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Trucking Accident
March 13th, 2006
Last week, a federal judge approved a $15.6 million settlement to a family who suffered severe personal injury in a devastating trucking accident in 2001.
The suit filed by Mary and Allan J. Pierce against System Transport Services of Spokane,...
Car Accidents
September 10th, 2007
A Vermont man who suffered permanent injury in a 2005 auto accident has been awarded $21 million. The verdict is thought to be one of the largest ever handed down in the sta...
Personal Injury
June 8th, 2007
A report released yesterday by the National Safety Council (NSC) says that the rate of accidental deaths in the U.S. has risen by 20 percent over the last 10 years, approaching the all-time high in 1969. The nonprofit, independent NSC estimates that October 25th, 2005 The suit alleges that Hawaii''s Governor Linda Lingle has not done enough to stem the abuses from occurring on her watch. Abuses and bad conditions have been reported for decades at the facility, however. The lawsuit alleges that the S... October 11th, 2005 The father of a man killed after being subdued with Taser stun-guns by police in Las Vegas has filed a wrongful death lawsuit for $20 million in US Federal Court against both the Metro Police department and Taser International. Keith Tucker d... April 7th, 2004 A nine-car Amtrak train derailed the night of April 6, 2004, traveling from New Orleans to Chicago. About 25 miles north of Jackson, the train derailment believed to be an accident was declared a state of emergency. Of the 68 passengers and 12 crew mem... May 17th, 2005 A jury took less than an hour to convict a former amusement park manager of reckless homicide for a woman’s fatal fall from a ride called The Hawk, in March 2004 in Tennessee, but after four days of testimony, the panel of 12 opted not to convict Charl... January 23rd, 2007 Researchers reported that the use of antidepressants doubled the risk of bone fractures in older patients. This raises new concerns about the safety of the widely used drugs. The study, which appears in Archives of Internal Medicine ,... The family of a man who was killed in a helicopter crash last year has filed the first suit in connection with the incident. The man, who was a news photographer, for a local Arizona news station was on... February 23rd, 2007 A federal judge has approved the $13.55 million settlement of a product liability lawsuit against Boeing Co. and three companies involved in the manufacturing of a helicopter that cra... February 27th, 2008 A $6.5 million verdict in the wrongful death case of a 21-year-old Army Private who was accidentally electrocuted during basic training in 2004 was upheld on appe... April 23rd, 2007 The parents of a 13-year-old boy who died after losing control of a borrowed all-terrain vehicle (ATV) was awarded $20 million in economic and non-economic damages. Donald “D.J.” Roberts was in middle school in 2002 when he lost his life in an... November 28th, 2007 The number of serious injuries and deaths due to ATV accidents is more than twice what it was ten years ago, according to U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (... August 11th, 2005 All-terrain vehicles, better known by ATVs, have been on the market for over 30 years, but the number of injuries and deaths in recent years has increased. In Kentucky from 1999 to 2002, the state had one of the highest death rates from ATV injuries i... September 24th, 2004 After the 2000 Ford-Firestone rollover debacle to which U.S. officials linked 271 deaths, the Transportation, Recall Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation (TREAD) Act was passed. The TREAD Act was designed to warn the public about vehicle defec... October 15th, 2004 According to government reports, the rise in fatalities from 1993 to 2003 among drivers aged 15 to 20 is most likely attributed to an increase in miles traveled. While more motorists are dying, the average mileage traveled has also increased. The n... December 6th, 2004 Automakers are now stepping up their efforts to enact legal reforms that would drastically change the way auto litigation is handled. Fueled by President Bush''s re-election and a more Republican Congress, Detroit auto manufacturers, alongside the U.... September 17th, 2004 Since 1990, Pennsylvania state law has required pharmacies to give a 20 percent discount on any drugs sold to auto accident crash victims. Pennsylvania Attorney General Jerry Pappert told the Associated Press in September 2004 that the law was created ... January 16th, 2004 According to a new study by the Insurance Research Council (IRC), losses in auto injury claims are increasing. The study based on more than 70,000 auto injury claims appears surprising since the rate of serious auto injuries has decreased, however the ... February 5th, 2007 A man who was seriously injured in a slip and fall accident has won over $5.7 million in a personal injury lawsuit. This is one of the largest jury verdicts in such a case in the history of southern New Jersey. The suit named the car dealershi... April 12th, 2006
Consumers filed class-action lawsuits Tuesday against two soft drink manufacturers claiming the companies sold products that may contain the known carcinogen benzene. The lawsuits claim that soft drink products sold by Polar Beverages I... March 15th, 2007 A man who was in a horrible motorcycle accident allegedly as a result of a poorly maintained road has won $1.75 million in the settlement of his lawsuit against the county that failed to adequately maintain them. Bradley Rowand claims that bec... November 5th, 2004 A Connecticut state trooper is claiming he was bitten by a police dog and is now suing the town of Groton and police officials. According to Trooper Michael Thomas, Groton town Officer Albert Smythe intentionally directed his bomb detection dog to ... October 27th, 2006 The widow of a police officer, who died when the protective vest he was wearing failed to halt a fired bullet, was awarded $3.6 million to compensate for her losses and suffering. In 2003, the 27-year-old police officer pulled over a drug addi... May 23rd, 2008 A personal injury lawsuit filed on behalf of 10 plaintiffs against BP is seeking $950 million in damages, according to attorney Brent Coo... October 1st, 2004 Every year, about 1.5 million Americans suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI). A TBI is caused by impact of an outside force to the head that can break the skull bone and damage the underlying brain tissue, or a brain injury can be suffered when th... BTEX exposure is a very serious concern because of the toxic effects it
can have on the human body. BTEX, or benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and
xylenes, are compounds that are commonly found together in contaminated
sites. One ... September 1st, 2006 Large fast food chain Burger King Holdings Inc. is facing a lawsuit in California Superior Court for allegations that the company failed to warn consumers that it''s charbroiled burgers such as the Triple Whopper contain a cancer-causing chemical. Class Action Lawsuit
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October 19th, 2005
A family in Fresno California has been awarded over $40,000 in a lawsuit against Mountain View Cemetery, also in Fresno. The family, descendants of the ethnic Hmong of Laos, says that the cemetery sold them a grave that was already in use.
