Florida state health regulators have imposed an emergency license restriction on Dr. Zannos Grekos for using experimental stem cell therapy on a breast cancer patient in his Bonita Springs practice last year, resulting in the woman’s death, according to the state’s order. “The use of unorthodox stem cell transfusions for…
The murder trial of Chad Gurney resumed Wednesday at Cumberland County Superior Court. Gurney, 29, is charged in the killing of 18-year-old Zoe Sarnacki on May 25, 2009. He has waived his right to a jury and has pleaded not criminally responsible by reason of insanity. Prosecutors claim Gurney was…
Jessie Stricchiola, a San Francisco based social media expert witness, has been hired in the upcoming defamation lawsuit trial between Courtney Love and fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir. The expert will testify on behalf of plaintiff Simorangkir and was tasked with studying how many people saw Love’s allegedly abusive torrent of…
In David and Goliath: Silverton and Qwest Battle Over Fiber Optic Line telluridewatch.com reports: “Qwest was paid to build an information superhighway to Silverton, and they barely widened the existing mule trail.” So said San Juan County Administrator Willie Tookey on June 30 of this year, when Silverton and San…
Was an oral surgeon at fault for the massive stroke his patient suffered after an 8-tooth extraction under local anesthesia at Philadelphia Veterans’ Administration Medical Center in September 2007? A federal court will take up that question now that a judge has dismissed the U.S. government’s motions to exclude the…
A jury may decide who caused a serious injury crash on Deerfield Road last year after an accident reconstruction expert witness claimed a Lenawee County, MI, Sheriff’s Department investigation got it backwards. A lawsuit over the crash that left 82-year-old Elmer Johnson near death was moved toward trial this week…
The Cayman Islands operates under British law and the rules governing expert witnesses varies greatly from the United States. Accident reconstruction expert witness Jeffrey D. Armstrong, P.E. recently testified as an expert in two trials in the Cayman Islands. Mr. Armstrong reports that expert witnesses for both sides of the…
Paradise Valley will hire an engineering expert witness and a water utility expert witness with expertise in water rates as the town prepares to intervene in Arizona American Water Co.’s next rate case before the Arizona Corporation Commission. Arizona American serves nearly 5,000 customers in Paradise Valley and Scottsdale through…
Two groundwater expert witnesses in the first McCullom Lake, IL, brain cancer trial will laid out for the jury last week how they allege industrial pollution reached and sickened village residents. Plaintiffs’attorney Aaron Freiwald called groundwater expert Charles Andrews to explain his theory that groundwater contaminated with vinyl chloride traveled…
The trial of former Richwood, Louisiana, Mayor Edward L. Harris began this week. Harris, who was elected last Saturday to the town’s Board of Aldermen, is charged with one count of malfeasance in office. He is accused of illegally writing more than $70,000 in checks to himself and other employees…