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The family of a 14-year-old girl killed in a car crash more than five years ago has settled a wrongful death lawsuit against the family with whom she was visiting for $1.75 million, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia.

When the 14-year-old's father dropped his daughter at her friend's house, he specifically told her friend's mother she was not to ride in an automobile with a juvenile. He told her "no boys with cars" and was told "not to worry."

Later, the mother told the girls to accept a ride home from the movie theater with a young boy, despite knowing he had a reputation for recklessness. During the ride home, the young girl sent her family a text message saying she feared for her life.

The Virginia Supreme Court last year ruled that although supervising adults cannot be expected to ensure a child's welfare, they are liable when they fail to act responsibly. That ruling led to the eventual settlement.

If you have been in an accident, it’s important to make sure you understand your legal rights. The attorneys at Scott C. Gottlieb and Associates, LLP with their years of experience, can help you navigate through your car accident claim. Contact our offices today at 1-800-825-5529 or use our online contact form.

Car Crash Wrongful Death Settlement

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$2.25 Million to Be Paid By Officer and Bar In Deadly Car Crash
A police officer and the bar which served her will pay a total of $2.255 million for the wrongful death of four, and the injuries to another man, reports St. Louis Today.

A lawsuit claimed the police officer had consumed a "high quantity" of alcohol at O'Leary's Restaurant and Bar and the employees at the bar knew she was intoxicated and did not stop her from driving or call her a cab. Despite her slurred speech and unsteady walk, the bar continued to serve her alcohol, the article reports. After leaving the bar, the officer crashed her car into a Honda with five students from India.

The driver of the car hit by the police officer suffered a head injury, a fractured rib, liver trauma, lung contusion, and contusions to the skull. His four passengers were killed.

The New York offices of Scott C. Gottlieb have vast experience dealing with wrongful death cases. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our firm at 800-825-5529 or visit our web site. There is no case-review cost.

Police Officer, Bar Settle Wrongful Death Case

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The Wall Street Journal reports Pfizer Inc., maker of the anti-seizure drug Neurontin, has agreed to pay a widow an undisclosed amount following her husband's death in 2002. The woman claimed her husband's suicide was a result of his use of Neurontin.

Her lawsuit alleged Pfizer was aware the drug was associated with the risk of suicide, but the company failed to properly warn the public and that Pfizer promoted the use of the drug for the effects of paralysis (as in her husband's case) even though it was not approved by U.S. regulators.

Pfizer said that it had strong defenses to the plaintiff's claims but decided to settle the case for less than the remaining defense costs in the case.

Pfizer has had years of legal problems resulting from their marketing of Neurontin. In 2004, Pfizer pleaded guilty to a criminal charge and agreed to pay $430 million to settle investigations by the government over its promotion of Neurontin. Just a few weeks ago, a federal jury concluded Pfizer violated other laws and awarded damages of $47 million - which will be automatically tripled under the law. Pfizer plans to appeal this judgment.

The New York offices of Scott C. Gottlieb have vast experience dealing with wrongful death cases. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our firm at 800-825-5529 or visit our web site. There is no case-review cost.

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The former owners of a restaurant in Gresham, Oregon will pay $1.3 million after being accused of serving too much alcohol to a convicted drunk driver who killed two young women reports KATU.com. The judge could more than double that amount.

Although the Golden Star Restaurant is now under different ownership, the parents of the young women sued the former owners alleging they knowingly over-served the driver and then allowed her to drive.

The bar had a history of over-serving its patrons and had received several written warnings from the Gresham police, an Oregon Liquor Control Commission fine and dozens of patron DUI arrests, according to the news report.

The two young women were celebrating the 21st birthday of one of the girls when their car was hit head on by the drunk driver going the wrong way on the highway. Neither girl had alcohol in her system.

The Rochester, N.Y. Law Offices of Scott C. Gottlieb and Associates, LLP, has vast experience in wrongful death lawsuits. If you feel you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our 24- hour answering service at (607) 724-7700 or contact us via our online contact form. There are no case-review costs.

