Mother injured while giving birth wins $12M settlement

It took eight years and $600,000 in expenses, but a legal team finally won a court-approved $12 million settlement for an Illinois woman who was left severely brain-damaged during labor. The medical malpractice occurred at Provena Covenant Medical Center while Tim Ravanh was in labor with her son her son who was later born by cesarean section. Ravanh was given an epidural injection that sent her

Worker blows the whistle on safety problems

A Michigan City, Indiana, public sanitary worker was fired from his government job after he reported worker safety violations and also told authorities about unreported cases of overflowing sewers. So Ron Meer went to the state attorney general and the Indiana labor commissioner to complain about his firing. They in turn sued the city for violating the state whistleblower law. Said Indiana