Indiana Injury Lawyer Blog

Information released this week indicates that a request is before the Indiana Medical Licensing Board asking to consider extending a suspension for an Indiana physician.

The Indiana Medical Licensing Board met on October 27, 2009 and unanimously voted an emergency medical license suspension of an Indiana physician. Dr. Phillip D. Foley of Middletown, Indiana received a 90-day suspension after Indiana’s attorney general accused him of recklessly prescribing narcotics and sedatives. The state petition against Foley accuses him of at least nine overdose deaths.

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Indianapolis officials are investigating an accidental fire that resulted in the death of 94-year-old, Willa Mae Fossett.

Firefighters responded to a report of smoke coming from a third floor window at the Indiana Avenue Senior Apartments this Sunday morning. When they arrived just after 4:30 a.m., they found a small fire in the bathroom. They quickly extinguished the fire. Unfortunately, they also discovered Ms. Fossett unconscious in the bedroom. She was later pronounced dead at the scene.

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Four Indiana companies face fines and citations related to the construction death of an Indiana steelworker earlier this summer. Stanley Roberts of Indianapolis, died in the June accident. He was working on the new expansion project for the Indianapolis Convention Center. Roberts was working in a lift that drove into a hole, throwing him from the basket and to his death. The hole, two-foot square was nearly a foot deep.

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