Wrongful Death

• Making Sense of the Medical Record - Medication Administration Abbreviations

  Jan Boswell | October 22, 2009 12:49 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  Deciphering a medical record can be a real headache, especially handwritten records. Once you break through the handwriting code, you have to deal with the alphabet soup that is medical jargon....

• Court Allows Apartment Fire Lawsuit

  Michael Roberts | August 12, 2009 11:44 AM | 0 CommentsGadsden, AL

  A recent decision from the Alabama Supreme Court permits a lawsuit, arising from an apartment fire, to go forward. In Collins v. Scenic Homes, Inc., a fire caused death of one tenant and serious...

• Wrongful Death Damages in Alabama

  Michael Roberts | May 13, 2009 10:43 AM | 1 CommentGadsden, AL

  WRONGFUL DEATH DAMAGES IN ALABAMA Damages awarded in wrongful death cases vary significantly from state to state. In many states, damages include lost income that the deceased person would...

• Alabama House Bill to give Road Contractors Immunity

  Tedford Taylor | May 01, 2007 11:52 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  Members of the Alabama House of Representatives seek to introduce HB 382 which would give total civil immunity to road contractors working on state projects within the specifications of the contract. If passed, this bill would provide that a contractor performing highway, road, or street repairs, construction or maintenance is not liable for damage or injury resulting therefrom despite the...

• Taser Loses Wrongful Death Lawsuit

  Shannon Weidemann | June 14, 2008 9:13 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Taser International has lost a wrongful death lawsuit for the first time. They have been sued a number of times but have never been found at fault. A family sued them and said that the company...

• $2.7 Million Awarded in Ohio Wrongful Death Case

  Shannon Weidemann | April 27, 2008 9:26 AM | 1 CommentMontgomery, AL

  A mother has been fighting for 10 years to prove that Franklin County could have prevented her daughter's death. A jury found the county negligent and awarded her $2.7 Million in a wrongful death...

• Alabama the Beautiful - Eh, Maybe Not

  Jon Lewis | June 17, 2008 7:34 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  When you cross the Alabama State Line, there is a sign which says, "Welcome to Alabama the Beautiful." It is beautiful. We have mountains, trees, lakes, and even a coastline. We have the world...

• John Ritter's Widow to Speaks at Wrongful Death Trial

  Chrissie Cole | March 03, 2008 1:13 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  John Ritter's widow sat before jurors, on Monday, at her late husband's wrongful death trial and gave testimony about the events that led up to the actor's death in 2003.The family is suing a radiologist who performed a body scan on him two years prior and the cardiologist who treated him on the day he died, claiming both doctors misdiagnosed his condition.Ritter died from a torn aorta, but was...

• Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against Alabama Trooper

  Christina Cole | February 15, 2007 6:47 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  An Alabama State Trooper is due back in court regarding the shooting death of a Shelby County man.The family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the trooper who shot and killed her son in 2004. A grand jury decided in May 2005, the trooper should not face charges in his death.The Plaintiff is suing the Trooper and eight other Department of Public Safety employees, seeking a jury trail for...

• Owner is at Fault in Fatal Fire

  Christina Cole | December 08, 2006 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  A jury has determined that a fire in a Route 9 building that killed five people in February 2000 was fueled in part by unsafe conditions caused by the owner. A wrongful death lawsuit relating to the same fire was settled in October. The main cause of the deadly fire is still unknown, but lawyers for many displaced business owners convinced the jury that the owner Sidney Kriensky was aware of...