Idaho Personal Injury Blog

Created: 14 October 2009 Washington, DC–“Today’s Congressional Budget Office (CBO) findings reiterate what we’ve always known: that medical malpractice claims have almost no effect on overall health care spending. Along with the CBO’s numbers and countless other academic assessments, the vast majority of empirical evidence suggests that there are only miniscule savings to be found in reforming our nation’s civil…

Created: 02 October 2009 The St. Petersburg (FL) Times (10/1, Anderson) reported, “In what local court observers are calling one of the largest verdicts they can recall, a Hernando County [FL] jury on Wednesday awarded more than $330 million in civil damages to” Angela Stone, whose 13-year-old daughter, Shelby Taylor Hagman, was killed in 2007 by a drunk driver, Christopher…

Created: 24 September 2009 The Recorder (9/24, Moser) reports, “A Santa Clara, Calif., jury awarded $49 million in damages Monday to a college student who was on his way to a camping trip when two trucks collided and one struck the car he was riding in, causing him traumatic brain injuries. It appears to be the biggest single-plaintiff personal injury…

Created: 03 September 2009 The AP (9/2, Ortiz) reported, “A federal appeals panel on Wednesday upheld a $3.2 million award to a Nebraska man left with serious injuries after he was thrown from another man’s inflatable fishing boat in 2003

Created: 07 August 2009 USA Today (8/6, Kiely) reports, “Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who grew up speaking Spanish in a public housing project, is headed for a seat on the Supreme Court after an overwhelming Senate vote Thursday to make her the first Hispanic member of the court.” Sotomayor’s “elevation prompted jubilation among leaders of the nation’s fast-growing Hispanic community.” The…

Created: 04 August 2009 Minnesota’s Pioneer Press (8/3, Snowbeck) reported, “Two Minnesota families are offering arguments in Washington, D.C., today” in favor of the proposed Medical Device Safety Act. “Mark and Janice Baird, of Oakdale, are scheduled to talk at a news conference about their 16-year-old son, Mark, a pacemaker-dependent patient who died in September 2006. Mark’s heart device was…

Created: 29 July 2009 The AP (7/28) reported, “A jury returned a $370 million verdict against Guess Inc. co-founder Georges Marciano Friday in a civil defamation lawsuit that was filed by five former employees. Each ex-employee will get $69 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages, according to the Los Angeles County Superior Court verdict.”

Created: 28 July 2009 The Tampa Tribune (7/27, Leskanic) reported, “A jury deliberated for three hours Monday before finding the Pasco County school district negligent in a 2006 crash that severely injured a 16-year-old boy. The jury awarded Marcus Button, now 19, and his parents, Robin and Mark Button, $1.625 million in damages, which his mother has said she will…

Created: 22 July 2009 The New Haven Register (7/21, Sullo) reported, “Mark Hirschbeck had his dream job as a Major League Baseball umpire and reached a career high with the 2001 World Series, but he says what started as routine hip replacement surgery cost him his career and has led to years of pain.” Hirschbeck ultimately underwent three hip replacements…

Created: 02 July 2009 The Houston Chronicle (7/2, Ackerman) reports that a Harris County, Texas, judge “ruled in favor of a Houston man in a medical malpractice case” on Tuesday, “awarding him $10 million in damages stemming from a lawsuit against Methodist Hospital and the doctors who treated him there.” John German’s left leg required amputation above the knee and…