InjuryBoard Columbus Archives

• Pennsylvania Jury Awards $3 Million to Ohio Woman in Cancer Suit

  Scott Smith | February 28, 2007 12:47 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  A jury in Pennsylvania awarded $3 million to a woman from Ohio who proved a hormone replacement drug manufactured by Wyeth caused her breast cancer. Wyeth manufactures Prempro to treat symptoms of menopause. However, Jenny Nelson, 67 of Dayton, Ohio, was found to have breast cancer in 2001 after taking the drug. Over 5,000 women have sued Wyeth for personal injury or death resulting from...

• Wal-Mart Discrimination Class Action Suit Continues

  Scott Smith | February 27, 2007 12:20 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A class action against Wal-Mart for major gender discrimination continued in the Northern District of California's courtroom with Judge Martin Jenkins that affects approximately 2 million female employees. Judge Jenkins ruled for the first time in three years the Plaintiffs would be permitted to take the depositions of former Wal-Mart Executive Thomas Coughlan, III who was second in command at...

• Overuse of Antibiotics May Lead to Creation of Superbugs

  Scott Smith | February 26, 2007 4:47 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  New strains of superbugs have proven resistant to those exposed to common macrolide antibiotics used to treat respiratory infections. Professor Herman Goossens of University Hospital in Antwerp Belgium showed ingestion of even a single course of this specific antibiotic can lead to a buildup in resistance resulting in mutations for superbugs resulting in personal injury or death. Scientists...

• Poisoned Peter Pan Peanut Butter

  Scott Smith | February 23, 2007 8:01 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Salmonella was discovered in Peter Pan peanut butter purchased as late as May 2006 and therefore anyone who possesses the spread should discard it. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration found salmonella contaminated the peanut butter and that more than 290 people from 39 states have become ill. Forty-six of those individuals have been hospitalized according to the U.S. Centers for Disease...

• Salmonella Discovered in Frozen Cat Food

  Scott Smith | February 22, 2007 4:38 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Wild Kitty cat food, a frozen raw product, was discovered contaminated with salmonella according to the Food and Drug Administration. Because cats can become infected with salmonella and humans can be infected by handling the cat food, the FDA warned pet owners not to purchase the product. Wild Kitty cat food is made by a small company in Kennebunkport, Maine and sold at pet stores in several...

• The Myth of Tort Reform

  Scott Smith | February 16, 2007 10:48 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Constantly looking for a scape goat, big business, big media and insurance companies have targeted trial lawyers and injured persons seeking compensation as villains who negatively effect the economy. Regardless of the propaganda that constantly spews from the Chamber of Commerce, there is a continuous outpouring of evidence that the cost of personal injury automobile insurance litigation and...