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On Feb. 28, 2013, Pamela Rheinfrank filed an action against Abbott Laboratories Inc. and AbbVie Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Rheinfrank, who brought the action individually and on behalf of her minor daughter M.B...

On Feb. 26, 2010, Augustine Liu and Marion Liu filed an action in the California Superior Court for Los Angeles County against a number of defendants including College Hospital, Inc., Dr. Madeline Valencerina, and Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical...

On April 17, 2013, plaintiffs, Claudia Herrera and Peter Lowry, filed an action against defendant, Eli Lilly and Company, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Plaintiffs alleged that Herrera was injured by the withdrawal...

Brain injury in full term baby as a result of infection that developed following prolonged labor.

On Dec. 19, 2012, David Lynn Groves was using a Ridgid table saw designed, manufactured, and distributed by Emerson Electric Co., and a True-FLEX Featherboard designed, manufactured, and distributed by Kreg Enterprises. Mr. Groves suffered fatal injuries...

On March 24, 2011, Bonnie Semple filed a medical malpractice action in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas for Delaware County. Through the complaint, she asserted professional negligence claims against a number of defendants, including Mohammed Budeir...

On the morning of June 17, 2011, Kenneth Del Grosso presented to the emergency room of Delaware County Memorial Hospital (DCMH) with left-sided neck pain and tingling down his left arm. Del Grosso was placed under the care of Karl G. Schwabe, M.D. and...

Charlotte Lynn Bowlin said that on June 19, 2012, she was using a Werner Co. Model 368 ladder when it failed, causing Bowlin to sustain a comminuted humerus fracture to her left arm that required surgery to repair. The ladder was allegedly represented...

William Mickens and Mark Solomon were purchasers of Ford Mustang vehicles. They both noticed bubbling in their hood paint and claimed that defendant Ford Motor Company, manufacturer of the Mustang, knowingly sold these automobiles with a design defect...

Unnecessary shoulder surgery led to permanent disability.

On Sept. 15, 2010, Skyhook Wireless, Inc. filed an action against Google, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Through an amended complaint filed on March 29, 2013, Skyhook alleged that Google had infringed its patents when...

Thal Flam Wendrow and Julian Wendrow lived with their two children, I.W. and A.W., in Oakland County, Michigan. I.W. had Asperger's Syndrome and A.W. was autistic and did not communicate verbally. Walled Lake Consolidated School District, its Autism...

On Sept. 17, 2013, Paul Perkins, Pennie Sempell, Ann Brandwein, Erin Eggers, Clare Connaughton, Jake Kushner, Natalie Richstone, Nicole Crosby, and Leslie Wall, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, filed a putative class action...

Wright Medical Technology, Inc. and its parent company Wright Medical Group, Inc. (collectively Wright) designed, manufactured, distributed and sold the ProFemur R hip prosthesis component. On Nov. 27, 2009, Alan Warner underwent a revision of his existing...

Gordon & Holmes, Civil Trial Lawyers (G&H), is a partnership of the corporation of Rhonda J. Holmes and Frederic L. Gordon. Around December of 2008, G&H was hired by Courtney Michelle Love (a/k/a Courtney Michelle Harrison a/k/a Courtney Michelle...

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...