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Plaintiffs Mark and Patricia Hughes alleged that podiatric surgeon Dominick Sansone, DPM, was negligent when he performed a tarsal tunnel decompression surgery on Mr. Hughes on Oct. 19, 2010. Mr. Hughes had originally been injured by a pressure cleaner...

On May 23, 2014, 15-year-old minor M.D. and a 13-year-old male trespassed into a large home under construction in Palos Verdes, CA. When they heard a noise, they became scared and tried to exit the home. M.D. opened a door, stepped into a third-floor...

On Oct. 29, 2012, a multi-car tanker train derailed near Louisville, in Jefferson County, Kentucky. CSX Transportation, Inc. owned the train, and Paducah & Louisville Railway, Inc. (P&L) owned the railroad tracks. CSX and P&L hired R.J. Corman...

The largest reported police shooting settlement in Philadelphia history was recently obtained in this week's non-peer-submitted case. On April 22, 2014, plaintiff Philippe Holland was delivering pizzas in Philadelphia, PA. While he was making a delivery...

Plaintiff Pablo Aponte filed a medical malpractice action on Feb. 3, 2015, claiming that defendant Fernando Bayron, M.D., negligently perforated plaintiff's bowel during hernia repair surgery causing post-surgical infection, sepsis, fistula development...

Access Community Health Network operated a healthcare facility in Chicago, IL, that received grant money from the United States Public Healthcare Service. On Sept. 8, 2011, 15 day old P.G. presented to Access and Dr. Pamela L. Roper with a history of...

On May 14, 2008, Tiffani D. Hurst gave birth to M.A.H. in Sunrise Hospital in Clark County, NV. M.A.H. was premature (born at 6 1/2 months gestation), and received medical care from neonatologist Martin Blahnick, M.D. and Ali Piroozi, M.D. until she was...

On Nov. 1, 2013, plaintiffs Alfred Sanchez, 48, a construction worker, and Ana Maria Sanchez, 45, a part-time food service employee, were rear-ended while traveling eastbound on Interstate 10 near Yucaipa Blvd., located in Yucaipa, CA. The Sanchez vehicle...

In March of 2015, Amber Rae Johnson was hired by Stones River Medical Group, P.C., after Dr. Mark Josovitz had allegedly asked Johnson to come work at Stones River as an assistant office manager. Johnson said that during her first month of employment...

On April 12, 2011, 37-year-old plaintiff Andreas Bakopoulos was working as a diesel mechanic and pulling on a pipe wrench when he slipped on diesel fuel at Union Pacific Railroad Company's Global One Yard facility located in Chicago, IL. Plaintiff...

On Dec. 18, 2006, Vincent Smith underwent the surgical removal of hardware that had been placed in his body during a prior orthopedic surgery. The surgery was performed at Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, IN. After the surgery...

On Nov. 27, 2005, minor E.B.B., then a three-month-old infant, was brought to South Jersey Regional Medical Center by his mother Sabrina Bonilla. Bonilla told emergency room physician Dominic Diorio, M.D., that E.B.B. could not straighten his right leg...

On Dec. 4, 2013, plaintiff Barry Davis was heading eastbound in his 2007 Ford Mustang on W. Indiantown Road, in Jupiter, FL, when he was struck on the driver's side by a 2005 Kubota tractor pulling a bush hog (large lawn mower) operated by Dale A...

On May 9, 2012, Keith Williams was driving his Chevy Blazer in rainy conditions and entered from Georgia Highway 166 West onto an on-ramp to Interstate 285 North. Williams claimed the on-ramp and its storm drains were poorly maintained and water had pooled...

In the morning of Dec. 6, 2012, Seletha Gartrell arrived at the emergency room of the Aiken Regional Medical Center (ARMC) in South Carolina, suffering from severe sepsis. The sepsis developed into septic shock and shortly thereafter, she arrested, had...

On April 24, 2011, a driver employed by defendant Pizza Hut of America, LLC, ran a stop sign and drove his delivery van into oncoming traffic, into the path of plaintiff Adam Winnie’s moped. Plaintiff’s moped crashed into the Pizza Hut van...

On Sept. 26, 2010, Lola Heifetz went to gastroenterologist Robin Baradarian, M.D. at The Brooklyn Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, PLLC for a routine screening colonoscopy. During the procedure, Baradarian allegedly performed the colonoscopy in a hurried...

2265 Davidson Realty LLC owned an apartment building at 2265 Davidson Avenue, Bronx, NY. Langsam Property Services Corp. managed the property. On May 8, 2013, Aminata Kromah, a 32-year-old woman, went to the building to visit a friend. She stated that...

On April 22, 2015, traffic on Interstate 16 in Bryan County, GA was at a standstill due to a collision that had been admittedly caused by the negligence of Robert Gordon Tayloe, a trucker who was driving an 18-wheeler for Greywolf Logistics, Inc. Plaintiff...

On Feb. 8, 2013, James Wurster was attempting to burn trash in a burn barrel when a portable plastic gasoline container exploded and caused Wurster to sustain severe burns. Wurster died on Feb. 9, 2013. The Plastics Group, Inc. d/b/a Wedco and/or Wedco...

On March 30, 2012, plaintiff M.C., a 10-year-old female, sustained catastrophic injuries when defendant Victor Mathews rear-ended the motor vehicle in which plaintiff was riding as a seat-belted passenger. Plaintiff's injuries included fractures and...

Plaintiff Ronald Paige was involved in a motor vehicle collision with defendant Henry Wardlaw, Jr. Plaintiff allegedly sustained injuries in the collision including a herniated disc in his cervical spine requiring two rhizotomy procedures and an annular...

At 3:00 a.m. on March 24, 2014, plaintiff Yolanda Montes was a passenger riding into O'Hare Airport. Montes, a 33 year old woman, was there to start her shift as a Transportation Security Officer (TSO) for the Transportation Security Agency on The...

Plaintiff Carline Deravil filed a complaint against defendant City of Miami on April 13, 2015, claiming that she sustained serious injuries when the vehicle in which she was riding was struck by a City of Miami police car on June 14, 2014. Specifically...

MRSS Hospitality, Inc., d/b/a Holiday Inn Express operated the Holiday Inn Express in Fraizer Park, CA. On April 22, 2014, plaintiff came to visit her boyfriend Gerrit Pietersma, who worked at the hotel with Jonathan Michael Padilla. Pietersma and Padilla...