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Apr 28, 2014

School bus accidents are alarming mishaps. Although most accidents involving school buses result in minor to no injuries, there are those few each year throughout the country that end in tragic deaths and serious, lifelong injuries. This past Thursday, eleven students and a bus driver were hurt when a school bus jumped a curb and smashed into several trees in a small Southern California neighborhood just outside of Anaheim. Police reported that at least three...

E.R. doctors held to new, more lenient standards of negligence

Apr 27, 2014

If all goes according to Pennsylvania Representative Bryan Cutler's plan, emergency room errors made by physicians will be held to a different standard of neglect comparable to other types of doctors. Cutler, a Republican from Lancaster County, has introduced House Bill 804. The bill would raise the standard of evidence that is required in medical malpractice cases that take place under emergency room conditions. In addition, Bill 804 would modify the standard from simple negligence...

Teenage passenger dies in drag racing accident

Apr 25, 2014

Coping with the loss of a loved one after a car accident can be one of the most trying times of your life and the lives of your family. When someone close to you dies due to the negligence of someone else, the grief you feel may be even worse because you know that the accident could have been prevented. If you have lost someone in a motor vehicle accident because of the foolishness of...

Halliburton doesn’t want inquiries into its fracking chemicals

Apr 24, 2014

The United States Department of Energy is openly welcoming decisions by oil and gas conglomerate Baker Hughes to reveal all chemicals used during the hydraulic fracking process. The U. S. DoE says that knowing what chemicals and how much of them are used is necessary for understanding the effects they have on the environment and, more importantly, humans. The Department of Energy Assistant Energy Secretary told reporters last Friday that this decision by Baker Hughes...

Erie County ABATE readies for motorcycle season

Apr 22, 2014

As motorcyclists from all over western Pennsylvania begin to detail their bikes and prepare for cruising our beautiful open roads this spring and summer, the Erie Alliance of Bikers Aimed Toward Education (ABATE) wants, more than anything, to make their main message and mission this year all about safety. Said one member of the bikers' advocacy group, "I just hope it's not…like last year…a big battered season of injured people. According to the Erie County...

Another victim of Armstrong County crash dies

Apr 18, 2014

Late last night, a fifth person died from injuries he suffered during a horrific car accident in South Bend Township, Armstrong County around 10:30 Wednesday night. The 34-year-old man was pronounced dead at 11 p.m. Thursday night at UPMC Presbyterian. Two more people remain in critical condition at UPMC Presby, including the 34-year-old's brother and another woman. The accident happened along Route 156 near the Gobblers Run Road intersection right at the Gobblers Run runoff...

At least one in twenty ER visitors leave with wrong diagnosis

Apr 17, 2014

A new study shows that at least one in every twenty adults who is treated at an emergency room in a U.S. hospital is given the wrong diagnosis. That means that as many as twelve million Americans are being wrongly diagnosed each year in this country. Experts say that at least half of the six million faulty diagnoses could cause serious injuries or be potentially fatal, according to a patient safety expert who is the...

Four dead, three injured in horrific Armstrong County accident

Apr 17, 2014

Four people are dead and three more are injured after a horrific Armstrong County car accident late last night. The two-vehicle accident took place in South Bend Township, between Vandergrift and Indiana, shortly after 10:20 p.m. on Wednesday evening along Route 156 near the Gobblers Run Road intersection. The Armstrong County Coroner has confirmed that three people in a Ford Mustang–a 19-year-old male driver, 18-year-old female passenger, and 15-year-old male passenger–and one person in a...

Motorcycle hit, biker injured in Erie

Apr 15, 2014

Many motorcycle accidents involve a driver of another motor vehicle who fails to properly yield the right of way to the biker. Accidents like this usually happen at an entrance to a parking lot or a busy intersection where drivers are particularly responsible to be vigilant of motorcycles and give them plenty of room to pass or turn. Here, in western Pennsylvania, motorcycle popularity has exploded in recent years. Since 2008, the number of registered...

Meningitis victim takes own life–jury cites negligent doctor, clinic

Apr 15, 2014

In what has proven to be one of the more bitter sweet verdicts of fungal meningitis in recent times, a family from Overland Park, Kansas was awarded nearly $3 million in a medical malpractice case against a pain clinic. The victim has been described a prideful, hardworking young man who fought the pain with stoic silence. Friends and family say that he initially lost a lot of weight, then he began holding his lower back...