Personal Injury Lawyer Reza Torkzadeh Named to Super Lawyers Rising Stars List
Reza Torkzadeh, a California personal injury lawyer, was named on the 2010 Super Lawyers Magazine Rising Stars list. Super Lawyers Magazine is owned by Thomson-Reuters and is one of the largest legal information services for businesses and professionals. The Rising Stars designation is indicative of a level of professional achievement obtained by lawyers under the [...]
Fatal Texas A&M Bonfire Collapse Remembered
Texas A&M University is planning an event to commemorate an incident that resulted in a flurry of lawsuits, namely, the bonfire collapse of 1999. Students and administrators in the College Station Texas area are expected to attend a candlelight vigil at the site where 12 people were killed and 27 people injured. The infamous incident occurred when a 59-foot-tower [...]
Ex-Worker Revives Lawsuit Against Union Pacific Railroad
A worker who claims that Union Pacific Railroad could have done more to protect her from the West Nile virus has been granted the opportunity to continue to pursue the matter in court. The original lawsuit, which had been dismissed by a Douglas County district judge, was revived by the Nebraska Court of Appeals who [...]
Million Dollar Verdict Upheld For McDonald Employee who was Strip Searched
A Louisville Kentucky appellate court upheld a ruling that awarded a fast food employee $6 million dollars after she was wrongfully strip searched and sexually assaulted. Victim Louise Ogborn, then 18, was forced to strip naked when someoen called the McDonald’s she was working at pretending to be a police officer. Ogborn received the call [...]
Bus Accident in Los Angeles; 10 injured, 1 critical
A bus accident in Los Angeles left 10 passengers injured while one was left in critical condition. The MTA bus was a Los Angeles Metropolitan vehicle was travelling on Glendale Boulevard near the 2 freeway, when the driver lost control, struck a center median divider and then collided into another vehicle. One of the [...]
8 Injured after Car Crashes into Conn. Nail Salon
MILFORD, Conn. (AP) – A Honda Civic smashed into a Milford Connecticut nail salon ending up halfway in the shop inuring 8 patrons. The car careened through the front windows of the shop when the female driver mistakenly hit the accelerator instead of the brake this past Thursday afternoon. Sun Nails, a Milford based business, [...]
Targets Pays Civil Penalty for Lead Paint based Toys
Government officials recently penalized Target stores for the unusually high amount of lead found within and on in some of their toys. Target in turn agreed to pay a $600,000 dollars in civil penalties for selling toys that contained these dangerous lead levels. Authorities reveal that the lead content in some of the Target [...]
Popular Weed Killer May Pose Health Risks
A popular weed killer may be leching into our nations water supplies according to the Environmental Protection Agency. New research by the EPA had uncovered amounts of atrazine, an herbicide commonly used on corn and other crops, in many national reservoirs. It is speculated that atrazine got into the water supply because of f run [...]
Arizonia Sweat Lodge Kills 2; Sickens 19
In Sedona Arizona 19 people were taken to local area hospitals and 2 people died after sitting in saunas at a popular sweat lodge. The retreat, which was located in Angel Valley, provides sauna like “sweat boxes” for their clientele. About 50 of the resort participants who had come to what is billed as a [...]
Important Claim Against Fosomax Dismissed
Posted by Alicia Norman on November 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Releasing a statement on Tuesday, Merck & Co. revealed that a U.S. district court dismissed claims against the company in a second “bellwether” or “key” regarding the drug Fosomax. As of Sept. 30, the company has been fighting 953 lawsuits which allege that their osteoporosis drug Fosamax causes a painful ailment called [...]
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