T...
School Bus Accident
November 9th, 2004
A truck crashed into the rear of a school bus on an Indiana highway, injuring at least three elementary students. The bus began moving after picking up a student when the truck slammed into the bus. After hitting a van parked in a church parking lo...
April 17th, 2006
Eight West Virginia students who were involved in a school bus accident last week filed a lawsuit Monday claiming the driver of the truck that hit them was under the influence of drugs and his employer was aware of it.
The lawsuit names...
October 6th, 2006
A nuclear reactor meltdown in 1959 at a California test laboratory has been linked to hundreds of cancer cases in the nearby community, and toxic chemicals continue to contaminate water and ground, according to a new report.
The independent ad...
Class Action Lawsuit
December 15th, 2005
A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of 60,000 college students alleging that they were charged more tuition than illegal immigrants at state run colleges and universities in California.
The suit has been filed in Yolo County Superior Court and ...
Dog Bites
February 11th, 2008
A California woman who suffered severe facial injuries when she was attacked by an American bulldog recently settled her case for a reported $1 million in damages.
Wendy Rydberg spent several days in the hospital after being mauled by the 90-p...
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
September 26th, 2006
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that drug company Genentech Inc. will be adding stronger label warnings on their blockbuster cancer drug Avastin, which will warn about the increased risk of a rare brain condition in patients usin...
Auto Accidents
June 2nd, 2008
A settlement was recently reached in Newark, NJ, regarding a car accident lawsuit that occurred in 2004.
The suit was filed by the families o...
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
January 22nd, 2007
The family of a woman who was run over and killed at a car wash by an employee has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the car wash''s corporate owner.
A surveillance video shows a woman get hit by an SUV as she crosses a car wash parking l...
Civil Lawsuit
October 14th, 2005
In a move seen as favorable to the plaintiffs a California judge in a $100 million civil suit has agreed to further question the plaintiffs about their case. Fifteen people in San Diego are suing state and federal government offices for failing to cle...
Personal Injury
August 21st, 2006
The results of a new study indicate that chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer patients under the age of 64 actually cause more harm than previously thought. According to the study, patients suffered three to four times the rate of side effects tha...
Burn Information
April 29th, 2008
A building fire lawsuit against Chicago city officials and other defendants has been settled for $100 million, one of the largest settlements September 26th, 2005 A wrongful death suit was filed Monday against the city of Detroit and two unnamed 911 dispatchers after a Michigan women died when her 6-year-old son’s 911 calls were ignored. According to attorney Geoffrey Fieger, Sherrill Lynn Turner’s... July 3rd, 2007 A new study reveals that the use of many types of non-automobile motorized vehicles by children in the U.S. has resulted in markedly higher numbers of injuries. Although the dangers of Read More... October 4th, 2005 Officials called it the worst case of child abuse that they had ever seen. The abuse of four young boys resulted in a $12.5 million settlement to be paid by New Jersey’s child welfare agency. The agency settled in a lawsuit saying that the state negl... May 10th, 2006 Millions of owners of Teflon coated cookware are seeking class-action status against DuPont Co. – a move that could potentially cost the company $5 billion. The lawsuit, filed in a federal district court in Iowa, claims that Dupont concealed i... January 27th, 2005
Business groups have recently provided some data about just two counties from one state, justifying their claims that there is a “hellhole” problem for class actions.
