Citing the suffocation and brain injury deaths of more than 30 babies and toddlers who got tapped between the slats and mattress or fell out of drop side cribs, the members of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voted unanimously on December 18, 2010, to ban the manufacture, sale and use of the cribs with…
Brain surgeons were operating on a teenager named Cody at an Arkansas hospital, when, during the procedure, the surgeons realized they were operating on the wrong side of Cody’s brain. Talk about blatant medical negligence! According to Cody’s attorneys, the surgeons halted the wrong-sided brain surgery and continued with the surgery on the proper side of the brain. If that wasn’t bad…
Attorney Emily Mapp Brannon represented a client who was involved in a rear end car wreck in Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA). The at-fault driver reportedly suffered a hypoglycemic event, passed out, and slammed into her client’s car. The result to her client was a serious shoulder injury that still hasn’t fully healed. On the surface,…
A Hummer driver who failed to stop and yield right of way to a motorcycle rider at a Florida (FL) intersection in 2006 has been ordered to pay the motorcyclist’s family $8.4 million for causing the biker’s death. According to a report in the December 11, 2010 Palm Beach Post, the man behind of the…
The family of a forklift operator who spent several years hauling bags of asbestos at a Baltimore, Maryland (MD), National Gypsum warehouse has received a $1.2 million verdict against the maker of the asbestos following the man’s death from mesothelioma. A jury ruled on November 23, 2010, that Union Carbide must pay the award because…