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Orange County Seven-Car Pileup Leaves 1 Dead, 3 Injured

Posted on May 03, 2008
A Huntington Beach woman was killed and three people were taken to the hospital with injuries after a Honda Pilot sport utility vehicle with a wheelchair lift slammed into a sedan, The Orange County Register reports. The impact crushed the...

Teenager Killed In Bicycle Accident At Busy Martinez Intersection

Posted on May 02, 2008
A 13-year-old boy in Martinez, Calif. was killed when be was struck by a teenage driver at a busy and apparently dangerous intersection as he was riding his bicycle. According to a news article in CBS News? Web site, the...

Defective Heart Drug Digitek Recalled, At Least 11 Sickened By Wrong Dosage

Posted on May 01, 2008
Last week, pharmaceutical company Actavis Totowa LLC recalled all lots of its prescription heart drug, Digitek, because some of the drug?s tablets might contain twice the approved level of the active ingredient. According to an article in The Chicago Tribune,...

Police Officer Critically Injured In Orange County Crash

Posted on May 01, 2008
A Santa Ana police officer driving on the wrong side of the street with lights flashing and sirens blaring has suffered critical injuries after he lost control of his cruiser and struck a stopped tow truck during a pursuit. According...

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Three Killed In Single-Vehicle Crash In Ventura County

Posted on April 30, 2008
Three Moorpark residents were reportedly killed after their car crashed into an Oxnard auto parts store early Sunday morning, the Ventura County Star reports. The driver of the car, Celestino Hernandez-Lara, 37, his wife Irma Apostol Reyes, 30 and Alejandrino...

California Nursing Home Slapped With $100,000 Fine In Resident?s Death

Posted on April 29, 2008
A Marysville, CA nursing home is facing a $100,000 fine from the State Department of Health and Human Services after an 84-year-old resident was found dead in May 2007, her head stuck between her bed and a bed rail. According...

Racing Motorcycle On 241 Toll Road Causes Fatal Accident

Posted on April 28, 2008
Two motorcyclists racing each other on the freeway may have caused an Orange County auto accident that killed a driver on the 241 toll road north of Portola Parkway in the early morning hours of Friday, The Orange County Register...

5 Dead, 6 Injured In Pennsylvania Van vs. Big Rig Accident

Posted on April 27, 2008
Five people were killed and six suffered injuries in a van crash when a tractor-trailer slammed into their vehicle. A group of 11 people, including staff and residents of a group home for the mentally disabled, were on a trip...

Dump Truck Driver and Trucking Company Face Vehicular Manslaughter Charges

Posted on April 26, 2008
A judge ruled this week that the driver of a runaway dump truck and the company that employed him must both stand vehicular manslaughter charges in connection with a horrible traffic accident in Rancho Cucamonga that killed one person and...

Defective and Dangerous Nail Guns Are Causing Major Injuries and Deaths, Report Shows

Posted on April 25, 2008
In spite of decades of warnings from researchers and doctors that nail guns are dangerous and can cause major injuries or even death, the popularity of automatic nail guns surged during the building boom of the 2000s resulting in skyrocketing...

The Importance of a Medical Exam After An Auto Accident

Posted on April 24, 2008
Here is a story that tells us how important it is to get checked out by a doctor after you have been involved in an auto accident. According to an article in the Eureka Times-Standard, a 29-year-old man who was...

Pedestrian Hit and Killed By Charter Bus In Los Angeles

Posted on April 23, 2008
A woman in her 30s was reportedly hit and killed by a charter bus when she was crossing the street Tuesday morning in the Westlake area of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reports. The article states that the woman,...

Texas Jury Awards $84 Million To Man Injured By U-Haul Truck

Posted on April 22, 2008
A jury in Texas awarded $84 million to a man who was injured when a U-Haul rental truck he rented ran him over because the parking brake failed. According to a Bloomberg News report, Talmadge Waldrip, 74, parked the truck...

Man Suffers Severe Injuries in Modesto Hit-and-Run Bicycle Accident

Posted on April 21, 2008
A Modesto man is suspected of driving under the influence, hitting a bicyclist and then leading police on a six-mile pursuit. At the end of the chase, 29-year-old Emiliano Maldonado Jr. was arrested. The 51-year-old bicyclist, whom Maldonado allegedly struck,...

Two 5-year-old Boys Hurt In Las Vegas Dog Attack, Dog Owner Could Face Charges

Posted on April 20, 2008
Two small children were severely injured in a frightening dog attack in Las Vegas after two pit-bulls escaped from their yard and pounced on the 5-year-old boys. One child was bitten on the face and another on the leg, according...

