Topics: Personal Injury - 79 results

A health insurance company rolled the dice with a Las Vegas jury and lost more than half a billion dollars. The HMO was sued by patients who were infected in a hepatitis C outbreak at colonoscopy clinics operated by a doctor who reused syringes and cut corners. The two patients, Helen Meyer and Bonnie Brunson, contracted the incurable virus that attacks the liver after undergoing endoscopic procedures at a clinic run by Dr. Depak Desai. The outbreak infected dozens of …

Three people were killed and over 170 injured yesterday when two explosions rocked the finish line of the Boston Marathon in what White House officials are calling a terrorist attack. The bombs went off within seconds of each other while runners still straggled across the finish line near Copely Square at the end of the iconic 26.2 mile race. So far investigators have not released any information about who might have authored the attack. Law enforcement agents did search an apartment in …

If you haven’t had a bad experience with a car mechanic, you probably don’t own a car. But did you ever wonder who repairs rental cars? One Philadelphia driver found out the painful way. A jury ordered a Toyota dealer to pay $15.7 million to Noreen Lewis and her passengers who were all injured after Lewis’ rental car got into an accident. Lewis rented a vehicle in 2008 from PhillyCarShare to drive to New York to see her daughter perform …

A trucker who was hit on the head by a falling box of Dollar General merchandise won a $2.2 million jury verdict. It was Black Friday in 2007, the busiest retail day of the year, when Gregory Baird was unloading his truck of boxes of merchandise at the Dollar General store in Troy, Mo. It was at night and he couldn’t see clearly and didn’t use a light. Suddenly, a 38-pound box that was not loaded into the truck correctly …

A patient who was given a shot of a contrast dye that left him unable to move won a $5 million verdict against GE Healthcare, the maker of the dye. Paul Decker, a retired Ohio man suffering from kidney disease, was given a single dose of Omniscan, a contrast agent administered before body scans like MRIs to help technicians and doctors read the scans more clearly. Decker developed a condition called nephrogenic systemic fibrosis after the 2005 scan. NSF is …