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- Multiple injuries result when driver steers car into Ohio crowd
Jun 22, 2012
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 50 feet off the roadway, over a sidewalk and through a garden. The car finally came to a rest when it struck a sculpture in the town square, but only after plowing through a...Read More - Alzheimer’s patients at risk during hospital stays
Jun 22, 2012
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 be catastrophic. For one, people with dementia are more likely to be hospitalized. Many times Alzheimer's patients go to the hospital for conditions such as pneumonia, urinary tract infections, chest pain, dehydration, fainting and falls...Read More - Consumers becoming ‘numb’ to expanding product recalls
Jun 22, 2012
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 or injury dangers. This is a fatigue that regular readers of this blog may have themselves felt. Recalling a potentially dangerous product has become ever more popular, as manufacturers and regulatory officials try to improve...Read More - $26.1M settlement in Pennsylvania truck accident
Jun 22, 2012
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 a Pennsylvania highway. The serious accident occurred one evening on Interstate 80. The plaintiff in the case was reportedly driving her Toyota Matrix down the road, headed east, when she had to stop for traffic...Read More - Nursing home at fault for resident’s death
Jun 22, 2012
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 ambulance was waiting outside to help, while, inside, nursing home staffers advised emergency personal to stop CPR because of the suspected order. However, the facility’s operator has now been blamed, as staffers withheld CPR because...Read More - Could cars that talk to each other prevent accidents?
Jun 20, 2012
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 vehicle communication, or V2V, may be the future in automotive safety. At a recent transportation conference, cars that can actually communicate with each other and warn drivers of impending crashes were part of a safety...Read More - Fires occur in operating rooms throughout nation, Pennsylvania
Jun 20, 2012
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. While surgical errors such as these are rare, when they do occur, they can cause serious injuries. Last year, a nurse anesthetist in Pennsylvania was found negligent in causing a woman to sustain burns to...Read More - Injuries to children trigger recall of strollers
Jun 20, 2012
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 before anyone is hurt. While this is often how things unfold, there are of course times that individuals sustain an injury as the result of using certain products. Unfortunately the product involved in a recent...Read More - Medical malpractice is avoidable with proper precautions
Jun 20, 2012
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 medical mistakes that are committed by doctors and other medical professionals are: Operating on the wrong body part Treating the wrong patient Miscounting equipment left inside a patient after surgery Failing to treat patients...Read More - Black & Decker coffee maker recalled after injuries reported
Jun 13, 2012
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 think twice about making and drinking coffee from the device. This is because a voluntary recall has been issued for approximately 159,000 of the brand's coffee makers. The specific coffee maker that is being recalled,...Read More