In Maryland, a man who previously sought medical treatment at Sinai Hospital for depression is suing the hospital and security guard Timothy Hough for $77 million. The former patient, Gerrod Lewis, says that Hough assaulted him in the hospital emergency room on Labor Day. Sinai Hospital acknowledges that an unfortunate…
Two kids suffered burn injuries in Washington DC on Monday during a fire accident on a playground at the Columbia Heights Village Apartment Complex. Neighbors blame careless workers for leaving a can of gasoline at the playground. Police say that a boy was playing with the can of gas when…
In Maryland, the family of Cassandra Blake, is suing Cedar Towers Apartment, American Pool Enterprises, Inc., American Pool Management Inc., Doug Kusher Co., and Westminster Management for $100 million for her wrongful death. The 23-year-old Baltimore County woman died in 2005 after drowning in the Cedar Towers Apartment complex swimming…
Three people sustained injuries in Towson when an elevator in the Baltimore Circuit Court building fell almost two feet between the first and ground floors. Firefighters were able to manually open the door to rescue its passengers. One of the passengers, a man, was transported to Sinai Hospital as a…
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting that 56,000 seniors age 65 and older were hospitalized in 2005 because of traumatic brain injuries sustained in fall accidents. Nearly 8,000 people died as a result of these TBIs. The study results were published in this June’s issue of…
A DC teenager, who was raped by a counselor at a Pennsylvania clinic in 2005, has filed a federal lawsuit suing Washington DC and nonprofit group KidsPeace Corporation for personal injury. The girl, who is a former ward of the city, had been consigned to the clinic, which is run…
In Maryland, Prince George’s County officials are trying to figure out how there managed to be an exposed live wire at a Chillum bus stop. A six-year-old girl suffered electrical shock and “severe” third-degree burns on Saturday after she grabbed the wire. She was taken to Children’s National Medical Center…
In Maryland, the personal injury lawsuit filed by Edna “Peggy” Payton-Henderson, the mother of William “Tipper” Thomas III, the high school football player who became paralyzed from the waist down after being injured during a 2004 shooting at Randallstown High School parking lot, will be tried before a jury in…
Former Yale Law School Professor Robert Bork has agreed to a $1 million slip and fall lawsuit he had filed for injuries he suffered at the Yale Club of New York City in 2006. The details of the settlement are confidential. Bork injured himself at the alumni social club when…
The District is suing the 23 property owners of 71 rental buildings (46 rental homes and 25 apartment buildings) for “egregious” code violations. It is also demanding that 13 of the properties be declared “public nuisances” so that repairs are made immediately. Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty says the…