Several families have filed lawsuits for wrongful death and medical malpractice against a psychiatric hospital in Fresno, California. The lawsuits allege that the hospital, Community Behavioral Health, failed to keep their loved ones safe while they were being treated at the facility.
Two women and an infant were killed in a trucking accident when the vehicle in which they were traveling was rear-ended by an 18-wheeler on a highway in Austin, Texas. The family of the victims has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver of the truck and the trucking company who operated the vehicle.
Amtrak is facing several wrongful death lawsuits in connection with a Philadelphia train accident that killed eight passengers and injured hundreds more. The accident occurred on May 12, 2015, when an Amtrak passenger train derailed while traveling between Washington, D.C. and New York City through Philadelphia’s Port Richmond area. Lawsuits filed against Amtrak allege that…
Thomas O’Brien, 55, became a patient of Steve Rogoff, M.D. in early 2011, complaining of chronic back pain from a previously diagnosed lumbar disk problem, according to a lawsuit recently filed in Hawaii. The suit alleges the Kauai physician prescribed Schedule II narcotics to O’Brien to the point of intoxication and overdose. The wrongful death…
In August of 2013, Steven Santora sought medical treatment for stomach pain and was admitted to Merced Medical Center in Merced, California. Later that night, at around 2:30 a.m., Santora died at the hospital, according to a wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital that has been filed on behalf of his surviving young children in…
Simon Struzzeri was admitted to Wilkes-Barre General Hospital in Pennsylvania early one morning in 2007. As had been scheduled, Struzzeri had heart surgery that morning, including mitral valve and coronary artery repair. Later that same day, a nitroglycerin drip was administered to maintain Struzzeri’s blood pressure. His blood pressure soon dropped, and less than a…
Macy’s has agreed to pay a $950,000 fine over the decapitation of warehouse employee in California. The company also agreed to plead no contest to charges of corporate criminal liability to charges filed by the Los Angeles district attorney’s office over the 2009 death of employee Roy Polanco.
In 2011, John Solari was a nursing home resident in Plattsburgh at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility. A nurse at the facility mistakenly gave him a dose of morphine that was intended for another resident, according to evidence recently presented during a Clinton County, New York jury trial of the wrongful…
Back in 2006, Jeanne Ellis visited the emergency room at Brigham and Women’s Hospital with complaints of a persistent cough. A doctor ordered a chest X-ray to rule out pneumonia. Dr. Peter Clarke, a radiologist at the hospital, read the X-ray and determined it to be normal. Ellis was diagnosed with an upper respiratory infection…
Last month, sixteen year-old Mateus Moore and his girlfriend, Mickayla Friend, were walking on railroad tracks on their way to a Sadie Hawkins Dance at the Marysville Charter Academy For The Arts in Marysville, California. They were walking in the same direction as a train was travelling. They apparently did not notice the train approaching…
Kyle Winter died from chest and abdominal injuries after he was crushed by a set of power tongs while working on a drilling rig in Montana’s Bakken oilfield in January 2013. He was 22.
An explosion at the International Nutrition plant in Omaha, Nebraska killed 2 people and seriously injured at least 10 others, according to authorities investigating the incident. Some workers found themselves buried in debris and others scrambled for their lives. Firefighters rescued several of the 38 workers who were at the plant, including one who was…