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...

• Woman Dies After Being Ignored in Hospital Waiting Room

  Scott Kappes | July 01, 2008 5:53 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Several employees of a Brooklyn hospital have been fired or suspended after a psychiatric patient died in the waiting room of the hospital. Staff members ignored the patient for an hour before...

• 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...

• Texas Nurse Charged with Killing 5 Dialysis patients

  Scott Kappes | April 03, 2009 12:16 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  In shocking news out of Lufkin, Kimberly Saenz, a former nurse at a Lufkin area dialysis clinic, was charged with the murder of 5 dialysis patients. According to prosecutors, Saenz injected bleach...

• Dog Owner Gets 15 Years For Fatal Mauling

  Scott Kappes | September 24, 2008 5:38 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  On Monday a California judge sentenced dog owner Marjorie Knoller to 15 years to life in prison, seven years after her two 100+ pound Presa Canarios fatally mauled her neighbor in the hallway...

• Taser Maker Loses First Wrongful Death Case

  Scott Kappes | June 09, 2008 11:44 AM | 3 CommentsHouston, TX

  Over the past several years the use of taser guns by police officers has increased exponentially. Thousands have people have been injured and over 300 have died after being shocked with police...

• Family Files $145 Million Lawsuit Over Alleged Taser Death

  Scott Kappes | June 04, 2008 6:21 PM | 1 CommentHouston, TX

  The family of the late Jarrel Gray has filed a $145 million lawsuit against the Fredrick County, Sheriff Chuck Jenkins and Corp. Rudy Torres over the alleged taser-related death of the 20...

• Magnetic Toys Pose Dangerous Health Risk If Swallowed

  Scott Kappes | February 05, 2008 1:18 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  "Don't swallow magnets," is the advice that four year-old Braden Eberle is giving to other children. Braden recently spent six days in the hospital recovering from surgery to remove magnets from his intestines. Last April Braden swallowed a piece from a Magnetix toy set. Braden somehow had gotten one of the magnets loose from one of the rods and swallowed it. His mother, Jill, was not that...

• 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...

• Families of Va. Tech Victims Awarded $11 Million

  Scott Kappes | June 19, 2008 11:28 AM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  On Tuesday a Virginia judge approved an $11 million settlement to be awarded to families of victims that were killed or injured in last year’s massacre at Virginia Tech University. The...