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Every day animals are being harmed. People don’t understand the responsibilities that come with owning a pet. They neglect their need for food and water. Animals end up dying or being severely sick due to the owner neglecting the life of the innocent defenseless animal.

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This picture displays professional medical negligence. Every year, doctors are found guilty for medical malpractice. Not only should this concern us but it also puts the life of thousands at risk.

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This picture shows negligence clearly. The man is on his phone while driving and appears to be texting, and as we know, it’s now against the law to text and drive. But, he’s being negligent and breaking the law. This not only puts his life at jeopardy, but also every bystander.

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This article is about a women who put not only her life, but friends, and family’s lives at jeopardy to help the police in a drug investigation that led to many arrests. Her identity and safety was compromised and she sued the RCMP for undermining her trusted relationship with Canada's National Police Force.

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This article contains information of how a women had lost her leg while under the hospital’s care; due to the hospitals negligence. This woman was already suffering which is why she was in the hospital to begin with. An ectopic pregnancy is not something a mother wants to experience. During the surgery of terminating this tragedy, the Doctors punctured her colon, causing blood poisoning. Not only did this woman lose her baby she lost her legs as well.

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They took her legs and most of her hearing after botching a simple gynecological procedure - but lawyers for the prestigious Long Island hospital being sued for a young mother's tragic circumstances told a jury she should be thankful for their lifesaving care.

Stacey Galette, 33, nearly died in fall 2009 after suffering blood poisoning and gangrene, which she claims happened when a surgeon at the hospital punctured her colon during laparoscopic removal of an ectopic pregnancy.

She went into cardiac arrest three times during her 73 days in the intensive care unit, underwent a colostomy and skin grafts, and suffered hearing loss due to the powerful antibiotics pumped into her body to contain the raging infection. Both her feet were amputated at the ankle. Then, on the 64th day of her hospitalization, both legs were amputated below the knee.

Despite all of her suffering, attorneys for Winthrop University Hospital claim the single mom should look on the bright side.

"Ms. Galette is alive today because the health care providers at Winthrop University Hospital listened to her complaints ... and made adjustments to her treatment," lawyer Peter DeNoto told the Brooklyn Supreme Court jury during his opening statement in the multimillion-dollar lawsuit.

"Ms. Galette has made on many fronts a remarkable recovery. She certainly will be able to work. The colostomy can be reversed," he said, referring to a surgical procedure in which an opening was made into her abdomen so her feces could drain into a bag.

"She can still have a productive life," he said. "Unfortunately, the treatment she needed had very serious side effects."

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Galette sat expressionless in her wheelchair as lawyers for the Mineola hospital and its six doctors argued there was nothing negligent about the treatment she received.

"Stacey has endured incredible pain and suffering, and you will also hear what she will continue to suffer and endure for the next 50 years," her lawyer, Ira Newman, told jurors in his opening statement.

A jury of five men and five women will decide whether there was negligence, and if so, the amount of monetary damages she will receive for her continuing medical care and emotional distress.

Co-counsel Sanford Rubenstein said the trial will take about four to six weeks.

Galette's mother, Judith Romulus, said outside court that the lawyer's argument was "hurtful."

"She has no life, she really doesn't. She has a lot of damage," Romulus said as she helped her daughter up from the wheelchair to stand on her prosthetic legs so she could use the bathroom.

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"We see her every day struggle through life," Romulus said. "We are basically raising her daughter, who is 13 and really needs her mom at this age."

Newman blames the doctors for failing to detect the 5-millimeter hole in her colon that changed Galette's life, despite her complaints of pain, fever and an abnormal heart rate after the procedure.

"You will hear from the doctors that they had no idea they had done that which is a departure from good and acceptable medical practice," he said.

But lawyers for the defendants urged jurors to put aside their sympathy for Galette and evaluate the medical evidence carefully.

The doctors, they claim, acted responsibly based on the available information at the time, including a CT scan that did not show the puncture.

While the doctors deny they punctured the intestine and claim it occurred after the procedure due to an underlying bowel condition, defense lawyer Guido Gabriele said even if it did occur during the procedure, it is a recognized risk and not medical malpractice.

"Ms. Galette was completely and thoroughly advised of the risks and benefits of the procedure," Gabriele said.
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Woman lost legs due to hospital negligence, jury hears

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They took her legs and most of her hearing after botching a simple gynecological procedure - but lawyers for the prestigious Long Island hospital being sued for a young mother's tragic circumstances told a jury she should be thankful for their lifesaving care.

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In this article, a 7 year old boy had died. The boy had a severe heart condition that should have been apparent to the teachers’ and any other school facility. When the boy showed the signs of sweating, turning blue, not being able to keep his eyes open, ext, than the school should have called 911. But instead, they watched him suffer without realising what was happening. This innocent sweet boy suffered and died due to the fact the school neglected the child’s health issue.

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OGDEN - The family of a 7-year-old boy who died from complications of a heart condition are gathering information as part of their lawsuit against the Ogden School District.

