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• Fatal Drag-Racing Accident in Tennessee

  Staff Writer | June 19, 2007 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsChattanooga, TN

  On Saturday, June 16, there was a drag-racing accident that killed 6 people and injured over a dozen more. The list of fatalities includes four teenagers and two people in their early twenties. Eighteen people who were injured in the accident are still being treated at local hospitals.The accident occurred when a driver lost control of his vehicle and drove into the crowd. The driver of the...

• Woman Dies After Falling Off Trunk of Moving Vehicle

  Christina Cole | April 20, 2007 11:33 PM | 0 CommentsChattanooga, TN

  A woman was killed in a car accident when she fell off the trunk of a moving car. The district attorney is getting help from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to help figure out what caused the accident.The woman struck her head on the road, Tuesday, while driving on the trunk. McMinn County investigators were working the accident. The District Attorney General asked the TBI to help assist...

• Gastric Bypass Lawsuit

  John Rice | March 27, 2007 1:20 PM | 0 CommentsChattanooga, TN

  Houston Community Hospital of Texas and one of its surgeons face a medical malpractice lawsuit for the death of a gastric bypass patient. The patient's mother claims the hospital failed to appropriately warn her daughter of the risks involved in the gastric bypass surgery. The same surgeon has been named in another lawsuit.

• Trial lawyers, Physicians and Hospitals

  John Rice | March 13, 2007 11:57 AM | 0 CommentsChattanooga, TN

  The annual battle between trial lawyers on one side and physicians, hospitals and insurance companies on the other is now under way. Lawyers say it's about medical malpractice. Health-care professionals say it's tort reform. (A tort is a wrong inflicted on someone). Doctors claim greedy trial lawyers and their clients are flooding the courts with frivolous litigation, sending insurance premiums...

• High School Volleyball Coach Killed In Chattanooga Crash

  Chrissie Cole | September 16, 2009 12:28 PM | 0 CommentsChattanooga, TN

  Police suspect excessive speed and alcohol as contributing factors in a fatal wreck that claimed the life of a Central High School assistant volleyball coach. The accident happened Wednesday at...

• Nicaraguan Farmworkers Receive Reward from Dole

  Jenny Albano | November 08, 2007 11:58 PM | 0 CommentsChattanooga, TN

  Dole Foods has just been told, by a Los Angeles jury, that they are being held liable for civil punishment for not informing Nicaraguan plantation workers of potential health dangers from a pesticide.The decision clears the way for punitive damages in addition to the $3.2 million that jurors awarded the workers earlier this week to compensate them for their injuries. The workers alleged they had...

• Plane Crash in Tennessee Kills 5 Ministers

  Jenny Albano | September 03, 2007 10:51 PM | 0 CommentsChattanooga, TN

  A plane crash the morning of Saturday, September 1 killed all five passengers. The plane crashed in the Cherokee National Forest on Holston Mountain and the crash sight was not discovered for at least eight hours after the accident, when another pilot spotted the wreck. All five passengers were ministers, one was thought to be the pilot of the small plane.The single-engine Beech Bonanza...

• Recall on Robbie Ducky Watering Cans - Lead Paint Contamination

  Courtney Mills | August 28, 2007 10:44 AM | 0 CommentsChattanooga, TN

  The Consumer Product Safety Commission in conjunction with Jo-Ann Stores of Hudson, Ohio, is recalling some 6,000 due to lead paint contamination. According to the CPSC, parts of the watering cans are painted with lead-based paint.Lead is a heavy metal and can cause serious brain damage to children. Lead is highly toxic and tends to accumulate in the developing brains of children, causing...

• Medical Data Missing

  John Rice | March 22, 2007 1:04 PM | 0 CommentsChattanooga, TN

  Wellpoint has begun informing 75,000 Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield members that a CD holding their personal data is missing. The CD was lost after being sent to a behavioral services company in Connecticut. An Empire spokeswoman said the data was not encrypted.

• Workers' Compensation Perjury gets Man Jail Time

  Christina Cole | December 22, 2006 3:08 AM | 0 CommentsChattanooga, TN

  A judge has sentenced Lamoine Lobsterman Wednesday, to seven months in jail for lying under oath about the work he was paid for while collecting workers' compensation benefits.The judge said the sentence must serve as a deterrent to others who might be tempted to do the same thing. William Fennelly, 48, plead guilty earlier this month in Penobscot County Superior Court to two counts of felony...