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• Suit Challenges Illinois Caps on Damage Awards

  David Lowe | November 21, 2006 4:31 PM | 2 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  My colleague Jeffrey M.Goldberg, a nationally-renowned trial attorney who is an expert in birth injury cases, has filed a medical malpractice suit in Illinois on behalf of a child born with cerebral palsy and severe brain damage as the result of a mismanaged labor and delivery. The suit seeks fair compensation for the child and his family, but argues that fair compensation can only be provided...

• Consumer Rights Remain At Risk Despite Mid-Term Election Results

  David Lowe | November 14, 2006 6:19 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Stephanie Menciimer, author of the blog The Tortellini, cautions in a guest editorial posted in TomPaine.com that victims' rights remain at risk despite the Democratic Party's victory in the mid-term elections. The business lobby, led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is not going away. As Mencimer observes, So long as Americans continue to exercise their right to sue when they've been injured,...

• Jury Finds for Infant Who Lost Sight Following Birth

  David Lowe | November 13, 2006 4:11 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  A Pennsylvania jury has awarded a 6-year old boy $20 million in a medical malpractice case after he went blind almost immediately following his birth. Those held responsible by the verdict included the hospital, the head of the neonatology unit, the hospital's pediatric opthamologist, and the boy's pediatrician. The boy was born premature and developed retinapathy of prematurity, an eye disease ...

• Don't Overlook Uninsured Motorist Coverage

  David Lowe | November 12, 2006 5:18 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Car accident victims are often surprised to learn that they can recover compensation even if their personal injuries were caused by an uninsured motorist. So long as the injury victim has an auto insurance policy issued in Wisconsin, or is a member of a household having such a policy, the law requires that the insurance policy include uninsured motorist coverage. It must still be proved that the...

• School Bus Accidents: New Data Reveals A Bigger Problem

  David Lowe | November 06, 2006 8:24 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Requring the use of safety belts on buses "not only prevent injuries related to crashes," they could also keep kids seated "so they're not falling out of their seats when buses make normal turns or brake. A study just published in the medical journal Pediatrics found that over 51,000 children required emergency medical attention for non-fatal school bus-related injuries over a three-year period....

• Jury Awards $15.8 Million For Cerebral Palsy Victim

  David Lowe | October 19, 2006 12:44 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  A Michigan court jury has awarded $15.8 million in damages for a child born with cerebral palsy allegedly the result of medical malpractice. The family's attorneys alleged that the doctors managing the birth were negligent in failing to perform a cesarean section delivery when the fetus experienced difiiculty during prolonged labor.Unfortunately, this type of tragic error occurs all too often....

• Study Tallies Bad Drug Reactions

  David Lowe | October 18, 2006 4:09 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  A nationwide surveillance study to be published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that over 700,000 people annually report to hospital emergency rooms as the result of adverse reactions to medicines, including cases of overdoses and allergic reactions. A New York Times story about the bad drug reactions that took people to the emergency rooms points out that the...

• Source of E.Coli Spinach Identified?

  David Lowe | September 27, 2006 10:45 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Investigators may have identified the spinach processor that is the source of spinach tainted with e. Coli. They are looking at a batch of spinach produced on August 15 at Natural Selection Foods in Salinas Valley, California. Natural Selection Foods has voluntarily recalled the spinach. According to a report posted by CBS California health officials are focusing on the Natural Selection Foods...

• Another Hospital Medication Error Leads to Patient Death

  David Lowe | September 17, 2006 10:33 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  The tragic deaths of two preemie infants are being blamed on human error by hospital employees at an Indiana hospital. We have discussed the problem of medication errors before, and it appears that the same problem occurred here. The two infants were given adult doses of Heparin, rather than the less powerful infant doses. Heparin is a blood thinning medication administered to adults for a...

• Fatal Accident in Wood Chipper Raises Product Liability Questions

  David Lowe | August 17, 2006 7:32 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  The tragic death of a Kenosha tree service employee who was pulled through a wood chipper after using his foot to dislodge a log jammed in the machine raises questions about product liability, but underscores once again the importance of employee training about the dangers of working around machinery.Five co-workers frantically tried to depress a safety bar that was supposed to reverse the...