US Hospitals Sued over Nurse Pay

Four class-action suits regarding nurse pay have been filed against some of the biggest U.S. hospitals.

The suits claim that these hospitals “regularly discussed nurses’ wages in meetings, over the telephone and in written surveys” as they “conspired to depress wages for nurses.” And all this, amid a national nursing shortage…!

(According to the American Hospital Association, the US is currently short 170,000 nurses, and this number is expected to grow to 1 million by 2020. Despite this, wages for nurses were stagnant in 2003 and actually fell 6.4 percent in 2004.)

The suits have been filed in Chicago, Memphis, Albany and San Antonio. They “seek back compensation and legal costs totaling “hundreds of millions of dollars” under federal antitrust laws.”

Wrongful Death Lawsuit

A family of a man that was accidentally killed in a grocery store is now suing the store owners and employees. The man came in and tried to rob the store and while fending him off the robber was killed.

His family says that store employees used too much force.

If the employees had viciously beat him to death then I could argue the parents point but they tried to restrain someone who had come to rob them and then the man became aggressive. If he had killed one of the employees what would they have said then?

Family Files Lawsuit For The Death On Mission Space

Daudi Bamuwamye after riding Disney’s: Mission Space and the family has filed a lawsuit against the theme park alleging that employees should never have allowed the four year old on such an intense ride and that they were not warned of the dangers. They also say that more should have been done with the child fell unconcious.

Disney sympathizes with the family but feel that they did everything they should have both for the Daudi and other visitors of the park. The amount of damages they are seeking are unknown.

State Farm Insurance Penalized

I was very happy to see late last month that State Farm lost the lawsuit that were brought against them by many families they refused to help after tornadoes ripped down their homes.

Judge and jury awarded the families millions and penalized State Farm Insurance. Among the plaintiffs complaints is that State Farm hired Texas-based Haag Engineering to come in Oklahoma and check out the damage the hurricanes caused and value them.

Instead they said that Haag undervalued the damage and wrote off other’s saying that it was caused by faulty workmanship and not the tornado. Unfortunately this is a very common practice all over. Even though a category 4 hurricane blew through here, were sure it didn’t damage your home, we think it fell over all by itself. And your car just drove up that tree.

Insurance companies love taking your money, but when you need it most; Good luck on getting it.

Best of Niner Niner June ‘06

Sreejith thinks that Snap is the future of Google.

Meanwhile over at Blogging Naked leafworks introduces us to sex magic Part I.

In Bookadoodle, Meg Stivison tells us about The Year of Pleasure, and the story of Shem Creek which left her giggling and sighing.

Boomer 2.0: Baby boomers want to dress just like us and get into the latest technology. If you can, then so can they.

Sony gives out free music and hey, Why was the NPS website shut down?

In Credit Cardenza, learn to protect your credit card, and don’t forget to give the tips to your one year old after he gets his own card.

Did you remember to get mommy this gorgeous polished rolo bracelet? Did you settle for something in the flowers and candy department? Or did you get her this Kodak EasyShare?

In Feed Money there was talk about the Google Traffic Diet while Tom Baurley gave us a guide to affiliate programs.

Sarah White posted a must-read to generation debt and hopefully that will keep you from falling into the pit of debt.

If you love playing games for money head on over to the Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida but leave the gambling children at home.

Technology is coming to high heel near you so when your bored hopefully your flexible enough to watch the tv in your high heels and if criminals take notice show them your other shoes that come with high heel weaponry included.

 

Do you know if you medical records are being disclosed and do you understand your medical privacy?

Kathleen Milazzo asks the question: Could you be the next victim of diabetes? While also discussing seniors and their new drug plan.

You might own a coffee shop but don’t forget to offer tea because people love variety.

In Mortgage Updates you can learn how to toss out the middle man and offer a mortgage all by yourself.

If you’ve got the skills, you can learn how to build your own hydropower or get some ideas on building your own Mona Lisa.

If your in the mood to learn business, Sarah White takes a moment to let us in on her not so secret side biz.

There is a lot to learn if you want a healthy living and you can start with the dangers of diabetes before moving on to the healthy alternative of corn and don’t forget some great tasting healthy and low calorie recipes.

In On Movies, Meg Stivison refused to let the problem of finding english language movies stop her from giving a great review for the movie “The Prince and Me 2″.

Always keep an eye out for Ebay email fraud but keep the other eye out on ways you can sell stuff on Ebay for other people.

Rss Micro is the new kid in town when it comes to RSS search engines, while there pull up a search about getting listed with Yahoo.

The Diet Logs: If violent diarrhea isn’t something you’d like to have, remember to avoid white kidney beans, or at least learn how to cook them correctly.

If you live the Single Life try to find your relationship chemistry but do avoid the 7 types of jealousy.

Meg Stivison is pretty excited about the changes made to Wow, meanwhile Tom Baurley reminds us that we Don’t Know Jack and there is the Desperate Housewives video game. I still don’t know why they made it.

In Vegas Revealed, we see a couple that are endangered plus a grandmother won the biggest slots jackpot ever.

Meg Stivison is still not over the staring thing, I mean the grocery store? People keep an eye on your shopping carts. And if your going to wander the Earth don’t forget to take a pit stop at Aquariam of the America’s. Should be a sight to behold.

A Hair Raising Lawsuit

Law firm Ross, Dixon & Bell is in the middle of another annoying lawsuit. Well annoying in my opinion. A few consumers are banding together to sue Garnier Fructis because their hair products did not straighten or strengthen their hair the way it was shown in some of the commercials.

Are these people children? Do they really believe that after using this shampoo that they can pull a 10-ton truck with their tresses? I can only guess they believe that Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse are real. I also must add that there are literally more than a 100 different products for any part of the body because what works for one person might not work for the next. Look up variety ladies and gentleman, then try the different variety of hair care products that line any drug store.

Pyramid Scam Class Action Lawsuit

Now this is a lawsuit I would consider on the good side of things. Pyramid schemes happen frequently and the guilty party simply move away and open shop in another city, state, or country. This time however a number of alleged victims have teamed up to slap a class action suit against Eli Ohayon.

He is accused of selling products in a multi-level marketing operation and literally bilking people out of thousands of dollars. The problem is that the customers were supposed to be buying these goods at below retail price so that they resell them for a profit but they later find out that they themselves paid retail for the products so there is no way to make money. Who is going to buy a $10 product for $20? The lawyers say that they do not expect Ohayon and the other defendants named in the lawsuits to even show up for the court date. Scammers tend to do that.