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Seaman files lawsuit after suffering shoulder injury while swinging
1/30/2012 9:12 AM By Michelle Keahey
NEW ORLEANS - A seaman has filed a lawsuit against his employer after he injured his shoulder while swinging from a swing rope from a platform.
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Worker sues after walkway collapses on well platform
1/30/2012 9:00 AM By Michelle Keahey
NEW ORLEANS - After falling from a collapsed walkway, a wireline helper has filed a lawsuit against the owners of a well platform for failing to maintain the walkway's grating.
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Couple files lawsuit against Triad claiming medical supplies were contaminated
1/30/2012 9:00 AM By Michelle Keahey
NEW ORLEANS - An Ouachita Parish couple has filed a lawsuit against the manufacturers of recalled wipes, swabs and swabsticks that they claim were bacterially contaminated.
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Oil spill worker sues after being tossed about on deck of boat
1/30/2012 9:00 AM By Michelle Keahey
NEW ORLEANS - After being tossed about on a deck of a boat and suffering injuries, an oil spill clean-up worker has filed a lawsuit against her employer for failing to provide a seaworthy vessel.
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Price

Patient claims acne medication caused Crohn's Disease and sues prescribing doctor
1/23/2012 8:39 AM By Michelle Keahey
NEW ORLEANS - After being diagnosed with Crohn's Disease, an Assumption Parish resident has filed a lawsuit against a local doctor for prescribing an acne medication that he claims caused the disease.
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Covington medical center sued for medical malpractice after patient falls off of toilet
1/23/2012 8:33 AM By Michelle Keahey
After allegedly being left unattended for a lengthy period of time in the bathroom, hospital patient Cathy Anderson states she tried to get up from the toilet and fell.
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St. Martin

Machine operator sues after slipping off ice chest he used as ladder
1/23/2012 8:29 AM By Michelle Keahey
After falling from an ice chest and suffering injuries, a heavy machine operator has filed a lawsuit claiming he was not warned that using the ice chest as a stepping platform was dangerous
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Yancey

Seaman sues after injuring neck while moving vessel's walkway
1/23/2012 8:25 AM By Michelle Keahey
A seaman has filed a lawsuit against his employer after he suffered neck injuries while moving a vessel's walkway.

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Barbier

Oil spill claimants who avoided litigation won't have to pay attorneys
1/20/2012 11:00 AM By John O'Brien
NEW ORLEANS - Plaintiffs attorneys will not receive 6 percent of settlements from those claimants who settled their oil spill claims without resorting to litigation.
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Barbier

Halliburton presses to protect confidential information
1/20/2012 9:55 AM By Steve Korris
NEW ORLEANS - BP hired former Halliburton cement engineer Ronald Crook as a last minute substitute for an expert that Magistrate Judge Sally Shushan disqualified for hiring former Halliburton cement engineer Michael Viator.
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