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• New Trial Denied in Lingual Nerve Injury Verdict

  Staff Writer | August 24, 2006 2:47 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  In June, Jane Paulson won a $600,000 verdict for injury to our client's lingual nerve from a wisdom tooth extraction. The defense filed a motion for new trial which was heard and rejected yesterday by the court. The defense now plans to appeal the lingual nerve injury verdict.The lingual nerve is on the tongue side of your teeth and can be permanently damaged if a dentist errs, most often by...

• Medical Malpractice Case Against OHSU Begins

  Staff Writer | August 23, 2006 11:43 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Trial began this week in the first medical malpractice trial against OHSU in Oregon since last month when the Oregon Court of Appeals overruled the cap (in another malpractice case). Ken Ackerman, a former Portland TV anchorman, is the plaintiff and is suing Oregon Health & Science University for medical malpractice from a back surgery. There is a tort claim cap in Oregon, against valid public...

• Oregon Wrongful Death Lawsuit Brings Question of Punitive Damages to Supreme Court

  Staff Writer | August 14, 2006 2:27 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  I was reading the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog today when a post by Peter Lattman caught my eye. Lawyers Banter Over Punitive Damages, while highlighting WSJ's new Legal Banter column, also notes that the US Supreme Court will once again address the issue of punitive damages in Philip Morris v. Williams next term.The case is on appeal from the Oregon's Supreme Court, which ruled that a $79.5...

• Drunk Driver Who Caused Automobile Accident Pleads Guilty

  Staff Writer | August 09, 2006 2:29 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  On December 21, 2004, a young woman got behind the wheel of her car drunk. While driving drunk she caused an accident killing a young man and seriously injurying his brother. On August 8, 2006, she pled guilty and was sentenced to 60 months in jail for her crimes and causing the drunk driving accident. The drunk driver's blood alcohol level was more than two times the legal limit in Oregon...

• Epilepsy Drug Linked To Birth Defects

  Staff Writer | August 09, 2006 1:15 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A new study solidifies beliefs that women of child-bearing age should avoid the epilepsy drug Depacon (valproate). Evidence showed that of 333 women followed, 20 percent of those taking Depacon suffered miscarriages or gave birth to babies with birth defects. Problems with three other drugs ranged from one to 11 percent. The study examined only women who took the epilepsy drugs from 199-2004,...

• Report Finds Heavy Toll From Medication Errors

  Staff Writer | August 08, 2006 12:15 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Medication errors harm 1.5 million people and kill several thousand each year in the United States, costing the nation at least $3.5 billion annually, the Institute of Medicine concluded in a report released on Thursday. The report is the fourth in a series done by the institute, the nation's most prestigious medical advisory organization, that has called attention to the enormous health and...

• Another Wrongful Death Case Involving Big Tobacco

  Staff Writer | August 04, 2006 8:37 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  In another wrongful death case against cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, the Oregon Court of Appeals threw out a $150 million verdict for the estate of Oregon woman Michelle Schwarz, who died of cancer at age 53 after smoking low-tar cigarettes. Attorneys for Schwarz claimed that the company had marketed its low-tar cigarettes as a safer alternative to regular cigarettes. Multnomah County...

• Oregon Wrongful Death Case Goes to Supreme Court

  Staff Writer | August 02, 2006 8:05 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  A wrongful death case against Philip Morris USA that was upheld in the Oregon Supreme Court earlier in 2006 will go to the U.S. Supreme Court this fall. The case involved the family of Jesse D. Williams, who died of lung cancer in 1997 after smoking cigarettes since the 1950s. Williams was a janitor and smoked three packs of Marlboros a day. An Oregon jury awarded the Williams family $80...

• Convention Helps Lawyers Win Cases For Injured

  Staff Writer | August 01, 2006 10:55 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The Oregon Trial Lawyer Convention will be held August 3-5, 2006 in Oregon. Jane Paulson and Charles Paulson are both past Presidents of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association. The group helps protect the rights of those injured by drunk drivers, car accidents, premises liability, medical malpractice, delayed diagnosis of cancer, trucking accidents, product liability and wrongful death.