According to the Public Citizen consumer group, business lobby’s cl... January 13th, 2004 Opponents of a new legislation backed by President Bush that is gaining momentum into becoming a bill, are angered by the measures outlined. The legislation, if passed would move more class action lawsuits out of state courts and into federal courts. C... August 20th, 2007 Late Sunday morning, a carbon monoxide (CO) leak at a student off-campus apartment building near Virginia Tech in Blacksburg sickened 19 female students. Five of the women remain in the hospital, with two of the women in critical condition. They were f... November 18th, 2004 Anoma Phanthourath, an associate with Shughart Thomson & Kilroy is one of 22 attorneys named Best Lawyers Under 40 by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. This annual honor recognizes top attorneys in the Asian-Pacific American community w... October 20th, 2006 A recently released study, published in the online scientific journal Environmental Health, found an increased rate of various types of cancers among Plant workers at International Business Machines Corp. (IBM). For many years IBM exe... April 15th, 2004 While the physiological effects of concussions - injuries that occur as
the result of trauma to the head - have been widely reported, there have
not been many studies on the emotional effects of the injuries. Now, a
new study in... June 6th, 2007 Wilson "Alex" Lopez-Ochoa, 21, was driving his 1990 Honda Civic out of a Waukegan, Illinois laundromat's parking lot late at night in early 2005 when his car was slammed into on the passenger's side by a Waukegan Police squad car. Lopez-Ochoa... October 24th, 2005 A family of an 18-year-old man who died while in custody at a detention facility has received an undisclosed award after the facility agreed to settle with them. The settlement follows an additional $40 million awarded in 2003 to the family by the sta... February 21st, 2006 New studies have found that use of corticosteroids in intensive care patients can increase the risk of infection and death. In a case controlled study, researchers found that patients in ICU who were given corticosteroid drugs to treat a varie... April 3rd, 2006 A construction crane and scaffolding buckled on a street in downtown Boston on Monday, killing three people near Emerson University. According to witnesses, they heard a roar and saw the scaffolding crash causing a cloud of metal, boards, ... July 31st, 2006 The first wave of a possible flood of lawsuits was filed against Princess Cruise Lines late last week, just two weeks after a cruise ship accident left hundreds of passengers injured. On July 18, 2006, the Crown Princess abruptly tilted 15 deg... June 28th, 2005 The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an advocacy group that has a history of battles against the dairy industry, has filed lawsuits alleging false advertising for claiming milk helps in weight loss. The group said one law... June 30th, 2006 A young boy died yesterday after riding the Rock ‘n'' Roller Coaster at the Disney MGM theme park in Florida, marking the ninth death at Disney World since 2003. Michael Russell, a 12-year-old boy from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, was limp when th... January 10th, 2006 A family from Colorado has sued the Walt Disney World Co. yesterday for injuries they suffered while riding on the California Disneyland amusement park''s roller coaster Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in 2004. The Read More... November 10th, 2004 According to a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study that gathered statistics over seven years, certain breeds of dog are more likely to bite and kill. The CDC study included a 1997 study of dog bite fatalities in the years 1979 through 1996 find... January 27th, 2005 An employee at the Park Lane Hotel who says hotelier Leona Helmsley’s Maltese “viciously attacked” and bit her right hand November 26, has sued Helmsley. The dog bite suit was filed by Zamfira Sfara and contends Helmsley knew her dog was “a f... January 27th, 2005 A former maintenance worker for Houston Rockets guard Tracy McGrady was attacked and disfigured by McGrady’s Rottweiler and is suing. According to Fred Chamberlin, he lost the tip of his nose in the August 25 dog attack that occurred in Mc... February 15th, 2005 A growing number of homeowner policies are denying or failing to renew policies because of a type of dog the family owns. Some insurers have prohibited homeowners from having dangerous dogs for years, but this trend has become more common in the last... February 9th, 2005 More than two years ago, a woman Brandi Pontin had to undergo eight surgeries after a neighbor’s dog jumped her fence, fought with her dog then bit off the tip of her finger. Her husband started pushing to strengthen Honolulu’s dog ordinance after st... September 7th, 2006 A woman who was severely beaten by her husband was awarded more than half a million dollars in damages by a Virginia jury who found him guilty of domestic violence and wanted to make a statement that abuse is intolerable. Deborah Martin filed ... September 26th, 2005 Finius T. Flubberbuster’s, a bar in Hampton, NY, has settled in a wrongful death lawsuit. The case was just about to go to trial when the bar conceded and settled for an undisclosed amount instead. The lawsuit was brought against the bar by the famil... October 12th, 2005 A former police officer at Ball State University, Indiana is seeking to have a $100 million civil suit thrown out of court. The ex-officer, Robert Duplain, recently had his request denied by another judge in an Indiana federal court. Mr. Duplain and ... June 6th, 2006 Three Parkersburg residents have filed a lawsuit seeking class action status against DuPont, charging the company with contaminating their drinking water with perfluorooctanoic acid – also called C8. A similar lawsuit was filed again... July 2nd, 2008 Approximately half of all fall-related deaths in the elderly are due to traumatic brain injuries, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease ... November 4th, 2004 South Carolina Rep. George Bailey suffered a dog bite while campaigning in early October. After realizing the stray dog bite broke skin and spending hours looking for the dog, Bailey was forced to get rabies treatment. Bailey had to get nine shots ... August 23rd, 2007 Purdue Freshman Died in Utility Room at Dorm Wade Steffey was a 19-year-old freshman at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana when he died in an accidental electrocution on university property on January 13. The university... November 23rd, 2003 Over time, little has
