MedicCook
12-14-2006, 02:51 PM
Toilet Twists of Fate.
A sixty-seven year-old female hip replacement patient settled with a Louisiana hospital for $75,000.00 after she re-injured her hip falling off an elevated toilet seat given to her by the hospital for use at home.
In her lawsuit, the woman claimed that she was not given proper instructions in the use of the seat, the same model seat she had used for several weeks while recuperating in the hospital.
As a result, she fell some two months after her discharge from the hospital. The duty nurse, assuming the woman was adequately familiarized in the use of the device given her experiences with it in the hospital, either failed to instruct the woman or did not note giving her the instructions in the woman’s medical record.
In light of the record’s silence on the matter, the hospital administration decided it was more prudent to settle than to try to defend against the claim.
Moore v. Willis-Knighton Medical Center, 720 So. 2d 425 (1998).
Here's another toilet twist of fate.
A Canadian tourist who claims his personal part was crushed by a faulty toilet seat in a New York restaurant has sued the restaurant owner for $2.3 million.
Lawyers for Edward Skwarek say he had been sitting on the toilet in a restaurant owned by the coffee retailer Starbucks Corporation, when he turned to reach for toilet paper behind him.
The lawyers say the seat shifted, causing his personals to be caught and crushed between the seat and the bowl.
The suit alleges the coffee house was careless in not fixing a defective toilet seat. It also claims Mr. Skwarek has suffered a crushed personal appendage that now deviates to one side, infertility, severe bruising and sexual function impairment.
Mr. Skwarek is seeking $1.5 million in damages and his wife $765,000 because "she has been deprived of his services," reports the Australian Broadcast Corp.
http://www.power-of-attorneys.com/stupid_lawsuit_detail.asp?stupid_ID=82
A sixty-seven year-old female hip replacement patient settled with a Louisiana hospital for $75,000.00 after she re-injured her hip falling off an elevated toilet seat given to her by the hospital for use at home.
In her lawsuit, the woman claimed that she was not given proper instructions in the use of the seat, the same model seat she had used for several weeks while recuperating in the hospital.
As a result, she fell some two months after her discharge from the hospital. The duty nurse, assuming the woman was adequately familiarized in the use of the device given her experiences with it in the hospital, either failed to instruct the woman or did not note giving her the instructions in the woman’s medical record.
In light of the record’s silence on the matter, the hospital administration decided it was more prudent to settle than to try to defend against the claim.
Moore v. Willis-Knighton Medical Center, 720 So. 2d 425 (1998).
Here's another toilet twist of fate.
A Canadian tourist who claims his personal part was crushed by a faulty toilet seat in a New York restaurant has sued the restaurant owner for $2.3 million.
Lawyers for Edward Skwarek say he had been sitting on the toilet in a restaurant owned by the coffee retailer Starbucks Corporation, when he turned to reach for toilet paper behind him.
The lawyers say the seat shifted, causing his personals to be caught and crushed between the seat and the bowl.
The suit alleges the coffee house was careless in not fixing a defective toilet seat. It also claims Mr. Skwarek has suffered a crushed personal appendage that now deviates to one side, infertility, severe bruising and sexual function impairment.
Mr. Skwarek is seeking $1.5 million in damages and his wife $765,000 because "she has been deprived of his services," reports the Australian Broadcast Corp.
http://www.power-of-attorneys.com/stupid_lawsuit_detail.asp?stupid_ID=82