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K.C., a severely disabled 21 year old man, was enrolled in the OD Heck Development Center, a full-time New York residential treatment center for the disabled. The staff, Lisa Taylor, Lauri Tomassi, Sharon Butler, Eric Sadlon, Lekisha Terrell, "Hershani"...

From Oct. 21, 2010 to Dec. 2, 2010, Manchester Veterans Administration Medical Center in New Hampshire (Manchester VA) provided Michael Farley, then 58 years old, with medical care. Mr. Farley first presented to urgent care with a sudden loss of right...

SmithKline Beecham Corporation d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare L.L.C., GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, L.P., Block Drug Company Inc., The Procter & Gamble Distributing LLC, and The Procter & Gamble Manufacturing...

On Feb. 27, 2014, A.C. was a seventh-grade student in physical education teacher James Bigot's class at St. Louis Park Middle School of Independent School District (ISD) 283 in Minnesota. The class was the last of six sessions for the swimming education...

On April 7, 2011, William H. Howard was walking on Tahquitz Road in Cathedral City, California. He stated that Armando Munoz, an officer with the County of Riverside Sheriff's Department, Randall Wedertz, a Sergeant with the County of Riverside Sheriff's...

Mary Kaleta suffered uncontrollable severe seizures and took anticonvulsant Depakote, manufactured by Abbott Laboratories, Inc., to control her seizures. Depakote, sold since 1978, contained valproic acid, which was known to cause severe birth defects...

On June 29, 1971, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, the New York State Division of Human Rights, and the City of New York filed a complaint against Local 580 of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers...

n July 23, 2008, an elective laparoscopic hernia repair was performed on Vivian Gagliano at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut. Mrs. Gagliano alleged that during the operation, the ascending colon was perforated and not timely diagnosed and treated. In an...

On June 4, 2012, Virl Lane Birch was driving a 2011 Model Ranger RZR 800 Razor all-terrain vehicle at Sand Hollow State Park in Washington County, Utah with Joseph R. Baird as a passenger. After stopping to enjoy the scenery and then starting up a small...

The City of Los Angeles' pedestrian rights of way were allegedly not readily accessible to and usable by people with mobility disabilities because of the pervasive existence of numerous architectural and other physical access barriers along the path...

On March 6, 2012, Remington (Remi) Cole Walden, a four-year-old boy, died of burns sustained in a motor vehicle collision that occurred in Bainbridge, GA. Remi was a passenger in a 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee that was being driven by his aunt. The Jeep was...

On Dec. 17, 2002, plaintiffs, Francie E. Moeller and other individuals, filed a class action complaint against Taco Bell Corp. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Through a second amended complaint filed on Nov. 21, 2013...

On June 20, 2008, Richard G. Bennett sued his wife Lora A. Bennett (Bennett) for divorce in the Newport News Circuit Court of Virginia. On or before July 16, 2008, Bennett employed attorney Kevin P. Shea of Kevin Shea, Ltd. to represent her in the divorce...

Kenneth Kauffman was a long-time smoker who was addicted to tobacco and smoked cigarettes designed and manufactured by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Philip Morris USA, Inc., Lorillard Tobacco Company, Liggett Group, LLC, and Vector Group, Ltd., Inc....

James Edmond Sharon was admitted to defendant Belmont Lodge Health Care Center on March 7, 2011. Plaintiff Alice Franz, sister and attorney-in-fact for Sharon, claimed that defendant was negligent in their treatment of Sharon, including his suffering...

In 1999, Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. began selling Actos, a drug to treat Type II diabetes. Studies indicated patients who took Actos for more than twelve months were at increased risk for developing bladder cancer, but Takeda failed to properly...

Michael Mercieca, who was born in London, England, was employed as a senior sales executive for Microsoft Corporation. He was employed by Microsoft for 17 years. Mercieca said that he had a sexual relationship over a period of years with Lori Aulds, a...

Tatiana Mironova began working as a bartender at Da Marino Ristorante Italiano in September 2009. Da Marino was owned and operated by Pasquale Marino and Peter Rossignuolo. Mironova claimed she was subjected to constant sexual harassment and inappropriate...

On Jan. 8, 2009, Tiana Notice sought and obtained a judicial restraining order against James Carter, Jr., her former boyfriend, that prohibited him from contracting or communicating with her any way. Police officers allegedly allowed Carter to violate...

Defendant Novartis Pharmaceuticals manufactures Aredia? and Zometa?, two drugs that are bisphosphonates and are used when cancers have metastasized to bone. Zometa? is the successor drug to Aredia?. Both medications are FDA-approved. In 1997, plaintiff...

On July 27, 2010, Randy R. Roginski, a 41-year-old man, was struck by a car and killed while he was working in a construction zone on I-271 in Summit County, Ohio. At the time of the accident, Roginski was working for Solar Testing Laboratories, Inc....

On July 14, 2006, the United States of America filed an action against the Wyoming And Colorado Railroad Company, Inc. (Wyoming R.R.) and a number of other defendants, including the Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust and Marvin M. Brandt, Trustee, in the...

On Sept. 13, 2009, Thomas Walker was driving a truck at a racing event in the annual Redneck Games, organized by Bithlo Motorsports, in Orange County, FL, when he crashed his truck into a bulldozer. By the time Walker's race came up, the track was...

On March 6, 2012, R.S., a minor, filed a civil rights action by and through her mother, S.S., against the Minnewaska Area School District No. 2149 and a number of other defendants in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The additional...

On June 14, 2013, plaintiff Glen Abdu-Nur and his wife, plaintiff Donna Abdu-Nur, filed a civil action against more than 70 defendants. The action, which was based on Mr. Abdu-Nur's contraction of mesothelioma, was filed in the Superior Court of Los...