been done to change the way farming is done. Most farmers have the view
that injury and death comes with the lifestyle and that public safety is
a decision that should be decided by each farmer and not forc... February 1st, 2006 A fatal trucking accident in Wallingford, CT has led to the arrest of construction company owner, Joseph Spezzano, and driver Michael Sandacata on charges of second-degree manslaughter. The truck, driven by Sandacata, allegedly had serious brake proble... February 18th, 2005 President Bush has signed into law legislation to curb class action lawsuits in his first major legislative victory of his second term. U.S. businesses have long sought the measure, which will shift most class action lawsuits from state cou... October 2nd, 2006 The city of New York has agreed to pay $3 million to the estate of a women who was killed after suffering severe injuries in a 2003 ferry accident, said the family''s attorney. According to the personal injury lawsuit, thirty-nine-year-old Deb... April 3rd, 2006 New details from Monday’s fatal crane accident in Boston have surfaced involving the construction firms that were working on the 14-story Emerson University dormitory downtown. Witnesses watched on Monday morning as a construction crane and ... January 26th, 2005 A Florida elementary school bus overturned Wednesday morning north of Tampa, sending eight to the hospital. The school bus was carrying 24 children aboard. One child was airlifted by helicopter to a Tampa hospital, but none of the injuries w... August 9th, 2005 Two studies were released yesterday, concluding states that repeal laws like helmet requirements on motorcycles run the risk of increasing the number of deaths and health care costs as a result. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administra... December 6th, 2006 General Motors has announced the opening of a new and improved crash test facility, which will offer simulated rollover tests to help enhance consumer safety. Every year in the United States, 10,800 people are killed in rollover crashes and over 16,000... January 12th, 2006 National Guard Troops Sue Government January 12, 2006 Members of the US National Guard have filed a $73 million class action lawsuit against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other high-ranking military off... February 3rd, 2006 A $75.2 million settlement has been reached in the devastating John Hancock Center scaffolding accident. The families of three women killed in the tragic accident, as well as seven people who were severely injured, filed personal injury lawsuits agains... October 16th, 2007 A 2 ½-year-old boy and his mother recently won a $856,000 jury award in a case involving a dog attack on a Hawaiian beach. The verdict is thought to be the highest in the state's history for a Read More... January 27th, 2006 A woman, who suffered nearly fatal head injuries in an automobile accident has given birth to a healthy baby in Peru, Indiana. Stacey B. Hanes, age 24, was involved in a traumatic car accident in June of 2005, leaving the childbearing woman incapacitat... June 5th, 2007 A study described in the latest issue of the journal Pediatrics described the high accident rate associated with the shoes that are a cross between sneakers and roller skates — "Heelys," with wheels embedded in the heels. The study showed tha... November 15th, 2003 The FDA issued a consumer
advisory that hepatitis A outbreaks have been linked to green onions. According
to lab information, the contaminated onions came from Mexico and the federal
government has since stopped imports of Mexi... October 18th, 2005 Health Insurance provider Humana Inc. has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed against them by a number of doctors. The physicians said in the lawsuit that Humana paid lesser amounts of money in claims than they submitted for billing.Wrongful Death
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Class Action Lawsuit
September 23rd, 2005
A recently filed federal class-action lawsuit alleges that oil companies may have been responsible for much of the damage to the New Orleans area from Hurricane Katrina. The lawsuit, representing all victims of the hurricane in Louisiana, alleges that...
Toxic Torts
January 16th, 2008
Nearly 100 residents of Endicott—the birthplace of IBM—and the neighboring town of Union have filed a toxic tort lawsuit against the company, claiming that contam...
Dog Bites
November 8th, 2005
Two Cary, Illinois kids were mauled by pit bulls over the weekend, but authorities hinted the dogs'' owner is unlikely to face criminal charges because of the dog attacks. Nick Foley was in critical condition yesterday, and his friend Jourdan Lamarre w...
Personal Injury
August 9th, 2007
Over one million pounds of frozen shrimp, catfish, and eel imported from China passed through U.S. ports since the fall of 2006 without the necessary inspection for banned chemicals and drugs. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had placed the ...
Auto Accidents
April 27th, 2006
Eighty percent of motor vehicle crashes in the United States involve distracted drivers, according to a government study that videotaped the drivers of 100 vehicles in northern Virginia and Washington D.C.
Researchers reviewed thousands of hou...
