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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...

From September of 2001 through 2012, Mary Jean Alsina was employed by Millburn Township Board of Education as a full time band director. In 2011, she began to teach in a room two days a week that was known as the "Brass Cave" and had a damp...

On May 16, 2011, Rebecca Simonds presented to Lawrence & Memorial Hospital complaining of pain in her right lower quadrant. Simonds was admitted for testing and treatment of possible appendicitis, ovarian neoplasm and/or right tubo-ovarian abscess...

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...

May 5, 2016 - On June 1, 2010, a Cessna U206F piloted by Preston Cavner departed Merrill Field Airport in Anchorage, AK. The plane had been rebuilt in 2003 by Continental Motors, Inc., Northwest Seaplanes, Inc. had replaced parts on the engine, and the...

Plaintiff alleged that as he was driving south on University Drive, the defendant was driving north on University Drive. The defendant made a left turn onto NW 44th Street as Plaintiff was approaching that intersection. The defendant failed to yield to...

Plaintiff alleged that at the Defendant’s local restaurant, the carpeting in the booth, which is located on a raised platform, is the same color and pattern as the floor. Therefore, the step down from the booth gave the appearance of a one-level floor...

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...

On Nov. 30, 2009, plaintiff Llaulin Cruz, 31, a physical therapist aide, came to St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx for delivery of her first child. During the delivery, the OB-GYN, Michael Ihemaguba, M.D., who was on-call at the hospital, performed a...

A week from this Saturday, the 141 th Kentucky Derby will be run at Churchill Downs, the historic racetrack located in Louisville, KY. Traditionally run on the first Saturday in May and arguably the most famous race in the world, an estimated 100,000...

ACTION 1) Breach of Fiduciary Duty, 2) Aiding and Abetting Breach of Fiduciary Duty, 3) Assault, and 4) Battery

Most of the people we now see in movie crowd scenes are not real. They aren’t created with digital special effects, either. In fact, a popular alternative to human extras is to use plastic, inflatable mannequins—as many as 30,000 for some...

Crash of a Piper Cherokee PA 28-180 in Margaret, Alabama resulting in injuries to the Plaintiff, a passenger in the aircraft. Plaintiff claimed that the Defendant pilot violated CFR §§ 61.23, 61.57 and 91.409. Plaintiff further alleged that the Defendant...

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...

April 21, 2016 - On Feb. 27, 2012, at 12:05 p.m., Dennis Cash was working the accident scene of an overturned gravel truck on State Route 130 on Snowden Mountain. The owner of a family garage in Madison Heights, Dennis was working with a crew at the site...

Picture yourself in the hospital with life threatening renal disease. Doctors tell you that your brother is a perfect match for a kidney transplant. Picture yourself as the brother. You agree to donate a kidney to save your sister. You both go under anesthesia...

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...

April 14, 2016 - On Dec. 2, 2010, Mary Kate Ford, 60 years of age, was admitted to the emergency department of the West Georgia Medical Center with morbid obesity, end state renal disease, congestive heart failure, hypothyroidism, and other conditions...

Cancer Fund of America, Inc. (CFA), Cancer Support Services, Inc. (CSS), Children's Cancer Fund of America, Inc. (CCFA), and The *** Cancer Society in America (BCSA) solicited charitable donations that would allegedly go towards cancer research and...

Social media has forever changed how the world communicates. While many have cited the positive consequences of social media, employment law attorneys are discovering that a simple Facebook post can turn into a costly mistake. A prime example of such...

In 2004, plaintiff George Prussin, a resident of Tenafly, was one of a group that invested in and formed The Law Funder LLC, a company which provided funding to parties to bring personal injury and other types of court cases, in return for a percentage...

Illegal search and seizure, false arrest, numerous constitutional rights violations. Deputy Cavanaugh responded to "welfare check" of toddler children called in by mother/estranged wife against father/estranged husband. When deputy arrived at...

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...

Ebony Curry was a 27-year-old woman with learning disabilities and autistic tendencies living at home in Brooklyn with her father, Henry Williams, and a younger brother. On May 18, 2011, Curry fell down the stairs in her home. Her father called 911, and...

On Nov. 28, 2010, 81-year-old Edwin Skowyra suffered a stroke while driving. Skowyra lost control of his vehicle, and it crashed into the convenience store and gas station operated by Cumberland Farms, Inc. at 197 Grove Street in Chicopee, MA. Skowyra's...