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• Family Awarded $35.3 Million After Father's/Husband's Death

  Jamie G. Goldstein | July 30, 2007 5:19 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  A jury awarded the family of Danny Oppenheim Jr. $35.3 million. Danny Oppenheim died after his doctors failed to properly monitor him during surgery. While he was under anesthesia he was not receiving the proper amount of oxygen. The lack of oxygen caused brain damage and eventually Oppenheim's death. The two doctors, Aeneas Guiney and Robert Wolf have had other patients become severally...

• Soldier's Family Sues VA

  Jamie G. Goldstein | July 30, 2007 11:47 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  Jeffrey Lucey's family filed a wrongful death suit against the Department of Veteran Affairs after Jeffrey Lucey was turned away from the medical center. Lucey attempted to get medical treatment from a VA facility in 2004 after he returned from the Iraq war. Instead, the VA turned him away. He killed himself two weeks later. This suit is certain to be one of several filed against the VA for...

• Widow Awarded $1.25 Million In Wrongful Death Suit

  Jamie G. Goldstein | July 25, 2007 5:05 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  Jeanette Dooley of Jackson County settled a lawsuit she brought after her new husband was killed driving his truck. Chad Dooley had been employed as a truck driver for eleven years when he and another truck collided on Highway 54 at 4 a.m. in the morning on August 20, 2005. Jeanette settled the lawsuit for $1.25 million but said she would give it all back to have Chad home. The other truck...

• Hot Dog Chili Sauce Recall After Botulism Fear

  Jamie G. Goldstein | July 24, 2007 8:17 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  The FDA announced this past week that it is recalling 10 ounce cans of Hot Dog Chili Sauce that is sold under various labels. The affected products have "best by" dates of April 30, 2009 through May 22, 2009. If you have any cans from the listed brands with these dates or an unreadable or missing date, you should throw the cans away immediately. Warning signs of botulism include:Double...

• Florida Family Awarded $21 Million in Wrongful Birth

  Jamie G. Goldstein | July 24, 2007 3:56 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A jury awarded a Florida couple $21 million after it found the doctor 90% negligent in misdiagnosing the child's birth defect. Dr. Boris Kousseff failed to diagnose Daniel and Amara Estrada's first son with a genetic disorder, Smith-Lemil-Opitz syndrome, which severely limits his ability to live a normal life. The doctor's failure to diagnose the first child caused him to tell the Estrada's...

• Family Files Lawsuit After Summer Camp Drowning

  Jamie G. Goldstein | July 20, 2007 9:34 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  The Gottsman family has filed a lawsuit against the summer camp where their son Yoni drowned in 2005. Yoni Gottsman was only four years old when he drowned at the Cathedral Oaks Athletic Club. He was attending summer camp in August 2005 when it is alleged that he was unsupervised at the club's pool. A surveillance video reveals Yoni was found floating face down in the water with no...

• Salmonella Linked To Taste of Chicago - First Lawsuits Filed

  Jamie G. Goldstein | July 19, 2007 11:53 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Two lawsuits have been filed in Chicago relating to the salmonella outbreak at the city's Taste of Chicago festival. The festival takes place every year at the end of June and lasts through 4th of July. At least 636 people have reported salmonella infections as a result of eating at Pars Cove's booth. Additional reports show that approximately 50 cases have been confirmed through lab testing...

• Salmonella Cases Grow to 636 From Taste of Chicago

  Jenny Albano | July 18, 2007 12:10 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Health officials stated that 636 people have reported becoming ill after they ate at the Pars Cove Persian Cuisine booth at the Taste of Chicago. More than 100 reports have piled in since Monday.According to the Chicago Department of Public Health, 66 of the illness have been attributed to salmenellosis, and 41 cases were found to be Salmonella Heidelberg, which is a common form of salmonella. ...

• Taste of Chicago Salmonella Outbreak

  Jamie G. Goldstein | July 16, 2007 3:00 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  The salmonella outbreak that has affected at least 491 people that attended the Taste of Chicago is the first confirmed outbreak associated with the annual festival in at least 20 years. At least 15 people were hospitalized after eating contaminated food from the Pars Cove restaurant booth at the Taste of Chicago. Salmonella side affects include diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramping. These...

• Taste of Chicago Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Pars Cove

  Jamie G. Goldstein | July 16, 2007 10:00 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  At least 491 people have reported they became ill after attending the Taste of Chicago and eating food from the Pars Cove restaurant booth. The numbers have been steadily increasing since the outbreak first was announced last week. The health department believes that the outbreak is linked to the hummus Pars Cove was serving at the Taste of Chicago festival.It has not been determined at this...

• 300+ People Sick at Chicago Food Tasting

  Staff Writer | July 14, 2007 2:00 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Chicago Sun-Times reports that over 300 people have become sick after eating at a popular food tasting event in Chicago with a number complaining of salmonella poisoning.On Thursday about 126 people who ate at the Pars Cove Persian Cuisine booth at the Taste of Chicago had reported illness. As as of this weekend the number of complaints had more than tripled according to Chicago Sun-Times.City...

• Salmonella Outbreak at the Taste of Chicago

  Jenny Albano | July 13, 2007 7:47 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Now 126 people have reported being ill after eating at a booth at the Taste of Chicago festival. At least 10 people have been hospitalized, and one child still remains in the hospital for recovery. A spokesperson from the Health Department, Tim Hadac, states that officials are taking food histories from all the sick and are "connecting the dots".The festival visitors all reported eating at the...

• Four Injured In Chicago Van Accident

  Jamie G. Goldstein | July 11, 2007 10:43 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A van drove up onto the sidewalk at 230 West Washington Monday morning causing injuries to three pedestrians and the driver of the van. The van struck two of the pedestrians and then a garbage can causing it to crash into the windows at Cosi, a local restaurant. There was no immediate information on what caused the van to drive onto the sidewalk.All four of the injured people were taken to the...