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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...

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...

Plaintiff Carline Deravil filed a complaint against defendant City of Miami on April 13, 2015, claiming that she sustained serious injuries when the vehicle in which she was riding was struck by a City of Miami police car on June 14, 2014. Specifically...

On April 22, 2015, traffic on Interstate 16 in Bryan County, GA was at a standstill due to a collision that had been admittedly caused by the negligence of Robert Gordon Tayloe, a trucker who was driving an 18-wheeler for Greywolf Logistics, Inc. Plaintiff...

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...

On July 10, 2014, Daniel McGuire, 25 years old, was driving on Highway 17 near Santa Cruz, CA. He reportedly slowed and/or stopped due to heavy traffic. A tractor trailer truck contracted to Saini Trucking, Inc. was coming down the highway headed in the...

On Oct. 2, 2013, Warren G. Roberts, M.D. performed spinal surgery on Jason Croff at the Aspen Spine and Neurosurgery Center, P.C. Croff had been experiencing pain and numbness. Croff asserted that after the surgery, his spinal and sacral nerves were permanently...

AbbVie Inc. manufactured, sold, and distributed prescription drug AndroGel, a testosterone replacement therapy product. James D. Couch said that he was prescribed AndroGel in 2013 for symptoms he attributed to low testosterone as a result of viewing AbbVie's...

Plaintiff, Emily Daley, 42, had suffered from scoliosis since she was a teenager, but her back pain worsened during the summer of 2011. In July of 2011, Dr. Michael Thomas, D.O. performed scoliosis surgery on Daley to assist with her pain. While the surgery...

On May 29, 2015 around 11:24 a.m., an employee of MedPro Waste Disposal, LLC, Frank M. Contacessi, was driving a 2013 Isuzu NPR Commercial Box Truck northbound on Illinois Route 23 North of Ottawa. The MedPro driver failed to stop and slammed into the...

Lance Corporal Jason S. Roth served in the Marine Corp during the war in Afghanistan until his honorable discharge on July 27, 2012. While in Afghanistan, Jason was the target of an improvised explosive device (IED) and was subsequently diagnosed with...

On Aug. 31, 2013, 21-year-old Kevin Figaniak was walking back to Wheeling Jesuit University with his friend Tyler Johnson around the area of the Owl's Nest and Ye Old Alpha bars when the two became involved in an altercation with Craig Peacock and...

Charles Knighton filed an action against The Blacklands Railroad in the 62nd District Court; Hopkins Co., TX. Knighton alleged that the railroad was negligent because its conductor had told him that he could go to work on top of the hopper car, and then...

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...

In just a few weeks, the 142nd 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 spectators...

On Feb. 26, 2010, Lashon Bilbro-Beverly was a 40-year-old female that was 32 weeks pregnant with her 7th child. She presented to the Emergency Department of Norwegian American Hospital, complaining of shortness of breath and cough. She was diagnosed with...

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...

On June 22, 2015, Jerry Chad Pilkinton was traveling eastbound on SE 5th Street in Ocala, Marion County, Florida. At that same time, Curtis Eldridge Clark was driving a 2014 Ford F150 owned by Antis Automotive and Roadside Service, and was traveling northbound...

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 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...

Most attorneys—especially those with smaller law firms—will think at least twice before taking on a medical malpractice case. The reasons for their hesitation are obvious: such cases are complex and increasingly expensive to litigate, and...

At 3:00 a.m. on March 24, 2014, plaintiff Yolanda Montes was a passenger riding into O'Hare Airport. Montes, a 33 year old woman, was there to start her shift as a Transportation Security Officer (TSO) for the Transportation Security Agency on The...

At 2:00 a.m. on March 2, 2012, on Interstate 80 in Illinois, Gary Williams was driving a 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer that was towing a U-Haul box trailer rented from U-Haul through its Quick Service location. Williams, who had been traveling for more than...

In March of 2015, Amber Rae Johnson was hired by Stones River Medical Group, P.C., after Dr. Mark Josovitz had allegedly asked Johnson to come work at Stones River as an assistant office manager. Johnson said that during her first month of employment...

On Jan. 29, 2012, plaintiff Samuel Belcher was a 56-year-old conductor working for defendant CSX Railroad, Inc., in Hamlet, NC, when he began to exhibit signs and symptoms of a stroke. At around the same time, he misaligned two switches causing the engine...