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On March 8, 2013, Robert J. Burke and his wife Jane B. Burke filed a premises liability action against defendants, Indigo Realty Company, LLC, Republic Parking System, Inc., and the City of Charleston, in the South Carolina Court of Common Pleas for the...

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...

Plaintiff Taiwan Smart filed a 42 U.S.C.S. Section 1983 action against defendant City of Miami in the Circuit Court of Miami-Dade County on Nov. 7, 2013, which was removed to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Dec...

Plaintiff Jeffrey Kogan, an employee of the Broward County Sheriff's Office (BCSO), was a detective in the homicide division. Plaintiff was attempting to apprehend a suspect with other members of the BCSO, as well as Fort Lauderdale Police Department...

Alahandro Omotola stated that he was driving north on Central Avenue in Atlanta, GA on Feb. 4, 2011 when a vehicle driven by Constantine Avradopoulos changed lanes and struck the side of Omotola's vehicle. Avradopoulos was driving in the scope of...

On May 9, 2007, 30-year-old plaintiff Brandon Stollings was using a 10-inch portable table saw designed and manufactured by defendants Ryobi Technologies and One World Technologies and purchased at defendant Home Depot. The saw experienced a kickback...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 Aug. 9, 2012, Maria Mangano suffered a serious injury when she slipped and fell at Mercy Vocational High School in Philadelphia, PA. At that time, the high school was undergoing construction and repairs. The general contractor for the construction...

On Feb. 10, 2012, 31-year-old veteran, plaintiff Joshua Kent Culwell, was travelling north on Alabama Highway 69 in Cullman County, AL. When he slowed to make a right turn onto Schaffel Road, he was rear-ended by Thomas Clay Benson, II, an underinsured...

On Jan. 22, 2010, Megan Berry was injured in a motor vehicle accident that occurred when Spencer Owens, a 16-year-old with a provisional driver's license, ran a red light and smashed his car into Berry's vehicle. Following the collision, Berry...

On July 31, 2011, plaintiff Erin Joynt, was sunbathing on the beach in Daytona Beach Shores, while her husband and two children were by the water looking for seashells. Thomas Moderie, a Volusia County Beach Services lifeguard, was driving a motor vehicle...

On Sept. 30, 2013, 31-year-old Tyler Lee was working on a construction site in Houston, TX, where his employer was in the process of building a large building. Berkel & Company Contractors, Inc. was hired to drill the auger cast pilings. A Berkel...

Married attorney harassed, physically and emotionally abused, and stalked plaintiff who he met when she was working as a prostitute. They developed a traditional relationship. He embarked on a pattern of domestic violence and abuse. He "outed"...

On Sept. 4, 2011, Michael Steven Austin was using a Task Force brand table saw that was allegedly designed, manufactured, tested, supplied, sold or distributed by Rexon Industrial Corp. and Power Tool Specialists, Inc. (collectively, defendants). Austin...

Charles Darnell Champion was a 26-year-old university student in the band at Florida A&M University. Band hazing incidents had allegedly been escalating in frequency and violence over the course of 2011. On Oct. 31, 2011, a band hazing incident occurred...

Jason Cribbs was an employee of Swift Transportation Co. of Arizona, LLC. On June 5, 2012, Cribbs was being mentored by Herbert Willoughby while driving a truck tractor coupled with a trailer manufactured by Wabash National Corporation at a Home Depot...

The evening of March 9, 2012, 20 year old Kenneth C. Smith attended a party at a club in Cleveland, OH. Early on March 10, 2012, a fight broke out, an unknown person fired a gun, and patrons fled the club. Kenneth entered a car driven by Devonta Hill...

In 2008, Maureen Huffman purchased a Frigidaire LFT 2940 FSI front-loading washing machine manufactured by Electrolux North America, Inc. By 2011, a strong smell was emanating from her washing machine. Huffman asserted the washer was not designed to self...

On Nov. 1, 2011, plaintiff Timothy S. Douglas, a 23-year-old EMT student, was driving southbound on U.S. 1 when his sedan collided with a pickup truck operated by defendant Robert A. Sanders, who was working for defendant Zachary Industrial Inc. Sanders...

On April 21, 2014, Carol Cavness filed a petition in the 95th Judicial District Court for Dallas County, Texas against Teresa Kowalczyk, M.D., Hunt Memorial Hospital District Charitable Health Foundation d/b/a Hunt Regional Healthcare Foundation and Hunt...

On April 27, 2011, plaintiff Jacob Worthington was operating a Ford F250 truck, driving eastbound on US Highway 72 with his wife, plaintiff Angela Worthington, and two minor children as passengers. When he stopped the truck at a traffic light that was...