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• Product Liability Lawsuit Overturned

  Christina Cole | February 08, 2007 4:57 AM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  A Washington appeals court has ruled a manufacturer did indeed bare the responsibility of warning a plaintiff of potential asbestos exposure even when the manufacturer's water evaporator used on Navy ships did not contain asbestos.The ruling stems from a product liability lawsuit brought upon by a man that was diagnosed with lung cancer and asbestos-related disease back in 2000.Simonetta worked...

• Settlement of Personal Injury Claims

  Ed Van Dorn | February 07, 2007 4:08 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  Our personal injury clients want to know whether their cases will settle or will they have to go to court. Because of our extensive experience in handling hundreds of personal injury claims we are generally able to predict what will happen. While each case is different our experience and track record gives us some valuable information. Statistically over 90% of our cases settle without having...

• Personal Injury Firm's Track Record

  Ed Van Dorn | February 02, 2007 9:03 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  The law firm handling your personal injury claim should have a proven track record in jury trials. When a personal injury claim cannot be settled it is resolved by a jury trial. Insurance company's will usually only pay top settlements to personal injury victims represented by attorneys with proven track records in court. When personal injury victims are represented by lawyers with only limited...

• Slip and Fall Injuries in Vermont

  Ed Van Dorn | January 31, 2007 7:08 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  A client asked us about her legal rights when she slipped on ice in front of a supermarket and sustained serious personal injury including a broken pelvis. Generally speaking supermarkets will carry insurance for these incidents but will only pay a claim if the supermarket was negligent in maintaining its premises. Simply stated negligence means that the supermarket acted unreasonably under the...

• Three People Seriously Injured in Car Accident

  Christina Cole | January 27, 2007 8:42 AM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  Three Montpelier residents were seriously injured Friday, in a two-vehicle car accident on Ind. 18.Authorities say, Chance E. McCormick was driving his Dodge Caravan eastbound on the highway at 3:30pm when he lost control of the van in the snow that had blow on to the roadway.McCormick's vehicle slid counter-clockwise into a westbound lane, according to Blackford County police Lt. Jeff Sones,...

• Woman Injured in One-Car Accident

  Christina Cole | January 17, 2007 7:50 AM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  A Stowe woman is facing DUI charges after driving her car off of Route 100 near Waterbury Fish on Monday.Allison, Ladd, sustained minor cuts and bruises but refused to submit to a breathalyzer test after officers on the scene suspected she had been drinking and driving prior to the crash. Ladd lost control of her Ford Explorer and drove off the road, 75 feet into a marsh. She was taken to...

• Woman Hurt in Crash Under Influence of Prescription Drugs

  Christina Cole | January 11, 2007 5:49 AM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  Police say a woman in her late 50s was hurt in a car crash off the County Road that sent her car into a concrete post and then off into the woods and finally into a tree.Elizabeth Dorries had to be extricated from her car at approximately 1:45am because her right foot was pinned up under the dashboard said Vermont State Police, Daniel Schneider. She sustained an incapacitating injury to her...

• Man Escapes Serious Injury after Plummeting off Interstate

  Christina Cole | January 05, 2007 8:05 AM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  A man escaped serious injury Tuesday when his SUV plummeted off of Interstate 89, down a 40ft embankment and came to rest on its side beneath the busy underpass.David Pelkey, 30, received shoulder and facial injuries and he was treated and released. Pelkey was trapped in his overturned Chevy Tahoe for 20 minutes before rescue crews from Colchester, Winooski and Mallettes Bay were able to free...

• Fired Johnson & Johnson Exec. Files Lawsuit

  Christina Cole | December 31, 2006 7:43 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  Dr. Joel S. Lippman, former vice president at Johnson & Johnson is claiming in a lawsuit that he was fired for seeking recalls for several faulty products, including the Ortho Evra birth control patch - the subject of currently 1,000 product liability lawsuits.In a civil complaint filed by Lippman he alleges that he was unlawfully terminated after working with Johnson & Johnson for over 15 years...

• Man Injured in Car Crash

  Christina Cole | December 29, 2006 4:41 AM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  A New Hampshire man sustained neck injuries on Monday morning in a car crash on Interstate-91 in Springfield according to Vermont State Police.Police ay they were dispatched at 11:33am and found a 2001 Ford Escort driven by Larkin Burrill, 88, had apparently left the roadway on the left side and traveled into a wooded area. The car had extensive damage to the front and both sides. Police are...