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The number of people suffering personal injury due to wrong-site surgery medical malpractice is anywhere from 1,300 to 2,700 per year in the United States, according to the Washington Post. Wrong-site surgery is a form of medical malpractice that occurs when a doctor mistakenly performs surgery on the wrong part of the body, or even on the wrong person. The result is unnecessary recovery time to...

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The most tragic cases we handle at our Toledo, Ohio personal injury office are those that involve the death of a child. That's why we join Kids and Cars, a non-profit consumer advocacy group, in its call for heightened safety measures that would help protect children from getting hit by vehicles backing out of driveways. A recent national study by Kids and Cars showed that the number of child...

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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...

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The family of a plane crash victim has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Toledo's Lucas County Common Pleas Court.The suit against Grand Aire Express, which is based in Toledo, and TriCoastal Air, Inc., and Fairchild Aircraft, Inc., alleges negligence. The crash killed Abdulgader Zbedah, a Grand Aire Express pilot, on Feb. 8, 2006, in rural northwestern Tennessee, according to the Toledo...

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The Mother of a Toledo man who died after being shocked multiple times with a Taser has filed a wrongful death suit in U.S. District Court against Toledo and Lucas County Officers.Better Turner alleges in the suit the Toledo Police and Lucas County Sheriff's employees violated the civil rights of her son, Jeffrey Turner, who died on January 31, 2005, after being shocked nine times with a stun...

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The family of a 4-year-old boy that died of a heart condition after going on a ride has settled a wrongful death with Walt Disney World, show court records.The lawyer representing Daudi Bamuwamye's parents or Disney would disclose any terms or elaborate. Court files show on January 11th a joint motion for dismissal was file and approved.According to the file, both parties settled the dispute on...

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