Mississippi Personal Injury Lawyers Fighting For You
A 69-year-old man from Gretna, MS has filed suit claiming an especially horrific incident of medical malpractice. The disturbing story claims that the man awoke during an eye surgery to discover that his mouth had been taped shut by doctors. The man, Hector L. Alonso, sued Tulane University Medical Center and two doctors that performed the surgery, Franklin Rawlings and…
During the middle of March 2013 a jury in Los Angeles decided that a former prison guard from Montana, Loren Kransky, was entitled to $8.3 million in damages for harm caused by Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy subsidiary’s metal hip implant. The jury found that the ASR XL implant caused metal poisoning and other health problems for Kransky and were severe…
The CDC recently warned about the potentially deadly new superbug that poses special problems for hospitals and nursing homes in Mississippi. The bacteria, known as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), cannot be killed by most antibiotics. The worry among health providers is that CRE poses a special threat to patients across the country because, in addition to its antibiotic resistance, the bacteria…
The first of more than 3,000 cases filed against Takeda Pharmaceuticals over it’s once popular diabetes drug, Actos, is now underway. A witness recently testified that the pharmaceutical giant put sales ahead of consumer safety and allowed marketing concerns to trump patient health worries. The witness, Howard Greenberg, was a clinical pharmacologist who had experience in the industry and based…
A surgery patient in Germany has filed suit against the doctor and hospital responsible for a horribly botched surgery that left the man with 16 objects in his body. The man was in the hospital to have surgery for prostate cancer when everything went wrong. The man’s attorney, Annette Corinth, says that doctor had to go in later to remove…
Mississippi’s Governor Phil Bryant has been trumpeting the state’s tort reform laws as a major economic development according to papers filed in federal court. The governor made the claims in a filing before the court that will decide the constitutionality of the state’s $1 million cap on non-economic damages. The case, which began in 2006, will decide whether the state’s…
Raccoons 1 Allstate Policy Holder 0 Although this should come as no surprise to anyone who has had the great misfortune to be forced to file a claim with them (at least 100,000 Coast resident from Katrina agree with me on this regardless of political partisan), that despite its commercial to the contrary, Allstate a/k/a Allsnake is refusing to cover…