Oregon Drunk Driving Lawsuit

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The Baltimore Sun reports a $1.44 million jury verdict for the family of a man who died of sepsis at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Maryland. The jury found the doctor failed to provide proper medical care for the patient.

Three doctors along with the hospital were named in the lawsuit. The 59-year-old patient was treated with a broad-spectrum antibiotic and admitted to the hospital by a doctor who suspected sepsis. The patient died the day after being admitted.

The hospital and two other physicians settled out of court.

The New York Law Offices of Scott C. Gottlieb and Associates, LLP, have vast experience in medical malpractice lawsuits. Experience counts. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to medical malpractice, call our 24-hour answering service at (800) 825-5529 or contact us via our online contact form. Our offices are located in Binghamton, Elmira, Rochester, Watertown, and Syracuse. There is no charge for the consultation.

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The Boston Herald reports the father of a quadriplegic has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Tennessee based National Seating & Mobility in his son's death. The father stated the lawsuit is about fair treatment for the disabled.

According to allegations in the lawsuit, in December 2007, two technicians from the Tennessee company were in the young man's home conducting routine repairs on his wheelchair. The technicians neither removed the man from his chair nor did they disconnect the battery while doing the repairs. As the repairmen were working on the electrical wiring, the wheelchair "jumped" pinning the man under the table, injuring his legs and causing him to have uncontrollable seizures, the suit alleges.

The 29-year-old man was taken to the hospital by the rescue squad where he died the next day from his injuries. He had been a quadriplegic since a car crash at the age of 17.

The father said any settlement would go to the JPT Foundation, a non-profit foundation he set up in his son's honor to help people with disabilities.

The New York offices of Scott C. Gottlieb have experience dealing with wrongful death cases following personal injury caused by the negligence of another. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our firm at 800-825-5529 or visit our web site. There is no case-review cost.

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The Ledger of Lakeland, Florida reports an appeals court has upheld a lower court's award of $33.3 million to a husband and three of his children in their wrongful death lawsuit against Walgreens. Their 46-year-old wife and mother died in 2007 after Walgreen's pharmacy mistakenly gave her 10 times the prescribed dosage for a blood thinner to treat breast cancer.

Diagnosed in 2002 with breast cancer, she was given an 88 percent chance to recover with the proper treatment. Part of the treatment was a prescription for Warfarin. At Walgreens, an inexperienced pharmacy technician gave the woman 10 milligram tablets instead of the prescribed 1 milligram tablets.

After several weeks of taking the medication, the overdose led to a brain hemorrhage and her being paralyzed, capable of communicating only by blinking her eyes. After a year of hospitalization, the woman was too weak to continue treatment for cancer. Her cancer spread and she died in 2007.

The New York offices of Scott C. Gottlieb have experience dealing with wrongful death cases. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our firm at 800-825-5529 or visit our web site. There is no case-review cost.

Walgreen's Wrongful Death

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The family of a 27-year-old man whose unlawful death was caused by police in Clackamas County, Oregon, has reached a $1 million settlement with the county, reports the Gresham News. The family had separately reached a $1 million settlement with the city of Sandy and a former police officer.

In their lawsuit, filed in September 2006, the family of Fouad Kaady alleged the police violated Kaady's civil rights, used excessive force, then carried out an unconstitutional arrest, and caused a wrongful death.

After rear-ending multiple cars and then wrecking the car he was driving, Kaady was found naked, burned, and bleeding when officers confronted him. Reporting him to be combative, officers attempted to subdue him with 50,000 volts from a stun gun. Claiming they still felt threatened by Kaady the officers then shot him seven times, killing him.

A gas can Kaady was transporting caught fire, causing the crash of his car. Head injuries suffered in the crash and the pain from the burns may have caused Kaady's erratic behavior, the newspaper reported.

The New York offices of Scott C. Gottlieb have vast experience dealing with wrongful death cases. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to a wrongful death, call our firm at 800-825-5529 or visit our web site. There is no case-review cost.

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The Washington Post reports a jury has awarded $3 million to the family of a man who died after being misdiagnosed as having a hiatal hernia.

