Colorado Springs police officers were dispatched to a man down call on 4/29/2010y. The victim transported by AMR prior to officers arrival with what appeared to be a head injury.

In talking to a witness, the victim, a 14 year old male, and the witness had been riding their bikes behind the old Grocery Warehouse building. The victim had attempted to jump his bike off of a loading dock. During this jump he crashed and struck his head on the cement drive.

Victim was transported to Memorial Central where he was pronouced deceased from probable massive head injury. No suspicious circumstances, apparently just a tragic accident.

A recall has been issued for all Simplicity full-size cribs with tubular metal mattress-support frames after an infant suffocated after becoming trapped between the mattress and the crib frame. There is also a risk that the crib can collapse, causing injury to infants. The recalled cribs were sold at Wal-Mart, Target, Babies R Us and other stores nationwide for between $150 and $300.

A Virginia man has filed a lawsuit against a local Massanutten Ski Resort after he suffered spinal injuries during a snow-tubing accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down. John Carwile was making a run on the snow-tube track at the resort when the accident happened. He passed through the end of the run, which was supposed to slow the tube down, and crashed head first into a wall. The lawsuit claims the resort was negligent in setting up and operating the snow tube runs. He is seeking $25 million in damages.

The parents of a 23-year-old man killed in an auto crash earlier this year with International Polo Club Palm Beach founder John Goodman will filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the prominent multi-millionaire, an attorney for the family said. Scott Patrick Wilson drowned after his car was struck by Goodman’s Bentley convertible, pushing it into a canal, according to police reports. The family claims that Goodman was negligent in the crash.

A Florida jury awarded $20 million in total damages to the family of a woman who died of cancer in 1995 after smoking cigarettes for more than 40 years. Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Liggett Group share the blame and the payments in the lawsuit. Jurors assigned 35 percent of the responsibility to the woman, Margot Putney for her death; 15 percent to Philip Morris; 30 percent to Reynolds; and 20 percent to Liggett. The verdict is one of a series of losses for the tobacco industry in Florida since the desertification of a 2006 class-action case against the tobacco industry.

A U.S. District Judge in Texas ruled that a lawsuit over alleged “fight clubs” in a Corpus Christi facility for people with mental disabilities can proceed. Judge Janis Graham Jack dismissed the request from the four state officials named as defendants that they be excluded from the lawsuit because of qualified immunity. The lawsuit, which represents five plaintiffs, claims that the officials should have been aware of the incidents that occurred in 2008 and 2009 and that more security was necessary to keep the residents safe. In 2007, there were 1,013 allegations of abuse, neglect or exploitation — and 51 confirmed cases — at the 430-bed facility, the Austin American-Statesman reports.

Ford announced last week that it will recall more than 30,000 vehicles because of a problem that could cause front seats to collapse. The recall covers the 2010 Explorer, Explorer Sport Trac, Mercury Mountaineer, Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan. No injuries or deaths have been reported in relation to the defect responsible for the recall, the automaker said.

A lawsuit has been filed in Missouri by a group of parents of deaf children against the state department of mental health, claiming that the state has failed to provide deaf citizens with quality mental health care. The suit alleges that deaf persons are prescribed medications without being told, through a qualified interpreter, what they are being given, and confined in institutions without access to interpreters or staff who can sign. The lawsuit seeks to represent an estimated 1,100 deaf Missourians in need of some sort of mental health care.

A federal judge this week reviewed a plea agreement between the U.S government and Guidant LLC over catastrophic failures of implantable defibrillator and other devices, Reuters reports. Among the documents under review was a letter from two cardiologists whose patient died as a result of a malfunctioning Guidant product. In a letter to Judge Donovan Frank of the U.S. District Court of Minnesota, Dr. Robert Hauser and Dr. Barry Maron argued that Guidant’s behavior was “illegal and unethical” and that approval of the plea agreement would undermine patient safety.

A $35 million lawsuit has been filed against the city of Baltimore over the death of a firefighter trainee killed during a training exercise. Racheal Wilson died during an exercise in which she and other cadets entered a burning row house. The lawsuit alleges that the exercise violated national guidelines and that the cadets were not properly prepared and were not given an exit strategy. The suit also says the equipment Wilson was given was not adequate to protect her from the extreme heat.