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Wrong Woman Interred after Inglewood Funeral Home Negligence

by Bisnar Chase March 15, 2013 Professional Negligence

A Los Angeles family ended up burying the wrong woman after an Inglewood mortuary allegedly mixed up their loved one with someone else. CBS Los Angeles reports that the family members and friends of 82-year-old Darlene Davidson thought they attended her funeral and burial on March 1, 2013. However, days later, they found out that […]

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Nursing Home To Pay $23 Million in Wrongful Death and Elder Abuse Lawsuit

by Bisnar Chase March 15, 2013 Professional Negligence

A Sacramento Superior Court jury slammed the Emeritus Corp. for $23 million in punitive damages in connection with a wrongful death and elder abuse lawsuit filed and won by the family of an elderly Alzheimer’s patient who died after spending three months in one of the company’s assisted living facilities in Auburn, California. According to […]

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“Shot Girls” Lead to Premises Liability Claim

by Bisnar Chase March 11, 2013 Personal Injury

When George Thomas Fadgen III died in a terrible car crash on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia on September 2012, an autopsy revealed his blood alcohol content was .19—more than twice the legal limit in Pennsylvania.  His family is now suing a strip club, “Club Risque,” where Fadgen spent his last hours, claiming that the “shot […]

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Woman Sues Apple for iPod Injury

by Bisnar Chase March 8, 2013 Personal Injury

A woman is suing Apple due to her claim that her iTouch exploded and burned her in the eye, according to recent reports.  The Nacogdoches, Texas, woman stated that she was lying in bed with her iTouch beside her as she listened to music.  She felt a burning sensation in her eye and found that […]

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Toddler Survives Fatal Texas Car Accident

by Bisnar Chase March 6, 2013 Car Accidents

A man was killed and a woman was listed in critical condition after a horrendous crash near Conroe, Texas. According to a KHOU news report, a child between the ages of 3 and 4 was ejected from the vehicle as it crash and was found wandering around, officials said. Authorities say the fatal crash occurred […]

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Parents and Newborn Killed in Hit and Run Accident

by Bisnar Chase March 4, 2013 Car Accidents

Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21, were killed in a hit-and-run accident in Brooklyn the morning of March 3, 2013. According to an ABC News report, the fatal crash occurred in the tight-knit neighborhood of Williamsburg, primarily made up of Orthodox Jews. Police say the young couple was on their way to the hospital in a […]

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Man Shoots Pit Bulls after They Attack Horse and Rider

by Bisnar Chase March 1, 2013 Personal Injury

A man shot at two pit bulls killing one of them as the dogs were attacking a woman and the horse she was riding. According to an NBC News report, the incident occurred on February 23, 2013 on an equestrian trail in San Dimas. The rider, 47-year-old Yvette Picconi, was riding her horse, Mecca, on […]

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College Student Loses Entire Family in SUV Rollover Accident

by Bisnar Chase February 28, 2013 Car Accidents

Brittany Vollmer, a student at Northwestern College in Iowa, lost her parents, brother and sister in a car crash that occurred in South Dakota. According to a news report in the New York Daily News, the fatal accident occurred on February 23, 2012. Officials say Brittney’s 52-year-old father, James, was driving the family’s 2005 Ford […]

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Lawsuit Alleges Pradaxa Side Effects Causes Man’s Death

by Bisnar Chase February 27, 2013 Medical Law

A wrongful death lawsuit filed by a widow in Pennsylvania claims that her husband died from side effects caused by the blood thinner Pradaxa. According to news reports, the lawsuit was filed by June Lutz in the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania, earlier this month. June Lutz said in the lawsuit that her […]

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Employment Lawsuit Filed in Hospital over “No Black Nurses” Request

by Bisnar Chase February 23, 2013 Employment Law

A Michigan hospital is facing a lawsuit after it allegedly honored the request of a father that only white nurses care for his baby in the neonatal intensive care unit. According to an ABC News report, Tonya Battle, a 49-year-old black nurse sued Hurley Medical Center for discrimination and violation of the civil rights act […]

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