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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...

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...