After barbecuing a steak and taking a bite, a 52-year-old man went to the Inova HealthPlex at Franconia-Springfield, Virginia, on July 6, 2006, with chest pains and complaining of trouble swallowing. After X-rays, EKG, and a CT scan of his chest, the radiologist's notes show he thought the patient was suffering from "a large hiatal hernia."

After being treated with oral medications with no success, the man was taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital where he continued to be treated with oral medications for his severe chest pain. The next day, a surgeon found the man had a perforated esophagus and ordered he be prepared for immediate surgery.

After suffering from the perforated esophagus for over 24 hours, he was severely weakened and went into cardiac arrest as he was being prepped for surgery, suffered irreparable brain damage and died July 17, 2006.

The widow filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the radiologist, the Association of Alexandria Radiologists and Fairfax Anesthesiology. Fairfax Anesthesiology settled out of court for $600,000. Due to a state cap on medical malpractice, the jury award was lowered to $1.25 million.

The New York Law Offices of Scott C. Gottlieb and Associates, LLP, have vast experience in medical malpractice lawsuits. Experience counts. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to medical malpractice, call our 24-hour answering service at (800) 825-5529 or contact us via our online contact form. Our offices are located in Binghamton, Elmira, Rochester, Watertown, and Syracuse. There is no charge for the consultation.

Medical Malpractice

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KTRK in Houston reports the husband of a woman killed in a 2009 crash when the gas pedal of her Toyota Corolla malfunctioned is suing the automaker. The suit claims Toyota knew there was a problem, but did not act quickly enough to fix it.

In December, the wife and mother of two was killed instantly when her car raced through a stop sign and crashed into a concrete wall. Her model car later appeared on Toyota's recall list to fix the problems with the accelerators.

The lawsuit against Toyota, the gas pedal manufacturer, and the local Toyota dealership alleges gross negligence claiming the defective pedal existed at the time the car left the manufacturer.

The Rochester, N.Y. Law Offices of Scott C. Gottlieb has vast experience in wrongful death law suits. If you feel you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our 24- hour answering service at (607) 724-7700 or contact us via our online contact form. There are no case-review costs.

Toyota Wrongful Death Lawsuit

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The Baltimore Sun reports hundreds of heart patients from St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Maryland may have received unnecessary coronary implants. St. Joseph medical Center calls itself the busiest heart catheterization center in Maryland and is thought of as one of the primary cardiac care facilities in the area.

At least 369 patients have received letters informing them they may have received expensive and potentially dangerous coronary stents they did not need. At the time of their surgery the patients were told they needed the stent to open an artery which had severe blockage. They have since learned their blockage was only minor.

Dr. Mark Midei is the only doctor implicated in the hospital investigation so far. He allegedly told patients they had up to a 90 percent blockage, when in fact they had only a 10 percent blockage. In other patients, he placed two stents when only one was necessary.

Patients not only underwent dangerous surgery, they have been on blood-thinning drugs and have suffered the psychological effect of believing they have heart disease.

The New York Law Offices of Scott C. Gottlieb have vast experience in medical malpractice lawsuits. Experience counts. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to medical malpractice, call our 24-hour answering service at (800) 825-5529 or contact us via our online contact form. Our offices are located in Binghamton, Elmira, Rochester, Watertown, and Syracuse. There is no charge for the consultation.

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A jury has awarded $1.7 million to the estate of a Birmingham Alabama pedestrian who was killed after being hit by a car driven by a former Alabama Power Company president, reports the Montgomery Adviser.

The 50-year-old man, employed by Southern Research Institute was crossing from one building to another when he was hit by the 82-year-old driver on February 11, 2009. The driver suffers from macular degeneration which causes impaired vision, yet still drives.

The New York offices of Scott C. Gottlieb have vast experience dealing with wrongful death cases. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our firm at 800-825-5529 or visit our web site. There is no case-review cost.

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Bloomberg reports a father of a Harvard College student has sued the college and fellows over his son's suicide in 2007. Harvard College is the undergraduate school of Harvard University.

The wrongful death lawsuit brought on behalf of the student's estate claims Harvard's health service prescribed drugs known to increase suicide risk and other side effects.

