November 19, 2009 – Kelvin Savanhmixay, 12 years old, suffered serious personal injuries when he was hit by a car that was apparently drag racing in Lowell, Massachusetts on Wednesday. Two cars were allegedly racing on the VFW Parkway near the University of Massachusetts-Lowell campus. One of the cars…
November 18, 2009 – Mantria Corporation and Speed of Wealth, LLC operated a ponzi scheme, claims the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in a complaint just filed in federal Court in Colorado. The SEC has filed a civil action against Mantria Corporation, Troy B. Wragg, Amanda E. Knorr, Speed of Wealth, LLC, Wayde M. McKelvy,…
November 14, 2009 – An eighteen year old Boston area college student reports that she purchased and used Oxy® Maximum Face Wash, a well known acne treatment product sold in pharmacies throughout the U.S., but eventually the skin on her face became significantly discolored in areas where she had applied…
November 14, 2009 – The Boston Law Offices of the attorney and Washington D.C. based, Steven Berk (Berk Law), in conjunction with Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, has filed a class action against JPMorganChase as the successor in interest to Washington Mutual (“WAMU”) in the US District Court for the Northern District…
November 11, 2009 – Mary Sheehan, 69 from Hamden, Connecticut, has died as a result of serious personal injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Foxborough, Massachusetts on Monday at 3:30 p.m. Sheehan was a passenger in a car driven by her husband Dominick Sheehan, 75 also from Hamden.…
November 7, 2009 – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the renowned Los Angeles hospital, has recently disclosed that 206 patients had received radiation overdoses over an 18 month period in 2008 and 2009. The overdoses occurred while radiologists were administering CT brain perfusion scans, a procedure used to aid in the diagnosis…
November 6, 2009 – Michelle Boehm, 48 from Milford, Massachusetts, has died as a result of serious personal injuries sustained in a disastrous automobile accident on Wednesday night in Nashua, New Hampshire. Boehm’s Mitsubishi Eclipse collided with a stopped tractor-trailer driven by Stanley Balcewicz, 57 of Worcester, Massachusetts, and…
November 2, 2009 – The University of North Carolina is now apparently claiming that no consent was required to include patients, and their personal information, in the data base of a statewide mammography registry. According to Karen McCall, UNC Health Care spokesperson, “federal regulators waive consent requirements for projects like…
October 27, 2009 – The University of North Carolina School of Medicine has recently disclosed that, in the year 2007, internet hackers gained access to a database called the Carolina Mammography Registry. Apparently, some of the records contained personal information about patients, including dates of birth and social security numbers. Information…
October 26, 2009 – George Marcus, 79 from Framingham, Massachusetts, died as a result of serious personal injuries sustained in a single car accident on Saturday. Marcus was driving a 2003 Hyundai Elantra and his passenger Norma Marcus, also 79, was seriously injured. The crash occurred at around 4:10…