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• Nursing Home Neglect and Ohio's Nursing Home Residents' Bill of Rights

  Nick DiCello | August 27, 2008 9:52 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  As the population ages, more and more people are entering nursing homes and long term care facilities. Before we place a loved one into one of these facilities, however, we want to make sure it is...

• Truck Crashes Into Ohio Bridge

  Jenny Albano | December 19, 2007 7:02 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  On Tuesday, December 18 a cargo container truck crashed into a Ohio Bridge, killing the driver of the truck and rupturing a gas line. Because of the gas line six homes had to be evacuated. Part of the bridge was damaged and is still closed until inspected..The truck had its boom raised which hit the underside of the bridge and hit the gas line. There were other vehicles involved in the...

• Class Action Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Over Human Tissue Samples

  Jack Landskroner | April 07, 2007 10:41 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Previously I have blogged about the cases we are handing on behalf of recipients of transplanted human tissue stolen from cadavers without authorization from the deceased or consent from their family members. In these cases, the billion dollar a year human tissue industry shortcutted required screening processes which would have revealed that many of the unwitting tissue donors were not viable...

• Racism still evident in home ownership statistics

  Rebecca Castell | November 14, 2006 6:01 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Home ownership has increased to an all-time high in the U.S. Unfortunately, the increase has not been across the racial board. While easy credit and government assistance has made it possible for many white, middle-class families to purchase the American dream, minorities including black and Latino families have been left out. This trend began after World War II and persists today. This...

• Stuart Scott, Attorney at Law

  Staff Writer | March 25, 2006 5:56 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Stuart E. Scott joined the Spangenberg firm in 1995 and was named as a partner in 2005. Stuart has successfully settled and tried a variety of cases involving medical malpractice, car accidents, trucking accidents, cases involving dangerous products including defective automobiles, household products and drugs, boating accidents, dangerous property, accounting malpractice, and insurance coverage...

• Prepayment Penalties - Are You Overpaying?

  Nick DiCello | April 28, 2008 10:51 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  By now all of us are at least marginally familiar with the problems stemming form the "Sub-Prime Mortgage Meltdown" in the United States. Those of us in certain areas of the counrty have seen the...

• Patient Abuse Leads to Probation for University Hospitals of Cleveland

  Jack Landskroner | May 26, 2007 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The pyschiatric unit of University Hospitals of Cleveland was placed on probation by the Ohio Department of Mental Health after a grand jury indicted Herman Brown, a UH employee since April of this year, on multiple counts of rape, kidnapping, gross sexual imposition and sexual battery. "The hospital on May 18 acknowledged the rape of one patient after Brown's arrest. But the Ohio Department of...

• Doctors Get Immunity - Victims of Medical Malpractice Get the Shaft

  Jack Landskroner | December 14, 2006 9:19 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The Ohio Supreme Court issued its opinion this week in Theobald .v University of Cincinnati, granting blanket immunity from liability to physicians for their negligent acts when the medical malpractice occurs while the physician is teaching medical students or residents of a state medical school. It makes no difference whether the doctor is being paid privately or whether the doctor is acting...

• Pit Bull attacks 2-year-old

  Rebecca Castell | December 05, 2006 12:00 AM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH

  It's the type of story you hate to see. A 2-year-old girl was bitten in the face by a pit bull in Washington County, Ohio. Marilyn Gardner had taken her daughter to play over at a neighbor's house. The nine-month old dog suddenly attacked her. The toddler required 57 stiches to repair the damage to her face from the dog bite. Unfortunately, these types of attacks are all to common when pit...

• Ohio Damage Caps - An Assault on Our Right to Trial by Jury

  Nick DiCello | April 25, 2008 1:06 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  One of the things that makes the United States such a great country is our jury system. Our jury system constitutes the most direct form of self-governance in the world. Not even our votes at the...