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The firm’s client was a 10 year old girl who suffered from severe asthma.  Upon instruction by her doctor, the child was permitted by the district to use her inhaler when needed during the school day.

One day, a substitute teacher was instructing the child’s class.  The child asked the teacher if she could use her inhaler, as she was having trouble breathing. The teacher told her no and instructed her to sit down.  The child got up and asked the teacher if she could go use her inhaler two more times.  All requests were denied, and she was ordered back to her seat.

Ultimately, the child suffered an attack so severe, that an ambulance had to be called and the child rushed to the local children’s hospital.

The school district acknowledged the mistake and fired the substitute teacher. The terms of the monetary settlement are confidential.

A first time mother, recovering from delivery, was given the wrong baby by a hospital nurse. The mother nursed the child, kissed the child, and took family photos with the child. Before she left the hospital, it was determined that the mother had been given the wrong baby. The mother’s real baby was with another set of parents. Both mothers were asked to give blood to determine whether any diseases could have been passed.

The hospital made an egregious mistake which caused the client anxiety, fear and emotional distress.

The terms of the settlement and identity of the hospital are confidential.

BEDFORD HEIGHTS — A local family is threatening to sue a cemetery after a burial plot mixup.

The Hopkinses lost a loved one earlier this month and received shocking news at the funeral — some of the burial plots that the family purchased decades ago at Hillcrest Cemetery are already being used by strangers.

Channel 3 news has been following this story, and now both sides are speaking out.

Veteran’s Family Upset Over Remains Left in Dumpster

CLEVELAND — Eric Wiley, 63, was a husband, a father, a grandfather and an honorable veteran of the United States Army.

When he died in 2010 of cardiac arrest, he left behind a loving family who expected him to have a final resting place in a veteran’s cemetery.

“We had a funeral, and then after that, the remains were supposed to go to a military slot. I signed papers for that,” said his widow, Dorothy, on Thursday.

Instead, Wiley’s cremated remains and those of two other people were discovered in a large commercial dumpster in Akron on Tuesday.

What all three had in common was Funeral Director Charles Taylor, who explained to FOX 8 News that they may have been in a Macedonia storage unit he was renting, along with someone else.

Taylor explained that he was locked out of the storage unit after payments had not been made.

The owner of the storage facility told FOX 8 on Wednesday that Taylor owed him $4,000, but would not answer questions about how the boxes of cremated remains ended up in an Akron dumpster.

That, however, was not where Dorothy Wiley expected her late husband’s remains to ever be found.

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