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The parents of a baby who fell victim to the A flu in Granada have accused the paediatrician who attended her at the city’s Maternity Hospital of negligence in failing to detect the virus in time to save her life. It was confirmed last Saturday in a telephone call from the hospital that the cause of death was the H1N1 virus.
The parents had taken their 10 month old baby, Sheila, to paediatrics emergency last Thursday after Paracetamol had failed to bring down the high fever she had been suffering for more than 24 hours. They had previously found there to be no paediatrician on duty at their local health centre in Albolote that day.
They told Ideal newspaper that, despite their concerns over the child’s history of the rare epileptic disorder West syndrome, they were given instructions at the hospital to continue with the same medication, as well as medicine to help his breathing. The paediatrician is understood to have diagnosed a probable seasonal virus, telling the couple to return if the baby’s condition had not improved within the next 24 hours.
They returned that afternoon when her condition worsened, but the baby died in Intensive Care later that night after failed attempts to intubate her to open her airway.
The grieving parents, José Manuel Cortés González and Carolina Ribes Sánchez, have now contracted the services of a lawyer to claim liability for their daughter’s death.
Vazquez Abogados, medical malpractice attorneys with 16 years experience.
Between 2007 and 2009 the Spanish police and other enforcement agencies such as Trading Standards in the UK stepped up their efforts to tackle companies that were defrauding timeshare owners and the general public at large. This has resulted in the closure of almost 60 companies, some of which were wound up by the authorities and others ceased trading of their own accord, frequently due to pressure as a result of investigations that were being carried out.
The majority of the companies were based in Spain and the Canary Islands although a small number operated in the UK, where an increasing number of sales offices are opening.
As part of its own enforcement programme, RDO appointed an ex-police inspector from Spain and he has worked closely with the authorities over the past 3 years, providing them with crucial information to help their investigations, with the ultimate aim of having fraudulent companies closed down.
Alabama Development Ltd
UK
Alma Financial Investment SL
Spain
Alvita Holidays / Alvita Vacation
Canary Islands
Alvita Travel SA / Alvita Holidays SL
Canary Islands
APD Leisure & Marketing Ltd
UK
Avantgarde Management
Costa del Sol
Buena Viva
UK
Cabinet D’Avocats
Costa del Sol
Class Properties de Luxe
Costa del Sol
Consultancy Group Europe SL,
Spain
Destinations AG
Canary Islands
DGS Brokers
Costa del Sol
Discovery Planet SL
Spain
Dunstar El Rosario SL
Costa del Sol
Dunstar Global Services SL
Costa del Sol
European Legal Consultants SL
Canary Islands
FC Management Ltd
UK
FH Publishing
Gibraltar
First Legal Services
Costa del Sol
Fleet Holiday Properties
Costa del Sol
Freedom Vacation Network
Canary Islands
Full Circle Management Ltd
UK
Global Vacations Ltd / Vacation Solutions Spain SL
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El Colegio de Abogados de Málaga ha organizado junto con la Organización Paneuropea de Abogados Especialistas en Daños personales (PEOPIL) un seminario internacional que analizará en profundidad la responsabilidad civil.
El seminario permite a los abogados inscritos formarse en dicha área del derecho y tomar conciencia de los diferentes aspectos que la afectan. El curso contará con la presencia de ponentes de toda Europa y gran experiencia en el ejercicio profesional.
Para ello, el Seminario Internacional está organizado en siete ponencias donde se tratarán cuestiones del sistema de valoración del daño corporal en países de la Unión Europea, las lesiones cerebrales y neurológicas, y la responsabilidad civil derivada de los viajes combinados internacionales, entre otras cuestiones. (más…)
Vazquez Abogados Malaga, expertos en reclamación de cantidad, indemnizaciones, deudas e impagados, reclamaciones accidentes trafico, divorcios, negligencias medicas… contacte al Telefono 952215859.
Las nuevas tecnologías nos hacen mas fácil la vida a los abogados y sus clientes a la hora de reclamar mediante una notificacion fehaciente a la parte contraria, para lo que habitualmente se usa el burofax. Existen otros medios como los SMS al movil o los correos electrónicos certificados.
