Archive | February 2012
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Spine implant maker reaches $1M settlement with FDA.
According to Reuters, Globus Medical Inc and its chief executive officer have reached a $1 million settlement with the US Food and Drug Administration for marketing their NuBone Osteoinductive Bone Graft device without approval from the agency. During a September 2010 inspection, FDA investigators learned the company had marketed its NuBone Osteoinductive Bone Graft […]
Wrongful death suit filed against pest control company
The family of two young girls, aged 15 months and four-years-old, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Bugman Pest and Lawn, Inc. of Utah. According to investigators, the girls died just a few days after a fumigant was placed around their house and the sisters might have inhaled phosphine fumes emitted from tablets of a […]
Report finds that many hospital errors go unreported
According to the Federal Department of Health and Human Services, hospital employees recognize many harmful errors that occur at their place of work but only report an alarming 1 out of 7 of them. In the report instances events such as medication errors, severe bedsores, infections that patients acquire in hospitals, delirium resulting from overuse of painkillers and […]
Pennsylvania’s Investigation of Power Lines
A Pennsylvania woman died days after she was struck by a power line that fell into her yard. Carrie Goretzka stepped outside to call 911 about the line and was shocked and burned by a live electrical wire that fell from trees. Rescue workers were unable to administer treatment until a utility crew came to […]
Deputy’s Negligence Leads to Settlement
According to a Rochester, NY ruling, Deputy John DiDomenico was negligent when he rear-ended a car in stop-and-go traffic in 2004 while responding to a burglary call. DiDomenico was driving below the speed limit without engaging his lights or siren, and smashed into the another car when he became distracted by his computer. Yasmin Kabir, […]
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