The family of Jose Eduardo Flores Bedolla are suing the district and four district employees for negligence that they say led to the boy's death on Oct. 29, 2010.

In a complaint filed in 2nd District Court earlier this year, the family alleges that Eduardo had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a congenital heart condition, and that when the boy entered Horace Mann Elementary School, the boy's condition, potential symptoms and care needs were explained.

The complaint states that the district was given this information when the boy entered both kindergarten and first grade, and it accuses the district of failing to create a health care plan or emergency care plan for Eduardo. But Philip Lott, an attorney for the school district, said there is some dispute as to how much the school actually knew about the boy's condition.

"The school district has a procedure where they send out a health questionnaire form to parents to fill out and, unfortunately, the family never did return the health questionnaire form," he said. "There is a question about how much the school district actually did know."

According to the complaint, on Oct. 29 the boy began to have difficulty breathing. His teacher sent him to the school's office because he appeared ill. A school secretary tried to contact the boy's family, eventually getting in touch with a relative whom she asked to call Eduardo's mother.

"Eduardo sat close outside the school office for well over an hour, possible over two hours, before his school officials contacted his mother and she arrived," the complaint states.

It said school employees saw the boy, who was crying and screaming and reaching for adults to hold him, holding up his shirt and touching his stomach, vomiting, sweating, pale and incapable of keeping his eyes open. The complaint also states that he approached the principal once and that one teacher, "a trained respiratory therapist," asked the secretary if she could check the boy's vital signs.

The teacher was told not to touch Eduardo, the complaint alleges. A school custodian noticed the sweating and removed the boy's shirt and helped him walk to the restroom. The boy was allegedly blue in color, cold to the touch and not getting enough oxygen.

"His older sister came into the school to get him while his mother waited in the car," the complaint states. "Eduardo told his sister he was having trouble breathing."

The girl immediately carried him from the school and placed him on his mother's lap while she started to drive to McKay-Dee Hospital. She called 911 on the way and they were met en route by an ambulance who took the boy to the hospital, where Eduardo died.

"It's a tragic case," the family's attorney, Pete Summerill, said.

The family is alleging that the incident amounted to negligence and a violation of the boy's right to due process, arguing that the district and its employees "breached their duties" by failing to implement a plan and failing to call 911 or provide assistance. They are seeking at least $300,000 in damages.

"The family is committed to pursuing this to the extent that they need to see that the schools district is held accountable," Summerill said, adding that he is gathering information to learn more about the district's policies and procedures.

Lott emphasized said that while there "may have been some mention of a heart condition," the boy started vomiting after lunch and the assumption was that his symptoms were either flu or food-related. He said efforts to contact the boy's family were hampered because the emergency contact phone numbers had been disconnected. Still, he emphasized that the boy ultimately died at the hospital.

"The school really didn't have him for an extended period of time," Lott said. "The school district feels they did what they reasonably would have been expected to do based on the knowledge that they had. Unfortunately, the parents of the boy didn't convey the extent of his illness to the school."

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OGDEN - The family of a 7-year-old boy who died from complications of a heart condition are gathering information as part of their lawsuit against the Ogden School District. The family of Jose Eduardo Flores Bedolla are suing the district and four district employees for negligence that they say led to the boy's death on Oct.

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This video describes the negligence of the woman to her vehicle. It proves to us that if you do not care for your vehicle in a proper manner accidents can occur. The woman neglected the proper needs to her car such a tires, and abusing speed limits which allowed her to have a fatal accident. Luckily she survived. But, if the car was maintained, and driven at speed, this would not have happened.

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Feldman Shepherd Medical Malpractice Attorneys Provide Insight for Filing Federal Court Claims

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http://www.feldmanshepherd.com Alan M. Feldman, Esq., Co-Managing Partner of Philadelphia personal injury law firm Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig LLP, presents how he and the firm's attorneys successfully navigated a highway design negligence case. Various attorneys from Feldman Shepherd presented a free continuing legal education (CLE) program in conjunction with The Legal Intelligencer in April 2011.

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In this video the Lawyer identifies the three things that must exists in a case to prove negligence. There are many different ways negligence can occur in everyday life and they must contain a mistake, an injury, and this injury has to be related to the mistake made. Regardless if negligence occurs to a human or an animal these three things shall always be a factor.

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Center for Innovation in Legal Education

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Visit legalproblem.com and let's discuss your case for FREE! As your Melbourne, Florida attorneys at Morgan & Barbary, we take pride in keeping our clients informed. Should you find yourself injured as the result of someone else's negligence you are entitled to bring a claim against the party or file a lawsuit in order to recover losses incurred due to the accident.

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This video demonstrates negligence when the Supreme Court was to come up with a verdict. In this case a five year old boy suffered liver failure while in a surgery that was to remove a tumour. Due to the negligence of the Doctor, the young boy’s blood vessels were accidentally cut during the procedure, creating the law suit.

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Michigan Medical Malpractice Child Death Lawsuit Filed Against Hospital

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Oregon Supreme Court Hears Medical Negligence Case