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• The Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007 Considered by Congress

  Mike Simon | July 26, 2007 4:39 PM | 1 CommentWest Virginia, WV

  On July 12th, the Arbitration Fairness Act was introduced to the House and the Senate to amend the Federal Arbitration Act, which was passed in the 1920's. The proposed bill would make clauses in contracts that mandate arbitration and prohibit joining class action lawsuits unenforceable. The bill aims to prevent mandatory arbitration in employment, consumer, franchise, or civil disputes.Leo...

• Suit Over Wandering Nursing Home Resident's Death Settled For $750,000

  Mike Simon | July 27, 2007 12:16 PM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  A $750,000 settlement reached in June between a Pennsylvania nursing home and Francis X. Ounan has been approved by a federal judge. Ounan, the executor of his mother's estate, filed suit against nursing home chain Sunrise Senior Living Services, Inc. on January 15, seeking damages for claims of negligence and wrongful death. Nursing home administrator Lynn Plasha and nurse Cynthia Harbaugh were...

• BAR/BRI Charging Too Much for Test Preparation?

  Mike Simon | August 04, 2007 3:39 PM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  A new class action lawsuit has been filed against the country's biggest bar exam preparation company, BAR/BRI bar review, alleging that the company fraudulently and deceptively induced students from New York law schools to purchase BAR/BRI products at inflated prices. The plaintiffs in the $48 million suit are two 2005 graduates and one 2006 graduate from Albany Law School.The initial class...

• Drunk Driver Kills Four in Accident

  Jenny Albano | April 19, 2008 5:58 PM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  On Thursday night April 18 a drunk driver caused a car crash that sent him to the hospital and killed four others in Wayne County The Sheriff s Department reported that Bobby Frazier was driving...

• Children’s Hooded Fleece Jackets Recalled For Strangulation Hazard

  Chrissie Cole | March 27, 2009 2:26 PM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  Golden Grove Trading (d/b/a Crystal Castle), in cooperation with the CPSC, recalled Children’s Hooded Fleece Jackets because the drawstring on the hood can pose a strangulation hazard to...

• Nurse may Have Infected Over 300 in Virginia With Hepatitis

  Jenny Albano | March 28, 2008 8:53 PM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  Over 300 patients from a Virginia hospital have been asked to get blood tests because an ex-nurse of the hospital is suspected of infecting patients with hepatitis when he worked in Texas.Retired Army Capt. Jon Dale Jones, 45, was arrested this month in Miami on federal charges of assaulting three patients and possession of a controlled substance by fraud. Federal prosecutors said they believe...

• Small Magnets Pose a Danger to Children

  Mike Simon | May 09, 2007 3:13 PM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a warning to parents that small magnets from toys can pose a serious danger to children. According to the warning, hundreds of complaints have been filed with the CPSC stating that small magnets have fallen out of toys where they may pose a hazard to children who may swallow the magnets.There have been 33 cases where children swallowing magnets...

• AP Study Shows U.S. Painkiller Purchases Almost Double

  Courtney Mills | August 20, 2007 11:12 AM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  According to a recent study of DEA statistics carried out by the Associated Press, consumers have nearly doubled the amount of money spent on narcotic analgesics between 1997 and 2005. According to the study, the consumption of five major painkillers - codeine, morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, and meperidine - rose 88 percent between 1997 and 2005. Oxycontin is primarily responsible for that...

• Texas Woman Says Avandia Killed Her Husband

  Mike Simon | July 07, 2007 8:19 AM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  Peggie Stanford has filed a wrongful death suit against GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of diabetes drug Avandia, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Stanford claims her 60-year-old husband, Larry, had been using an Avandia variant when he died of a heart attack earlier this year. Stanford suffered the fatal heart attack the same day that the New England Journal of Medicine...

• I-64 Closed Due to Accident

  Mike Simon | April 03, 2007 10:58 AM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  A motor vehicle accident that involved a cement truck rolling over closed I-64 near Dunbar, West Virginia for a large part of the afternoon on March 30. According to reports, the truck rolled at about 1:40 p.m. and came to rest on a retaining wall, backing up traffic in both directions. There were no injuries and no other vehicles involved in the accident. The interstate reopened at...