Wrongful Death

• Walgreen's Sued for Wrongful Death

  Scott Kappes | October 24, 2007 4:57 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  A wrongful death case has been filed against drug store giant Walgreen Co. after an allegedly incorrect prescription caused a woman to have a miscarriage. The incident occurred outside St. Louis where Chanda Givens tried to fill a prescription for Materna, a prenatal vitamin, and was allegedly given Matulane, a strong chemotherapy drug, instead. The lawsuit claims that Givens became ill soon...

• $1.5 Million Verdict Awarded in Wrongful Death Case

  Scott Kappes | September 13, 2007 3:09 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Yesterday a jury handed down a $1.5 million verdict to the family of Aurilano Salas for a wrongful death lawsuit that was filed after his 2001 death. The verdict was only 15 percent of the $10 million that the plantiffs attorney suggested as "reasonable compensation." Salas was had no spleen and suffered from many life threatening conditions. He became ill at work and was transported to Christus...

• Widow Sues Buffer Maker for Wrongful Death

  Scott Kappes | September 04, 2007 2:46 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  A southeast Texas woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the manufacturers of the floor buffer that she claims killed her husband. She believes that the buffer was unreasonably dangerous and these defects lead directly to the death of her husband. Anne Harper filed the suit against OPC/Floor Blazer and American Honda Motor Co. last Thursday alleging that the propane motor on the buffer...

• Judge Upholds $20 Million Award

  Scott Kappes | August 25, 2007 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Wednesday a Tulsa County Judge upheld a jury decision to award $20 million in wrongful death case. The suit was filed against Deanza Jones, a foster parent for the 7 month old baby. The attorneys in the case claim that the previously healthy baby was grossly neglected in the foster home, which lead directly to her death. Those lawyers maintained that 17 days after Aurora was placed in Jones'...

• Wrongful Death Suit Filed Against Teacher's Minister Husband

  Scott Kappes | August 23, 2007 9:23 AM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  The parents of a former Waco schoolteacher have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her husband. The widower, Matt Baker, is a former pastor at a Baptist church in Lorena, but has since moved to Kerrville with his two daughters where is an part-time youth minister and teacher. The death of the 31 year-old, Kari Lynn Baker, was originally ruled a suicide; however, her parents claim that new...

• Emergency services failure to respond results in death

  Christen Wiese | July 06, 2007 4:44 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Two calls to 911 from the emergency waiting room of Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital in Los Angeles did not help Edith Isabel Rodriquez, 43. Ms. Rodriquez died of a perforated bowel after 45 minutes of bleeding from the mouth in the emergency waiting room. Two desperate calls were made to 911 to get her help while she was waiting to get help in the emergency room, one call was from her...

• Paxil and Birth Defects

  Robert Binstock | June 26, 2007 11:13 AM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Shae Conlin took Paxil for two months before she knew she was pregnant. Her daughter only lived for one hour before passing away. She had been taking Paxil for anxiety as well as the birth control pill at the time, so her pregnancy seemed to surprise her. She stopped taking the drug as soon as she found out. She was supposed to have twins and was told that only one baby had a heartbeat. After...

• Avandia Maker Sued

  Robert Binstock | June 21, 2007 9:50 AM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  The widow and son of a Beaumont man are suing the maker of the popular diabetes drug Avandia, claiming it contributed to the man's death from a heart attack. This man died the same day a scientific analysis was published in the New England Journal of Medicine about more severe risks involved with taking Avandia, such as heart attacks and even death. He had been taking a form of Avandia called...

• BP Caught Jury Tampering

  John Ghezzi | November 08, 2006 5:42 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Election day is often a good time for Republicans and corporate America to reveal their true nature to the American public. While with one face Janus is paying enormous sums of money to bash the greedy and unethical trial lawyers in their campaign advertisements, the other face is caught committing a "stunt" that only a defense attorney could say was not jury tampering with a straight face.Eva...

• Reckless Wrecker Kills Two

  Esmeralda Fuentes | October 19, 2006 3:24 PM | 1 CommentHouston, TX

  Late Wednesday night an elderly couple was killed instantly when a wrecker driver who was driving at a high rate of speed as they were leaving church struck them. Police stated the wrecker driver was driving about 90 mile per hour at the time of impact. The couple was trying to pull out to go eastbound on Wallisville when they were hit but the wrecker driver that was going twice the legal...