The Journal of the American Medical Association statesmedical malpractice is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Medical malpractice comes in just right behind heart disease and cancer. According to JAMA, over $3 billion was spent in medical malpractice paid claims in 2012 alone. JAMA reports one paid medical malpractice claim…
A Chicago man is in custody after ahit and run pedestrian accident that was caught on video. Chicago Police are looking for the driver of a white minivan that struck a 69-year-old male on Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. in the 1000 block of Joliet Street. A security camera, owned by a neighbor, recorded…
A fatalauto accident claimed the life of a Malvern man as well as injured two other people. The two-vehicle collision occurred on Highway 270, just east of Malvern early Friday morning. According to the Arkansas State Police, a 56-year-old man was killed when his westbound pickup truck was struck by an eastbound pickup truck…
A fataltruck accident in Pensacola, Florida involved a Pepsi Truck and a Dump Truck. The accident happened on Thursday afternoon at around 2 p.m. near the intersection of Athens Avenue and Gulf Beach Highway. The two trucks collided resulting in severe damage, as well as the death of the dump truck driver. The two…
A Pine Lawn resident is frustrated and scared after finding a police cruiser crashed in her front yard during anauto accident. According to authorities, a City of St. Louis police cruiser ended up in a resident’s front yard after hitting two parked vehicles late last night. At around 11:30 p.m., police report the squad…
A seriouspedestrian accident occurred today when a St. Louis man was struck by an SUV in the parking lot of a Maplewood gas station. According to St. Louis police, shortly after 6 a.m., a man in his 50’s exited a QuikTrip on Big Bend and Manchester and as he was entering his vehicle, a…
Police responded to one of the most devastating accident scenes Thursday morning when two toddlers were pronounced dead after acar crash. At approximately 9:12 a.m., an 18-year-old female driver was operating a 2003 Dodge Durango on a county road in Oklahoma when she lost control of the vehicle, and the crash occurred. The crash…
A hospital in Pennsylvania was ordered to pay $5 million to a man’s family after a jury agreed thatmedical malpractice occurred. In December 2008, an 88-year-old man was brought to Abington Memorial Hospital after losing consciousness at the nursing home where he resided. Upon arrival, the medical staff inserted a feeding tube into the…
Johnson and Johnson has a history of choosing to use harmful ingredients. According to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, hundreds of products were tested in labs to discover if they contained compounds or ingredients not listed on labels; and many did. Two carcinogenic chemicals, formaldehyde and 1,4 dioxane, were found in several of U.S….
A nationwide complaint of shattering sunroofs has left owners of certainKia models frustrated and worried. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an investigation of 2011-2013 Kia Sorento is being conducted. The examination will also analyze four other carmakers with similar sunroofs, a total of 12 different models. A recent complaint comes from…