San Diego Personal Injury Attorney Blog

The Triad Group has issued a voluntary national pharmaceutical recall of alcohol prep pads that may be contaminated with Bacillus Cereus, a harmful and potentially deadly bacterium. Poisoning from the pads has caused least one known death. Doctors pronounced two-year-old Harrison Kothari dead on December 1, 2010 from organ failure. Harrison was recovering from surgery—a cyst removal—at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston at the time of his death.  Hospital staff allegedly used the recalled to clean a drain in Harrison’s spine during his hospitalization, according to MSNBC.com. “They had no explanation as to how he contracted it,” said Sandra Kothari, Harrison’s mother.  “They know it’s rare in the hospital.” “These wipes were used in his care every single day, multiple times a day,” says Shanoop Kothari, Harrison’s father. “We’re confident that’s the cause.  There was no other explanation that made any sort of sense,” Shanoop Kothari said. “He contracted…
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On Friday, January 21, a pit bull attacked Barbara Plunk, an 85 year-old woman from Moreno Valley, according to the Press-Enterprise. Plunk received treatment and underwent surgeries for injuries sustained to her arm and torso at a nearby hospital. There were no witnesses to the dog attack, and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department did not release any details. Plunk was on the phone with her daughter at the time of the attack.  Her daughter called the police, fearing her mother had suffered a stroke because she sounded “unintelligible” on the phone.  Animal control quarantined the canine responsible for the dog attack. Investigators and crime scene investigators had roped off Dow Street with crime scene tape and were examining evidence on Friday night.  Dow Street is an unpaved rural road with no streetlights.  According to neighbors, the zoning on the land is for horses. Plunk is an avid gardener who owns…
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A cab driver lost control of his vehicle last Saturday night, striking a crowd of 36 and leaving them with various injuries according to XETV 6 News San Diego.  The single car accident occurred early Saturday morning outside of a nightclub in the Gaslamp District. Dominique Gamble, a mother of two from Encinitas, suffered the most severe injuries.  The cab crushed her leg and she had surgery on Monday at UC San Diego Medical Center.  Initial reports were that the car accident severed her leg, which turned out to be not entirely true. “Mrs. Gambale experienced an extreme crushing injury to her right leg, which was still attached at the time of her injury,” said UCSD surgeon Dr. Paul Girard. “To clarify, her leg was never severed.  In addition to a tibia fracture, she has a large open wound, which will require the care of a multidisciplinary team of orthopedic,…
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