2013 Articles
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Posted on Feb 22, 2013 By Greenberg & Stein, P.C.
Several construction workers have been injured or killed while on the job in recent weeks due to falls and crane accidents. The first construction site falling accident occurred at the site of the new ...
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Posted on Feb 22, 2013 By Wendt Goss, P.C.
When you are injured through negligence in a preventable accident in Missouri, you are generally protected by personal injury law. For the majority of personal injury situations, you will have five ...
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Posted on Feb 21, 2013 By Weinstein & Scharf, P.A.
The driver of a bakery delivery truck and his passenger were involved in a fatal single vehicle wreck which occurred early in the morning. The truck was on its way to deliver frozen bakery goods when ...
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Posted on Feb 21, 2013 By Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik, LLP
A worker died recently after falling through the floor at an apartment building construction site in Queens. The man, 42 years old, was working on the first floor of a building that was being newly ...
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Posted on Feb 21, 2013 By Sloan, Bagley, Hatcher & Perry Law Firm
Law enforcement in Longview and across the nation continues to do battle in the war against the manufacture, sale and use of synthetic marijuana products. One product was banned in Texas making its ...
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Posted on Feb 20, 2013 By Wendt Goss, P.C.
The driver of a trash truck was injured in a single vehicle accident when the large vehicle he was operating rolled over. The driver was on duty around 9:30 in the morning travelling on a steep ...
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Posted on Feb 19, 2013 By James M. Hoffmann
Far more accidents that result in injury or death occur on a farm in any given year. That is why the National Safety Council has labeled the farming industry as the most dangerous occupation in ...
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Posted on Feb 19, 2013 By Greenberg & Stein, P.C.
According to the 2012 report from the New York Building Congress, the NYC construction industry experienced a five percent increase over 2011. Spending on new residential projects was up 54% and ...
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Posted on Feb 19, 2013 By Pofahl Law Firm, P.C.
The latest publication from the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) concerning traffic accidents in the state is for 2009. In that year, someone died in a vehicle crash approximately every ...
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Posted on Feb 15, 2013 By David Zevan
Toyota has been facing a number of injury and wrongful death lawsuits after drivers began experiencing unexpected acceleration in Toyota vehicles. Toyota has settled the first wrongful death case in ...
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Posted on Feb 14, 2013 By Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik LLP
In a press release published by the FBI in May 2012, it was reported that the owner of three nursing homes in the Atlanta area was convicted of federal fraud. The owner had billed Medicare and ...
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Posted on Feb 12, 2013 By Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik LLP
A boy who suffered a brain injury due to an MMR vaccine was awarded a huge settlement of close to one million dollars by a court in December 2012. The MMR vaccine is a common childhood vaccine for ...
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Posted on Feb 12, 2013 By Weinstein & Scharf, P.A.
According to a British psychiatrist who founded rxisk.org, a website devoted to research into prescription drugs, approximately 90 percent of the school shooters who engaged in violent acts over the ...
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Posted on Feb 11, 2013 By Sloan, Bagley, Hatcher & Perry Law Firm
California residents who were the aunt and uncle of a Super Bowl player were killed by a drunk driver the morning after watching their nephew play for the San Francisco 49ers. The couple was killed ...
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Posted on Feb 11, 2013 By Sloan, Bagley, Hatcher & Perry Law Firm
According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), medication errors leading to the necessity for additional medical care in the U.S. has increased by 50 percent in the last few ...
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Posted on Feb 6, 2013 By Hecht, Kleeger & Damashek
Product liability cases involve consumer products which cause harm or death to those who use them. These products can include any type of consumer product, from auto parts to toys, appliances, ...
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Posted on Feb 4, 2013 By Greenberg & Stein, P.C.
A construction worker died in Queens last week when working on an Astoria apartment building in 12-degree temperatures. The 42 year-old man fell through a floor and landed in a basement area where he ...
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Posted on Feb 4, 2013 By Greenberg & Stein, P.C.
Revoli Construction Company, which operates out of Franklin, Massachusetts, was involved in a construction accident which ended in the death of a local police officer in Westfield, Massachusetts last ...
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Posted on Feb 4, 2013 By Hecht, Kleeger & Damashek
An Alabama trucker who was falsely imprisoned for 34 days as a result of a contract dispute with the company he drove for won a civil case in 2010. The trucker, who was an independent contractor who ...
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Posted on Feb 4, 2013 By Hecht Kleeger & Damashek, PC
On January 21, 2012 a 50 year-old New York motorist was killed when his car was struck head-on by a driver whose car crossed the center line of the highway. The implicated driver, a 24 year-old who ...
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