InjuryBoard Grand Junction Archives

• Nice Site For Defective Drugs

  Staff Writer | January 17, 2006 8:28 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  The consumer watchdog group Public Citizen sponsors the website worstpills.org. Worstpills.org provides consumers with unbiased information about prescription drugs and includes news/opinion from Public Citizen as well as from the general media.

• Premises Liability and Business Owners

  Staff Writer | January 11, 2006 8:17 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  A colleague in Tampa, Bob Carroll, has a good post about premises liability claims. Obviously, laws differ from state to state (and Bob probably doesn't see the slip-on-ice issues we see here in Colorado), but he does a good job summing up some of the resposibilities of business owners to ensure their premises are free of dangerous conditions.

• Medical Malpractice and Good Samaritans

  Staff Writer | January 07, 2006 7:31 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Rep. Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction has plans to introduce a bill to the Colorado Legislature (Good Samaritans in Health Care Act of 2006) which would protect doctors who volunteer their services from medical malpractice lawsuits.The bill is viewed among its supporters as a way to protect health care providers such as nurses, doctors, physical therapists, etc. from lawsuits when they are...

• Year In Jail For Man In Car / Bike Accident

  Staff Writer | January 06, 2006 8:04 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Richard Hilton of Pagosa Springs will spend a year in jail for a car accident that killed a girl who was riding her bike on Highway 50 in Delta. The girls mother was also seriously injured in the accident.Hilton reportedly fell asleep at the wheel when his car veered off the road onto the shoulder and struck 10-year-old Samantha Carlson and her mother Lorry in August. He pleaded guilty to two...

• Parents Consider Wrongful Death Suit For Son's Death

  Staff Writer | January 04, 2006 7:42 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  The parents of a 9-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a 14-year-old last summer have threatened to file a civil lawsuit against the 14-year-old's parents.Eric Alan Stoneman was sentenced in December to 10 years (four in a juvenile justice facility and 6 in state prison) for the shooting death of Taylor Demarco.Taylor's parents, Bill DeMarco and Wendi Robyn, opposed any change in the...