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Nursing homes want to limit lawsuits
By THEO EMERY • Staff Writer • April 6, 2008 It was two years ago that a doctor forced Patricia Crouch to gaze at the gaping bedsore that had festered under her mother's bandages for months. The sight sent Crouch's sister screaming down the hall, and has now pushed the family into the middle of a fierce legislative debate. Crouch, along with her six brothers and sisters, sued the nursing home, claiming negligence caused their mother's sore and hastened her death. While the nursing home battles the lawsuit in court, the nursing home industry as a whole is fighting to impose new limits on such lawsuits. Opponents and supporters have engaged powerful allies, and the battle is playing out against a broader backdrop of long-term care reform. Gov. Phil Bredesen has made it an administration priority to find ways to keep more Tennesseans at home and out of nursing homes. A bill under discussion in the state legislature would put limits on litigation against nursing homes, such as Crouch's lawsuit and those filed after the 2003 Nashville nursing home fire that killed more than a dozen residents. Its original wording would keep many lawsuits out of courts altogether, make the cases more difficult to pursue, and cap damages, but the bill is expected to be revised and weakened because of opposition. |
Children's Medicine Manufacturer's Plant Unsafe
The F.D.A. released findings Tuesday that the only plant that makes many popular over-the-counter pediatric medicines lacks sufficient quality control measures and has failed to investigate consumer complaints over contaminated product. Last week, Johnson & Johnson, who owns the plant through a subsidiary, recalled 43 over-the-counter pediatric medicines in the United States, its territories and nine other countries, affecting 70 percent of the market for over-the-counter children's medicine. F.D.A. officials said the plant used raw materials that were contaminated with an unknown bacteria and received 46 customer complaints over contaminated medicines. Federal officials did stress that serious harm from the recalled drugs was "remote." Lyndsey Layton, The Washington Post 05/05/2010
Toy Maker Recalls 200,000 Baby Playpens
Dorel Juvenile Group Inc. announced a voluntary recall last week of over 200,000 baby playpens due to the threat of "suffocation or positional asphyxiation." The company said that the floors of the Safety 1st Disney Care Center Play Yards and Eddie Bauer Complete Care Play Yards could become uneven when jostled, posing unnecessary risks to children. The toys were sold from January 2007 to October 2009 at Babies "R" Us, Kmart, Sears, Target and Walmart. No deaths have been reported involving the playpens. Staff Report, Chicago Tribune 12/30/2009
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DECEMBER 2009: RANDALL L. KINNARD SPEAKS ON THE DANGERS OF TOXIC TOYS
Toy related injuries sent a staggering 80,000 children under the age of 5 to Emergency Rooms in 2007. Randy Kinnard said that defective and dangerous toys harm children each year. The U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG) released "The 24th-annual Trouble in Toyland report" recently. The report follows testing of thousands of toys for possible choking hazards, eardrum-damaging noise levels and toxins, and is available at www.uspirg.org. To read more on the article from Public News Service, click here.
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