A doctor removed her ovaries because they were ‘in the way.’ Her family says it led to her death.

By Marwa Eltagouri

The removal of her ovaries never came up during her surgery consultations… She asked him why. “He said he thought he’d done me a favor. And he said, ‘I thought you know, a woman of your age wouldn’t really need her ovaries,’ ” Methuen-Campbell told the BBC. “I said, ‘Why did you remove them?’ and he just said, ‘They were in the way,’ ” she said. “My life is absolutely ruined.”

Judge says Issue 1 will 'close courthouse doors'

by David Showers

Retired Supreme Court Justice Annabelle Imber Tuck said Issue 1 would allow special interests to rewrite rules of pleading, practice and procedure currently within the Supreme Court's remit...

"Rule making will become a process of political wherewithal, basically money," she told The Sentinel-Record last week. "Regular people are not going to have that power, because we're not going to contribute to campaigns in terms of big money. It would be who has the money to lobby at the Legislature for a rule.

"If you're going to make the political process the way you determine due process, the tilting of the scales of justice will grow in favor of those with resources."

Editorial: Bondi holds drug industry accountable for Florida opioid crisis

The distributors, Bondi said, "unconscionably violated" their duty to prevent opioids from being diverted to non-medical uses by "shipping hundreds of millions of opioids into Florida without sounding the alarm or stopping the shipments." These companies knew their customers were ordering an inordinately high number of opioids, the suit states, but "refused to report the suspicious" activity, turning "a blind eye to this activity in order to earn higher profits."

Prosecutor questions 2014 wire transfer to former state Sen. Jake Files

By John Lovett

A recent letter from the Sebastian County prosecutor to the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas questions whether a 2014 wire transfer for $80,000 from a nursing home group partner to then-state Sen. Jake Files’ construction company was “made in violation of federal law.”

Arkansas Proposed Amendment Puts a Price Tag on Life

By Rose Mimms

Issue One would put an arbitrary cap of $500,000 on non-economic and caps punitive damages. In real life this means that if a 40 year old successful business man is killed negligently then his life could be worth millions because you could calculate his current earnings and multiply them out for the future. If a stay at home mom, a child or infant, a retired veteran, an individual with Down Syndrome or other genetic disorder who isn’t employed or a nursing home resident who dies as a result of abuse or someone else’s error or negligence then those lives are all capped at a value never to exceed $500,000. The jury simply can’t award a family more, even if it wanted to do so. Think of your loved ones, would you ever put a price tag on their lives?