The top speeding tickets in Texas in 2017 may illustrate how many people are going above and beyond the posted speed limits, putting themselves and others at risk of a catastrophic accident. The fastest speeding tickets in Texas is only recorded by those captured by the police; other people going at excessive speeds behind the […]
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A new Xarelto injury lawsuit has been filed due to an adverse bleeding event that occurred in April 2016. The patient, after using the medication for months, allegedly began to notice serious side effects that prompted a visit to the hospital. The Oklahoma resident began using Xarelto in October 2015. A significant adverse bleeding event
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Authorities are now cracking down as a result of the opioid crisis on those doctors who allegedly are peddling the pills unnecessarily. Due to the high addiction rate associated with opioids and the fact that opioid use has spread throughout the United States, many doctors who are accused of peddling the medications and operating pill
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A Texas tractor trailer crash along I-10 in West Texas led to multiple fatalities, according to a recently filed lawsuit. The district court records in Harris County show that a representative of a victim in that crash filed the lawsuit. The victim in the case was a passenger in a Volkswagen Jetta that was traveling on I-10
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A $2 million verdict over the death of an elderly woman at a nursing home was affirmed by Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court. The nursing home abuse lawsuit alleged that Elise Dubose died in 2007, a mere two years after becoming a resident at Willowcrest Nursing Home. Her son who initiated the lawsuit against the nursing home
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A new IVC filter lawsuit argues that using these medical devices puts patients at risk for severe injuries. Cordis is one of three biggest manufacturers of IVC filters currently facing litigation from injured patients who argue they were never told about the serious side effects. IVC filter lawsuits maintain that patients and medical professionals were
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A Mississippi man hit medical device maker C.R. Bard with a lawsuit alleging Ventralex hernia mesh is incompatible with human tissue. The plaintiff, Patrick D., alleges that the incompatible hernia mesh caused him severe personal injuries, medical complications, and damages after it was implanted in March 2014. Further, says the plaintiff, he had to undergo
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Car owners in the South faced brutal conditions as winter weather wreaked havoc on the roads in the region. Many roads in the region were closed and a winter storm warning issued from the northern tip of the Atlantic coast all the way to the Gulf Coast of Florida. In the aftermath of the storms,
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A lawsuit alleges that a Delaware man suffered severe bleeding after taking Xarelto. According to the lawsuit, Freddie S., was prescribed Xarelto for the treatment of atrial fibrillation from July 5, 2012 to Dec. 20, 2016. The plaintiff says he suffered severe injuries from taking Xarelto, however, including gastrointestinal and rectal bleeding. Ultimately, says the
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The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe, Rosebud Sioux Tribe and Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate filed legal action alleging drug makers deceptively marketed the powerful painkillers now fueling the opioid epidemic. Attorneys for the tribes say that drug makers and distributors lied about the addictive nature of the drugs to boost their profits; however, the deceptive marketing to doctors
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Big rig crashes are often life-changing events for the motorists involved and the rate of accidents in Texas can be shocking as the Lone Star State leads the nation in fatalities. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), large truck and bus crashes, including semi-truck accidents, increased by 1.7 percent nationwide in 2015.
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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 concerns over the safety of elderly and vulnerable individuals in the very facilities designed to
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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 longer an IVC filter is in a patient, the harder it is to retrieve the
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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 injured patients as well as the spouses of those patients. The hernia mesh injury lawsuit
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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 the Texas church bus crash case and is allegedly responsible for the accident and the
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