Personal Injury Lawyer Blog
Trucker Dies After Lumber Falls From Forklift - Friday, April 25, 2008
The survivors of a truck driver, Michael Ryckman, who died after he was crushed by a load of plywood at a Connecticut pier in 2003, have received a $1.35 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit. The tragedy occurred when Ryckman was picking up a load of plywood for a Washington state trucking company in January 2003. He was to retrieve the load at Logistec's New London, CT facility and deliver it to New Jersey.The internal scale on Ryckman's truck indicated the load exceeded the maximum allowable weight by 7,500 pounds. Logistec management disputed the weight but had no scale of their own to weigh the load. Ryckman then drove to a moving company in Waterford that certified that the weight was 7,500 over the allowed weight. Ryckman then drove his truck back to Logistec and told them to unload the extra weight.
Ryckman family attorney, Robert Reardon, Jr., said that it was 4:00 on a Friday and everyone at Logistec's was anxious to finish their day, so an employee grabbed the nearest forklift, which was much too small for the job, and it caused the accident.
Logistec employee Scott Barlow, ordered to remove some of the plywood bundles, lifted two of the bundles with the small forklift and began to back away from the truck. He attempted to lower the two bundles, and the rear of the forklift lifted off the ground, causing the plywood to slide forward. When the rear of the forklift slammed back down, the bundles fell off the forklift's prongs into Ryckman. Ryckman was alive at the scene but later died at a hospital from cardiac pulmonary arrest and blunt trauma to the chest and abdomen.
NuvaRing Coming Under Fire for Dangerous Effects - Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in October 2001, NuvaRing, a low-estrogen contraceptive device has now been linked to blood clots in women. NuvaRing is a flexible, soft, two-inch vaginal ring that is worn for three weeks and then removed for one week. It combines ethinyl etradiol (the estrogen hormone component) and etonogestrel (the progestin hormone component).Back in December 2007, the safety of the NuvaRing was discussed as The American Society of Hematology found that there were there cases of women who developed complications including blood clots while using NuvaRing.
Side Effects of Nuva Ring:
Blood clots
Strokes
Heart Attacks
Myocardial infarction
Pulmonary embolism
Death
If you or a loved one has suffered adverse effects after using the NuvaRing contraceptive device, please contact an experienced medical device attorney in your area today.
Lawsuits Against Vioxx Maker Resurface - Monday, April 21, 2008
A federal appeals court revived a group of shareholder lawsuits that accused the makers of Vioxx, Merck & Co., of violating their duties by concealing the health risks of the company's popular painkiller. A three-judge panel ruled that the lawsuits should be sent back to the New Jersey federal judge who dismissed them in May 2006.Vioxx was once a $2.5 billion-a-year top-selling arthritis drug but was taken off the market in 2004 after a study found that Vioxx users had a higher risk of heart attack, stroke and death than patients taking dummy pills. The appeals court decided that the Judge Stanley Chesler erred when he did not allow the plaintiffs to amend their complaint with additional materials. Chesler had ruled on the ground that those materials were acquired as a result of a consensual discovery agreement.
Since it is a shareholder lawsuit, the plaintiffs normally would have been required to first make a demand on the Merck's Board of Directors, but the plaintiffs said such a demand would have been useless at the time they began the lawsuit.
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