The nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen released its report on state medical boards and their failure to discipline doctors. The results may shock you. The results showed that 32 states let more than half the doctors off without any reprimand after hospitals revoked or restricted their privileges. The study examined the National Practitioner Data...
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DC Government Fails to Pay Injured Workers’ Premiums for Nearly a Decade
For nearly a decade, the District of Columbia neglected to pay health and life insurance premiums for city workers injured or killed on the job. A DC auditor found that the city stopped making a majority of the payments in 2001. The city recently paid the...
Read MoreDrunk Driver Injures DC Police Officer
A drunk driver struck and injured a DC police officer last month while the officer was investigating a separate fatal hit-and-run incident involving a drunk driver. The incident occurred on Key Bridge around midnight. The injured officer is a 9-year-veteran of the Washington, D.C. Police Department. The officer was investigating a
Read MoreWorker Survives 80 Foot Fall from Virginia Water Tower
A 38-year-old worker fell approximately 80 feet while painting a water tower in Culpeper, Virginia, last month. Rescue workers airlifted the man to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. A second worker was hanging from a safety harness, but responders were able to rescue him and he was not injured. The
Read MoreSUV Kills Two State Highway Workers
An SUV struck and killed two Maryland highway workers who were picking up trash on the State Route 225 median in Charles County, about six miles west of Waldorf. A police spokesperson said three workers were on the median when a 2004 Volkswagen Touareg veered from the highway and struck two of the men....
Read MoreDC Fire Injures Four-Year-Old
Earlier this month, a fire in Northeast DC injured a four-year-old boy in the 1700 block of Benning Road. Firefighters found the boy unconscious in a first-floor apartment, and he was in critical condition after suffering smoke inhalation, according to a spokesperson for the DC Fire and EMS Department. The blaze occurred at approximately...
Read MoreChildren’s Hospital is Whistleblower on Contaminated Wipes
Last fall, contaminated alcohol wipes at The Children’s Hospital in Aurora, Colorado, caused a string of potentially deadly infections. Doctors at the hospital became alarmed when some young patients developed bloodstream infections stemming from Bacillus cereus - a rare bacteria. The contaminated wipes are the product of the Triad Group in Hartland, Wisconsin....
Read MoreAmtrak Train Strikes and Kills Man
A southbound Amtrak train struck and killed a man last month in Fairfax County. The train accident occurred at approximately 11:44 a.m. near the intersection of Lorton Road and Gunston Cove Road near Lorton, according to Fairfax police. The victim’s identity is unknown, but he was African American, and authorities estimated that he was...
Read MoreThe Chain of Distribution in Product Liability Cases
Consumers trust that the products they use everyday are safe. Many consumers believe that government approval means the products in our homes are safe, but is not always so. More often than you think, unsafe and defective products seriously injure American consumers. If it happens to you, a Washington, D.C. personal injury attorney...
Read MoreU.S. Representative Fined for Lack of Workers’ Comp Insurance
The state of Oregon fined David Wu’s campaign $1,000.00 last October for failing to maintain workers’ compensation insurance for the past three years. David Wu is the U.S. Representative for Oregon’s First Congressional District. A Wu campaign worker filed a workers’ compensation claim last October. When the staffer’s health care provider tried to...
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