News from March 2009
Mingo couple suing over drug's side effects
WILLIAMSON – A Mingo County couple is suing a physician and the makers of a drug used to treat reflux, alleging the companies concealed the risk of side effects and the physician failed to recognize the wife was suffering from two of them.
Company claims Sport Mart, lawyer interfered with property sale
WINFIELD -– A Putnam County company says Sport Mart Inc. and R. Brawley Tracy, a Charleston lawyer, interfered with the sale of a piece of property, effectively ruining the pending transaction.
Former sewer worker sues Westover over firing
MORGANTOWN – A former Westover sewer board worker is suing the city, the mayor and the board for firing him instead of transferring him to a job he says he was promised at the city garage.
PERSONNEL FILE: Huddleston Bolen partner named to FDCC
Massie HUNTINGTON -- Robert L. Massie, a partner with Huddleston Bolen, has been selected for membership in The Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (FDCC).
PERSONNEL FILE: Huff elected president of legal nurse consultant group
CHARLESTON -- Steptoe & Johnson is pleased to announce that Karen Huff, a legal nurse consultant in the firm's Charleston office, has been elected to the position of President of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants.
Chief Justice to speak at Greenbrier Drug Court opening
Benjamin LEWISBURG -– Supreme Court Chief Justice Brent Benjamin will be the keynote speaker at the opening of the South Eastern West Virginia Regional Drug Court on April 1 at the Greenbrier County Courthouse.
Woman claims she was forced to quit job
MORGANTOWN – A woman is suing her former boss and employer, saying she was discriminated against to the point that she felt forced to quit her job.
Husband, wife suing podiatrist over amputated toe
WINFIELD – A couple from Hurricane claim a podiatrist improperly removed one of the husband's toenails, causing him to have the toe cut off.
Woman claims nursing school improperly threw her out
WINFIELD -– A Poca woman is suing a university because she was discharged from a master's degree-level nursing program there.
Court officials announce domestic violence registry
Canterbury CHARLESTON – West Virginia Supreme Court officials and others on Monday announced the launch of a computer registry that keeps track of domestic violence protective orders.
Colleagues remember Albright
Albright CHARLESTON -- West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Joseph P. Albright died March 20 at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center due to complications of esophageal cancer.
Man says company stiffed him on commissions
CHARLESTON – A man claims he sold designer glass items for a company on commission, but the company stiffed him on many orders he wrote.
Radio station sued over computer repairs
CHARLESTON – The owner of a computer repair company says a popular Charleston radio station still owes him for work on the station's computer systems.
Neb. company sues over cell towers
CHARLESTON – A Nebraska construction company is suing over two cellular telephone towers it says it helped build, but never got paid.
Jackson school board also named as co-defendant in fight lawsuit
RIPLEY - In addition to one alleging failure to adequately handle a sexual assault at Ripley Middle, the Jackson County Board of Education is also defending itself against a lawsuit alleging it failed to timely stop a fight between two students at Ripley High School.
Improper surgical care harmed Ohio woman and her children, suit alleges
Rerych POINT PLEASANT - An Ohio woman is alleging both she and her children where harmed by the negligent actions of both a Mason County physician and hospital.
Psychiatrist over-prescribed lithium, man says
HUNTINGTON – A Huntington man is suing his former psychiatrist for allegedly over-prescribing lithium that caused end stage renal disease.
Our job makers speak hard truths
Politicians say otherwise, but government doesn't create jobs. Hard-working, risk-taking business executives in the private sector do.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Don't hire more family judges
Dear Editor:
High school students to attend Supreme Court session
CHARLESTON – Hundreds of high school students from three counties will sit in on an argument session of the Supreme Court as part of the LAWS Program.