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The Centre Daily Times reports that Judith Meyers, a 70-year-old woman from Centre Hall, PA, filed a lawsuit against the Mount Nittany Medical Center, Healthsouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation as well as several doctors. The lawsuit claims that they did not order tests in time that could potentially have diagnosed a tumor. An emergency surgery left her paralyzed. Pennsylvania nedical malpractice includes misdiagno [...]

Justin Plank, a 21-year-old man, was injured on May 12 at a gas station in Norwalk, CT after a steel beam fell off a payloader and struck him in the leg. According to this article, Plank was guiding a 16-foot steel pillar into place at when a chain wrapped around the claw-bucket holding the beam slipped. The beam crashed to the ground and cut a gash into his lower left leg. Plank, who works for East Hartford-based [...]

For the second time in one week, a pedestrian was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing a busy Philadelphia intersection. According to this article in The Philadelphia Inquirer, the unidentified man was on Ninth Street and Roosevelt Boulevard in Hunting Park. The victim was pronounced dead at 2:22 a.m. on May 8 at Temple University Hospital. The man was crossing Ninth Street and stepped into an [...]