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Last month, 10-year-old Allison Paige Simmons of Ida, Louisiana was killed after being thrown from an all-terrain vehicle (ATV). Simmons was one of five passengers, all children, riding on the side-by-side ATV and thrown off after the driver swerved to...
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Patients at Pennsylvania hospitals could be at risk because of medical mistakes. An internist at a major medical center estimates that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States today, killing more than 250,000 people...
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Retailers, manufacturers and government regulators are becoming concerned that the growing number of product recalls is generating "fatigue" in consumers. They worry that this condition could cause consumers to ignore or remain unaware of a recall that could pose health...
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There has been yet another elder group home tragedy. An assisted-living resident living in a state in the Midwest was deprived of emergency resuscitation while he was choking because personnel thought he had a do-not-resuscitate order in his file. An...
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A personal injury lawsuit that was initiated in June 2011, recently settled for what is being called the largest personal injury settlement on record. The root of the civil lawsuit was a truck accident that occurred in July 2010 on...
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A 63-year-old woman drove her car into an Ohio town square where more than a thousand people had gathered for a Friday night music festival.For an unknown reason, the woman drove her car at a rate of 20 mph approximately...
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Patients in Ohio hospitals can be at risk of hospital negligence. According to a new study, those patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease are particularly at risk. In fact, the study found that the consequences of a hospital stay could even...
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As any regular reader of this blog likely knows, most product recalls are issued before any injuries are actually inflicted. The idea behind recalls is that they will get the dangerous or defective product out of the hands of consumers...
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When one thinks about a likely location for a fire, the last place that probably comes to mind is an operating room. The reality however is that they do, at times, occur during surgery throughout the nation, including in Pennsylvania....
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Wouldn't it be great if cars somehow could avoid crashing into each other, despite driver negligence? Does that idea sound like something out of a Pixar cartoon? Maybe, but preventing serious car accidents in Ohio through the use of vehicle-to...
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Ohio patients suffer many types of medical malpractice each year. The mistakes committed by doctors and medical staff are preventable if only medical professionals would maintain the accepted standard of medical care when caring for their patients.Among the most shocking...
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For many residents of Western Pennsylvania, the only way to start one's day properly is with a large cup of steaming hot coffee. Those who brew and consume theirs from a specific Black & Decker coffee maker may want to...
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