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Posted on Feb 6, 2012
In June 2009, a Pennsylvania woman died days after she was struck by a power line that fell into her yard. Carrie Goretzka stepped outside to call 911 about the line and was shocked and burned by a ...
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Posted on Feb 1, 2012
According to a Rochester, NY ruling, Deputy John DiDomenico was negligent when he rear-ended a car in stop-and-go traffic in 2004 while responding to a burglary call. DiDomenico was driving below the ...
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Posted on Jan 30, 2012
The mother of a 32-year-old woman killed in a lakefront high-rise apartment blaze earlier this month has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against building management, saying her daughter would be alive ...
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Posted on Jan 24, 2012
According to an article published in the Insurance Journal this month, about 2,500 day care programs in the state of Georgia have failed to meet the state’s standards for children’s health ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2011
In 2004 a water heater explosion leveled out the apartment of a man in Indiana. The results of this explosion left the man dead and six members of his family critically burned. A year after the ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2011
When Trena Wells, a woman of Illinois, visited her family members one weekend she was in for an experience that would change her life. During her visit, the family members' dog escaped one day and ...
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Posted on Nov 30, 2011
A wrongful death settlement was reached this month for a Californian family who experienced a traumatic car accident in 2010. A woman, her husband, and their grandchildren were in a Mazda when a ...
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Posted on Nov 23, 2011
According to the American Automobile Association, 42.2 million Americans traveled 50 miles or more from home over Thanksgiving in 2010. Although this time of year is suppose to be a time of joy and ...
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Posted on Nov 22, 2011
In 2008, a five-year-old girl drowned in a pool while at her after-school program, Little Bridges. The little girl was autistic and blind, and Little Bridges was fully aware of this but failed to ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2011
A South Carolina man got into a fight with a local police officer in 2009. According to reports, the man was hit several times in the eye by the officer with a metal baton and had to undergo surgery. ...
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Posted on Nov 18, 2011
A Colorado jury awarded a trucker millions of dollars for injuries she experienced after a fall in a metro-Denver Wal-Mart parking lot. When making a store delivery, truck driver Holly Averty slipped ...
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Posted on Nov 17, 2011
Atlanta, Ga Personal Injury attorney Charles McAleer and his employees attended the Run for Justice 5K last weekend to help raise money for the Atlanta Legal Aid. We had a blast and are excited for ...
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Posted on Nov 15, 2011
This month a California jury ordered Ford Motor Co. to pay $73 million to two people who were injured, and to one family of a person who was killed, in a van rollover accident. On April 9, 2004 a ...
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Posted on Nov 11, 2011
On Wednesday the actor-husband of Valerie Harper, an actress who played Rhoda Morgenstern on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Rhoda" in the 1970s, was awarded $156,000 in a Georgia ...
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Posted on Nov 8, 2011
According to ABC News, the family of a Californian toddler will receive ten million dollars for a malpractice experience. Last November, the 2-year-old's parents took her to a Sacramento Hospital ...
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Posted on Nov 4, 2011
According to an article written by WSAV.com, a Lee County family of a former Commissioner who was shot a year ago has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company that was monitoring the ...
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Posted on Nov 4, 2011
Famous Pharmaceutical Company to Pay $3B According to the CBS Evening News, GlaxoSmithKline- a British pharmaceutical company- will have to pay $3 Billion in a settlement after its sales and marketing ...
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Posted on Oct 26, 2011
Household Products: Martha Stewart enamel cast-iron casseroles : Enamel coating can crack or break during use, fly off, and possibly cut or burn user. Products recalled: 960,000 casseroles sold at ...
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Posted on Oct 26, 2011
A 25-year-old man hit by a tractor-trailer carrying an oversized load through North Georgia was awarded a settlement of $5.6 million. The wreck between the Peterbilt tractor and the plaintiff occurred ...
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Posted on Oct 11, 2011
It has been reported that Teva Parenteral Medicines, Inc., Baxter Healthcare Corp., and McKesson Corp. "were ordered by a jury to pay at least $20.1 million for packaging and selling an ...
Continue reading "Jury Rules Teva, Baxter, McKesson at fault for hepatitis C infections" »
Posted on Sep 29, 2011
A recent report warns that metal-on-metal hip implants are failing at an alarming rate. Hip implants such as the DePuy Pinnacle Ultamet and the DePuy Orthopedic ASR, which has been recalled, have been ...
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Posted on Sep 9, 2011
An Ohio jury recently returned a verdict of $5.671 million in favor of a 53-year-old man who sustained severe shoulder injuries as a result of an explosion at an AEP power plant in 2007. During the ...
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Posted on Aug 31, 2011
A teenager was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down after an epidural anesthetic was left in her spine for too long. The young woman was 14 years old when she went in for a routine operation ...
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Posted on Aug 31, 2011
A jury has found Yamaha responsible for a 2005 Wave Runner accident that killed a 14- year old girl and injured her best friend. The jury awarded $19 million to the parents of the young woman that was ...
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Posted on Aug 16, 2011
Contact Us Today personal injury attorneys $375,000 Recovered in Medical Malpractice Case Four years after undergoing aortofemoral bypass surgery in January 2004, an 85-year-old woman underwent a ...
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