Woman sues nail salon, claims pedicure caused leg amputation

A woman has sued a Portland, Oregon, nail salon, contending that a pedicure resulted in the amputation of her right leg.

Madhu Kumar alleges in her complaint that a Nails Trap pedicurist tried to shave calluses off her feet in 2012, resulting in the negligent laceration of “the media distal tip of (Kumar’s) right hallux,” otherwise known as the big toe, the Oregonian reports.

Profuse bleeding and gangrene to her toe resulted, eventually resulting in the amputation of her toe and leg, Kumar alleges.

Article here (via aba journal). 

It's all fun and games until someone's butt ends up in the thresher

Farmers used to be letting tourist- types get close to the earth, by letting them thresh their own grain. That might not be the case any longer, since the law suits began.

Article here. 

OK, here's a tort analysis on the law suit: The farmer will  have to defend based on the adequacy of the warning, and what a reasonable person would consider dangerous. The article mentions that the warning sign had a stick figure, with a limb getting injured.