InjuryBoard Cincinnati Archives

• Many Victims Pay the Price for Lack of Uninsured Motorist Coverage

  Chrissie Cole | January 27, 2008 10:57 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The Insurance Research Council reports that approximately one in seven at-fault drivers involved in a collision with another vehicle are uninsured even though it is against the law in most states to have no auto insurance.According to Carrie A. Hurt, president and CEO of the Better Business Bureau serving Central and South Central Texas, what happens to the insured victim after this type of...

• Kanawha Woman Suing Grocery Store for Slip and Fall

  Chrissie Cole | January 25, 2008 10:40 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  A woman has filed a personal injury lawsuit against a local grocery store after a slip and fall accident while shopping in the store.The lawsuit was filed on December 28th in Kanawha Circuit Court against Oakhurst Foods, Inc., (doing business as IGA).The woman was shopping in IGA on December 30, 2005 when she slipped on a substance on the floor and fell, according to court documents. The suit...

• Requested Allstate Files Could Show Bad Faith

  Chrissie Cole | January 25, 2008 1:14 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Secret Allstate documents - coined the "McKinsey documents" - allegedly show how the company has intentionally made low-ball claim offers to its customers for years, netting Allstate billions of dollars. But the McKinsey documents have yet to be seen. These documents could be potentially devastating to them in insurance bad faith litigation.Trial lawyers who have previously sued Allstate have...

• Canned Green Beans and Garbanzo Beans Recalled for Possible Botulism Risk

  Chrissie Cole | January 18, 2008 5:41 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  New Era Canning Company announced an expanded nationwide product recall because of a potential Clostridium botulinum (C. botulinum) contamination to all canned green beans and garbanzo beans distributed by them over the past five years.C. botulinum can cause botulism, a serious and sometimes fatal condition. Botulism symptoms can start anywhere from 6 hours to 2 weeks after eating contaminated...

• Pharmacy Gives Patient Wrong Medication

  Chrissie Cole | January 10, 2008 9:21 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  NYU Medical Center is being sued by a liver transplant patient for $2 million in damages. The suit alleges the hospital's pharmacy is responsible for a prescription error. In court documents, the patient, 56, states he was given the wrong medication which caused his hepatitis condition to worsen. The pharmacy gave him HIV medication, when his intended prescription was for hepatitis C...