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• Delays in Veterans Disability Claim Processing Results in Lawsuit

  Greg Webb | November 20, 2008 8:00 AM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A lawsuit has been filed against the Department of Veterans Affairs by two advocacy groups representing almost 60,000 veterans. The lawsuit claims that the VA is taking up to four years to process...

• Federal Court Appointments Could Mark Shift in Judiciary

  Greg Webb | November 19, 2008 8:00 AM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  President-elect Barack Obama will be appointing federal appellate judges, and possibly multiple Supreme Court justices, without the difficulties that President George W. Bush had over the past eight...

• Starbucks Sued for Scalding Coffee Spill

  Greg Webb | November 04, 2008 8:45 AM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A woman in Knoxville, Tennessee is suing Starbucks for $250,000 for burns caused by scalding coffee served with an unattached lid. Jordan Triplett, 23, ordered Starbucks coffee at the store’s...

• Chemical In Baby Bottles and Soda Cans May Harm Kids

  Greg Webb | September 17, 2008 8:13 PM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A new federal report has shown exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used to make the plastic in baby bottles and to line soda cans, may cause harm to fetuses and children; further...

• Utah Hospitals Saw Nearly 60 “Never Events” in 2006

  Greg Webb | September 02, 2008 9:00 AM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Last December, a patient was admitted to Uintah Basin Medical Center’s emergency room, complaining he was weak, tired and out of breath. He was found to be severely anemic and needed a blood...

• More States Are Not Billing Patients For Medical Errors

  Greg Webb | August 28, 2008 9:00 AM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Hospitals in almost fifty percent of states in the nation now say they will not bill patients for the worst kinds of medical mistakes. These mistakes are often called “never mistakes” since these...

• Prostate Cancer Screening Being Questioned In Recent Studies

  Greg Webb | August 17, 2008 9:02 PM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A federal task force has concluded that due to so much unnecessary anxiety, surgery and complications, the blood test, or prostate-specific antigen test (PSA), millions of men undergo each...

• Punitive Damages Reaffirmed By Tennessee Supreme Court Against DaimlerChrysler

  Greg Webb | August 13, 2008 9:00 AM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The Tennessee Supreme Court has reaffirmed a lower trial court’s decision awarding a couple $13 million in punitive damages in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the former DaimlerChrysler...

• Soccer Goal Post Kills Yet Another Young Child

  Greg Webb | May 14, 2008 9:00 AM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Eight-year-old Gabriel Mendoza, from Phoenix, Arizona, has died after a soccer goal post fell on top of him at a local YMCA. Investigators say the boy, who was playing goalie at the time, grabbed...

• Hospitals Rarely Disclose Adverse Events to Patients

  Paul Thomson | November 13, 2009 9:30 AM | 1 CommentCharlottesville, VA

  Medpage Today reported that hospitals rarely give their patients explanations when they experience adverse effects of treatment. A survey revealed that over sixty percent of the time, patients do...