The mother of an Illinois high school football player is suing his football coach and the district. According to an article in USA Today, she claims her son sustained permanent, stroke-causing brain injuries during a game after the linebacker’s complaints of a headache and signs of a concussion went ignored.
The mother has accused the high school coach of recklessly endangering his players by such tactics as con [...]
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Illinois High School Football Players Injuries Draw Lawsuit
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La Salle Pays $7.5M Over Football Brain Injury
The Delaware County Times reported that La Salle university will pay $7.5 million to provide lifetime care to 23-year-old former football player who suffered a severe brain injury in a 2005 game, allegedly after an earlier concussion went untreated.
The football player’s family, of Marlboro, N.J., settled their lawsuit against La Salle University on November 30.
The settlement came as the NFL, the NCAA and oth [...]
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Trial Begins in Medical Malpractice Suit for Penn Students Meningitis Death
The trial is going to begin in a medical malpractice lawsuit following the death of a University of Pennsylvania sophomore. She died in September 2007 of meningitis. According to an article on Philly.com, her family claims that the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania was negligent in performing a lumbar puncture on a patient with brain swelling, and that her brain herniated, killing her.
The hospital mainta [...]
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Lawsuit Against Dentist Who Dropped Tools Down Man’s Throat
A Florida dentist is being sued for allegedly dropping tools down the throat of an elderly patient - twice. According to an article, relatives of the 90-year-old man recently filed the suit in circuit court accusing the dentist of negligence.
The lawsuit that the elderly man’s family filed claimed that the doctor dropped an “implant screwdriver tool” in 2006 and a “mini-wrench” in 2007. The suit also sa [...]
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Settlement Reached for 2nd Kentucky Widow Over Husbands VA Death
Darla Marshall, the second of two Kentucky widows, settled a federal lawsuit over surgical care she said killed her husband at an Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital. Major surgeries at this hospital have been halted for nearly two years after a spike in patient deaths.
According to an Associated Press article that appeared on Philly.com, the terms of the settlement over 61-year-old James Marshall’s July 2007 blo [...]
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