Doctor pleads guilty, loses medical malpractice case

An Indiana doctor already in trouble with the law was found to have committed medical malpractice -- and intentionally so. A jury found that Dr. Mark Weinberger failed to diagnose a patient's lung cancer and instead treated her for other ailments in a money-making scheme. The Lake County jurors recently awarded $13 million to the estate of Phyllis Barnes, who died in 2004, just days before the

Caterpillar settles worker injury suit for $9M

A much-watched construction lawsuit case has reportedly been settled by Caterpillar Inc. According to news reports, the world's largest maker of bulldozers agreed to pay more than $9 million to settle claims by worker Alfonso Lopez that he was left a paraplegic when a defective Caterpillar earth mover suddenly began bouncing on a construction site. Lopez suffered severe spinal injuries. A jury in

Demoted worker wins whistleblower lawsuit

Mark Holmes didn't win a huge award in his whistleblower case but, as the Naples (Florida) News put it, "it sure beats cleaning toilets." Holmes, a Collier County EMS Medflight pilot, was awarded $70,000 by a federal jury on his claim that he was demoted to latrine and other menial duties after complaining to county officials about workplace safety, maintenance and management in 2007. He alleged

1.86 million reflector lamps recalled due to laceration hazard