Posts by Crandall & Pera Law, LLC

A major guardrail supplier has been found guilty of defrauding the federal government by selling systems that can malfunction during crashes and slice through cars, according to a recent article in The New York Times. In 2005, Trinity Industries made changes to its rail head – the flat piece of steel at the front of…

What do you do when safety devices designed to protect you in your car end up becoming deadly? This is exactly what happened to Florida woman Hien Tran, who died last month after a faulty airbag exploded during a car accident, sending shrapnel flying into her neck. Detectives searched for clues about the stab wounds…

More than one in six U.S. hospitals currently have trouble stamping out infections that could become deadly, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis.  About one in every 25 hospitalized patients gets an infection nationwide, leading to 75,000 deaths each year – more deaths that from car crashes and gun shots combined. In Ohio, Kentucky…

Should a bar be held liable when overserving a patron turns to tragedy? That’s what Deborah Floyd of Cincinnati believes after her husband was struck on his bicycle and killed by a drunk driver coming from Ethel’s Tavern in February. The driver, Todd Shaw, drank six or seven beers at another bar that morning before going to…

Substantial changes are coming for the government’s five-star rating program for nursing homes and its controversial criteria basis, according to a recent article in The New York Times. By 2013, nearly half of all nursing home facilities nationwide received four- or five-star ratings by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. But the current rating system…

Medical records are raising new questions about the treatment the only person to die from Ebola in the United States received when he first sought care at a Dallas hospital, according to a recent article in The New York Times.  When Thomas Duncan arrived at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Sept. 25, he had…

Crandall & Pera Law Attorney Marc Pera recently won a significant victory for his client, Victoria Stamper and her husband Steve, in a medical malpractice case against Michael Draznik, M.D. Dr. Draznik performed two surgeries on Victoria to remove her uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries. A portion of her fallopian tube was inadvertently left in…

The U.S. and 26 other countries have begun a new effort to prevent and fight outbreaks of dangerous infectious diseases before they spread around the globe, according to NBC News.  The Global Health Security Agenda will bolster local disease monitoring, develop tests for different pathogens and help regions create and strengthen systems to report and…

Prescription drug abuse is not only a continuing plague nationwide, but could also be a gateway for increased heroin use, according to a recent NBC News article. There has been a roughly 20 percent increase in overdose deaths involving prescription painkillers since 2006, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The pathway appears to…