NEW CUMBERLAND The daughters of a woman who died during her residency at Stone Pear Pavillion claim their mother s death was avoidable.
Fox Nursing Home, Foxcrest, Fox & Fox, James Fox and unknown and unidentified individuals and entities were all named as defendants in the suit.
Vonda Kay Gallop and Debbie A. Humme claim their mother, Osa Lucas, was admitted to the nursing home on June 25 and stayed until the following day, according to a complaint filed in Hancock Circuit Court. Lucas died on July 2 as a result of injuries she allegedly sustained at the nursing home.
The defendants failed to provide a safe environment, failed to prevent falls and caused Lucas to sustain a fall at the nurse s station, striking her head, which resulted in a large subdural hematoma with a midline shift and, ultimately, Lucas death, according to the suit.
CHARLESTON – A new report calls West Virginia the epicenter for the over-naming of defendants in asbestos litigation, with one recent case having 210 defendants.
The study, released January 18 by the Mississippi law firm of Gay Jones & Kuhn, also says the high rate of dismissals in such cases validates the over-naming problem. It says there is an increasing trend of plaintiffs attorneys to “sue first and discover facts later.”
“Asbestos litigation continues to create problems for businesses and West Virginia is the epicenter,” attorney Mary Margaret Gay writes in the report. “Over-naming of defendants in asbestos litigation, who have little or no known liability for asbestos-related products, is a serious issue and it is trending upward for companies.”
Dec 17, 2020
Hancock County Deputy Clerk Valerie Truax (left) administers the oath of office to an unmasked Eron Chek (right) Monday morning on the front steps of the Hancock County Courthouse, as Chek prepares to take office on Jan. 1 as the county’s first female county commissioner. For Chek, the decision to get sworn in unmasked generated some controversy, as Judge Ronald E. Wilson reportedly refused to do so for his own safety. Several days before, Chek posted to her Facebook page that he didn’t “consider himself safe enough by wearing a mask or other PPE himself and using a plastic barrier between the two of us.” On the centennial of the ratification of the 19th amendment, which provided women the right to vote, Chek believed that “symbolically (she) would be representing the muzzling of the women in leadership if I allowed myself to be bullied this way,” thus Truax swore her in outside the building, as posted signage required entrants into the courthouse to wear a
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Hancock County Deputy Clerk Valerie Truax (left) administers the oath of office to an unmasked Eron Chek (right) Monday morning on the front steps of the Hancock County Courthouse, as Chek prepares to take office on Jan. 1 as the county’s first female county commissioner. For Chek, the decision to get sworn-in unmasked generated some controversy, as Judge Ronald E. Wilson reportedly refused to do so for his own safety. Several days before, Chek posted to her Facebook page that he didn’t “consider himself safe enough by wearing a mask or other PPE himself and using a plastic barrier between the two of us.” On the centennial of the ratification of the 19th amendment, which provided women the right to vote, Chek believed that “symbolically (she) would be representing the muzzling of the women in leadership if I allowed myself to be bullied this way,” thus Truax swore her in outside the building, as posted signage required entrants into the