Manuel hacía tiempo que peleaba por cobrar una cuantiosa deuda de un escurridizo moroso en Lérida. Ni los burofax, ni las llamadas, ni las cartas certificadas, ni las visitas a su domicilio eran efectivas para lograr su propósito. Al deudor parecía habérselo tragado la tierra. Ni siquiera había logrado su primer objetivo: demostrar, con una notificación válida para la justicia, que el individuo en cuestión estaba enterado del dinero que se le exigía. Hasta que la tecnología acudió en su auxilio. Él fue uno de los primeros en España en utilizar un sms certificado, un simple mensaje de texto en el móvil, para comunicar al demandado que se le requería el pago de la deuda, requisito previo para que se pueda iniciar un proceso judicial por impago. Y el juzgado de primera instancia número dos de Lérida aceptó el sms como prueba en un juicio civil que acabó con la condena del acusado. (más…)
BBC. One of Europe’s largest boiler room frauds, in which hundreds of victims lost in excess of £20m, has been shut down by police.
City of London Police have arrested 12 people over the Christmas period in Sunderland and Manchester. A 28-year-old man was also arrested in Sweden.
Detectives had been looking at the alleged share fraud since the middle of 2009, in an investigation codenamed Operation Soundwave.
One of the companies named by police as being part of their inquiry is the London-based BFS Corporation, that claimed to be a world leader in the bio-fuels industry.
The BFS Corporation was struck-off and dissolved in November last year and had never traded.
John Middlemiss was one investor in BFS, who parted with £11,000 on 4,000 shares before he grew concerned about cold calls from BFS salesmen. (más…)
Importante sentencia penal que condena en base a un acuerdo al representante legal de Union Naval de Valencia y el Jefe de Seguridad de la empresa, con una importante indemnización a los trabajadores afectados y sus familias por un importe de mas de diez millones de Euros, que tendra que abonar la empresa, según hemos conocido de Abogares.
El daño ha sido causado por la exposición durante años de trabajo al amianto, y generalmente los daños para la salud se reflejan en un periodo de 10 a mas de 20 años, con numerosos casos de muerte.
Puede leer una guia de enfermedades relacionadas con el Asbesto aqui.
Directiva Europea sobre Exposicion al AMIANTO aqui.
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Dozens of British families have lost expensive summer holidays worth an average £3,000 after booking through a defunct website,www.morairaway.com.
And the number is mounting as British-based holiday lettings websites that carried adverts for morairaway.com try to get in touch with customers who booked and paid.
The final amount involved could top £500,000. Spanish police have already launched an investigation into the Malaga-based company whose website does now not work and whose telephone number is out of order.
The victims include Parminder Chana, who planned to celebrate his 21st wedding anniversary in style at a luxurious villa in Spain, surrounded by his family.
He spent nearly £3,350 for a two-week stay at a five-bedroom villa with swimming pool in Javea near Alicante.
“I wanted to do something special for our anniversary and we booked this villa as it looked very nice and professional,” said Mr Chana, 46, a property developer from Essex. “Now we hope this will act as a warning to others who may not be aware of what has happened.”
When morairaway.com stopped answering emails and there was no response to calls to its telephone number, Mr Chana took the unusual step of flying to Alicante to investigate.
He established from Spanish police in the area that no villa existed at the address he had been given in Javea. Mr Chana made a complaint to police who launched the investigation.
It now appears that morairaway.com had for the past three months placed adverts on British-based letting agencies, includingwww.holidaylettings.co.uk.
Timesonline has learned that two English names were given as contact details to holidaylettings.co.uk – Tony Duncan-Smith and Simon Dawson – who described themselves as agent advertisers running the letting agency, morairaway.
Casi 2000 años de condena para el anestesista Juan Maeso, por contagio de hepatitis a pacientes. www.vazquezabogados.es Abogados especializados en negligencias medicas. Tfno 952215859
Almost 2,000 years for the doctor who negligently infected patients with hepatitis
• 25 Feb 2009 •
ELEVEN years after the case first came to light, the Supreme Court has rejected Dr Juan Maeso’s appeal against a 1,933-year prison sentence. The mammoth sentence was passed on the 67-year-old anaesthetist by the Valencia High Court in 2007 after he was found guilty of infecting 275 patients with hepatitis C and causing the deaths of four.
