Rower who lost legs to disease sues hospitals, doctors

January 18, 2010

A former Upper Arlington student athlete and his parents are suing his doctors and hospitals nearly a year after a flesh-eating bacteria led to the amputation of his legs.

Steven “Blake” Haxton, 19, and his parents — Steven A. and Heather Haxton of 3911

 

Tarrington Lane — have filed medical-negligence lawsuits against doctors for Ohio Health Corp., Riverside Methodist Hospital and Ohio State University Medical Center in the Ohio Court of Claims and Franklin County Common Pleas Court.

 

The lawsuits each seek damages in excess of $25,000 against more than 15 doctors, their companies and the two hospitals.

 

Read Article: The Columbus Dispatch

 

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Beating death lawsuit ends in settlement

A settlement agreement has been reached in the Willacy County civil case involving the prison firm Wackenhut Corrections Corp., known as the GEO Group, and Warden David Forrest in the beating death of Gregorio de la Rosa Jr. of Laredo.

 

The de la Rosa’s case involves one of the largest wrongful death judgments in the country. The judgment was in excess of $40 million.

 

The monetary settlement reached between the private prison group, former warden, insurers and de la Rosa’s family is being kept confidential, however.

 

Read Article: The Brownsville Herald

 

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Lawsuit Against Drug Companies Settled; State Gets Share

Connecticut will receive $224,714 in a settlement with three drug companies over allegations that they blocked cheaper generic versions of the cholesterol drug TriCor from reaching the market.

The money, a portion of which will reimburse the state’s Medicaid program for TriCor prescriptions it covered, is part of a $22.5 million settlement from a lawsuit Connecticut, 24 other states, and the District of Columbia filed against Abbott Laboratories, Fournier Industrie et Sante and Laboratoires Fournier S.A., in

2008.

 

Read Article: Hartford Courant  

 

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Lawsuit accuses bank of seizing wrong house

GALVESTON — A West End property owner is suing Bank of America Corp., asserting its agents mistakenly seized a vacation house he owns free and clear, then changed the locks and shut the power off, resulting in the smelly spoiling of about 75 pounds of salmon and halibut from an Alaska fishing trip and other damages.

Dr. Alan Schroit filed the lawsuit Monday in the 122nd State District Court in Galveston against the bank with which he has neither a relationship nor a mortgage.

 

Read Article: Galveston News

 

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Charter airline’s suit over war zone hazard pay gets class-action status

Class-action status has been granted in a lawsuit claiming crew members of a North Las Vegas charter airline didn’t receive extra hazard pay for flying dangerous missions into Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt last week approved the notice of the class-action to be published and to be sent to Vision Airlines Inc. employees who were crew members on flights to or from Iraq or Afghanistan from May 1, 2005, to the present.

 

Read Article: Las Vegas Sun

 

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