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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...

May 5, 2016 - Plaintiff D.L., mother of minor A.L., claimed that A.L.’s moderate to severe autism rendered him incapable of deviation from routine. One such example was his visiting amusement parks, which required travel in only one direction and...

On Oct. 17, 2012, Cris A. Nelson went to Emory Specialty Associates, L.L.C., a subsidiary of Emory Healthcare, Inc., in Covington, GA. He went for a routine physical exam. Charissa Hurst, a medical assistant, drew blood from Nelson while he was sitting...

May 19, 2016 - In 1965, 10 years after the United States Supreme Court's second decision in Brown v. Board of Education, residents of Bolivar County, Mississippi, filed an action seeking the desegregation of their school system. After decades of litigation...

On May 7, 2013, at approximately 11:00 p.m., David Silva was found lying unconscious on the front lawn of a home across from Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, California, after Kern County deputies responded to reports of a possibly intoxicated man...

June 2, 2016 - On June 23, 2011, Doris Green was admitted to defendant HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Gadsden, LLC, for comprehensive rehabilitation for two weeks towards the goal of her returning home to live with her daughter, Regina Honts,...

J.V., a ten-year old girl, was shopping at a Macy's Inc. department store in Garden State Plaza Mall in Paramus, NJ on Aug. 16, 2013 with her mother Nora Valdez and her little brother B.V. The family got on an escalator in the store that had reportedly...

June 16, 2016 - In a recent Florida federal civil rights action, Ric Bradshaw, as Sherriff of Palm Beach County, filed a motion to dismiss a 42 U.S.C.S Section 1983 claim for supervisory liability against him. Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks denied the motion...

June 23, 2016 - Nicole Hinson and Cameron Hinson bought a Safety 1st Summit forward-facing car seat that was manufactured by Dorel Juvenile Group, Inc. The Hinsons said that on May 15, 2013, they were traveling with 22-month-old C.H. buckled into the...