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Plaintiff Dennis Pitman was attempting to secure a tree stand base to a tree for an upcoming deer hunting season. He was using a dual ratchet strap kit, manufactured and sold by defendants Ameristep Corporation and Tahsin Industrial Corporation USA, to...

On Aug. 9, 2011, 38-year-old Papu Faalele was working as a longshoremen for Pacific Stevedoring Services (PSS) on a fishing vessel owned by Pacific Princess Partnership and Oceans Unlimited, Inc. During unloading operations at the Starkist Tuna cannery...

In 2001, Depuy Orthopaedics, Inc., Depuy Products, Inc., and Johnson & Johnson, Inc. (defendants) began manufacturing and selling a hip joint replacement product called the Pinnacle Acetabular Cup System. Although defendants characterized it as a...

On July 3, 2011, 27-year-old Daniel Ficker and his partner Tiffany Urbach went to a Fourth of July party with their two minor children at the home of Tiffany's cousin Kimberly Mindek in Strongsville, OH. David Mindek, Kimberly's husband and a...

On Jan. 27, 2012, defendant Omega Psi Phi, Omicron Kappa Chapter, hosted a fraternity party at their house off of the campus of Missouri State University. Fraternity members, including chapter president Emmanuel Chapman and Kelvin Jones, and some party...

On July 24, 2013, Tanya M. Fuller, an employee of Northeast Commercial Sharpening, injured her right hand and wrist while retrieving a Hobart meat slicer. Northeast Commercial Sharpening had contracted with Reliant Easton Holdings, LLC, to service a meat...

On March 18, 2013, Marjorie Ashmore filed a medical malpractice action against Hartford Hospital in the Connecticut Superior Court for the Judicial District of Waterbury. Ashmore, who brought the action as the administratrix of the estate of her deceased...

Plaintiffs, student-athletes, filed separate class actions in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, District of Minnesota, Eastern District of Louisiana, and District of New Jersey challenging the National Collegiate...

On Aug. 18, 2013, Vemma Nutrition Company trainers Yosh Kamine and Jacob Kamine hosted a promotional sales event at their residence on Jefferson Avenue. Nineteen-year-old Michaela Smith had been hired by Vemma to sell its products, including energy drinks...

On Dec. 2, 2012, at around 2:30 a.m., a vehicle being operated by defendant Lanessa Riobe rear-ended a vehicle in which Eliezer Maldonado, Sr., (34-year-old father-husband) Deborah Maldonado (35-year-old mother-wife), Eliezer Maldonado, Jr., (12-year...

On Dec. 12, 2012, at about 7:14 a.m., plaintiffs, 17-year-old Regina Monzon and her younger brother, 15-year-old James Monzon, were walking to Fairview Jr. High School, crossing Central Valley 23 Road N.E. in a marked crosswalk near N.E. Conifer Drive...

On June 8, 2013, Plaintiff Gary Leonard was helping his sister Pamela Leonard by working in her food concession truck at the Leelanau Food and Wine Festival. Pamela had purchased the truck five years previously at a fraction of its value through eBay...

On Oct. 3, 2012, Craig Litch was badly burned while working at an offshore oil rig owned by DCOR, LLC and located just off the California coastline. At the time, Litch's employer, DCI Electric, Inc., was a subcontractor hired in connection with maintenance...

On June 23, 2011, plaintiff Eric Johnson was getting out of his car after returning home from work in Southwest Philadelphia at around 2:00 a.m. when he was shot by Shykir Crew. Crew, 16 years old at the time, was a resident of a psychiatric residential...

On Dec 14, 2013, Melissa Horton went shopping at a Target store in Pittsburgh, PA. Although Horton was employed by a hotel design company, she also worked as the producer for NBC Sunday Night Football and was in town for the Steelers v. Bengals game....

iguel A. Gomez, III, M.D., was a renowned cardiothoracic surgeon doing business as Miguel A. Gomez, M.D., P.A. He chose to perform surgeries at hospitals run by and/or affiliated with Memorial Hermann Health System and MHMD, also known as Memorial Hermann...

Florence Nemeth used cosmetic talc from 1960 to 1971. The talc, Desert Flower Dusting Powder, was distributed by Whittaker Clark & Daniels, Inc., (WCD) to the product manufacturer, Shulton, Inc. Mrs. Nemeth developed peritoneal mesothelioma and died...

On May 27, 2013, Aidan Pankey, then 10 years old, visited a pet store with his grandmother and adopted a pet rat. The grandmother signed a waiver releasing Petco from liability for any injury or damage resulting from the rat's adoption. The store...

On June 6, 2012, seven days after the birth of her fourth child, 30-year-old plaintiff Chenille Cordon underwent surgery by Dr. Michael Booth to rule out cancer in lymph nodes in her chest. Within minutes of starting the procedure—a mediastinoscopy—Dr...

On Dec. 14, 2014, Jack Lipp was attending a fraternity party at a house in Columbia, MO, when railing on a balcony broke. Lipp fell to the ground and sustained injuries from which he died on Dec. 25, 2014. The student rental property was owned by defendant...

On Sept. 13, 2011, plaintiff Michael Gilmore was working for defendant Accurate Valve Services at an oil drilling site operated and/or maintained by defendants Unit Corporation, Unit Drilling Company, Unit Texas Drilling, LLC, and Blackbrush Oil &...

Editor's Note: This week's document of the week comes a case that came to our attention in a news story. The pleading comes from the federal docket, rather than an attorney submission. On Aug. 23, 2012, plaintiff Dulce Rojas was informed at...

On June 15, 2013, plaintiffs Richard Brown and his wife Elizabeth Brown were seated at a picnic table located at the Horse Palace at the Spring Creek Association Annual HOA barbeque and meeting. There were three or four people (including plaintiffs) seated...

On Sunday Nov. 9, 2014, defendant Joshua Bell was driving his pick-up truck to Acadia, FL, traveling to a business trip for his employer, defendant Gibbs & Register, Inc. (G&R). Roitiki Tyler was traveling southbound on US-17 with her 11-year...

Sharyn Orr took the drug Xarelto (Rivaroxaban) manufactured, distributed, marketed, and sold by Janssen Research & Development, LLC f/k/a Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development LLC; Janssen Ortho, LLC; Janssen Pharmaceuticals...