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Lawyer says family members ‘feel vindicated’ by $2M settlement

WELLSBURG — A Wheeling lawyer says family members of a woman who died after a cancer-related surgery at Weirton Medical Center in 2005 “feel vindicated by our justice system” after the hospital confessed judgment and agreed to pay $2 million … Read More »

Brooke County, News

Judge imposes $4.5M fine on Johnson & Johnson

WELLSBURG – Circuit Judge Martin Gaughan has imposed a penalty of nearly $4.5 million on drug maker Johnson & Johnson for false and misleading promotion of antipsychotic drug Risperdal and painkiller Duragesic. Gaughan found 4,450 separate violations of West Virginia … Read More »

Brooke County, News