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• Knowledge and Involvement Can Help Prevent Neglect In Nursing Homes

  Ricky Bagolie | May 09, 2006 9:56 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Very often neglect and abuse in nursing homes goes on right under the noses of visiting family members. You can help prevent this by knowing what to look for and being inviolved in the care.What Should I Know? Federal and State laws grant specific rights to nursing home residents. These laws state that nursing homes must provide care and services "to attain and maintain the highest practicable...

• Texas Jury Returns $160 Million Verdict for Vicious Beating of 81-Year-Old Nursing Home Resident by Violent Roommate

  Ricky Bagolie | May 08, 2006 9:48 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  A San Antonio jury has returned a verdict $160 million in favor of the family of Tranquilino Mendoza, an 81-year-old man who was viciously beaten by a mentally disturbed roommate at the Comanche Trail Nursing Center in 1997.The jury found that Summit Care Corp., its Texas affiliate, and two of its employees shared responsibility for this particularly brutal beating and its aftermath. Mr. Mendoza...

• Arizona Governor Stands Up For Victims of Medical Mistakes

  Ricky Bagolie | May 07, 2006 9:38 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Three cheers for Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, has had the courage to veto a bill that would have made it nearly impossible for victims of medical mistakes in emergency rooms obtain justice.The law would have punished those least able to defend themselves, emergency room patients and had no proof that it would have helped alleviate any real or perceived doctor shortage. This is...

• Medicare Raises Threshold to $25,000 for Setaside Review

  Ricky Bagolie | May 02, 2006 11:48 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  It will be a little bit easier to settle a New Jersey Workers' Compensation claim now that Medicare has raised it's threshold level of review from $10,000 to $25,000. Medicare's April 25, 2006 Memorandum regarding their setasides. Although it is only a threshold for review and not a safe harbor, it will allow clients on Medicare to settle cases with values under $25,000 without waiting to see...

• Keyboards Source of Contamination in Hospitals

  Ricky Bagolie | May 01, 2006 9:21 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Bacterial contamination of keyboards is a source of pathogenic contamination in hospitals , according to a paper published by the Department of Hospital Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina Health Care System in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Hospital keyboards have multiple users, who do not wash or decontaminate their hands according to these findings. Most hospitals have mobile...

• New Jersey Supreme Court Holds Injury at Dinner Compensable

  Ricky Bagolie | April 30, 2006 10:10 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  The NJ Supreme Court (5-2) held that an employee was within the course of his employment when injured while eating dinner in New York City following the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. Since all the bridges and tunnels were closed and the employees could not return to New J ersey, the Court indicated that the deviation was minor and at the direction of his employer and was,therefore,...

• W.R. Grace Faces Criminal Trial Over Widespread Asbestos Contamination

  Ricky Bagolie | April 24, 2006 8:06 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  W.R. Grace and seven of its executives were indicted last year by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, obstruction of justice and violations of the Federal Clean Air Act in connection with the company's mining operations in Libby, Montana where they allegedly poisoned hundreds of residents with Asbestos. All the defendants, who face huge fines and lengthy prison terms if...

• Another Attack on Victims of Medical Mistakes

  Ricky Bagolie | April 20, 2006 2:03 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Republican lawmakers are gearing up to, yet again, further restrict the rights of victims of medical error as they will introduce Medical Malpractice legislation in the US Senate during the first week of May. Republicans must feel that restricting a patients rights is more important than dealing with Iraq, Iran, spying on US citizens, having government officials leak classified material and...

• New Jersey Police Officer Struck By Car

  Ricky Bagolie | April 17, 2006 11:09 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Police officers never know when or where an injury will occur. An Englewood, New Jersey police offers was struck by a speeding car and seriously injured as he was placing emergency road flares on Route 4.According to The RecordJason Calle, 21, was charged with driving under the influence, driving on a suspended license, aggravated assault by an automobile while under the influence and...

• Merck Sued Over Fosamax Osteoporosis Drug

  Ricky Bagolie | April 16, 2006 11:32 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  It appears that New Jersey based Merck & Co, is at it again. They have just been sued over their osteoporosis drug Fosamax. The lawsuit alleges that Fosamax is a defective product because it can cause osteonecrosis (ONJ) of the jaw also known as "dead jaw or a rotting of the jaw bone and that Merck concealed and continues to hide Fosamax's potentially dangerous side effects from patients and...