Personal Injury
June 7th, 2007
A study in the June issue of Pediatrics describes finding a link between indoor swimming in chlorinated pools and lung changes that may predispose a child to the development of asthma and recurrent bronchitis. The findings may indicate that th...
Wrongful Death
July 25th, 2008
A lawsuit was recently filed in Fresno, California, for the wrongful death of a beloved teacher who was a patient at St. ...
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
November 7th, 2006
Each year, about 17,000 children in the U.S. are sent to emergency rooms as a result of school bus-related accidents, according to new nationwide data. This statistic is more than twice the number of previous figures that included only information on b...
Spinal Cord Injury
November 11th, 2004
After Christopher Reeve severely damaged his spinal cord when falling off a horse in 1995, he became the most prolific face of spinal cord injury. Focused on bringing more awareness and research funding for spinal cord injury, Reeve was able to bri...
Personal Injury
April 25th, 2007
An Illinois prisoner serving 15 years for armed robbery and assault has filed a personal injury lawsuit claiming he was attacked by Williamson County Jail correctional ...
August 7th, 2007
The company overseeing a $1 billion insurance fund set up in the aftermath of September 11 is being sued by ailing ground zero workers who want the company to make the money available for their health care.
Congress appropriated the funds for ...
February 20th, 2007
The Food and Drug Administration has learned that many Americans who have ordered specific drugs over the Internet have instead been receiving a pill that contains a powerful anti-psychotic drug, haloperidol.
Among the drugs that Americans hav...
Wrongful Death
April 4th, 2006
A West Virginia jury ruled in favor of a family in a wrongful death lawsuit against a hospital who fraudulently covered up information about a woman’s death from her husband. The family was awarded $6.5 million in damages.
In September 2001,...
Industrial Accidents
July 26th, 2007
The Barton Solvent tank farm explosion that ignited about 300,000 pounds of toxic chemicals last week has not been explained by the company's owners, and local and state fire...
Personal Injury
October 3rd, 2006
The country''s biggest Roman Catholic archdiocese may pay a $60 million award to dozens of alleged clergy abuse victims, as the cases move toward settlement, according to several attorneys involved in the lawsuits.
The settlement would award 4...
California Personal Injury
January 28th, 2005
The arraignment of Juan Manuel Alvarez, the man who allegedly caused the fatal Metrolink train crash, resulting in 11 deaths and hundreds of injuries, has been delayed until February 15, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
November 9th, 2006
The family of a North Carolina man who died when a defective lawnmower exploded, was awarded $6 million in damages after a jury found the equipment company that manufactured the product liable for his death.
Jacobsen Division of Textron Inc., ...
Civil Lawsuit
November 9th, 2005
The House passed legislation that would require federal judges to make attorneys who file frivolous lawsuits pay the defendants'' legal fees, but Senate action is unlikely, especially this year.
The legislation gives judges discretion over whe...
Brain Injuries
October 25th, 2004
Scientists at Jefferson Medical College have shown young rats exposed to low levels of lead take significantly longer to recover from a brain injury than those animals that were not exposed to lead. Even low levels of lead exposure can have permane...
Class Action Lawsuit
May 1st, 2006
More than a dozen people have claimed they contracted deadly viruses and other germs from stolen body parts used in routine tissue implantation surgeries. Hundreds of others have been sent for tests after the U.S. government issued a recall on the ille...
Medical Malpractice Settlements
May 29th, 2007
A New Jersey jury recently found mechanic Joseph Martelle 50 percent liable for injuries he incurred in 2000 when he was installing air conditioning at a New York high school and had two fingers partially severed as he was sawing Plexiglas®.
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November 15th, 2005
Under a new prescription drug law passed by President Bush, thousands of frail, poor, and elderly patients will potentially lose prescription drug coverage on January 1 due to computer errors and other problems, a new lawsuit filed yesterday alleges. <...
Personal Injury
February 4th, 2004
Last year, Missouri Democratic Gov. Bob Holden vetoed a Republican backed bill in personal injury lawsuits and capping some verdicts. There has continued to be arguments regarding the effect capped damages awards have on medical malpractice premiums in...
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
October 26th, 2005
A former Indianapolis, IN Catholic priest was sued on Tuesday by two former alter boys who say the man molested them in the 1970s. The priest was relieved of his duties in 1984 after other reported allegations of molestation occurred then. The lawsuit ...
Wrongful Death
January 24th, 2006
The parents of two young girls that were devastatingly killed in a gas explosion in Massachusetts have come to a settlement with NStar Gas. Co. and other defendants for $17.2 million. The wrongful death case has gone on for nearly four years now after ...
Personal Injury
August 4th, 2005
New York Gov. George Pataki has signed the package known as Billy’s Law, which will give some of the most vulnerable New Yorkers added protection.
Named for a youth who was sent to residential facilities in nearby states because of his tra...
