Personal Injury News: Pick Of Last Month: May-2023

A now-18-year-old lady who was hurt when she was hit by a car in East Brunswick almost five years ago has reached a $2 million settlement with the driver and the owner of the vehicle, according to her attorney.

According to one of her attorneys, the lady was 14 when she and two companions were sitting on a curb on Prigmore Street on May 25, 2018, after school.

When the woman made a right turn into Prigmore Street, the driver of the car that struck her was moving along Arthur Street. When the driver attempted to overcorrect after the back passenger wheel struck a curb, the vehicle drifted across the road and struck the woman, according to the lawyer.

The woman rolled back to attempt to escape being hit, but her cervical spine was hurt. Due to her advanced age, she chose against surgery. Later, she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of an acute stress reaction. According to her lawyer, counseling has helped her condition. She lives in East Brunswick and also had a cut to her left thigh after dropping a ceramic pot from a school project that she was carrying.

Prior to the case going to trial, the settlement was struck April 14 during a meeting with the judge. The driver and the driver's father, who was identified as the vehicle's owner, were named as defendants in the lawsuit. In the wake of the collision, the driver was not prosecuted. The driver's lawyer acknowledged the $2 million payment but declined to provide any other information.

A handicapped man reportedly died after being left alone in a vehicle at the Pensacola Developmental Centre, according to a complaint filed by his family.

The victim's brain was harmed by jaundice when he was 10 months old, leaving him with developmental disabilities and non-verbal. He has been a full-time resident at Pensacola Developmental Centre since 1982. On June 22, 2022, while under their care, he passed away at the age of 66. He spent more than eight hours alone in a vehicle.

The victim was supposed to be driven across the street to a Pyramid art program, but he never arrived. An attorney for the plaintiff filed a wrongful death complaint, accusing Pyramid and Pensacola Developmental Centre of negligence. Due to his limitations, he was unable to signal for assistance or belt or unbuckle himself, according to the lawyer.

According to his family and attorneys, this action is the first step in determining how this occurred and putting his carers on notice of their responsibility. He died from hyperthermia, according to the Medical Examiner's postmortem report.

A man was electrocuted while working at a nearby Lowe's store, according to a wrongful death complaint, which blamed the incident on a contractor's carelessness.

According to a lawsuit submitted this week in District Court, the plaintiff, a 34-year-old resident of Las Vegas, was installing LED lighting at the Lowe's on Charleston and Eastern on June 11, 2021, when he was electrocuted by exposed wire.

Construction work was delegated to Stratus Unlimited by Lowe's. The complaint states that Opus Prime Solutions was hired by Stratus to do electrical repairs at the store.

According to the complaint, Opus Prime Solutions and Stratus Unlimited lacked the appropriate licences required by Nevada state law. Additionally, the plaintiff was one of the subcontractors who did not get worker's compensation benefits from Opus Prime Solutions.

According to the lawsuit, the Lowe's project manager lacked a valid contractor licence. The plaintiff was operating in an area that Salcedo and the other defendant firms allegedly neglected to de-energize.

According to a statement from lawyers handling his estate, the plaintiff was a devoted father to his daughter, who is now 8 years old. Because Lowe's chose to employ out-of-state, untrained, and unlicensed contractors to do electrical work, she will now have to grow up without her father, the attorney continued.

A July 2021 internet fundraising campaign to assist with funeral expenses generated $8,600. The plaintiff was electrocuted at University Medical Centre, according to the Clark County coroner, who declared his death an accident. In the complaint, wrongful death and negligence were charged. According to the plaintiff's attorneys, Lowe's could have checked the contractors' licences online.

A civil lawsuit brought by the family of a homeless man fatally shot by an Orange County Sheriff's Department officer in San Clemente in 2020 has been settled for $7.5 million by the county.

The guy was killed on September 23, 2020, after a conflict between him and two sheriff's officers who were members of the department's homeless outreach team erupted after the man was detained on suspicion of jaywalking. The victim's relatives brought the wrongful death case after his death. Officials with the Sheriff's Department said that during a struggle, the guy grabbed one of the deputy's firearms, which is when the shooting took place.

The constable was cleared of any criminal misconduct by the Orange County District Attorney's Office in a statement released in February 2022. According to prosecutors, their investigation revealed that the individual had not been jaywalking but had instead broken a traffic law by crossing during a red hand signal, which allowed deputies to approach him.

The man's arms were flailing and "incidentally" close to the firearm, according to the family's civil lawsuit, which claimed the homeless outreach team was "ill-equipped to deal with mentally ill subjects and disproportionately targets and detains persons of color in Orange County."

The settlement was authorized by the OC Board of Supervisors on May 9 at a meeting that was held in secret session. The Orange County Sheriff's Office declined to comment. The two deputies involved in the shooting were demanded to be fired and arrested during the protests that followed the shooting.

