Blog Posts in July, 2011
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Posted on Jul 31, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
After a 14-year-old Long Island, New York boy was hospitalized following an accident with a gel candle, the makers of the product issued a recall, reports say. Reports say the youngster, Michael ...
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Posted on Jul 29, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A recall involving some 400,000 Circo Child Booster Seats has been issued as of May, 2011, reports say. Reports say the seat has a restraint buckle that may open unexpectedly, allowing a child to fall ...
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Posted on Jul 28, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Reports say a study appearing in the International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that nearly 200 women with epilepsy involved in the study were more likely to experience pregnancy ...
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Posted on Jul 27, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A Texas Rangers fan died after falling while trying to catch a baseball during a game, reports say. The man, listed as Shannon Stone, a 39-year-old firefighter from Brownwood, died at a hospital ...
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Posted on Jul 26, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Austin's W Hotel closed after glass fell from balcony panels of the building the second straight day and the third time in the past few weeks, reports say. The hotel was closed as the glass panels ...
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Posted on Jul 25, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Reports say that after conferring with U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission officials, Big Lots, of Columbus, Ohio, has voluntarily recalled about 30,000 defective metal futon beds. At least one ...
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Posted on Jul 24, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A man died recently while swimming in the Kaweah River in Sequoia National Park recently, reports say. The man, a 45-year-old unidentified man from the Los Angeles area, was riding the river on an ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Lou Rosso, a 70-year-old Egg Harbor Township man, jumped into the waters off Michigan Avenue in Atlantic City recently when he saw two children struggling in the water. The accident, which took place ...
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Posted on Jul 21, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Houston police were called to the scene of a fatal traffic accident in the 3000 block of North Eldridge Parkway early last month that killed an eight-year-old girl. The accident occurred when the ...
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Posted on Jul 19, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Medications that control epilepsy, such as Depakote, Depakene and Depakon may affect a fetus if used during pregnancy, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration reportedly said recently. From that ...
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Posted on Jul 18, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
An unidentified female dockworker at the busy Port of Oakland, CA, who had just finished her night shift and was leaving the dock, was run over and lost both of her legs, reports say. The accident ...
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Posted on Jul 17, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
As they tried to escape a deep, water-filled hole at a Queens, NY waste transfer plant, three workers were killed as they were overcome by hydrogen sulfide fumes. The victims, including a father and ...
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Posted on Jul 16, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Chad Elgert, 35, a North Sioux City Speedy Rooter sewer company employee, remains in critical condition at a local hospital after he tried to rescue another worker in the same sewer. Elgert had been ...
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Posted on Jul 15, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The Centers for Disease Control is monitoring the large outbreak of E. Coli that has hit European communities this spring. The E. Coli strain, which is a Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 ...
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Posted on Jul 14, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The Center for Disease Control has collaborated with public health officials in several states, from California to Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, to investigate an outbreak of E. coli. The CDC ...
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Posted on Jul 12, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The Center for Disease Control reported a collaboration with public health officials in several states, as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service, to ...
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Posted on Jul 11, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The Center for Disease Control has been investigating an outbreak strain of Salmonella Panama which has been reported from Oregon, Washington and California to Maryland. The collaborative ...
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Posted on Jul 10, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The U.S. Center for Disease Control is collaborating with public health and agriculture officials in several states and the USDA to investigate an outbreak of human Salmonella serotype Altona ...
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Posted on Jul 9, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The medical device company Beckman Coulter, Inc., issued a recall in May for their Synchron LX Ion Selective Electrolyte Flow Cell, which is classified by the FDA as a Class I recall by the U.S. Food ...
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Posted on Jul 9, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The name of the five-year-old Houston boy who drowned at the Texas City Dike Beach was released by officials Friday, reports say. The child, Fredy Lazo, drowned after slipping off a float at the Texas ...
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Posted on Jul 8, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The oft-maligned DePuy hip implant device, which was recalled last summer, has been cited in a lawsuit by 20 Australians earlier this month. The suit claims the device, which is surgically implanted ...
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Posted on Jul 7, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Home Just nine months after a set of twin nine-year-old girls and their father drowned when they were caught in an undertow at Texas City Dike Beach, a five-year-old whose name was not yet released ...
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Posted on Jul 7, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A five-year-old Houston boy drowned after falling from an inflatable float yesterday in the same area in which three others drown just nine months earlier. The boy, whose name has not yet been ...
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Posted on Jul 7, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Reports say a defective fan may become overheated and shut down the Maquet Datascope Intra-Aortic Balloon Catheter Pump without sounding any warning alarm, and ultimately injuring patients. Due to ...
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Posted on Jul 6, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Some 80 patients in Wisconsin have filed suit against DePuy Orthopaedics, saying the now-recalled ASR hip implants have caused pain, swelling and nerve and muscle damage, reports say The device, which ...
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