The ruling was welcomed by a spokeswoman for Maeso’s victims, Amparo Gonzalez, who said those she represented had taken the news “with calm satisfaction”, in the knowledge that justice had been done. Counsel for the Prosecution and those representing the plaintiffs applauded the Supreme Court decision. Before Juan Maeso was linked to the high number of hepatitis cases diagnosed in and around Valencia, the divorced father of three was regarded as one of the region’s most distinguished anaesthetists. He was so skilled that he had earned himself the nickname of ‘Porcelain Hands’, because of his gentle touch when giving injections.
Patients grateful not to wince at the hypodermic needle could not guess that hepatitis-carrying Dr Maeso was addicted to opiates and habitually injected himself with a drug, a form of morphine called Dolantina, intended for them. Neither did 275 patients know that they would contract hepatitis through the same doctor who said that his life’s ambition was to control and prevent pain.
Between 1988 and 1997, when Maeso was an anaesthetist at Valencia’s ‘La Fe’ hospital and three private hospitals – the Casa de Salud, Virgen del Consuelo and Quiron clinics – he regularly consumed drugs destined for patients. Towards the end of 1997, doctors employed by companies providing medical cover for Telefonica and Iberdrola employees in the Valencia region noticed a rise in hepatitis C cases amongst patients who had been treated at the Casa de Salud clinic. An official review of hygiene and sterilising methods followed and tests for hepatitis C amongst the clinic’s employees led to Maeso. He was suspended in 1998 and dismissed two years later, after further cases were detected amongst his patients at the three other hospitals.
After the outbreak was traced back to Maeso, medical staff told investigators they had noticed that some of his patients were not sufficiently sedated during operations. Several of Maeso’s patients recalled that the anaesthetic had appeared ‘not to work’ and some remembered coming round immediately after an operation, while still in the theatre. One patient told how Maeso took a hypodermic from his pocket and, after giving him the injection, walked away with the syringe concealed in his hand.
When he came to trial in September 2005, Maeso claimed that, far from him infecting patients, he had been infected by one of them – “it happens all the time,” he said – and argued that he was a scapegoat, chosen to conceal shortcomings in the health service.
When a guilty verdict was reached in 2007, Maeso’s defence team launched the appeal which was rejected last week, bringing to an end the nine-year-long case. Insurance companies and the regional health service will meet the compensation costs of 20,374,065 euros, which Maeso was ordered to pay his victims and, despite the apparent severity of his 1,933 year sentence, this will be reduced to 20 years, the maximum time that can be served in a Spanish prison.
The bogus doctor, Pierre Albrecht, who was employed to carry out plastic surgery in a Marbella clinic on a basis of qualifications which were later found to have been forged, was sentenced by a Marbella Court in November. An explicit adendum to the sentence, by Judge Julian Cabrero Lopez, expressly prohibits him from practising medicine anywhere in Spain.
The forged certificates were found to be a reproduction of those of a doctor who qualified in France in 1989, and who appears in Albrecht’s CV as the tutor who guided him throughout five years of study in aesthetic medicine. Albrecht had been practising in Marbella since 1997 and is thought to have operated on hundreds of people.
According to El Confidencial, since his sentence, nobody has seen or heard of Albrecht, not even the Marbella Clinic, where he practiced.
Since our article appeared in the EWN January 8 edition, we have received several calls from people who claim to have fallen victim to the man some have dubbed the ‘jet-set butcher.’
There has been much talk about a ‘pressure group’ of his victims but little in the way of details on who they are or how to contact them. After some research, we found out that the English-speaking Malaga-based law firm of ‘Vasquez Abogados’ is dealing with several cases relating to Albrecht’s activities.
If you are a victim, you can contact the lawyer, Francisco Damian Vazquez Jimenez, on (952) 215 859 or visit www.vasquezabogados.es for more information.
We would like to invite readers or victims to send us any information regarding this case to alfredo@euroweeklynews.com writing ‘Albrecht’ on the subject line. We would also ask anyone who has a
legally-owned photograph of Pier Albrecht to email it to us at the address above.
AMIANTO
ELEVEN years after the case first came to light, the Supreme Court has rejected Dr Juan Maeso’s appeal against a 1,933-year prison sentence. The mammoth sentence was passed on the 67-year-old anaesthetist by the Valencia High Court in 2007 after he was found guilty of infecting 275 patients with hepatitis C and causing the deaths of four. 
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