Wrongful Death
May 24th, 2006
The parents of a Baton Rouge teenager have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against OnStar, alleging that the company refused service that could have saved their son''s life.
Dustin Bambarger was found dead in his parent''s Chevrolet Suburban on...
Civil Lawsuit
October 7th, 2005
Clackamas County, Oregon has agreed to pay a $1.5 million settlement in the civil case of a police officer that was wounded in the line of duty. In January 2003 Sgt. Damon Coates was responding to a domestic disturbance call and was shot in the head b...
Train Accidents
April 20th, 2004
Nearly 130 commuters and crew were injured after an April 19 train accident. Caused by an error because of a train engineer, Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road trains bumped into each other in the Penn Station tunnel. Since both railroads are liable for ...
Wrongful Death
September 26th, 2005
A White Haven, PA, woman has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against a doctor in the death of her son. The suit alleges that the doctor over-prescribed a series of drugs to her son that resulted in the young man’s death.
Timothy Forschner die...
Class Action Lawsuit
October 14th, 2005
An Oregon lawsuit against Philip Morris USA states that the tobacco manufacturer knowingly misled consumers into thinking that its Marlboro Lights brand of cigarettes contained less amounts of nicotine and tar than full-strength cigarettes.
...
Wrongful Death
March 13th, 2007
The children of a Louisiana man who died after a small plane crashed into his mobile home filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Friday against the owner of the plane and the pilot's estate.
According to the complaint, Lucien Broussard, 73, suffere...
Dog Bites
July 7th, 2008
A five-year old girl in Portland, Oregon, became the victim of a vicious dog attack by a police dog and her family is choosing to ta...
February 10th, 2005
The Minnesota Supreme Court reversed a decision by the state Court of Appeals allowing dog bite victims to sue for damages from police dogs. Despite the ruling, the high court sent a lawsuit against the Anoka Police Department back to the appeals cou...
Industrial Accidents
March 6th, 2006
Three West Virginia power plant employees were rescued on Saturday from a 100-story smokestack power plant fire and one is missing and presumed dead only days after one worker complained about the facility’s safety issues.
The men, employed by...
Personal Injury
August 1st, 2007
A recent study found that some laser printers emit levels of ultrafine particles almost as high as those of cigarettes. Inhaling such particles can cause respiratory irritation, cardiovascular problems, and cancer, depending on the composition of the p...
Civil Lawsuit
October 12th, 2005
Three former prisoners, James Worthington, Garrett Gardner and Heather Phillips, are filing a lawsuit seeking $3 million for inhumane living conditions at the Jail where they were detained. The jail, Brown County Jail in Georgetown, OH is alleged to b...
Wrongful Death
July 21st, 2008
The parents of a boy who was recently killed on a dirt racetrack have filed a suit claiming their son was wrongfully killed.
JMX Racing LLC and JMX Racing Promotions Inc. were named as defendants in the Read More...
Texas Personal Injury
March 27th, 2005
Darin Kosmak is the railroad section director in the Texas Department of Transportation. In the last 11 years, the Texas official overseeing rail crossings has, on behalf of the rail industry, signed sworn statements about warning sings at railroad cr...
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
October 25th, 2006
A former railroad worker who suffered severe brain damage from long-term exposure to cleaning solvents in the workplace was awarded $1.8 million in compensation after a jury found the railroad company liable for the damages.
The personal injur...
Class Action Lawsuit
July 26th, 2005
U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp ruled in a class action lawsuit that Union Pacific Railroad discriminated against women by not covering contraceptives in its health care plan.
The lawsuit claimed the company discriminated women by pro...
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
September 25th, 2006
Hasbro Inc., the second largest toy manufacturer in the U.S., issued a recall on parts of a play workbench set after two young children choked on the oversized plastic nails, the company announced last week.
According to Al Verrecchia, the ...
Civil Lawsuit
December 14th, 2005
After several high-profile blunders, Marsha J. Evans, the President of the American Red Cross has suddenly resigned, leading many to speculate that the beleaguered organization is in more trouble than previously thought. The Red Cross ...
Auto Accidents
October 27th, 2004
According to new government crash and rollovers tests, two 2005 Ford vehicles, the two-door Focus and Ranger 4x4 pickup, were the worst performers. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), when a Focus was hit in the...
August 19th, 2005
The Public Citizen consumer group said the federal government missed an opportunity to save thousands of lives and avoid thousands of injuries resulting from vehicle rollovers. According to the consumer group, the long-delayed roof crush rule proposed...
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
March 1st, 2007
A woman and her son filed a lawsuit over several serious dog bites . The Evansville Housing Authority, Animal Control, and the City of Evansville had been warned severa...
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July 29th, 2008
A settlement was recently reached in West Sacramento in a suit filed by the victim of a vicious dog attack.
One of the cani...
Vicarious Liability
December 22nd, 2005
Daniel Doll, a San Diego area man who was paralyzed over two years ago by a falling movie theater sign settled his injury lawsuit for $12.7 million recently. The man had jumped on top of a 4-year-old girl he was babysitting in order to protect her from...
