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Charles Knighton filed an action against The Blacklands Railroad in the 62nd District Court; Hopkins Co., TX. Knighton alleged that the railroad was negligent because its conductor had told him that he could go to work on top of the hopper car, and then...

On April 19, 2013, plaintiff K. Kaur drove to defendant Homegoods, Inc.'s store in Fresno, CA, to return four dinner chairs she had previously purchased from defendant. At that time, defendant's employee, Alyssa Avina, went to plaintiff's...

At 2:00 a.m. on March 2, 2012, on Interstate 80 in Illinois, Gary Williams was driving a 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer that was towing a U-Haul box trailer rented from U-Haul through its Quick Service location. Williams, who had been traveling for more than...

On May 24, 2012, while visiting her mother's hospital bedside at Palms West Hospital, plaintiff Earletta Blackwood slipped and fell on the floor, striking an object as she landed. Medical personnel quickly entered and witnessed her on the floor and...

On June 22, 2015, Jerry Chad Pilkinton was traveling eastbound on SE 5th Street in Ocala, Marion County, Florida. At that same time, Curtis Eldridge Clark was driving a 2014 Ford F150 owned by Antis Automotive and Roadside Service, and was traveling northbound...

On April 6, 2012, plaintiff Moises Ore was using a Husky brand stepladder to retrieve tires at a Tire Kingdom warehouse where he worked as a regional sales manager when one or more of the rivets failed, causing plaintiff to fall to the ground and sustain...

On June 21, 2011, Rebecca Kerrins was admitted to Palos Community Hospital for the birth of her child. Kerrins stated that she chose Palos for its representation on its website that it provided on-site neonatologists, since she had a high risk pregnancy...

On August 27, 2011, plaintiff Amity Hicks and her 13-year-old son Trevor were passengers on a boat being operated by Jack Struve on Lake Lanier when the boat collided with another boat being operated by defendant Terry Crockford. Trevor was thrown from...

On May 29, 2015 around 11:24 a.m., an employee of MedPro Waste Disposal, LLC, Frank M. Contacessi, was driving a 2013 Isuzu NPR Commercial Box Truck northbound on Illinois Route 23 North of Ottawa. The MedPro driver failed to stop and slammed into the...

On Jan. 29, 2012, plaintiff Samuel Belcher was a 56-year-old conductor working for defendant CSX Railroad, Inc., in Hamlet, NC, when he began to exhibit signs and symptoms of a stroke. At around the same time, he misaligned two switches causing the engine...

Plaintiff, Emily Daley, 42, had suffered from scoliosis since she was a teenager, but her back pain worsened during the summer of 2011. In July of 2011, Dr. Michael Thomas, D.O. performed scoliosis surgery on Daley to assist with her pain. While the surgery...

On Aug. 2, 2015, 24-year-old Tierney Darden was returning to Chicago from a shopping trip to Minneapolis with her mother and sister. While waiting for a ride from O'Hare International Airport, they stood next to a pedestrian shelter near the outer...

On the morning of July 23, 2014, 55-year-old plaintiff Rhonda Martin was riding a bicycle southbound on Landis Avenue in the City of Sea Isle City, New Jersey. At that same time, defendant Jeffrey Jones was operating a work vehicle in the course of his...

On July 10, 2014, Daniel McGuire, 25 years old, was driving on Highway 17 near Santa Cruz, CA. He reportedly slowed and/or stopped due to heavy traffic. A tractor trailer truck contracted to Saini Trucking, Inc. was coming down the highway headed in the...

AbbVie Inc. manufactured, sold, and distributed prescription drug AndroGel, a testosterone replacement therapy product. James D. Couch said that he was prescribed AndroGel in 2013 for symptoms he attributed to low testosterone as a result of viewing AbbVie's...

In 2001, when M.J. was a fourteen year old girl, she was forced into a "spiritual marriage" with a man several years her senior. The marriage was performed by Warren Jeffs, who was President of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter...

On Oct. 3, 2012, six-year-old I.E.S. was on her way to Bonnie Oehl Elementary School in Highland. She tried to cross 9th Street mid-block to get to her bus stop on the other side and was struck by a Subaru Impreza. She suffered multiple injuries, including...

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For more information about this case, see Raul Adrian Castro Manzano and Catheryne Cristina Lucero v. Carey Royal Ramn Mortuary d/b/a Carey, Royal, Ramn Funeral Home, Inc., d/b/a Carey Royal Ram'n Mortuary, Inc. The extended version of the summary...

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Following the Aug. 9, 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown, the City of Ferguson, Missouri erupted into a series of protests and riots stemming from the years of alleged police discrimination against African American residents. The civil unrest dominated...

Pfizer, Inc. manufactured and sold Zoloft, a drug consisting of Sertraline Hydrochloride, which was used to treat depression and anxiety. A few of the women who took Zoloft during pregnancy gave birth to children who suffered from heart defects and some...

Plaintiff Ana Alvarez, as guardian of Aldo Alvarez, claimed that on May 8, 2013, defendant Joshua McGehee, a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Deputy, shot and unlawfully arrested Aldo, a 37-year-old male who was mentally handicapped, suffered from schizophrenia...

Roslyn Dauber, John Di Costanzo, and Gregory Carlos said that they suffered from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, lymphohematopietic, and other cancers because of their exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). They said that from 1968 through the 1990's...