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BuzzFeed News reports that the parents of Gabriel Taye said the school covered up the bullying of their son on multiple occasions, which they believe led to his suicide. A school district in Ohio agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the parents of Gabriel Taye, an 8-year-old boy who was violently bullied, then killed himself. As…
CBS News reports that a man was hit with a bill of almost $90,000 after a serious car accident despite having insurance. When Mark Gottlieb was hit by another car while driving in January of 2019, he damaged four vertebrae and smashed several teeth. “A car basically came out of nowhere. I thought I was going to die,” he told, “CBS…
The New York Times reports that hospitals use century-old lien laws to bypass insurers and charge patients, especially poorer ones, the full amount. By Sarah Kliff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg Feb. 1, 2021 When Monica Smith was badly hurt in a car accident, she assumed Medicaid would cover the medical bills. Ms. Smith, 45, made sure to show her insurance card after an ambulance took her to…
The New York Times (4/26, Rojas, 17.3M) reports the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, in “one of the largest disclosures that has been made by the church,” recognized on Friday “115 priests and five deacons who have been accused of sexually abusing a child.” The acknowledgments have assisted with “illuminating the scope of an epidemic of sex abuse in the Catholic…
$437,500 settlement for the estate of a 90 year old woman who was dropped on her head by the ambulette attendants while being transported from the hospital to home. She went into a coma shortly thereafter and never regained consciousness before she passed away.
$461,500 settlement for woman stuck by truck and suffered herniated discs at the C3-4, C4-5, C5-6 and C6-7 levels and underwent an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion at C4-5, C5-6. She also suffered a right knee medial meniscus tear and underwent surgical arthroscopy of the right knee with a partial medial meniscectomy and synovectomy.
$525,000 for woman who tripped and fell on broken sidewalk and suffered a fractured ankle and required an open reduction and internal fixation and a second surgery to remove the hardware.
$562,500 settlement for failure to diagnose lung cancer in 77 year old man.
$925,000 for motor vehicle accident victim who suffered disc herniations at C4/5, C5/6 AND C6/7 and required a cervical diskectomy fusion at C5/’C6 and C6/C7 levels. $875,000 came from client’s own insurance policy under the underinsured motorist endorsement (SUM).
$350,000 for pedestrian who suffered a fracture of the right distal radius (wrist) after being struck by a car and required an open reduction and internal fixation (surgery) to repair.