Calif. Oyster Farmer Files Suit Against Govt. | | An oyster farmer in Marin County, Calif., has filed a lawsuit against the federal government after his farm was shut down. The suit claims that the science used to show his farm was environmentally harmful was wrong and that "false information was given by park service employees." The suit also accuses government officials of failing to allow for public comment on their environmental impact statement, a violation of the National Environmental Policy Act. Mark Prado, San Jose Mercury News 12/05/2012 | Read Article: San Jose Mercury News | Wrongful-Death Suit Files Against UTA | | The parents of an engineering student who died last summer after visiting the University of Texas at Arlington Health Services for a knee injury are seeking $16 million from the university in a wrongful-death suit. Young Ok Choi and Oh Soon Choi filed the lawsuit in Tarrant County civil court last week on behalf of their son Min Gu Choi, who died at North Hills Hospital on July 10, several days after he went to the health clinic because he injured his right knee while participating in a sporting activity. The suit alleges that Choi, who was 21, died of a pulmonary embolism or a blood clot that went untreated after the knee injury. The suit did not give details about the sporting activity or how Choi's knee was injured. Elizabeth Campbell, Star Telegram 12/05/2012 | Read Article: Star Telegram | Once-Secret Files Lead to Abuse Suit Against Boy Scouts | | An Illinois man who more than 27 years ago was identified as a victim of a notorious Burbank pedophile filed suit Tuesday against the ex-Scout leader as well as the Boy Scouts, saying the group failed to protect him. The plaintiff, who filed the lawsuit anonymously in Cook County Circuit Court, had "compartmentalized" his memories of the sexual abuse, which allegedly happened on numerous occasions in 1985 when he was a 10-year-old Boy Scout, said his attorney. Memories of the alleged abuse resurfaced only when the Boy Scouts of America in October released their long-secret "perversion files" under the orders of an Oregon court overseeing a civil case against the organization. The man, now married with a family, looked online through the files for his former Scout leader, Thomas Hacker, Hurley said. Steve Schmadeke, Chicago Tribune 12/05/2012 | Read Article: Chicago Tribune | City Pays $30,000 over City Bus Accident | | The city of Fayetteville, N.C., has agreed to pay $30,000 to local man over a city bus accident in 2010. The lawsuit claims the accident was caused when the bus driver "improperly changed lanes without first determining that the movement could be safely made." The plaintiff was riding his motorcycle at the time and was struck as the bus changed lanes. Andrew Barksdale, Fayetteville Observer 12/05/2012 | Read Article: Fayetteville Observer | 13th Suit Filed Over Meningitis Outbreak | | A Virginia man has filed the 13th lawsuit against the New England Compounding Center over a meningitis outbreak caused by tainted steroid injections. In this suit, the plaintiff said he became "seriously ill" after receiving injections at a local center and is seeking damages around $500,000. The CDC has reported that the outbreak has sickened 541 people across the U.S. Neil Harvey, Virginian Pilot 12/05/2012 | Read Article: Virginian Pilot | Ford Recalls Escape, Fusion Vehicles | | Ford Motor Co. has issued a recall of approximately 88,000 Escape and Fusion vehicles due to overheating problems that can cause engine fires. Ford says drivers that experience the problems have reported seeing error messages on the dash saying "“Engine Power Reduced to Lower Temps" or "Engine over temp, stop safely." There have been no injuries reported in associated with the recalled vehicles. Jonathan Welsh, WSJ Blogs 12/05/2012 | Read Article: WSJ Blogs | Bad to the Bone: A Medical Horror Story | | On Nov. 16, 2011, Georgia Baddley received a shocking call from a special agent at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The agent told her that the government had come across new information about her mother's death. Eight years before, her 83-year-old mother had unexpectedly died during spine surgery. At the time, Baddley didn't question what had happened. The agent told her that the surgeon had injected bone cement into her mother's spine and that the product -- which was not approved for that use -- may have played a role in her death. The agent explained that the government had filed criminal charges against the maker of the cement, a company called Synthes, and four of its executives. he case offers a rare, sometimes disturbing, glimpse inside the shrouded world of medical devices, where surgeons occasionally turn for advice during operations to twentysomething sales representatives. Mina Kimes, Fortune 09/05/2012 | Read Article: Fortune CNN | The Duty to Rescue | | The cover of Tuesday’s New York Post, featuring a photo of a man moments before he was killed by a subway train, raises a question that comes up from time to time, usually after a horrific incident. Did anyone on the platform have a legal duty to rescue the man on the tracks? The answer is, very likely, no. Joe Palazzolo, WSJ Blogs 12/05/2012 | Read Article: WSJ Blogs | Patients Hospitalized From Contaminated Dialysis Treatment | | At least seven dialysis patients were rushed to local hospitals after contaminated water was used in their treatments. News 4 spoke with family members of one of those patients who is now in intensive care at Missouri Baptist Hospital. “I was in total shock!” said Andrea Dorsey whose sister, 67-year-old Shirley Wade was taken to the hospital. “How could that happen at a facility where they’re very, should be professionally staffed?” What’s frustrating the family further is the fact the facility where this happened, U.S. Renal Care, isn’t giving them any answers. Angie Weidinger, KMOV.com St Louis, Yahoo News 12/05/2012 | Read Article: Yahoo News | | |