Miscellaneous

• AMA Corrects Impairment Ratings Guide

  James Sabatini | March 26, 2008 7:31 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  When the AMA published the Sixth Edition of its Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, it contained new language that restricted chiropractic evaluations to the spine only. The restriction drew sharp criticism from the American Chiropractic Association. In a letter to the AMA, the ACA questioned the legality of restrictive language related to evaluations by doctors of chiropractic...

• Negligence Lawsuits Filed Against St. Francis Hospital - Failure to Supervise Dr. Reardon

  James Sabatini | December 07, 2007 2:32 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Two men who say they were sexually molested by Dr. George Reardon filed lawsuits Thursday against St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, claiming the hospital was negligent in its supervision of the doctor during the 30 years he practiced there. In the latest suits, the men say Reardon fondled and photographed them in his private St. Francis office during the 1970s or early 1980s. One suit...

• CT Nursing Home Files For Chapter 11

  James Sabatini | November 21, 2007 4:26 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Haven Healthcare, the Connecticut nursing home operator has filed for bankruptcy. I recently blogged about this nursing home operator's CEO who funded a record label start up company while his company's nursing homes were failing to pay their bills. Haven's bankruptcy filing reveals that the company's 50 largest creditors are owed nearly $31 million.State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal...

• CT Nursing Home CEO Funds Record Label

  James Sabatini | November 20, 2007 1:31 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  In late 2005, Haven Healthcare CEO Raymond Termini decided to pursue a longtime dream: He launched a record label in Nashville to produce both little-known and established country musicians. Within in a few months, the company gets the cash to sign major artists such as Travis Tritt. Back in Connecticut, residents of his nursing home in Jewett City spent a cold December night. After months of...

• Countrywide Employees Sue Company

  James Sabatini | September 12, 2007 10:37 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Some Countrywide Financial Corp. employees have sued their employer. The employees are claiming they suffered heavy losses in their 401k retirement accounts after the company failed to warn them about the depth of its financial troubles.The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, seeks class-action status and names as defendants Countrywide Chairman and Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo...

• N.C. Jet Ski Accident Kills CT Man

  James Sabatini | August 09, 2007 10:52 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  An 18-year-old Connecticut resident was killed this week after he was hit with a personal watercraft on Lake Gaston in North Carolina. The man and his friend were operating Jet skis on a lake when his friends jet ski struck the man the head. Officials are withholding the man's identity until his relatives are notified. The 18-year-old and a friend were vacationing with family at Lake Gaston,...

• CT Priest Charged With Sexually Assaulting a Minor

  James Sabatini | August 02, 2007 1:41 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  A Naugatuck priest is facing charges of sexually assaulting a minor. Father Robert J. Grant, of St. Mary's Church on North Main Street, was arrested on Thursday after an investigation by Naugatuck police.

• Pilots Did Not Receive Warnings Before Deadly Crash

  James Sabatini | July 23, 2007 11:39 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  The pilots in a jet crash last summer that killed 49 people left the terminal without receiving four important airport advisories, including one that said the normal taxiway to the main runway was closed. Comair Flight 5191 crashed on August 27, 2006, shortly after mistakenly taking off from the general aviation runway, killing all people aboard but one. The plane taxied to the wrong runway in...

• Tam Airlines Pilot Tried to Abort Landing

  James Sabatini | July 18, 2007 2:12 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  An initial probe of a Brazilian plane crash that killed at least 200 people suggests the airliner's pilot tried to abort a crash landing, an official said Wednesday. For more information on this subject matter, please refer to the section on Airline, Cruise, Bus, and other Mass Transit Accidents.

• TAM Airline Airbus 320 Crashes In Sao Paulo

  James Sabatini | July 17, 2007 11:12 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  A TAM Airlines Airbus 320 carrying 176 people crashed while attempting to land in heavy rain at Sao Paulo's Congon has Airport, the airline said. The Sao Paulo fire department said at least 200 people, including some on the ground, were dead at the scene. There was no immediate word on survivors.A Brazilian Court had previously banned large jets from using the runway due to safety concerns. The...