Posts tagged Wrongful Death

• Insurance Industry Hit With $11 Million Failure

  Steve Klearman | November 23, 2007 3:36 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The insurance industry's $11 million bellyflop against Referendum 67 was an election bright spot for ruling Democrats, who otherwise took their lumps from a frugal electorate that sent establishment ideas packing. According to Curt Woodward, writing for the AP, the referendum, which allows triple damages in lawsuits alleging bad faith by insurance companies, spawned a lively campaign pitting the...

• Organ Donor Infected With HIV

  Steve Klearman | November 19, 2007 2:54 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A 30-year-old woman was one of four patients infected with HIV and hepatitis after an organ transplant.According to a Yahoo! News Article dated November 16, 2007, the woman was not informed that the donor engaged in high-risk activities and, after the transplant, she was not immediately tested for HIV. These two circumstances put the University of Chicago, where the procedure was done, and the...

• Nevada Uninsured Drivers Higher Than Expected

  Steve Klearman | November 16, 2007 10:42 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  According to an article by the Better Business Bureau dated October 19, 2007, the number of drivers across the United States, but especially in Nevada, without insurance is higher than would be expected.In a recent study by the Insurance Research Council, one out of seven at-fault drivers is uninsured. In Nevada this number rises even more with seventeen percent of drivers uninsured. This can be...

• Energy Drinks May Speed Heart, Boost Blood Pressure

  Steve Klearman | November 14, 2007 12:26 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Ever wonder if a Red Bull could mess with your physiology? A better question for anyone who's ever had one might be: ever wonder how it couldn't?A new study suggests a potential correlation between energy drinks and heart and blood pressure issues. Yahoo cites a new story from Will Dunham at Reuters: The increasingly popular high-caffeine beverages called energy drinks may do more than give...

• Nike Recalls Chin Straps

  Steve Klearman | November 13, 2007 6:45 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Apparently, it's the year of the product recall.Now it's Nike, with their recall of 235,000 football helmet chin straps after receiving reports of head and facial injuries that resulted after the strap broke.Not surprisingly, the chin strap was made in China. The strap was sold between 2006 and 2007.You can see pictures of the strap here. For more information on this subject, please refer to...

• Nevada Alternative Medicine Doctor Fined

  Steve Klearman | November 13, 2007 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  According to a Las Vegas Review Journal article, a physician and alternative medicine doctor in Carson City, Frank Shallenberger, entered a guilty plea admitting to malpractice for failure to diagnosis colon cancer in one of his patients. This misdiagnosis ultimately lead to the patient's death. The doctor never performed any tests or examinations after the patient complained of symptoms of...

• Merck Agrees to $4.85 Billion Settlement

  Steve Klearman | November 09, 2007 1:13 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Merck agreed to pay more than $4 billion to settle the majority of the claims that have arisen from their popular drug Vioxx. Victims and their families claim that Vioxx causes heart attacks and strokes.Merck has won most of the Vioxx cases that have gone to trial and many observers actually believed that this was a favorable settlement for Merck.Approximately 38,000 or the 60,000 Vioxx...

• Businesses Fighting Fewer Suits

  Steve Klearman | November 07, 2007 1:08 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The following comes from the American Associaiton of Justice quoting Sheri Qualters at the National Law Journal:American businesses are filing and fighting fewer lawsuits, according to Fulbright & Jaworski's fourth annual Litigation Trends Survey. Seventeen percent of respondents have not defended a lawsuit in the past year, compared with 11% in the prior year. The rate of corporations bringing...

• Why Binding Arbitration Can Forfeit Your Rights

  Steve Klearman | November 06, 2007 12:56 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Yesterday I blogged on some of the negative aspects of binding arbitration. Here's more information on why this often misunderstood form of alternative dispute resolution can be problematic.Buried in the fine print of most consumer contracts - such as credit cards, insurance plans and car deals - is a clause, which waives the buyer's constitutional right to trial by jury. These contracts...

• Binding Arbitration Bad for Consumers

  Steve Klearman | November 05, 2007 12:52 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  There have been recent efforts by federal legislators to impose binding arbitration in a variety of contexts.You may have never heard of Binding Mandatory Arbitration, but that would not prevent this unfair practice, visited on unsuspecting consumers, from destroying your life. Buried in the fine print of many consumer contracts for credit cards, new homes and cars are clauses that stack the...