At the time of his death, the student was taking Accutane for cystic acne, Adderall for attention deficit hyperactive disorder (diagnosed by the school nurse) and Prozac for an anxiety disorder (also diagnosed by the nurse) and Wellbutrin, which also contains warnings about suicide for patients under age 25. The nurse allegedly signed the prescriptions for the drugs as a doctor.

Roche Laboratories stated in June it would pull Accutane off the U.S. market because of the reports of depression and suicide in patients. A 2004 FDA report suggested antidepressants such as Prozac and Wellbutrin might double the suicidal thoughts and actions in children and teens.

The student was valedictorian of his high school class.

The New York Law Offices of Scott C. Gottlieb & Associates, LLP have vast experience dealing with wrongful death cases. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our firm at 800-825-5529 or visit our Web site. There is no case-review cost.

Wrongful Death Lawsuit

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A Jersey County, Illinois, jury ruled that Thirsty's Tavern should pay the family of a 19-year-old girl who died in an alcohol-related accident, more than half a million dollars, reports the Journal-Courier.

The girl was a passenger on a motorcycle driven by a 24-year-old boy who had been drinking at the tavern for several hours before the accident. The driver was also killed in the accident.

The lawsuit claimed the young man's drinking at the tavern owned by his father, caused his intoxication which was one of the causes of the girl's death. Toxicology reports showed no alcohol in the young girl's system while the young man's was almost double the legal limit for Illinois.

Judgment limitations under Illinois' Dramshop Act will limit the award to closer to $100,000.

The attorneys at Scott C. Gottlieb Law Offices have vast experience in motor vehicle accident claims. Experience counts. If you have been injured or lost a loved one in an automobile accident, contact our offices at 1-800-825-5529 or visit our web site. Our offices are located in Binghamton, Elmira, Rochester, Syracuse, and Watertown, N.Y. There is no case-review cost.

Tavern Wrongful Death

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The Watertown (NY) Daily Times reports the estate of a 54 year-old woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit after the woman died as a result of a two-vehicle accident in the town of LeRay.

The woman's car was hit by a van as she entered an intersection with a missing stop sign. The lawsuit names the driver of the second vehicle for negligence for failing to avoid the crash, for speeding, and for failing to slow down at an intersection.

The town of LeRay was also named for negligence for not properly maintaining the stop sign. The sign had been missing long enough that it should have been replaced by the town. The amount being sought in the lawsuit is not known.

If you have been in an accident, it's important to make sure you understand your legal rights. The attorneys at Scott C. Gottlieb and Associates, LLP with their years of experience, can help you navigate through your car accident claim. Contact our offices today at 1-800-825-5529 or use our online contact form.

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The city of Phoenix has offered a $250,000 settlement to the three young children of a woman who strangled herself two years ago while in police custody at the Sky Harbor International Airport, reports KPHO news.

The city and police deny any wrongdoing on their part and offered the settlement because it would cost three times that amount if the case went to trial. The original amount sought by the children for negligence was $8 million.

The 45-year-old woman was drunk and unruly after missing her flight to Tucson where she was to attend a substance-abuse rehab clinic, according to news reports. The police arrested her and put her in a holding cell where she accidentally strangled herself while being chained to a bench.

The New York offices of Scott C. Gottlieb have vast experience dealing with wrongful death cases. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our firm at 800-825-5529 or visit our Website. There is no case-review cost.

Airport Death

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A personal injury lawsuit alleges a 15-year-old Autistic boy died in March when he was given a Fentanyl patch to alleviate his pain from a routine tooth extraction, reports Seattlepi.com.

Seattle Children's Hospital sent Michael home with his mother on March 9, following the extraction, with the fentanyl patch for pain, according to a civil suit filed earlier this month in Washington's King County Superior Court. Family members found him unresponsive the next morning and paramedics were unable to revive him - he was pronounced dead at his home.

The medical examiner report states the boy died from a drug overdose caused by the fentanyl patch, which is usually used for patients with chronic pain such as cancer patients, the newspaper reports.

