Posts by Nick Verderame

If you vape, please read! This new trend, has a vicious side effect.  The e-cigarettes have exploding batteries, and explosions are not rare.  According to the Arizona Republic,  “officials at the Arizona Burn Center say such accidents occur regularly, with a dozen patients reporting burns from e-cigarette fires or explosions over the past three months.”  The injuries that occur…

As the saying goes, “failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”  Proving this to be true, a study by health economists at Harvard, M.I.T., Columbia, and the University of Chicago showed that recent improvement in heart attack survival rates is due not only to breakthroughs in technology, but also to patients selecting better hospitals.  As…

A former Stanford football player has initiated a class action lawsuit against the Northern California University, as well as the NCAA and the Pacific-12 Conference, for head injuries he and other athletes suffered while at the university.  David Burns (Stanford Class of ’76) alleges in the suit that private universities, conferences and the NCAA knew or…

Monday was a bad day to be near train tracks across the country. Three separate incidents occurred throughout the day, leaving six people dead in three cities. Crashes occurred in Salem, Oregon, Poteau, Oklahoma, and Cheraw, South Carolina, which is outside of Columbia. Amtrak operated the trains in Oregon and South Carolina, where the men…

The family of Anton Yelchin has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, claiming the actor’s death resulted from a defect in the Jeep Grand Cherokee.  Yelchin, who starred in multiple Star Trek films, died on June 19 after his Grand Cherokee rolled backwards and pinned him between a brick pillar and a…

Uber, the ride sharing app which took the nation by storm, was recently reprimanded by a New York judge for its litigation tactics as part of a class action anti-trust case.  The claim alleges that the Uber CEO engaged in price-fixing with its drivers.  During the case, Uber hired a private investigator, Ergo, to conduct an…

Medical providers, which cause the third-most deaths in the United States (behind only heart disease and cancer), and the insurance companies hard work have struck yet another blow to patients.  A California jury awarded $1.75 million to the family of a 44 year-old woman who died as a result of medical malpractice at UCLA.  The…

A Federal Judge in Philadelphia is allowing a case against Bayer, regarding its marketing of the birth control device Essure, to proceed.  The drug giant asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit, which was brought by five women.  The court, however, ruled that two of the womens’ claims – that Bayer used misleading advertising and…

A Billings, Montana school district has settled a lawsuit stemming from the fall, and subsequent skull injury, of a seven year-old student.  The student, a second grader at Broadwater Elementary School, fell several feet into a window well.  The fall rendered her unconscious.  According to the lawsuit, filed by the girl’s mother, the school neither…