Posts tagged Wrongful Death

• FDA Raises Number of Potential Heparin Related Deaths to 21

  David Lowe | February 29, 2008 7:31 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Today's New York Times reports that as many as 21 deaths may be linked to the drug heparin, and the number of reported adverse reactions (mostly decreased or low blood pressure and fast heart rate) has risen to 448, according to the FDA. Baxter International, whose heparin seems to be involved with the problems, announced that it was expanding a recall to include most of its heparin products,...

• Fatal Auto-Bicycle Collision Under Investigation In Shawano

  David Lowe | October 23, 2007 8:59 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Authorities in northern Wisconsin Shawano County are investigating a fatal bicycle-auto accident that occurred just before 6:00 a.m. Tuesday morning when two bicyclists were struck by a car driven by a Shawano County man at State Highway 22, near Shady Road, in the Town of Washington.WFRV TV is reporting that the identity of the driver of the 2001 Monte Carlo that struck the cyclists is 25 year...

• Operator Error Blamed For Amusement Ride Death

  David Lowe | July 30, 2007 1:45 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Error by the amusement ride operator, rather than ride malfunction, is being suggested as the cause of the tragic amusement ride death of a 16 year old Neenah girl according to by an investigative report issued by the Wisconsin Department of Commerce. Sixteen year old Elizabeth Mohl died on Juy 14, 2007 after falling 40 feet from an amusement ride called Air Glory at a Christian Music Festival...

• Suit Filed Over Death Of Wheelchair Bound Nursing Home Resident

  David Lowe | July 25, 2007 2:04 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today reports about a suit filed by the widow of a nursing home resident who died on August 5, 2004 of head injuries suffered in a fall down stairs at St. Johns Home on the east side of Milwaukee.The suit, filed on July 18, 2007, alleges that John Mellinger was wheelchair bound following an earlier hip fracture injury, and that he was also suffering from dementia. ...

• Criminal Charges Unlikely in Amusement Ride Accident

  David Lowe | July 22, 2007 1:29 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Last weekend I wrote about an amusement ride accident in which a 16 year old girl from Menasha, Wisconsin died when she fell more than 40 feet from a ride called Air Glory while attending a Christian music festival in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.The Wisconsin Journal Sentinel website reports this afternoon that the local district attorney is saying that criminal charges against the amusement ride...

• Investigators Look For Cause of Girl's Death on Air Glory Ride

  David Lowe | July 15, 2007 5:45 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A 16 year old girl from Neenah, Wisconsin, Elizabeth K. Mohl, fell to her death Saturday when an amusement ride called Air Glory malfunctioned at a Christian Music Festival called "Lifest".Here is a photo of the Air Gloryride.A blog account by a woman in attendance at the event reveals the heart breaking shock experienced by those who came to this family oriented festival:I've just spent the the...

• Defective Seatbelt Leads to Wrongful Death Verdict

  David Lowe | February 24, 2007 10:10 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A Texas jury has awarded $24 million to the family of an 18 year old woman who died in a roll-over accident after being ejected from the vehicle, allegedly due to a defective seatbelt.The manufacturer of the seatbelt, Honeywell International, Inc., plans to appeal the verdict. Honeywell contends that the woman was not wearing her seatbelt at the time of the accident, but the family argued that...

• Dangerous School Parking Lot Design Leads to Wrongful Death Verdict

  David Lowe | February 07, 2007 4:39 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  A Los Angeles, California jury has awarded more than $10 million to the parents of a first grade student killed when struck by a van in an improperly designed school parking lot. The jury found that the lot was not built in accordance with the state-approved plans, and that hte school was aware of its dangerous design before the accident.Reacting to the verdict, the child's father said he...

• Source of E.Coli Spinach Identified?

  David Lowe | September 27, 2006 10:45 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...

• FDA Asked to Ban Antibiotic Tequin

  David Lowe | May 01, 2006 9:12 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Wrongful Death
  

  The watchdog group Public Citizen petitioned the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today to ban Bristol-Myers Squibb's drug Tequin (gatifloxacin) because it is believed to be linked to 400 blood sugar abnormalities resulting in over 150 hospitalizations and 20 deaths. According to Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group: More than half a dozen other...