Children's Medical Director has admitted the hospital staff erred when if prescribed the fentanyl to Michael, according to the article. The hospital now has a system in place to prevent such tragedies, which it did not have at the time Michael was given the patch.

The FDA has warned against the misuse of the patch system since 2005 and in a recent public health advisory warned against prescribing the patch in situations identical to Michael's, the article stated.

The civil lawsuit against the hospital was filed by Michael's mother.

The New York Law Offices of Scott C. Gottlieb and Associates, LLP, have vast experience in medical malpractice lawsuits. Experience counts. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to medical malpractice or a prescription drug error, call our 24-hour answering service at (800) 825-5529 or contact us via our online contact form. Our offices are located in Binghamton, Elmira, Rochester, Watertown, and Syracuse. There is no charge for the consultation.

Autistic Teen Death

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The Green Bay Press Gazette reports a Brown County, Wisconsin jury has awarded the family of a farm worker $3.7 million in their medical malpractice lawsuit.

The worker died after contracting a fungal infection called blastomycosis. On two separate occasions in December of 2003 the man sought medical treatment at the Bellin Family Medical Facility. The physician assistants misdiagnosed him as having pneumonia without running basic diagnostic tests, including x-rays. In late December, he was admitted to another hospital where he was correctly diagnosed, but it was too late to save his life.

The jury found Bellin Health System and Dr. Peri Aldrich, who oversees the physician assistants, negligent and awarded his wife and two young children $3.7 million.

The New York Law Offices of Scott C. Gottlieb and Associates, LLP, have vast experience in medical malpractice lawsuits. Experience counts. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to medical malpractice, call our 24-hour answering service at (800) 825-5529 or contact us via our online contact form. Our offices are located in Binghamton, Elmira, Rochester, Watertown, and Syracuse. There is no charge for the consultation.

Wisconsin Medical Malpractice Award

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The Southeast Texas Record reports a woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Bayer Corp., Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc., and Bayer Healthcare LLC. The woman is claiming the birth control pills she had taken, made by Bayer, caused the death of her unborn daughter.

Candice Richardson took the oral contraceptive Yaz/Yasmin and claims she then suffered blood clotting and related injuries which resulted in her being hospitalized and her daughter being stillborn at 27 weeks. She claims the manufacturers misrepresented the pills' benefits and their adverse side effects. Richardson filed the wrongful death lawsuit on Sept. 18, 2009, individually and as a representative of the estate of her dead child.

The New York offices of Scott C. Gottlieb have vast experience dealing with wrongful death cases. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our firm at 800-825-5529 or visit our web site. There is no case-review cost.

Pill Blamed on Death

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The sole survivor of an SUV struck by an 18-wheeler in a construction area of Texas I-35 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. Named in the suit are her 13-year-old son and her 63-year-old father who both died in the accident which occurred over the 4th of July weekend.

The woman's lawsuit was filed against the truck driver, the driver's company, the construction company, and the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT.) Her SUV had slowed down for traffic in a construction zone where the highway narrowed to one lane when they were hit by the tractor trailer.

The lawsuit claims TXDOT did not have adequate safety controls in place which made the accident possible. After spending five days in ICU, the survivor is still recovering from her injuries.

Since the July 4th accident, three more people have been killed by another 18-wheeler in the same construction area.

The attorneys at Scott C. Gottlieb Law Offices have vast experience in motor vehicle accident claims. Experience counts. If you have been injured or lost a loved in an automobile accident, contact our offices at 1-800-825-5529 or visit our web site. Our offices are located in Binghamton, Elmira, Rochester, Syracuse, and Watertown, N.Y. There is no case-review cost.

Fatal Tractor Trailer Accident

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The family of a 39-year-old scientist at the University of Washington has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver of the vehicle that struck and killed him on February 4, 2009, reports the Ballard News-Tribune.

Kevin Black was struck by a Ford E250 van as he was bicycling to work. The driver attempted a U-turn on a street unable to accommodate it and drove into the bike lane, hitting Black. Black was taken to Harborview Medical Center where he later died.

Black, an avid cyclist, was a molecular researcher at the University. He leaves behind two daughters, ages 13 and 10.