Civil Lawsuit
October 26th, 2005
Parents of Rio Nicholas, a 19-year-old Colorado School of Mines student who died on campus in 2001, are filing a federal lawsuit that claims school officials and campus police deliberately covered up information about their son’s death...
Wrongful Death
October 17th, 2005
The parents of a 26-year-old scuba diver who died after a scuba accident have settled for an undisclosed amount in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against American Medical Response, the ambulance company that responded to the scene.
The laws...
June 12th, 2008
A nursing home in the San Diego area is being sued for the wrongful death of a 94-year-old resident who was hit by a car while under the care of ...
Personal Injury
June 29th, 2007
A new study shows that secondhand tobacco smoke to which nonsmoking restaurant and bar workers were exposed markedly raised their levels of the carcinogen NKK, even after a single wo...
Traumatic Brain Injury
July 8th, 2008
According to recent reports, in 2005, traumatic brain injuries (TBI’s) among those who are 65-years-old and older resulted in an estimated 8,000 deaths.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also reports t...
Civil Lawsuit
October 13th, 2005
A former bodyguard for famed Las Vegas magician and showman Roy Horn filed a lawsuit alleging that Horn’s well-known partner Siegfried Fischbacher is forcing excessive amounts of pain medication on Roy.
The lawsuit alleges that for the past...
Trucking Accident
August 16th, 2006
A new study suggests that commercial truck drivers with chronic sleep disorders or sleep-related respiratory problems have a higher risk of impaired driving performance, making them a hazard on the road.
Sleep problems in truck drivers such as...
Personal Injury
January 29th, 2004
The cold winter months have resulted in a high number of slip and falls accidents on icy surfaces. The question remains, who is liable for the personal injury suffered? A slip and fall personal injury liability is determined if the property did what wa...
Spinal Cord Injury
October 5th, 2004
University of Florida Health Science Center scientists have provided the first ever glimpse of how the body attempts to heal a damaged spinal cord during the weeks and months after the injury. It suggests there may be many more chances to treat it than...
October 5th, 2004
New findings from a study on patients with spinal cord injuries has discovered MRI technology could determine whether or not performing surgery would benefit patients. Canadian neuroscientists found trauma induced spinal cord compression on MRIs predi...
December 3rd, 2004
An animal study using injections of a man made liquid to help treat spinal cord injuries and prevent permanent paralysis may someday be a reality, based on initial study results. Appearing in the Journal of Neurotrauma''s December ed...
Wrongful Death
December 21st, 2007
A jury in Massachusetts awarded more than $6 million in damages to the family of a man killed during a bizarre bus accident at Gillette Stadium in August 2003.
Thomas Kelly, 64, sustained severe injuries when a steel gate crashed through the wi...
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
October 13th, 2006
A stem cell transplant program neglected to ensure its stem cells were in top condition and failed to inform patients about problems, according to lawsuits filed against the program.
Between 1998 and 1999, the program treated 40 patients using...
Wrongful Death
January 17th, 2006
The U.S. Supreme Court has stopped efforts by the U.S. government to end Oregon''s assisted suicide law. The law, which allows doctors with sound consent to prescribe lethal medications to patients who are deemed terminally ill, was challenged by Attor...
September 28th, 2007
A Maryland jury awarded more than $4 million in damages to the parents of a 5-year-old boy who drowned in a country club swimming pool last year.
Connor Freed was found floating in the pool at Crofton Country Club at 4:30 on June 22, 2006. He ...
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
April 9th, 2007
The family of a boy who had to have some toes partially amputated after an allegedly improperly secured table fell on his foot has filed a personal injury lawsuit agai...
Medical Malpractice Claims
June 26th, 2006
Late last week, the U.S. Senate passed an amendment calling for an almost immediate investigation into past water contamination at the Camp Lejeune Marine base in North Carolina.
The amendment, proposed by Senators Elizabeth Dole and Jim Jeffo...
Brain Injuries
January 16th, 2004
Victims of traumatic brain injury are at an increased risk for major depression and other psychiatric illness within the first year of their injury, according to two articles in the January issue of The Archives of General Psychiatry.
...Traumatic Brain Injury
November 23rd, 2004
So far, any attempt for an effective traumatic brain injury (TBI) drug has failed. Pharmos said that its experimental drug dexanabinol, while only partially preventing cognitive problems in patients undergoing heart surgery in a midstage stud...
Brain Injuries
June 28th, 2005
Traumatic brain injury is the leading cause of death and disability for adults in their 20s and 30s. Every year, roughly 80,000 people suffer serious damage from TBI injuries, commonly the result of car and motorcycle accidents. Referred to as the “s...
Auto Accidents
August 29th, 2007
On Monday, the California State Assembly passed a bill that would prohibit the use of cell phones, pagers, laptops, and text-messaging devices by drivers under the age of 18. The bill passed with a vote of 62 to 5. It has already passed in the Senate a...
