$5 Million Settlement for Family of Construction Worker Crushed to Death in Excavation Collapse

A 42-year-old Reading construction worker was doing his job, working in an excavated trench where a house foundation was being built, when it collapsed suddenly and trapped him against a concrete wall, causing fatal injuries in June 2009 in Berks County. Almost four years later, the man's family has reached a $5 million settlement with the West Lawn, Pa.-based construction company that was performing the excavation, according to a recent story in The Legal Intelligencer....

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What Women Need to Know About Vaginal Mesh Surgery Complications

Every year, thousands of women undergo surgery to correct a medical condition known as pelvic organ prolapse (POP) – when the cervix, uterus, bladder or other reproductive organs slip down into the vagina due to the weakening of pelvic muscles. To treat such patients, surgeons often have turned to surgical mesh products that allow the reconstruction of the pelvic walls. The surgical mesh is designed to keep the organs in place and resolve the painful...

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Minivan Mechanical Failure Leads to Vehicle Rollover, Results in $15.7 Million Verdict for Six Injured Victims

A family drive to New York turned tragic in March 2008 for a Philadelphia doctor when the rented minivan she was driving suffered a major mechanical failure in its front suspension and steering, causing the van to go out of control and plunge down a ravine. The crash, which left the doctor with little use of her left arm due to severe injuries, has resulted in a $11.4 million damage verdict for the doctor, and...

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11 Teens Dead in Two Horrific Car Crashes in Ohio & Texas: Lessons Learned

The news in Ohio was bad enough on March 10, when six teenagers were killed in an overcrowded, speeding, stolen SUV that left a roadway and overturned into a pond. It got worse hours later on that same fateful Sunday, when across the country five other teens were killed in Texas when the SUV they were riding in ran through a stop sign and collided with a gas tanker truck, leading to an inferno that...

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Failed Colon Surgery Results in Woman’s Death and a $19.5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

During a routine colonoscopy in 2008, a non-cancerous polyp was found inside the colon of a Bucks County, Pa., woman. But instead of removing the polyp through a minimally-invasive colonoscopy or an endoscopic procedure, her doctor performed a colon re-section, removing 2.5 feet of her colon and then surgically putting the remainder back together, according to a recent story in The Legal Intelligencer. The problem, though, occurred when the more-invasive surgical re-section failed and leaked...

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Vaginal Mesh Case Yields $11.1 Million Award Verdicts to Seriously Injured South Dakota Woman

The case is the first jury verdict in a backlog of several thousand such vaginal mesh injury cases across the United States. A former nurse who endured multiple vaginal mesh implant surgeries which left her with serious pain and ongoing health problems for years has been awarded $11.1 million in damages for her injuries. That was the decision of a New Jersey jury which awarded Linda Gross, 47, of Watertown, S.D., $3.35 million to compensate...

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Medical Malpractice: Death of 17-Year-Old Girl After Tonsillectomy Highlights Dangers of Surgical Procedures

It was to be a routine tonsillectomy, just like most of the more than half-million such procedures done each year in the United States. But something went very wrong following 17-year-old Mariah Edwards' surgery on March 20, 2012 at the Abington Surgery Center in Montgomery County, according to a recent story in The Legal Intelligencer. The teen was apparently left unmonitored in a recovery room following her tonsillectomy, and she went into respiratory distress which...

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$2.9 Million Settlement for Truck Driver Injured by Falling Warehouse Door

A truck driver who was seriously injured when a large piece from an overhead warehouse door struck him in the head while he waited for the door to be opened has reached a $2.9 million damage settlement in the case. The truck driver, Carlos Ramos, a produce delivery truck driver working for J.L. Cruz Transportation, had backed his truck up to the loading dock of the Procacci Brothers produce warehouse in South Philadelphia on June...

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As Snowstorm Nemo Approaches, Keep Winter Sidewalk Safety in Mind

As the powerful Storm Nemo, which is being called a blizzard as it approaches New England, heads through Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley this weekend, it's not expected to bring us the same high winds and heavy snows that are forecast for New York City, Boston and further north. But whatever snow, ice, slush and messy stuff it does dump here from the skies, we'll all have to clean it up with shovels, snowblowers, ice...

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