The wife of an active duty serviceman elected to have breast augmentation in 2009 while living in Nevada.  She specifically requested 300cc implants.  At the time of the surgery, there were no 300 cc implants available so the surgeon placed 250cc implants and overfilled them to 270cc each.  She is unsatisfied with the outcome and is seeking $150,000 in damages for pain and suffering, mental anguish and travel related expenses.
The couple now live in Virginia and the story was seen in the Virginian Pilot.  The repeat surgery is said to …

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Tenants at Elsie Mason Manor and Ligutti Towers in Des Moines filed suit against the apartment managers and owners secondary to what they claim is bedbug infestation.  The tenants complained that they’d been repeatedly bitten, forced to discard infested furniture and shunned by relatives and by other landlords now too afraid to rent to them.
The Des Moines Register has reported that court papers have been filed in Polk County, Iowa claiming that apartment managers/owners knew about the infestation, but failed to warn tenants or …

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A class-action lawsuit has been filed against DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson over a hip replacement implant that was recalled earlier this year due to a high failure rate. According to a study published in Britain, 13 percent of patients that received the ASR XL Acetabular System hip replacement had to have revision surgery within five years.   This recall of the faulty hip replacement devices has affected around 93,000 people. The suit claims the company, DePuy Orthopaedics, misled patients to believe they were going …

A Michigan woman has filed a lawsuit against the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City, claiming the room she and her husband stayed in was infested with bedbugs. The couple stayed in the hotel in May and said they were bitten constantly by the bedbugs and also carried them back to their Michigan home, infecting their two daughters. The suit is seeking unspecified damages to cover emotional distress as well as the cost of fumigating their home.  Reuters
Honestly, I have never seen a bed bug, and I have never been …