While not a typical automobile post, I’d like to draw your attention to this weeks story about a health insurer who denied a liver transpant to a young insured girl. It seems that liver transplants, to the health insurer, is still considered an “experimental” procedure, so they denied coverage for t
I take a lot of static from doctors who say I am too hard on their profession. “All professionals make mistakes,” I have been told. True, but a professional fixes mistakes, or makes their client, patient, etc. whole. That is the nature of a profession, a self-regulating trade.Doctors don’t want to h
Rhode Island Hospital has been cited for a THIRD incident this year for performing brain surgery on the wrong side of a patient’s brain. Two of the victims survived, one did not. According to Yahoo News, the hospital is reviewing its policies and training of doctors. This is a disturbing trend, and
A New Jersey Appellate Court ruled that a woman who was injured in a drive by shooting can receive compensation from the Uninsured Motorist portion of her car insurance even though she was just entering her car at the time of the shooting. The insurance company denied her claim originally. But the a
A bike rider in Des Moines was hurt after being hit by a car. The bicycle accident happened last Tuesday on Interstate Highway 235. The driver of the car did not see the bicycle because of the sun. Police said he was taken to Iowa Methodist Medical Center by fire medics about 8:10 a.m. with injuries
The Arizona Cardinals were on their way to the stadium on Sunday when two police motorcycles accompanying their buses crashed into one another. A police escort of two motorcycles was riding with the team to the field when the officers’ cycles unexpectedly collided.According to Washington D.C. police
A representative for Mattel Inc. traveled to China in order to deliver a personal apology to the head of product safety there. Mattel has issued numerous product recalls this year for toys made in China. Most of the recalls revolve around lead based paint used on the toys. “Mattel takes full respons
Two woman were hit by a Metrobus in February and killed. The pedestrian accident happened at the intersection of 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue. The driver of the bus has plead guility to two counts of negligent vehicular homicide. The accident was captured on videotape by a security camera positioned
The Dole Food Company, a major food and fruit producer, has improved testing to try and prevent breakouts of E. coli and other bacteriums that can cause food-bourne illnesses.Dole is testing samples from all the products the company markets and if anything harmful is found in the produce, the plants
The Dole Food Company, a large food producer, has improved testing for their produce to avoid E. coli contamination and other bacterium that can cause a food-bourne illness.Dole will be testing samples from all the spinach and other food produced by the company. If anything harmful to consumers is f
A woman’s beneficiary has sued a Texas hospital and two physicians for wrongful death after she died while in their care in August of 2005. She was involved in a car accident and taken to Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital for treatment. The lawsuit claims that a CT scan was not performed in time to sa
Putnam General Hospital was found guilty of negligence for hiring a doctor accused of mulitple cases of medical malpractice. The hospital hired the doctor in 2002. Since then over 100 medical malpractice lawsuits have been filed against the doctor. The Putnam County Circuit Court jury deliberated ab
