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• Medical Malpractice Litigation Unlikely To Change Despite Medicare's Refusal To Pay For Hospital Errors

  David Lowe | October 02, 2008 12:38 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Effective October 1, 2008, Medicare will no longer reimburse hospitals for extra medical services provided because of hospital errors. The new rule will apply to the following list of reasonably...

• Tree Stand Manufacturer Settles Suit By CPSC

  David Lowe | January 11, 2008 1:47 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Ardisam, Inc. of Cumberland, Wisconsin is paying $420,000 to settle a suit by the Consumer Product Safety Commission alleging that it failed to report personal injuries suffered by hunters using its tree stands when the stands unexpectedly detached from trees. Even though the company allegedly became aware of at least nine injury incident reports as early as 2000, the company did not report the...

• Milwaukee Hospital Warns of Brain Disease Contamination

  Paul Jacquart | December 14, 2007 1:43 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Froedtert Hospital has issued a warning to nearly 100 patients who underwent surgery this week that they may have been exposed to a rare, fatal brain disease spread by surgical instruments. It was discovered that another patient who had surgery this week may have Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, part of a family of prion diseases, which include mad cow and chronic wasting disease. It is thought that...

• Fentanyl Pain Patch May be Dangerous

  Paul Jacquart | August 28, 2007 2:15 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  The LA Times has reported that numerous deaths across the country have been linked to the drug Fentanyl, a narcotic delivered through a pain patch. According to the article, medical experts are concerned that the pain patch, though a convenient method of delivering pain medication, can deliver the drugs too fast and that other variables, such as skin temperature and skin thickness can affect...

• Pilots Killed at Two Air Shows

  Jenny Albano | July 30, 2007 11:30 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  A stunt pilot died after he crashed during a Dayton, Ohio air show on Saturday, July 28. This occurred only a day after another pilot was killed in an accident in an air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.A pilot named Jim LeRoy died on the way to the hospital after his S2S Bulldog biplane crashed on the runway of the Dayton International Airport. The plane had been performing loop-the-loops to...

• Traumatic Brain Injury-- The Long Road to Recovery

  David Lowe | April 19, 2007 7:11 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Traumatic brain injury is a frequent and devastating consequence of a car accident. A column by award winning writer Crocker Stephenson in today's Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel provides a poignant account of a couple driving their car on a foggy day, broadsided by a delivery truck, and each left with serious consequences of brain injury from the force of the brain slamming into the skull that...

• Pet Food Recall Raises Issue Of Remedies For Pet Owners' Loss Of Companionship

  David Lowe | March 20, 2007 10:35 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  The recall of contaminated pet food manufactured by Menu Foods, Inc. of Streetsville, Ontario, Canada, will awaken the public to the fact that state laws give rather meager court remedies to owners who lose a pet due to negligence. The recall, announced March 17, 2007, involved 60 million containers of pet food of the "Cuts and Gravy" style. The food was sold in stores between December 3 and...

• Spring Has Arrived: Remember Riding Lawn Mower Safety

  David Lowe | April 29, 2009 5:39 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  I just concluded settlement of a case in which a child had his legs run over by a riding lawn mower operated by a teenage neighbor. The substantial compensation will certainly help the child move...

• Excessive Litigation A Myth According to Law School Study

  David Lowe | April 07, 2009 8:40 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  A University of Wisconsin Law School study debunks excessive litigation myths about increasing litigation in Wisconsin. Professor Marc Galanter and former Dane County Circuit Judge Susan Steingass's...

• Boy Fleeing Rottweiller Suffers Head Injury

  David Lowe | June 03, 2008 2:30 PM | 1 CommentMilwaukee, WI

  The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel website is reporting that a 17-year-old boy fleeing a Rottweiller dog suffered a fractured skull Monday night after he ran into a tree. Policeare reporting that the...