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April 27, 2011, ERIE, PA — The Fifth Annual Erie County Teen Driving Championship was held in McKean yesterday and the community is a better place for it. Limited to teens who’ve had a safe driving record for at least one year, the contest combines written, virtual and actual driving tests to measure a teen driver’s performance in the competition.…

April 24, 2011, ERIE, PA — Maureen Dowd of the New York Times wrote a great column recently on one of the most vexing problems in American health care: how do you get your doctor or nurse to do the little things they hate to do but must do to provide top-notch care? You can find that column HERE .…

April 22, 2011, ERIE, PA — A Sheffield woman died from otherwise curable lung cancer because her doctors carelessly failed to diagnose her cancer for almost three years. Yesterday, an Erie jury reached a verdict in favor of her estate and against those doctors in the amount of $1.8 million. Carolyn Champlin was a widowed mother of six when she…

April 21, 2011, ERIE, PA — Yesterday a jury returned the largest Erie County medical malpractice verdict ever. In Graham v. Hamot, et al., the jury determined that Hamot Hospital’s nursing staff carelessly caused a baby to suffer a brain injury known as cerebral palsy and awarded the child $21.6 million dollars in damages. The damages awarded are entirely for…

April 16, 2011, ERIE, PA — Observant readers have noticed a change in our accident blog. It’s true, we’ve decided to take a different approach to recording northwest Pennsylvania’s accident news. In the past, we’ve tried to document all the relevant accident news for Erie, Crawford, Warren, Forest and Venango Counties. We’ve provided brief summaries of the Pennsylvania car accidents…

April 15, 2011, ERIE, PA — Purchase, George & Murphey, P.C., P.C. is proud to be a sponsor of the Erie County Bar Association’s Eighth Annual Law Day 5k Run/Walk. Funds from the event benefit homeless children through the Attorney & Kids Together (AKT) program. The race provides more than 50% of all funding for AKT, which contributes to serving…

April 14, 2011, ERIE, PA — The Pennsylvania Association for Justice and the New Jersey Association for Justice are holding a joint meeting of their leadership in Atlantic City today. The subject? Tort reform dominates the landscape. As readers of this blog and injured people across Pennsylvania know, a Pennsylvania personal injury lawsuit is not akin to winning the lottery,…