The New York offices of Scott C. Gottlieb have vast experience dealing with wrongful death cases. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our firm at 800-825-5529 or visit our web site. There is no case-review cost.

Wrongful Death

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The parents of Dallas musician Carter Albrecht have filed a federal lawsuit over their son's 2007 death. They are claiming Pfizer did not make the risks of the anti-smoking drug Chantix known, reports the Dallas/FortWorth Local News. The lawsuit also claims that at the time their son was taking the drug the label did not contain adequate warning of the drug’s possible side effects.

According to allegations in the lawsuit, Shortly after taking Chantix, in September 2007, Albrecht did not seem himself, the newspaper reports, and he became abusive, delusional and aggressive. After hitting his girlfriend several times, he then ran out of the house and was shot and killed when he tried to break into a neighbor's house. Friends and family say Albrecht was never violent and believe Chantix played a role in his death.

The New York offices of Scott C. Gottlieb have vast experience dealing with wrongful death cases. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our firm at 800-825-5529 or visit our web site. There is no case-review cost.

Chantix Wrongful Death

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According to The Cincinnati Enquirer, the estate of a 16-year-old girl has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a neurosurgeon who allegedly tried to cover up mistakes he made while performing brain surgery on the girl by interfering with her autopsy.

In 2006, the girl underwent surgery to prevent veins in her brain from knotting - a condition resulting from a birth defect, the newspaper reports. She died nine days later. The girl had previously undergone this procedure several times with no problems.

After her death, her father requested a complete autopsy. It was performed the following day, but it did not include the head or the brain. The neurosurgeon told the family the autopsy did not reveal the reason for the girl's death and denied knowing that the head and brain were excluded from the autopsy, the newspaper said.

During deposition testimony for a separate lawsuit, a nurse testified the neurosurgeon agreed to a complete autopsy, but after the father left the room, he ordered the autopsy should omit an examination of the brain, the article states.

The lawsuit filed against Dr. Andrew Ringer and the Mayfield Clinic & Spine Institute alleges a complete autopsy would have shown the doctor's mistakes and that these mistakes contributed to her death. The lawsuit claims the doctor ordered the change “in an attempt to avoid his medical negligence liability and to avoid the possibility of a legal action against him.”

The New York Law Offices of Scott C. Gottlieb and Associates, LLP, have vast experience in wrongful death lawsuits. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our firm at 800-825-5529 or visit our Web site. There is no case-review cost.

Ohio Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

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A Utah 4th District Court jury has awarded the family of a man killed in a traffic accident in 2006 almost $4.4 million, reports The Salt Lake Tribune.

Due to state law caps on damages against the state and the victim's share of the responsibility, the award will be reduced by almost $2 million.

The family of the Payson man sued the state Department of Transportation and a subcontractor for failing to post appropriate signs warning of traffic delays as they were working on the reconstruction of a bridge. The man was killed as he came over the crest of a hill and tried to swerve to miss the driver ahead of him who slammed on his brakes to avoid hitting cars stopped because of the bridge project. He crashed his vehicle and died 13 days later.

The jurors awarded almost $3 million for economic damages and $375,000 each for the man's wife and three children.

If you have been in an accident, it's important to make sure you understand your legal rights. The attorneys at Scott C. Gottlieb and Associates, LLP, with their years of experience, can help you navigate through your car accident claim. Contact our offices today at 1-800-825-5529 or use our online contact form.

Automobile Wrongful Death

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The Miami Herald reports a Broward County jury awarded a 92-year-old man over $5.3 million in his wrongful death lawsuit against Philip Morris, the cigarette maker. The man's wife died in 1996 at the age of 63 from lung cancer after smoking two packs of Marlboros a day since she was 16-years-old.

A jury determined in an earlier phase of the trial cigarettes caused the woman's death. Her husband's attorneys also claimed the cigarette companies "hooked" her when she was just a kid.

The couple watched television in 1994 as tobacco executives swore to Congress that cigarettes were not linked to cancer. The woman didn't believe the executives and told her husband to sue them if anything happened to her.

