POINT PLEASANT – The Mason County Board of Education has paid $375,000 to the parents of two Bend-area elementary school students who allege they suffered injuries from improper discipline by their teacher.
The Point Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department alleges in a lawsuit an Ohio contractor failed to complete insulation work on this building on Jackson Avenue. (Photo by Lawrence J. Smith) POINT PLEASANT – An Ohio contractor is named as a defendant in a breach of contract suit filed by a Mason County volunteer fire department for failing to insulate one of its buildings.
Nolan POINT PLEASANT – An Ohio woman alleges that a Mason County physician's failure to properly sterilize her resulted in not only an unwanted, but also life-threatening pregnancy.
Childs CHARLESTON – The state Division of Corrections is asking a suit naming it as a co-defendant in a sexual harassment case arising out of one its facilities in Mason County be dismissed because the acts that led to it were not done in the course of a normal employee-employer setting.
Childs POINT PLEASANT – Both a civil and criminal case arising from a former maintenance supervisor having a sexual relationship with an inmate at the Lakin Correctional Center for Women are the first since the facility opened in 2003 and a law passed penalizing sex with inmates, a top correctional official said.
Pleasant Valley Hospital is located in Point Pleasant. POINT PLEASANT – A Mason County hospital and two physicians are named in a malpractice suit alleging they failed to properly diagnose a woman for breast cancer.
Musgrave POINT PLEASANT – Court records show that Raymond Musgrave not only sued two other clients for non-payment of legal fees, but also another attorney for luring one of his clients away from him. However, all suits were to no avail.
POINT PLEASANT – Despite the recent dismissal of one filed against it from earlier this year, Pleasant Valley Hospital finds itself defending against another malpractice suit.
POINT PLEASANT – Despite being named in two abuse and neglect lawsuits, the Mason County Board of Education recently settled a two-year old personal injury suit which allegedly occurred at the Board's central office.
POINT PLEASANT – The Mason County Board of Education has been named as a co-defendant in two civil suits alleging responsibility for injuries two special needs students suffered at the hands of their teacher.
POINT PLEASANT – An Ohio woman alleges she was wrongfully terminated from a Mason County hospital following a complaint she made to regulators concerning the facility's "unsafe staffing conditions."
Westmoreland CHARLESTON – Without commenting on constitutional issues raised, the state Supreme Court remanded a Mason County case dealing with the Medical Professional Liability Act back to circuit court for trial.
Dr. Jack Levine (Photo courtesy of the Shelbyville Daily Union) CHARLESTON – Along with pending civil cases in West Virginia and Illinois, a former Mason County physician now faces criminal charges in Ohio, according to police and media reports.
Delores Clonch shows a diagram of how the doctor would remove a portion of and later reattach her colon. (Photo by Lawrence J. Smith) CHARLESTON – The allegations leveled against a former Mason County doctor in an Illinois wrongful death suit bears a resemblance to the allegations a Gallipolis, Ohio, woman leveled against him in a 2000 malpractice suit.
CHARLESTON – In addition to the one pending against him in West Virginia, a former Mason County physician is now defending himself in a civil suit in Illinois.
CHARLESTON – After first following the advice of Horace Greeley by going west -– to Illinois -– a former Mason County physician has heeded the call of Chrissie Hynde in going back to Ohio. Both moves, records show, preceded him being named in civil suits.
Vaidya POINT PLEASANT – A perusal of the court file would reveal to anyone why it took a Henderson couple seven years to serve notice of a malpractice suit against a Point Pleasant urologist, says their attorney.