InjuryBoard Wilmington Archives

• Bad Faith Insurance Claims

  Matt Buckmiller | July 30, 2007 9:29 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  One Fourth Of Americans Have Had Valid Health Insurance Claims Denied. While theinsurance company in John Grisham's book "The Rainmaker" is fictitious it is indicative of the way billions of consumers are treated when dealing with their insurance company. In the book, an insured 20-something year old, Donny Eay, is dying of leukemia. A bone marrow transplant would have cured Donny Ray...

• Know your Builder: Construction Defects

  Matt Buckmiller | July 24, 2007 2:56 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Lennar Corp, one of the largest home builders in the United States has instituted two lawsuits against a real estate broker, Mike Morgan for trademark infringement and defamation. Allegedly Mr. Morgan spread false information about the quality of Lennar's construction through a web site that he started. The web site provided a method in which Mr. Morgan could collect complaints about Lennar...

• Reports on Problems with Avandia Triple

  Gary Shipman | July 13, 2007 12:30 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  In the month since the publication of the risks associated with use of the diabetes drug Avandia reports of side effects to the federal government have tripled.On May 21, the New England Journal of Medicine published a report that linked Avandia and various heart related problems, and since that time, reports of heart attacks, deaths and hospitalizations have tripled, according to information...

• Real Estate Fraud: Pyramid Scheme in Atlanta

  Matt Buckmiller | July 12, 2007 5:20 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Gene A. O'Neal an Atlanta, Georgia real estate promoter pled guilty on Tuesday to two counts of mail and wire fraud. O'Neal stole tens of millions of dollars from investors through a pyramid scheme. A civil complaint filed by the SEC last October is pending against O'Neal and his company, Pinnacle Development Partners LLC. Some of O'Neal's more reprehensible actions included allegedly using...

• Beware Unifund CCR Partners

  Gary Shipman | July 11, 2007 6:38 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Having you been harassed, threatened or sued by Unifund CCR for a credit card debt that is more than 3 years old? Unifund is a "buyer of distressed debt" from lenders and credit card companies. Not only are those debts, in many instances, "distressed", but legally uncollectible.There is state and federal legislation that prohibits anyone from engaging in "unfair" debt collection practices. ...

• Duragesic patch death yields verdict

  Gary Shipman | July 11, 2007 6:11 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  A federal court jury in Florida has found Johnson and Johnson and its subsidiaries liable in the death of a 21 year old man who was wearing a poweful pain killing patch, Duragesic, when he passed out and died. The jury returned a verdict of $5.5 million in favor of the man's family, after finding that Johnson and Johnson was negilgent in producing the patch and in failing to provide adequate...

• Doctor sued for medical malpractice in boy's death

  Gary Shipman | July 10, 2007 4:58 PM | 2 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  The parents of a boy sued a Pennsylvania doctor for medical malpractice arising from the death of their 4 year old son. The autistic boy died of cardiac arrest at the doctor's office after undergoing a procedure known as chelation therapy, a procedure designed to treat heavy metal poisining. The presence of Mercury has long been believed to be a cause of autism in children, and the procedure...

• Drunk Boating Accident Kills Two

  Matt Buckmiller | July 10, 2007 4:43 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Two people traveling on a family boat at Skaneateles Lake in New York were tragically killed when they were hit head-on by another boat driven by someone allegedly under the influence of alcohol. At first it was believed that Brian Cordes, 25, was driving the boat. But, Onondaga County Sheriff's deputies found that Cordes was covering for his brother, Craig Cordes, who was allegedly drunk...

• Medical Malpractice Trial To Begin Today

  Gary Shipman | July 10, 2007 3:16 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A Texas medical malpractice lawsuit filed by a woman who claims her surgery should have been put off was set to go to trial today. Patient Darlene Spears claims that she had an infection which should have caused her doctor to wait and perform surgery at a later date.Plaintiff was not a viable candidate for surgery and surgery should have been put off," the suit said. "Had surgery been put off...

• Health insurance companies - Who's the real "Sicko"

  Gary Shipman | July 06, 2007 6:56 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  You and/or your employer pay valuable money for the premiums on your health insurance. You've been told what your coverage includes and doesn't include. You have a "basic" understanding of what your contribution may be (i.e. co-pay). You therefore gain a piece of mind (albeit a false one) that when you or your family needs medical treatment, "cost" is no longer an issue. How wrong we are.Michael...

• Health insurance companies - Who's the real Sicko?

  Gary Shipman | July 06, 2007 9:15 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  You and/or your employer pay valuable money for the premiums on your health insurance. You've been told what your coverage includes and doesn't include. You have a "basic" understanding of what your contribution may be (i.e. co-pay). You therefore gain a piece of mind (albeit a false one) that when you or your family needs medical treatment, "cost" is no longer an issue. How wrong we...