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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...

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 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 26, 2011, plaintiff Miami-Dade College (MDC) entered into a written contract with defendant Ajax Building Corporation to design and build a parking garage on the west campus of MDC. Ajax subcontracted with defendant M.A.R. Contracting, Inc. to...

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...

At approximately 10:23 p.m. on March 1, 2009, Valerie Hurley, 25 years old, was taken to the emergency room at St. Mary's Medical Center North complaining of nausea, vomiting and syncope. She was found to have low blood pressure and complained of...

Since 1998, Examsoft Worldwide provided software that allowed exam takers to use their own computers to take their exams, while maintaining testing integrity for test administrators. The software sold by ExamSoft included legal bar exam testing packets...

In 2005, Ellen T. Kander came under the care of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside for diagnosis and treatment of recurrent idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, a blood disorder Ellen was first diagnosed with...

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...

From July 3, 1985 to March 31, 2010, Marcia Eisenhour worked for Weber County, lastly as the court administrator for the Weber County Justice Court. Craig D. Storey, a Justice Court judge and Eisenhour's supervisor, allegedly sexually harassed Eisenhour...

On Dec. 30, 2011, Carlos Martinez and his wife, Rosita de los Santos de Martinez, filed a product liability action in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia County. The Martinez plaintiffs named the following as defendants: Honda Motor...

Sandra S. Robertson alleged that on June 5, 2006, she began work as a traffic clerk, and later, a shipping supervisor, for Hunter Panels, LLC and Carlisle Construction Materials, Inc. (defendants). Robertson claimed that she was subjected to harassment...

On Jan. 19, 2011, Southern California Gas Company and Sempra Energy (collectively SCGC) arrived at property in San Gabriel, CA, to service the gas system in response to a call that the dwelling's heater was not receiving natural gas. During servicing...

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...