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Scott Shays was a veteran of the US Navy and the Vermont National Guard. He served in Operation Enduring Freedom in Kuwait in 2005 and received an Army Commendation Medal. Mr. Shays was exposed to asbestos gaskets, packing, and external insulation used...

Eating comes as naturally to human beings as talking, walking, sleeping, and using our opposable thumbs. But according to the National Safety Council, eating food is not without its hazards, as choking is the fourth leading cause of unintentional injury...

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...

On May 7, 2013, at approximately 11:00 p.m., David Silva was found lying unconscious on the front lawn of a home across from Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, California, after Kern County deputies responded to reports of a possibly intoxicated man...

Tyler Thomas was a 19-year-old student at Peru State College in Peru, NE. On Dec. 3, 2010, she was seen on a security camera about 1:30 a.m. walking towards her dorm. She disappeared. Then 29-year-old student Joshua Keadle told investigators that he had...

Casey Kent, 35 years old, was skateboarding on a steep bike path in the Cedar Point Estates subdivision in the City of Columbia Falls. He died as the result of an accident that occurred while he was skateboarding. The subdivision was designed and engineered...

On April 30, 2013, Sophia Maria Alcon, 77, became a resident of South Pueblo Medical Investors, Ltd. d/b/a Life Care Center of Pueblo, a nursing home in Colorado. While a resident there, she sustained several injuries, including urinary tract infections...

This was a trip/slip and fall claim by plaintiff alleging the defendant homeowners negligently installed and maintained "nosing" on their stair which caused plaintiff to fall. Plaintiff's further claimed building code violations. The defendants...

May 19, 2016 - In 1965, 10 years after the United States Supreme Court's second decision in Brown v. Board of Education, residents of Bolivar County, Mississippi, filed an action seeking the desegregation of their school system. After decades of litigation...

May 19, 2016 - Plaintiff Thomas Bumgardner alleged that as he was driving south on University Drive, defendant Joyce Barbin was driving north on University Drive and made a left turn onto NW 44th Street in front of plaintiff's vehicle. Defendant's...

Captain Corcoran was never, never sick at sea. Well, hardly ever —as audiences familiar with Gilbert and Sullivan’s beloved 1878 comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore know so well. Indeed, they eagerly await the moment early in the opera when, challenged...

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...