Blog Posts in July, 2009
Posted on Jul 28, 2009 By Dunnion Law
July 25, 2009 According to reports a a semi truck accident closed both directions of the 57 Freeway in Fullerton, in which one person was fatally injured. According to the California Highway Patrol ...
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Posted on Jul 28, 2009 By Dunnion Law
July 27, 2009 The California Highway Patrol there was an accident on the I-405. The accident that took the life of one driver occurred in the early morning on the I-405 at Irvine Center Drive ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2009 By Dunnion Law
Two West Virginia bars that served a patron later involved in deadly auto crash knew or should have known that he was impaired, a lawsuit filed by the families of those killed or injured in the crash ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2009 By Dunnion Law
The Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort and others have agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a 13-year-old boy killed in a 2005 avalanche on Mount Charleston. ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2009 By Dunnion Law
A federal judge has granted approval for a $3.2 million settlement involving more than 500 people illegally strip searched at an Arizona jail. According to the lawsuit, Santa Cruz County violated the ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2009 By Dunnion Law
John Deere & Co. cannot be held liable for a riding lawnmower accident that severed the feet of a two-year-old boy, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled. The justices held that bystanders are not ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2009 By Dunnion Law
A Tennessee jury has ordered a Memphis doctor and her clinic to pay nearly $24 million for failing to diagnose a woman's breast cancer. According to the lawsuit, the woman had complained of a lump in ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2009 By Dunnion Law
Six doctors failed to notify a patient of a brain tumor despite a MRI showing the tumor, a lawsuit filed Friday alleges. A CT scan performed after the plaintiff had a seizure revealed the tumor, one ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2009 By Dunnion Law
A couple who lives near Stockton Lake has been awarded $1.1 million in a lawsuit settlement because of the stench from a nearby factory hog farm. Ed and Ruth McEowen filed the nuisance lawsuit against ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2009 By Dunnion Law
The number of Hispanic workers who die on the job has risen, even as the overall number of workplace deaths has declined, according to federal statistics. 1. Hispanic worker deaths increased from 533 ...
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Posted on Jul 20, 2009 By Dunnion Law
July 20, 2009 HUNTINGTON BEACH – Three lanes were blocked on the southbound I-405 at Beach Boulevard for nearly an hour today following a three-vehicle crash with possible injuries, the California ...
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Posted on Jul 17, 2009 By Dunnion Law
An Iowa jury has awarded more than $11 million to the families of two men killed in a 2006 helicopter crash, the Des Moines Register reports. In the verdict, jurors assigned the majority of liability ...
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