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• Johnson & Johnson Exec. Alleges he was Fired for Safety Concerns

  Christina Cole | December 30, 2006 4:11 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  Former vice president of two Johnson & Johnson subsidiaries claims in a lawsuit that he was fired for seeking recalls on numerous faulty products. One such product includes the Ortho Evra birth control patch which was the subject of at least 1,000 product liability suits. One of the world's largest medical and drug product makers, New Jersey based Johnson & Johnson, said last week they fired the...

• Car Accident - One Person Trapped in Vehicle

  Christina Cole | December 28, 2006 1:01 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  An off duty California Highway Patrol officer responded to a motor vehicle accident that took place on Interstate 10 in Palm Desert early morning. At least one person is trapped inside the vehicle according to CHP reports.At approximately 7:23 a.m., a SUV reportedly crashed in to the center divide on eastbound Interstate 10, just east of Cook Street. According to California Highway Patrol, at...

• Two Unrelated Deaths in Head-on Collisions

  Rick Patterson | December 27, 2006 7:08 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Two people died in unrelated automobile accidents in Kansas on Tuesday. Eldon L. Baily, 49 of Whitewater died due to a collision while he was driving a GMC pickup. He was driving eastbound but went left off the center of the road and collided with oncoming traffic. The driver of the other vehicle survived. Within 45 minutes of the previous accident, Joshua D. Baughn, 19 of Humboldt, lost his...

• Defective Products and Returns

  Rick Patterson | December 26, 2006 2:20 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  We have all received defective products at one time or another. With the holiday season upon us, you may have more reasons than ever to return products. However, there are key things to keep in mind if you are to have any hope of making a return. Not so much if the product is actually defective, but definitely if the product simply must go back. Here is a list of the return policies of some of...

• New Flair Emerges in Personal Injury Settlements

  Rick Patterson | December 26, 2006 1:51 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A new flair is emerging in personal injury settlements. In some instances, creative settlements are being reached. Although, they are still relatively uncommon more and more attorneys are starting to see them. For example, in October, a plaintiff who was accidently paralyzed, his family and lawyers in Tampa, Fla., pledged all of $100.1 million punitive damages award to the Miami Project to Cure...

• Preventing Dog Bites

  Greg Owen | December 20, 2006 5:24 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  A little education will go along way in the prevention of dog bites. You may have noticed that stories of dog bites have news a lot lately. The good news is that there is much we can do to prevent an attack. Sometimes, unknowingly, people encourage dog bites. Either because people don't know how to properly behave around dogs, or they think they can do things around a strange dog that they do...

• Nursing Home Workers Charged with Neglect

  Greg Owen | December 20, 2006 5:02 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  The Price Hill Police Department received a call on Monday at approximately 1:45 a.m. from a nursing home resident inside the home saying that he had been left alone. Since then, 3 employees at the Price Hill Nursing Home located at 584 Elberon Avenue, Price Hill, have been terminated after being charged with neglect of the patients placed in their care. Those employees include Lanetra Smith,...

• Is That Really a Defective Product?

  Greg Owen | December 15, 2006 11:31 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  There are few people in America who have not at least heard of the extremely popular diet known as the Atkins Diet. Dr. Atkins claimed that few cannot flourish using the high fat, high protein, extremely low carbohydrate plan. The weight loss plan is controversial, to say the least. Some may even call the diet "defective." So much so, that one man in New York went as far as filing suit due...

• Hollister Man Dies in Car Crash

  Christina Cole | December 10, 2006 10:31 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A 26-year-old Hollister man was killed shortly after noon Saturday in a head-on collision on Soquel San Jose Road.According to reports, the accident occurred when a driver heading south in a 2004 Dodge Ram lost control of his truck in the rain, slid over the double yellow line and crashed into a 1991 Buick Century. The Hollister man died instantly, California Highway Patrol reported.Both...

• Vioxx Maker is Liable for Mom's Death

  Christina Cole | December 10, 2006 10:23 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  The son of a Port Orange woman that died of a heart attack in 2004 has began a national courtroom fight to get damages from the maker of the once-popular painkiller Vioxx. Mark Golin, 51, spoke about his loss on the two-year anniversary of his Mother's death, who was 80 when she died. "My Mom was a fighter and her heart really failed," Golin said Wednesday, just two days after filing a wrongful...

• Truck Kills Mom - 3-year-old Ok

  Christina Cole | December 10, 2006 9:55 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents

  On Friday morning, a big rig hit and killed a woman that was pulling her 3-year-old daughter in a "tot" trailer. The little girl escaped serious injury as well as the older daughter that was also with them.The accident occurred at 10:02.am at Mercey Springs Road. Police state the big rig was going north on Mercey Springs, making a right turn. The victim has been identified as Lorna Stattelman,...

• Abuse of Elderly Patient at Nursing Home Disturbing

  Christina Cole | December 09, 2006 8:36 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  A nursing home assistant is in jail after State Police say he put a pillow over an elderly man's face and repeatedly punched him. 47-year-old Andrew Thompson of Fort Edward, a certified nurse assistant, will not be able to work with the elderly anytime in the foreseeable future. Thompson is in jail after State Police charged him with abusing 85-year-old Fabian Vega, an Alzheimer's patient.State...