A slip-and-fall incident at one of Walgreens Co.'s Gulfport shops led to a lawsuit from a couple from Harrison County.

On March 30, 2022, outside the Walgreens on U.S. 49 to the north of Interstate 10, an accident occurred. In the federal negligence case, the plaintiff claims that she slid on a garbage bag that was "wet and mushy" due to rain, injuring herself when she slammed against her truck's seat, frame, and step-up bar. According to the lawsuit, she was in such much agony in her head, neck, back, and knees that it was difficult for her to even get up.

According to the lawsuit, she entered and asked a cashier whether garbage bags were placed outside. The cashier at Walgreens confirmed that, as is customary, personnel did indeed place the garbage bags in the parking lot.

The woman was instructed by a management to examine a security film of the parking lot, and her supervisor will get in touch with her later. The manager allegedly put on gloves to remove the garbage bags from the parking lot as the plaintiff was exiting the building, according to the lawsuit.

A Walgreens official allegedly contacted a few weeks later to confirm that an employee had really left the garbage bags.

The plaintiff and her husband contend that there were no posted warning signs and that the garbage bags put customers in "a dangerous and unreasonably unsafe" situation.

The couple is requesting punitive damages in addition to real damages based on medical expenditures. They are bringing a lawsuit against Walgreens, its parent firm, and any of the incident's workers.

A lawsuit merely represents one side in a legal dispute. Walgreens has not yet submitted a response to the lawsuit.

Following the untimely death of a local man last year at the age of 39, a local medical practice is being sued.

The practice, Suffield Medical Centre LLC and Suffield Medical Associates, as well as a physician assistant, are named in the complaint as having treated the victim negligently in the days leading up to his death on June 25 from bacterial meningitis and failing to maintain accurate records of his medical history.

The plaintiff was a longtime resident of Suffield who attended Suffield High School and served in the Marine Corps for four years after graduating in 2000. The case was brought by the victim's wife on behalf of her late spouse.

The guy allegedly contacted Suffield Medical Centre on June 23, 2022, complaining of a 104-degree temperature, muscular ache, exhaustion, and a cough.

That afternoon, he participated in a telemedicine consultation with a medical assistant, who determined that he had a temperature and a cough. According to the complaint, the deceased was instructed to drink plenty of water and return in three to four days if he didn't feel better.

He was admitted to the hospital two days later due to respiratory difficulty, and that evening he passed away from bacterial meningitis.

The complaint criticizes the choice to conduct a remote evaluation of him. The guy was especially susceptible to bacterial infection since his spleen had been removed.

According to the complaint, the practitioners neglected to take that danger into account, failed to visit the victim in person, or gave him instructions to seek an examination at another hospital or emergency room.

According to the complaint, the practice neglected to provide antibiotics for the sufferer. The victim's wife is suing for damages in excess of the $15,000 cap set by the court.

A jury in Macomb County has awarded almost $10 million to the estate of a 41-year-old woman who passed away after a doctor at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital in Clinton Township failed to adequately treat her surgical wound infection.

After more than two weeks of testimony in Macomb Circuit Court in Mount Clemens, a civil panel unanimously decided to grant the victim's husband the judgment after five hours of discussion. The hospital and the surgeon lost in the ruling.

The plaintiff's counsel claimed that after the jury carefully considered the evidence and deliberated for almost five hours, it reached the conclusion that the surgeon had engaged in professional negligence and that the hospital had engaged in administrative negligence. A 41-year-old mother of two adolescents who were highly devout and hardworking was wrongfully killed as a consequence of carelessness.

The alleged doctor was not a worker at Henry Ford Macomb institution, according to the institution. The plaintiff's attorneys claim that Henry Ford Macomb Hospital authorities failed to develop and enforce appropriate safety measures. Experts testified that a hospital's patient safety policies need to be enacted and enforced by the hospital administration. It was initiated in November of this year.

According to the attorneys, the woman had outpatient abdominal surgery at the 19 Mile Road clinic before developing an infection in a surgical incision. She went to the hospital's emergency room after feeling unwell a few days after a follow-up appointment, where it was revealed that she was septic from an infection.

The next day, the accused doctor paid her a visit in the middle of the morning while she was still in the hospital, according to the doctor's counsel, despite there being proof that the surgical wound was the cause of the infection.

According to the announcement, this continued for roughly five days. The hospital's chain of command was never contacted regarding the treatment delay in order to find a quick solution. The patient safety policy wasn't being put into practice. The unchecked infection in the wound only made the patient worse.

According to the plaintiff's counsel, the lady passed away on the sixth day as a result of the inability to clean up and manage the infection for an excessively long period of time.