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October 8th, 2012 | Drug injury
October 8, 2012 Surpassing auto accidents, unintentional overdoses of prescription pain medications have now become the leading cause of injury-related deaths in Ohio, reports The Plain Dealer. At “skittles parties,” teens grab handfuls of prescription and over-the-counter pills from a bowl and swallow them. Such parties are part of an epidemic of opiate abuse in Ohio… Read More
October 5th, 2012 | Workers compensation
October 5, 2012 Five Ohio mine workers were injured recently in an accident at the Buckingham Coal Co. mine. According to The Columbus Dispatch, the incident occurred Wednesday, September 19, just after 7:00 a.m. at the mine located about 75 miles southeast of Columbus. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration… Read More
October 3rd, 2012 | Medical malpractice
October 3, 2012 The family of a teenager who killed himself in prison has sued the psychiatrist who was treating him, as well as a social worker, the prison, and others who his mother claims were indifferent to her son’s suicidal tendencies, reports the Insurance Journal. Because of a federal law that shields government officials in… Read More
October 1st, 2012 | Medical malpractice
October 1, 2012 A jury awarded a family $55 million after their child suffered injuries due to medical malpractice, reports WBAL. The lawsuit says that doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital waited too long to give the mother an emergency Cesarean section. The mother was giving birth at home with a midwife when the baby became stuck. She was… Read More
September 26th, 2012 | Defective product
September 26, 2012 The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Haier America Trading LLC, of New York will pay a civil penalty of $850,000 for its defective blenders, reports U.S. Politics Today. When information is obtained that a product contains a defect that could create a substantial product hazard or risk of serious injury… Read More
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