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• The Orvis Company Recalls Stuffed Toys Due to Choking Hazard

  Jenny Albano | August 03, 2007 5:38 PM | 1 CommentVermont, VT

  The CPSC and The Orvis Company are recalling about 220 Stuffed Plush Horses and 1,300 Fairy Dolls because the button eyes on the horse and the pompom nose on the fairy doll can easily detach which poses a choking hazard to children.The Orvis Company has not received any reports of injury so far. The toys that were sold with sleeping bags were available on the company's website and through...

• Airplane Crashes - All Twenty On Board Killed

  Courtney Mills | August 10, 2007 3:41 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  A small twin engine turboprop crashed into the sea right after takeoff Thursday from the French Polynesian island of Moorea, killing all twenty passengers aboard. According to the High Commission for the territory, it was the worst aviation accident in French Polynesia's recorded history. The plane was departing for Tahiti, approximately ten miles from the island of Moorea, when it crashed into...

• Woman Suing Big Lots for Slip & Fall

  Christina Cole | January 23, 2007 5:27 AM | 2 CommentsVermont, VT

  A Berkeley County woman is suing the national retail store, Big Lots, after she injured herself when slipping and falling on the floor.Aline E. Valentin-Dunsmuir was a customer at Big Lots in June 2005. While she was there she slipped and fell on an unknown substance."The substance which was on the floor was in the nature of a hidden danger, trap, snare, pitfall or the like, "the lawsuit, filed...

• Actor Angry Over Hospital Error

  Rob Curtiss | January 11, 2008 9:11 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  Film actor Dennis Quaid and his wife have expressed their outrage over the treatment their newborn twins have received at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. A report from the California Department of Public Health confirms that the couple's babies each received a dosage of Heparin that was 2,000 times stronger than the prescribed dose. Heparin is a high risk drug used as a blood...

• John Edwards, Taking Heat for Being a Trial Lawyer

  Rob Curtiss | January 04, 2008 8:48 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  Several of the major presidential candidates: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani to name a few are lawyers by training. Thus far I don't recall any of these individuals have been attacked because they are attorneys. However, another candidate John Edwards has been vilified for some time because of his profession. You see, Edwards is not just a lawyer he is a "trial...

• Motor Vehicle Accidents and Driver Inattention

  Ed Van Dorn | November 27, 2007 8:14 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  Drivers entering highways in wrong direction cause needless accidents and personal injury and wrongful death. Driver inatttention can cause motor vehicle accidents resulting in serious personal injury. Entering limited access highways the wrong way happens more often than expected. In 2002, a van entered Intersate 89 at exit 16 the wrong way, going south in the northbound lanes. This resulted...

• A Big Pay Day for Enron Stockholders' Lawyers

  Rob Curtiss | January 11, 2008 9:17 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  Despite our best efforts to educate the public about the economics of contingent fee law practice, a great many people still believe that lawyer's fees are outrageous. Folks of this ilk will have a field day with the fee being sought by the San Diego law firm that represented the defrauded Enron stockholders. That firm, Coughlin Stoia, Geller, Rudman and Robbins just put in a request a...

• 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...

• Pacifiers Recalled Due to Choking Hazard

  Chrissie Cole | March 24, 2009 11:21 AM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  OKK Trading of Los Angeles, in conjunction with The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), announced a voluntary recall of Baby Necessities Pacifiers. The pacifiers are banned under...

• Speeding on Route 9 and Car Accident Injury Law

  Ed Van Dorn | July 05, 2007 2:37 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  Every one knows that the faster you drive, the better the chances of having a car accident, right? Nevertheless time and time again we see articles like the one in the Brattleboro Reformer on July 4th. Here's a short quote. "The cars zip down the road, pushing the pedal down, going 60, 70, 80, 90 mph. No, it's not the Autobahn, it's Route 9 in Vermont. The twisting road, with its short...