WOODBURY – A Salem County man, currently serving time in a state correctional facility, claims in a lawsuit filed here that he was infected with a staph infection while locked up at the Gloucester County Jail in October 2004. Brian Green, 25, alleges in his civil suit that the county failed to properly inform its [...]

An investigation has been launched into how a chemical which causes irritation to eyes, nose and skin leaked out of a tank at Grangemouth port. A major incident was declared on Wednesday when the vapour caused a large plume above the Forth. The chemical, which was inside a storage tank on a quayside within the [...]

By Nikki Wittner OSS POINT — With the reverse osmosis plant slated to go online in September of 2007, the Board of Aldermen is weighing its options on day-to-day operations. “We have to decide whether to contract out or keep our service in-house on the new reverse osmosis plant,” said Aneice R. Liddell, alderman-at-large and [...]

Partners Derek Layser and Aaron Freiwald were selected as Pennsylvania Super Lawyers. This is the third year in a row Derek has been selected for this distinction. The Super Lawyers designation is meant to identify the top five percent of lawyers in the state after a ballot survey of peers and a selection process conducted [...]

We want to alert you to an important issue coming up this week in the US Senate. Each year, over a hundred thousand people are killed by preventable medical errors, due to negligence or wrongdoing. Many more are seriously or permanently injured, disfigured or disabled. Congress has done little to address this serious problem. Instead, the [...]

News Release Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts Harrisburg, April 25, 2006 – Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ralph J. cappy today announced the release of state court system data on medical malpractice case filings and verdicts for 2005 that show a sustained decline in the number of med mal lawsuits filed statewide. The AOPC began the [...]

by Rod L. Wilson Courts A lawsuit recently filed in U.S. District Court alleges that local black employees of Ameriprise, one of the nation’s largest financial advisor networks, were deprived of opportunities to make as much money as their white peers because of their race. The three who filed suit maintain that, among other things, [...]

by Simone Weichselbaum BROOKLYN, N.Y. – An indicted former employee of a biomedical-tissue company spoke yesterday about the 17 months he spent visiting a funeral home in the Kensington section of Philadelphia removing body parts from corpses. Before going into a hearing in a New York courtroom, Lee Cruceta told this reporter that he and [...]

by Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. – The president of the American Association of Tissue Banks yesterday condemned a New Jersey company for what he alleged was its “unconscionable” role in a macabre scandal involving cadaver parts. His voice cracking with emotion, James Forsell told those gathered at a tissue bank conference that thousands [...]

by Mary Flannery The scope of the tainted body parts scandal grows wider and more disturbing each day as hospitals grapple with patients who may have received tainted tissue. So far, 16 surgical patients here and 78 at the Jersey shore have been notified that they may have received contaminated tissue. Across the United States [...]