers' Illness

  Bruce Roberts | May 17, 2007 4:47 PM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  Since 2001 academic studies have shown causal links between bronchiolitis obliterans, a rare and life-threatening form of restrictive lung disease and the chemical used in artificial butter flavoring called Diacetyl. Flavoring manufacturers have already paid out more than $100,000,000.00 in personal injury lawsuits by people sickened by what is now known as "popcorn workers' lung" over the past...

• JURY AWARDS PARALYZED COLLEGE STUDENT $11.7 MILLION

  Bruce Roberts | April 11, 2007 10:29 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  A Fulton County, Georgia jury awarded Joshua Coleman, a 19 year old Piedmont College freshman $11.7 million for a spinal surgery that left him paralyzed from the waist down. The surgery, in 2003 was to relieve chronic back pain. But after the surgery, Coleman ended up in a wheelchair paralyzed. Coleman's attorney blamed his paralysis on a medical mistake by his surgeon and a team of doctors...

• High School Football Player Charged with Assault

  Christina Cole | February 15, 2007 11:10 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  A high school running back has been arrested on a misdemeanor assault charge after he allegedly kicked a teammate in the groin during practice.He is accused of kicking the 16-year-old intentionally. The boy was taken to the hospital following the incident.A warrant was issued the following week and he surrendered. A $250 bail bond was posted immediately on one count of assault with bodily...