California Judge Approves Explorer Class Action Settlement

Posted on April 19, 2008
A California judge, earlier this week, approved a class action settlement for about 800,000 owners of the Ford Explorer sport utility vehicles, which were said to have lost value following an extensive tire recall stemming from concerns over potential rollover...

Big Rig Chain Reaction Accident Kills San Diego Man

Posted on April 18, 2008
A 38-year-old El Cajon man died after a big rig slammed through his backyard and sent him into his swimming pool, missing his toddler daughter by inches, according to a Channel 10 news report. Officials said Kevin Vicary and his...

South Carolina Officials Shocked To See Neglected Nursing Home Resident

Posted on April 17, 2008
Officials in Prosperity, S.C. are investigating a case of nursing home abuse and neglect, which they say is the worst they have ever seen. The investigation into the conditions in Southside Residential Care began after 59-year-old William Sealy, a resident...

New Roof Crush Standards May Limit Lawsuits Against Auto Makers

Posted on April 16, 2008
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) has a new proposal on the table that requires all vehicles to have stronger roofs to protect occupants in rollover accidents. That?s a good thing, because 10,000 Americans die each year in rollover...

Salmonella-Contaminated Cereal Sickens 23 Across 14 States

Posted on April 15, 2008
At least 23 people across 14 states have been infected with salmonellosis caused by the same strain of bacteria found in the recently recalled unsweetened Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat Cereals manufactured by Malt-O-Meal, according a report by the U.S...

Three Fatal Southern California Rollover Accidents Over The Weekend

Posted on April 14, 2008
Four members of a church group were killed on their way to an ice-skating rink Friday when their speeding 1994 Toyota Camry reportedly went out of control on the 60 Freeway in Pomona and rolled over. According to a KNX...

Young Girls Severely Injured In Wilmington Pedestrian Accident

Posted on April 13, 2008
Two girls ? 13 and 14 years old -- were critically injured in a pedestrian accident at a Wilmington intersection when a man hit the girls as they were walking home from school and then tried to get away, the...

2 Killed In a Chain Reaction Crash Caused By Defective Tire

Posted on April 12, 2008
Two men were killed in a multi-vehicle freeway accident that started in the northbound lanes of the 15 Freeway in Rancho Cucamonga. The accident was triggered when the left rear tire tread on a Honda sedan separated, according to a...

Pedestrian Accident Rights of California Tourists and Visitors

Posted on April 11, 2008
The Old Town Pasadena pedestrian traffic accident of last Thursday that hospitalized 7-year old Jose Gabriel Dela Rosa, has taken his life according to a Los Angeles Times article. A CBS news report stated that his father, Jose Gabriel Dela...

17-year-old Dead, Three Other Teens Injured in Malibu DUI Rollover Crash

Posted on April 11, 2008
A 17-year-old high school football player, who was reportedly drinking and driving a Subaru station wagon filled with teens who had been drinking and possibly using drugs, died after he lost control of the vehicle, which rolled over. Three of...

Motorcyclist Killed In Orange County Freeway Accident

Posted on April 10, 2008
A 23-year-old Orange County man was killed in a motorcycle accident after driving off a freeway overpass and falling into oncoming traffic on the 91 Freeway, The Orange County Register reports. According to the article, Kristopher Schneckenberger of Anaheim is...

Study Shows Tort Reform Has No Correlation To Reduced Liability Costs

Posted on March 31, 2008
The Insurance Journal carried an interesting article recently highlighting a new study on tort reform that was performed by a business-backed institute. What did this study show? According to our good friends at the American Association for Justice (AAJ), the...

CHP Looking For Witnesses In Fatal San Andreas Motorcycle Accident

Posted on March 30, 2008
California Highway Patrol officials in San Andreas are still looking for witnesses to a fatal motorcycle accident that occurred there, according to a news report in the Amador Ledger-Dispatch newspaper. The body of 61-year-old Earl Wiggins, along with his Harley,...

Bisnar Chase Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Oakland Trucking Company

Posted on March 29, 2008
This week, our firm filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the three daughters of Ronald Lee Nichols who was killed in a truck accident when an 18-wheeler, allegedly driven by Timothy Ray Johnson and owned by Foston Trucking,...

Teenager Injured In Artesia Hit-and-Run Bicycle Accident

Posted on March 28, 2008
A 17-year-old boy is in the hospital with major, but non-life threatening, injuries after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver while riding his bicycle in Artesia, according to a CBS News report. The report states that the victim, whose...

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