A widow goes into the hospital for a pacemaker procedure. During the procedure the doctor punctures the widow’s aorta causing her death. May the doctor be held accountable? May the family seek justice?
Not today. Under current Wisconsin law, adult children don’t have the right to seek justice if their widowed, divorced or single parent has died as a result of medical negligence.
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Earlier this month, authorities declared that the untimely death of Heath Ledger was caused by an accidental overdose of prescription medications. Now, the federal Drug Enforcement Agency is getting to the bottom of how, and from whom, the medications were issued.
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Racine – A jury has awarded $147 million in compensatory damages to S.C. Johnson & Son in a civil suit that had alleged a multiyear bribery and corruption scheme involving its former transportation director, his former deputy and several transportation companies.
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MILWAUKEE — The Wisconsin State Patrol said Wisconsin teenagers are the worst in the nation when it comes to wearing their seat belts.
Teenagers from more than a dozen metro high schools had an eye-opening experience at the Greater Milwaukee Auto Show on Tuesday.
Experts said only 66 percent of teenage drivers in Wisconsin wear their seat belts.
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A Chicago teenager who died Monday when his snowmobile crashed head-on into a truck in northern Wisconsin was a sophomore at Notre Dame College Preparatory High School for Young Men in Niles.
Joseph T. Ochocki, 16, was traveling on the rural road when he crossed the center line and collided with a 1-ton truck and plow, authorities said. Ochocki was making a turn and may not have seen the truck coming because of a 5-foot-high snowbank, said Lt. Mark Collins of the Vilas County sheriff’s department.
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Patricia Degnan’s back pain was so severe she couldn’t lie in bed at night. Neurosurgeon Lawrence J. Frazin operated, but things went wrong.
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An October raid on a state fund for injured patients has forced its managers to hit up Peter to pay Paul, borrowing tens of millions of dollars in cash — and paying interest — to meet its obligations, a state memo shows.
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The case of the West Salem man who was charged Monday with his seventh OWI is raising concerns about just how strict drunk driving laws are in Wisconsin. Last year La Crosse County saw 345 of repeat OWI offenders. Twenty-four of those were people who were being tried for their fifth offense or greater. In August of 2006, La Crosse County did start a special court for those repeat offenders. They’re then put through a program which offers more intense supervision and rehabilitation. But some county officials feel more may need to be done.
A Beach Park man is in critical condition following a weekend collision at Route 137 and O’Plaine Road.
James Kolle, 35, was in critical condition at Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Milwaukee, Wis., on Monday. He was the driver of a 1996 Chrysler Town and Country that collided with a 2000 Honda Odyssey driven by Mirlan Urustemov around 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
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The State Patrol in an extensive crash reconstruction study released today of an I-43 accident that resulted in the deaths of three Ozaukee County teenagers could not determine exactly why a 16-year driver suddenly lost control of her car, crossed under freeway median cable barrier and eventually crashed head-on into a northbound sport utility vehicle.
