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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 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 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...

On Nov. 14, 2012, 45-year-old Dawn Andalora filed an amended complaint in the Superior Court, Judicial District of Windham at Windham, Connecticut against Joseph Falanga. Andalora alleged that from 1974 to 1979, when she was a minor, Falanga engaged in...

Diane Albright had surgery on March 9, 2010, to correct a cystocele or bladder prolapse. She stated that a Pinnacle pelvic floor repair kit designed and manufactured by Boston Scientific Corporation (d/b/a Mansfield Scientific, Inc. and Microvasive, Inc...

On Nov. 26, 2012, Jesse Ventura a/k/a James G. Janos filed an action against Chris Kyle in the Minnesota District Court for the Fourth Judicial District, Hennepin County. Through the complaint, Ventura stated that he was a military veteran who had served...

Plaintiff Columbia Riverkeeper filed a civil action on Aug. 26, 2013, seeking judicial relief compelling defendant U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to comply with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C.S. $ S 552, as amended, with...

Around 2010, Shippers Transport Express, Inc. began a program in which it leased trucks to its workforce of California port truck drivers. Shippers classified the drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. Grayling Taylor and Bruce Brown...

On Feb. 1, 2009, L.S. suffered a closed head injury in a motor vehicle collision. Shortly thereafter, she began treating with Jonathan Fellus, M.D., a neurologist. For a five-month period spanning 2008 and 2009, L.S. and Dr. Fellus had a sexual relationship...

For about 40 years, Tod Curtis owned and operated the Ye Olde Town Inn (YOTI) restaurant and bar on W. Busse Avenue in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Curtis was the sole beneficial owner of the property with the power of direction of Trust No. 10510 and the...

George John Bussanich, Sr. was a member, Chief Executive Officer and President of Metropolitan Ambulatory Surgical Center LLC (MASC), a holding company for the managing of medical clinics owned by Bussanich, Sr. and the funding of certain businesses....

Beginning in March of 2007, SCANA Energy Marketing, Inc., a seller of natural gas, allegedly charged existing customers enrolled in certain rate plans more than the published rate filed by SCANA with the Georgia Public Service Commission for the plan...

Since at least 1999, a number of flexible polyurethane foam manufacturers had engaged in an alleged conspiracy to fix the price of the product and allocate customers. In February 2010, Vitafoam, which was one of the polyurethane foam manufacturers, entered...

American Pop Corn Company, ConAgra Foods, Inc. and General Mills, Inc. (collectively the popcorn defendants) manufactured and sold microwave popcorn containing butter flavored products and other products containing diacetyl and/or pentanedione. Givaudan...

On Aug. 9, 2011, plaintiffs Jared Adkins and his 11-year-old son C.A. were paying passengers aboard a 46-foot diving boat named Big Dipper, which provided transportation to scuba diving sites. Plaintiffs were in the water swimming off the stern of the...

On the evening of Dec. 28, 2007, an armed take-over robbery occurred at Portos Bakery in Burbank, California. Angelo Dahlia, a detective with the Burbank Police Department, was called the following morning and told to respond to the Department to conduct...

On Aug. 27, 2009, United States Border Patrol agent Ryan Moore, in the course of his duties, was driving a Chevy Silverado westbound on Otay Mountain Truck Trail, an unpaved mountain road with multiple blind turns and unprotected drop-offs. Plaintiff...

On Nov. 26, 2012, Benjamin Fortune was injured while using a Ryobi table saw, model BTS21. The table saw was designed, manufactured, marketed, and sold by Techtronic Industries North America Inc., One World Technologies, and Ryobi Technologies. Fortune...

On Feb. 23, 2011, Jo Huskey had a pelvic mesh product implanted by Gretchen L. Byrkit, M.D. at Decatur Memorial Hospital, Decatur, Illinois. Huskey claimed that the polypropylene mesh in her TVT-O sling eroded and caused her severe, ongoing pain because...

On Feb. 13, 2012, plaintiff James Simmons was at the residence of his brother-in-law, defendant Larry Collins, assisting with a plumbing repair and using an angle grinder when the blade broke off and went through the protective eye gear worn by plaintiff...

David V. McIntosh was employed by M.K. Battery, Inc. M.K. supplied batteries to be used in military combat vehicles to the United States Army. M.K. enacted a manufacturing change to its existing batteries that allegedly resulted in the new batteries having...

National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) was operating a train west on a main line of Union Pacific Railroad Company in the County of Churchill, NV. At the point where the line crossed U.S. Highway 95, a tractor trailer combination owned by John...

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...