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• Couple Seeks $1.3 million from Maker of Ortho Evra

  Christina Cole | January 06, 2007 12:31 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  An Illinois couple is seeking $1.3 million in damages from Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical claiming the birth control patch Ortho Evra was the cause of the user suffering from deep vein thrombosis.Carla and Jason Fletcher filed a 27-count lawsuit on December 11th in St. Clair County Circuit Court claiming the pharmaceutical company negligently designed,...

• Worker Falls 2 Stories to his Death in Construction Accident

  Christina Cole | January 03, 2007 10:27 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  A construction worker operating an excavating machine during demolition of a vacant building fell to his death when a concrete beam fell off of a second story ledge, dragging the vehicle with it.A preliminary city report indicates the worker was using a front-end loader to push a 60ft. concrete beam to the ledge of a Bronx building's second floor when it got stuck. When attempting to dislodge...

• Mother Sues Birth Control Patch Company for Daughters Death

  Christina Cole | December 31, 2006 1:02 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  The mother of a West Tennessee woman who died while she was using a popular birth control patch has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the makers of the Ortho Evra patch.The lawsuit names Ortho Evra developer and manufacturer Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Company, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Ortho Evra was approved by the FDA in 2001. The birth control patch delivers the hormones...

• Ohio prescription error lawyers | Elderly can suffer medical malpractice from prescription errors

  Chuck Boyk | January 08, 2009 4:35 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  Our Ohio medical malpractice lawyers see the devastating that effects that prescription errors can have on a family. Often times these fatal prescription errors are made during the care of an...

• E. coli outbreak in Toledo, Ohio and surrounding area Kroger stores causes personal injury

  Chuck Boyk | June 27, 2008 5:13 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  More than 35 people have suffered personal injury from a recent E. coli outbreak linked to beef sold at Ohio and Michigan Kroger stores, according to the Toledo Blade. The recall targets...

• Personal injury at work not to be taken lightly

  Anneke Kurt | April 10, 2008 5:24 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  Injuries occurring at work should not be taken lightly. Our Toledo, Ohio workers’ compensation attorneys understand that workers’ compensation claims are much different than the negligence...

• Be cautious when turning on yellow light to prevent car accident, personal injury

  Anneke Kurt | April 03, 2008 4:48 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  Turning in an intersection at a yellow light can be dangerous, and has the potential to cause car accidents and personal injury. Our Toledo, Ohio personal injury attorney Dale Emch discusses...

• Newborn Toledo baby suffers wrongful death in car accident

  Anneke Kurt | October 09, 2007 4:59 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  A 1-month-old Toledo baby suffered a wrongful death Saturday after a car accident with a school bus, according to the Toledo Blade. The baby was sitting on her grandmother's lap in the front passenger seat when the bus struck the family's minivan in south Toledo. It is unknown if the baby's family or the bus driver suffered any personal injury. There were no children on the bus at the time of...

• Five children left alone with pit bulls

  Chuck Boyk | August 31, 2007 4:15 AM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  A Toledo, Ohio mother of four was charged with child endangerment on August 28th when police officers found five children home alone in a house filled with pit bulls and a loaded rifle, according to the Toledo Blade. Alison Gilmore allegedly left the children unattended in the house the family shared with the dogs, and it was apparent that pit bull fighting had occurred on the premises. A...

• Oak Harbor man dies in police custody

  Dale Emch | August 15, 2007 12:23 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  After winning $600,000 in a police brutality lawsuit seven years ago, an Oak Harbor, Ohio, man died last weekend following multiple Taser shocks by Sandusky County Sheriff's deputies. Craig A. Burdine, 37, was being booked into the jail on assault and criminal damaging charges when the police used the Taser because "he was going crazy," Fremont Police Chief Monte Huss told the Toledo Blade. In...