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IN THE NEWS: FACILITY HELD TO BLAME FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT DELIVERED IN A CARELESS AND NEGLIGENT MANNER
A.C. was admitted to a healthcare center on the northwest side of Indianapolis, and discharged a week and a half later. Not one month later, he was back. Then after just one week, A.C. died in that very facility. Now, A.C.’s widow is bringing a civil suit against that healthcare center for failing to… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: DID CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OFFICIALS TURN A DEAF EAR TO SEXUAL OR PHYSICAL ABUSE?
Allegations of physical and sexual abuse have been leveled against nine former employees at the American School for the Deaf in Connecticut, CNN reports. After the school (in 2019) reported the allegations (which related to incidents going back to 1979) to both the West Hartford Police and the Connecticut Department of Children and Families,… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: TEEN BRAIN-INJURED AT BIRTH AWARDED $15.1 MILLION
Birth injuries can occur at any point during the birthing process–during the pregnancy, during delivery, or right after birth. Many of these are preventable if proper medical attention, care, and treatment are provided to both the mother and child during pregnancy and delivery. Now, fifteen long years after Kelly D. Wilson’s son suffered severe brain… Read More »
INDIANA AUTHORITIES BUY MORE TIME TO PROSECUTE CHILD ABUSERS
Under current law, child molesters can be prosecuted only up until the victim is 31 years old. Recently, however, the Indiana Senate’s criminal law committee voted unanimously in favor of a bill extending the statute of limitations by five years, Fox News reports. The proposal now goes to the full senate. The state prosecutors’… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: TRUCKING ACCIDENTS DUE TO CARELESS DRIVING INCREASE
There are many reasons trucking accidents happen… but the most tragic situation, we have found at Ramey & Hailey Law, is when there’s no reason the accident should have happened at all…. Yes, drivers are humans, and driver error is one inevitable cause of accidents. A driver may be rushing to meet a tight… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: PARENTS SUE AFTER DAUGHTER’S BRAIN DAMAGED IN SURGERY
Medical professionals have a duty to provide adequate care for their patients; failure to do that is medical malpractice. Malpractice can result from a wrongful action taken, but it can also result when an appropriate action is not taken. In the case of the Colorado teenager whose brain was severely damaged last year in… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: PARENTS OF BUS ACCIDENT VICTIM AWARDED $20 MILLION
At least 77% of traffic accidents are the result of driver error, rather than equipment failure or external conditions, Safety Insurance explains. Accidents involving large buses or other “common carriers” can be very serious, often involving fatalities. As personal injury attorneys dealing in auto accident cases for more than forty years, we work extensively on… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: FRANKLIN, INDIANA CONTINUES TO FACE TOXIC WASTE PROBLEM
The 2019 calendar year began with news about environmental pollution in Franklin, Indiana, and now, towards year-end, a second source of toxins has been found there. State officials are referring to the source of contamination as a “plume”, a flow of cancer-causing chemicals underneath Franklin. This plume is less than a quarter mile from… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: HIGH SCHOOL CHAPLAIN SUSPENDED ON ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE
An Indianapolis priest who works as a chaplain at Roncalli High School was suspended from his ministry just last month amid allegations of sexual abuse of a minor in 2016, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis told the Indianapolis Star. Meanwhile, members of the same high school’s football team are under investigation by police for allegedly abusing… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: $101 MILLION BIRTH INJURY SETTLEMENT AWARDED
At trial, experts testified that Tequila Snow’s firstborn would have been a healthy child if staff members at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Illinois had properly done their jobs. When Ms. Snow arrived at the hospital, fetal monitoring was initiated, but then mother and baby were ignored for five hours. Meanwhile, the… Read More »
