All 14 hospitals in Rhode Island have agreed to adopt a uniform set of precautions to prevent surgeons from operating on the wrong body part or committing other grievous errors. Doctors and hospital officials said Tuesday that following the same …
A federal judge ruled that a New Hampshire campground wasn’t negligent during a 2004 storm that downed trees, injuring a couple trapped in their trailer by a pine tree. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Muirhead ruled in favor of the Wakeda …
A man has been charged with setting two fires in Hinton, and residents hope the 19-month string of arsons in their town has ended. Twenty-nine-year-old Joseph Michael Brown is being held at Southern Regional Jail on $200,000 bond. He was …
A Georgia jury has awarded a Home Depot customer and his wife $1.5 million in a lawsuit stemming from a forklift accident at a store. The complaint by 58-year-old Larry Reece says a pallet of plywood fell on him from …
A federal lawsujit has been filed by 66 people in Mobile Couty against the manufacturers of travel trailers they say exposed them to dangerous levels of formaldehyde after Hurricane Katrina. The lawsuits join about 23,000 others that have been filed …
Internet servers like MySpace cannot be held liable when minors are sexually assaulted by people they first meet on a website, a California appeals court ruled in an opinion filed late Tuesday. The ruling by the Second District Court of …
Florida returned over $173 million in unclaimed property for the most recent fiscal year– the largest amount in state history, according to CFO Alex Sink and her Bureau of Unclaimed Property. The Bureau of Unclaimed Property is currently holding 8.8 …
Concord, Calif.-based Athens Administrators has hired third-party claim administration industry veteran Michael Landa as director of sales for the Southern California region. Landa has 18 years of experience at all levels of claims administration, including claims examining, supervision, branch management …
Minnesota-based Plainview Milk Products Cooperative has voluntarily recalled its instant nonfat dried milk and whey protein as well as some thickening agents due to potential salmonella contamination. The products, which were not directly sold to consumers, were made over the …
Final disciplinary actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) in May 2009 include administrative penalties totaling $33,500 for violations of the Texas Labor Code and rules promulgated by the workers’ compensation commissioner. Division Of …