Class Action Lawsuit
July 19th, 2005
A $5 billion class-action lawsuit has been filed against DuPont Co. saying the company failed to warn consumers of the dangers of a Teflon chemical. Teflon is the company’s popular nonstick cookware made using perfluorooctanoic acid and its salts, kno...
July 8th, 2005
DuPont Co. agreed in February to pay for screenings to determine if tens of thousands of Ohio and West Virginia residents’ health has been compromised because of affected drinking water containing the chemical used to make the nonstick substance Teflon...
May 26th, 2005
Despite how clear a liability case appears, with easily identified negligence resulting in death, injury or damage, a government function is immune from tort liability. In March, a New Jersey woman called her local fire department after smelling smoke...
June 14th, 2007
Camp Lejeune, a Marine base in North Carolina that houses nearly 100,000 members of the military and their families, was found in 1982 to have tapwater with toxic levels of two suspected carcinogens. It was later determined that from 1957 to 1987, the ...
Auto Accidents
April 22nd, 2005
A federal rule establishing training requirements for truck and bus drivers is “grossly inadequate,” according to the Public Citizen consumer group.
The rule fails to require that entry-level drivers receive any training on how to operate a...
Trucking Accident
March 8th, 2005
Every year, almost 5,000 people die in the United States in crashes with trucks. The National Transportation Safety Board estimates that tired truckers cause 30 to 40 percent of truck crashes. Wal-Mart is one of the country’s worst 100 carriers in re...
Personal Injury
August 19th, 2005
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration proposed a rule that would allow truckers to drive a consecutive number of hours, which the Public Citizen consumer group calls “a disappointment.” The agency’s proposal was in response to a July 2004 co...
Wrongful Death
January 8th, 2008
A trucking company has agreed to settle a wrongful death claim involving the June 2006 deaths of two young girls for $9 million.
The Accident August 15th, 2008 A father and son living in Tualatin, Washington, are currently facing up to $5,000 in fines and two civil suits involving their dogs. The men reportedly own Rottweiler dogs that bit two other dogs and a pers... November 2nd, 2007 Attorneys are asking a Washington jury to award $38 million in damages to a woman who suffered severe, disfiguring injuries when part of an entertainment center flew from a U-Haul trailer through her windshield. Maria Federici, 28, suffered “c... March 13th, 2008 A federal jury awarded $28 million in damages to the family of a 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by the state police. Fatal Wound Michael Ellerbe was killed on Christmas Eve 2002 while being chased by two state tr... September 20th, 2004 After a New York Times article published in July 2004 said Union Pacific fails to properly report fatal accidents along its tracks, the railroad company said it would develop a camera system. The digital cameras and microphones attached to its locomoti... April 11th, 2008 A significant majority of the families of Virginia Tech shooting victims have agreed to an $11 million proposed settlement with the state, Governor Timothy M. Kaine said on Thursday. The state proposed the Read More... June 11th, 2007 Since 1999, more than 4,800 families of children with autism have filed suit with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims contending that their children developed autism as a result of vaccinations they'd received. A court hearing for a test case based on the... November 1st, 2004 The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission alongside Robertshaw Controls Company, a California based manufacturer, has announced a voluntary recall on the Robertshaw TS-11 Thermal Safety Control Gas Valve and the “magnet head” on the gas valve. Th... November 1st, 2004 A church van carrying mostly teenagers flipped over and crashed on an East Texas highway, injuring 14. The van was returning from a birthday party at a restaurant when the van left the roadway and the driver overcorrected, which caused the vehicle to ... June 17th, 2008 The motorcycle accident lawsuit that was filed against Vancouver was recently settled for $300,000. A jury found that t... June 22nd, 2007 The Metropolitan Water Reclamation Plant in Stickney, Illinois was the site of two fatalities yesterday, when two as-yet unidentified subcontractors were killed in an industrial ... January 2nd, 2007 The wife of a police officer who was killed while riding a bicycle to raise money for dead fellow officers has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the operator of the truck that caused the accident. Gary Dudley, 51, was killed when he was hi... November 21st, 2006 A family that was forced to move out of their home when a neighbor blew up his multi-million dollar East Side New York townhouse, killing himself and demolishing their house in the process, is suing the man''s estate. According to court papers... August 5th, 2005 Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell identified 25 tucking companies considered by a federal agency to have the worst safety records in the state. All 25 of the companies are now targeted for new state inspections. Officials from several of th... February 16th, 2007 The family of a mentally disabled man who died when he was shot, handcuffed, then beat at least a dozen times by police has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of North Charleston. A man who witnessed and photographed the incident ... January 14th, 2008 The family of a 17-year-old mauling victim at the San Francisco Zoo has hired a high-profile lawyer to sue the city for wrongful death. Fatal Maul...Dog Bites
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