Wrongful death cases are always emotional. You should not release anyone from liability without first know all of you legal rights and what redress is available to you and your family. The New York Law Offices of Scott C. Gottlieb and Associates, LLP, has vast experience in wrongful death lawsuits. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our firm at 800-825-5529 or visit our web site. There is no case-review cost.

Smoker's Wrongful Death

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The estate of a 43-year-old man who died in 2005 has settled a wrongful death lawsuit against the county and the Emergency Medical Services for $47,500, just days before the case was to go to trial, reports the Greenville, SC News.

According to the lawsuit, the man suffered a seizure while on a downtown street and EMS was called. The complaint stated that, due to the effects of the seizure, the man was non-responsive when the paramedics arrived and they assaulted him by pushing and shoving him then roughly wrestled him to the ground. His head hit a vehicle's bumper, causing him to lose consciousness and die.

The defendants denied the assault stating they had to restrain the 43-year-old then he became unresponsive and went into full cardiac arrest. They claimed he died "despite the best efforts of emergency personnel."

The New York offices of Scott C. Gottlieb have vast experience dealing with wrongful death cases. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our firm at 800-825-5529 or visit our Web site. There is no case-review cost.

SC Wrongful Death

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A Chilton County, Alabama jury has awarded $3.5 million to the family of a man killed when the van he was driving was crushed between two logging trucks, reports the Montgomery Advertiser.

Ken Gorum Trucking and Gary Fruge, the driver of the logging truck, were held responsible for the accident and have been ordered to pay the award. The jury found Fruge was speeding, and the truck had defective brakes, when it crashed into the victim's van.

The victim's car was pushed into the logs on the truck in front of him, causing the logs to come through his windshield - one went through his head and killed him. Although the driver claims he was going only 45 miles per hour, evidence suggests he was traveling between 65 and 75 mph.

Progressive Insurance Co, the insurance for the defendants, had refused to settle the case before trial

If you have been in an accident or have lost a loved one in an accident, it's important to make sure you understand your legal rights. The attorneys at Scott C. Gottlieb and Associates, LLP with years of experience, can help you navigate through your car accident claim. Contact our offices today at 1-800-825-5529 or use our online contact form.

Alabama Logging Truck Wrongful Death

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Parents Sue Day Care Center in Child's Death

According to the Philadelphia Daily News, the parents of a 2-year-old boy will sue Fairy Tales Daycare and its owners in the boy's death.

On July 1, 2009, the child died after being left in the back seat of a locked van with the windows rolled up and temperatures exceeding 80 degrees. The lawsuit alleges the boy's parents paid their neighbor and co-owner of the daycare center to take the child to the center at least three times a week.

On this day, however, the child was left in the van where he was not discovered until about 4:30pm in the afternoon. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead of heat stroke, also known as hyperthermia.

No criminal charges have been filed in the case.

The New York offices of Scott C. Gottlieb have vast experience dealing with wrongful death cases. If you feel that you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our firm at 800-825-5529 or visit our web site. There is no case-review cost.


Hyperthermia Wrongful Death

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The Arizona Daily Star reports two Tucson sisters whose parents were murdered by their grandson in 2005 will receive $1.5 million.

The sisters filed the wrongful death lawsuit against the grandson's doctor, COPE Community Services, and Community Partnership of Southern Arizona for allowing him to remain in the care of the family instead of putting him in a mental health facility.

The physician settled with the sisters, but COPE and CPSA allowed the charges to go to trial. The jury found those organizations 50 percent responsible for the award amount, the doctor 25 percent responsible, and the grandson 25 percent responsible.

The grandson is serving two concurrent life sentences in the Arizona State Hospital.

Wrongful death cases are always emotional. You should not release anyone from liability without first know all of you legal rights and what redress is available to you and your family. The N.Y. Law Offices of Scott C. Gottlieb and Associates, LLP, with locations in Binghamton, Elmira, Rochester, Syracuse and Watertown, has vast experience in wrongful death lawsuits.

If you feel you or a loved one has suffered due to wrongful death, call our 24-hour answering service at (607) 724-7700 or contact us via our online contact form. There are no case-review costs.


Wrongful Death Case

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