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The Rhode Island State Health Department has ordered that Charlesgate Nursing Home can not take in any new patients following the death of a resident a little over a week ago. According to news reports, which are not releasing the name of the deceased, a woman was brought to the hospital on July 20 after she was found to have…
The National Transportation Safety Board released the findings from a study which revealed, the not surprising at all fact that, wrong way drivers are extremely dangerous and cause hundreds of auto accident fatalities each year across the country. The study also finds that the majority of wrong way drivers are intoxicated and operating their vehicle at two to three times…
Abortion rights and wrongful death law seem not to have much in common, but a new federal lawsuit in Nebraska may have an interesting effect on both abortion laws and wrongful death laws across the country. The lawsuit stems from a tragic auto accident in which a Maryland couple was killed with their two children when a tractor-trailer struck their…
Following the recent study of Rhode Island’s worst intersections, comes another study identifying the most dangerous metropolitan areas for pedestrians. The group, Transportation for America, determined Providence to be the fourth most dangerous metro area in the Northeast. According to their findings, 117 people were killed while walking in Rhode Island from 2000 to 2009. The study also accounted for…
With New Year’s resolutions coming around the corner, a new study suggests that there may be another reason for the overweight to shed excess pounds. A recent study suggests that obese men and women are far more likely to die in serious auto accidents than are men and women of normal weight. According to the study: A body mass index…
…and so it should. A Suffolk county jury has awarded the family of Marie Evans an astonishing $71 million dollars in her wrongful death lawsuit against Lorillard tobacco, the makers of Newport cigarettes. There have been many large awards against the tobacco companies in the past and by now the story is known to all. Tobacco companies knew for decades…
I came across this story on CNN.com and found it fascinating. A widow is suing a debt collector for the wrongful death of her husband. The lawsuit alleges that the frequent harassing and threatening phone calls caused so much stress to her husband that it eventually led to his fatal heart attack. I was unable to embed the video in…
