Former valley doctor found negligent

February 8, 2010

An Arizona couple has been awarded $16.5 million in a medical malpractice case against a former Palm Springs neurosurgeon.

 

A Riverside Superior Court jury on Friday found Christopher Pham negligent in his treatment of Trent Hughes, now 47, in November 2003.

Hughes was injured while off-roading in Glamis, Ariz., on Nov. 2, 2003, and airlifted to

Desert Regional Medical Center, where Pham was on call.

 

“They were doing nothing out of the ordinary or unusual or riding in a manner or area they hadn’t ridden in dozens or hundreds of times before,” said attorney David Bricker of Ervin Cohen & Jessup, a Beverly Hills law firm that represented the plaintiff.

 

Read Article:  My Desert.Com

 

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Lawsuit claims police brutality

Alleging they were victims of what their lawyer called an outrageous display of excessive force by a police officer, one current and three former students at Dean College have filed suit in federal court.

 

The four are seeking $1 million in damages, and have named two Franklin officers and the town as defendants.

 

The plaintiffs claim their constitutional rights were violated when Officer Douglas Nix drew his gun and aimed at them after pulling over their SUV on Feb. 28, 2009.

 

Read Article: The Milford Daily News.Com

 

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Settlement reached in lawsuit against physician

Moments before the case was set to go to jury, a settlement ended a Brandon man’s lawsuit against a Jackson physician he accused of breaking up his marriage.

 

Both sides reached a confidential agreement late Thursday in the “alienation of affection” lawsuit, according to court officials.

 

Former Delta Airlines pilot William Brintnall, 70, alleged orthopedic surgeon Dr. Van Temple, 64, broke up his marriage of nearly 20 years by having an affair with Nancy Brintnall, 53, then his wife.

 

Read Article:  Claironledger.Com

 

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Suit claims private guard failed to thwart Kirkwood council shooting

KIRKWOOD — A lawsuit faults an unarmed private security officer for allowing Charles “Cookie” Thornton into a Kirkwood City Council meeting the night he fatally shot six people and was killed by police.

 

This wasn’t some fellow that was unknown to the city of Kirkwood,” said Chet Pleban, attorney for the daughter of Constance Karr, a council member and mayoral candidate slain that night.

 

Read Article:  STL Today 

 

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British veteran joins W.Va. National Guard lawsuit

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A retired sergeant of the Royal Air Force has joined members of the West Virginia National Guard in a lawsuit alleging that they were exposed to a toxic chemical by a government contractor in Iraq in 2003, becoming the first British veteran to sue over the exposure.

 

In an amended complaint filed Thursday in federal court in West Virginia’s Northern District, Andrew M. Tosh, 44, of Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, maintains that officials with KBR Inc. knew about dangerous levels of sodium dichromate, a potent carcinogen, at the Qarmat Ali water-treatment plant months before they informed American and British troops guarding the facility.

 

Read Article: Charleston Gazette.Com

 

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