Nursing Home Attack Leads to Retirement Home Being Shut Down
A few months following a nursing home attack on an 86-year-old resident of the facility, a Florida retirement home has been closed entirely. A resident at the Good Samaritan Retirement Home in Williston reportedly beat another 86-year-old resident and raised...
IVC Filter Retrieval Concerns Highlighted in Study
In addition to the host of other problems presented by IVC filters, a study found that failed retrieval of the device is more likely to happen the longer the placement. According to the study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, the...
Hernia Mesh Injury Lawsuit Alleges Painful Side Effects
A new hernia mesh injury lawsuit filed by a Maine woman alleges painful side effects due to the medical device including infection, mesh bunching, and adhesions. Atrium Medical Corporation is named in this lawsuit as responsible for making a defective product that...
Texas Church Bus Crash Leads to 13 Fatalities
A truck driver was recently indicted in a Texas church bus crash case. The bus accident ultimately killed 13 people. Those individuals were inside a minibus coming back from a March church retreat. The driver has now been indicted in...
Opioid Lawsuit: Manufacturer Pushed Drugs Despite High Risks
A new lawsuit out of North Carolina alleges that Insys Therapeutics is responsible for illegally promoting a fentanyl-based cancer pain medication to enhance their own profits amidst the opioid epidemic blooming in the United States. There are strict federal rules...
Xarelto Lawsuit Alleges Internal Bleeding Risk
A Virginia woman alleging that she was never warned of the severe injuries and side effects associated with a popular medication has come forward to file a lawsuit. According to the Xarelto lawsuit, the plaintiff used Xarelto from May of...
Semi-Truck Accident Lawsuit Blames Trucker for Fatalities
A lawsuit has been filed after a semi-truck accident killed a woman and her two children. The semi-truck accident lawsuit occurred in a Chicago neighborhood and names both the truck driver and his employer as responsible for the wrongful deaths. ...
Family Suspects Nursing Home Neglect After Woman Falls
An Oklahoma nursing home is being accused of neglect and other deficiencies after a 94-year-old woman was hospitalized with severe injuries. The family of the elderly resident say they suspect a fall caused the injuries. They say the culprit is...
High Failure Rates Lead to Surge in IVC Filter Lawsuits
IVC filter lawsuits have been on the rise lately, allegedly due to very high failure rates about which patients were never warned. Medical device manufacturers, Cook Medical and C.R. Bard, are on the defensive end as they handle numerous IVC filter...
Study Suggests Need for More Detailed Hernia Mesh Labels
According to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, hernia mesh labels need to better describe the risks associated. “While standardized terminology has been proposed in literature, property knowledge has not adequately permeated surgery, industry,...
Texas Body Shop Faces $1M Defective Repair Lawsuit
A collision repair that deviated from the repair procedures outlined by Honda ultimately named a Texas of body shop in a major lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges more than $42 million in damages after a couple became trapped inside their 2010...
Opioid Lawsuits Consolidated in Ohio
Lawsuits alleging that drug manufacturers fueled the opioid epidemic with easy access to highly addictive pain killers have been consolidated in Ohio. The plaintiffs in the lawsuits asked the court to consolidate the opioid lawsuits to avoid duplicative discovery and...
Lawsuit Says Woman Suffered Nosebleeds from Xarelto
A new lawsuit alleges that a Florida woman taking Xarelto suffered severe side effects, including nosebleeds. According to the lawsuit, Jeanne S., took Xarelto from Feb. 13, 2015 to Jan. 21, 2016 to treat atrial fibrillation; however, she began suffering...
18-Wheeler Truck Accident Lawsuit Alleges Driver Misconduct
Two Texas women have filed a lawsuit against C.R. England Trucking Company and one of its drivers after an 18-wheeler truck accident allegedly left them with severe and life-changing injuries. C.R. England, the trucking company in this case, is accused of breaching their duty...
Report: Nursing Home Abuse Investigations Sparse
A recent series of articles in Minnesota’s Star Tribune entitled Left to Suffer reveals that although nursing home abuse is a widespread, investigations are limited. According to the articles, in a single state, thousands of reports of nursing home abuse...