Wrongful Death

• Driver Charged in Drunk Driving Car Accident

  Scott Kappes | August 21, 2007 2:25 PM | 0 CommentsGalveston Bay, TX

  Two people were killed earlier this month when a drunk driver flew over a seawall in deadly car accident. The driver has been charged with DWI and failing to stop and give aid to accident victims. Oscar Podencceo, 20, who told police he is from Mexico and not a legal U.S. citizen, remained in a University of Texas Medical Branch hospital under observation Monday afternoon. Police allege he was...

• Chicago Area Man Killed by Freight Train

  Jamie G. Goldstein | August 21, 2007 10:53 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  Thomas Bujnowski was only 47 years old when he died Friday morning. Bujnowski's body was found near the train tracks at Route 14 and Lincoln Street in Fox River Grove, Illinois. It is believed Bujnowski was hit by a Union Pacific freight train. His death has been ruled an accident but there is an ongoing investigation. Police hope to find additional answers to how Thomas Bujnowski was killed...

• Rescue Efforts Halted in Utah Mine Collapse

  Jamie G. Goldstein | August 21, 2007 10:06 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  Digging has been halted at the Crandall Canyon coal mine after 3 rescue workers recently died and six others were injured. Experts have examined the mine and say it is too dangerous to continue digging. The head of the federal Mine and Safety Health Administration, however, has said that if there are any signs of life they will continue rescue efforts. Four holes have now been dug into the...

• Parasailing Accident Similar to Past Case Tried by Firm

  Staff Writer | August 21, 2007 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  This past Saturday, two teenage sisters went parasailing near Pompano Beach. According to the Miami Herald, while they were in the air, the winds turned gusty and the rope that tethered them to the boat snapped. They hurdled past the shoreline, hit a thatched roof shelter and then slammed into the second floor of the Beachcomber Resort. Jeannete Lewis, attorney and partner of The Haggard Law...

• Florida Jury Awards $25.8 Million Against Walgreen's Pharmacy for Misfilled Prescription

  Amy Rothschild | August 21, 2007 9:28 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  A jury in Bartown, Florida, rendered a $25.8 million on August 17, 2007, to a cancer patient's family who was given a wrong prescription by Walgreen's pharmacy. The wrong prescription resulted in the cancer patient having a stroke and dying several days later. The patient, who was being treated for breast cancer, was prescribed Warfarin, a blood thinner, in 2002 to treat the breast cancer....

• Alleged Nursing Home Neglect Spawns Wrongful Death Action

  Amy Rothschild | August 21, 2007 9:17 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  The daughter of an eighty-two (82) year old resident who died at a nursing home has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the nursing home. The resident, who had been residing at the nursing home since 2004, died three days after she fell and fractured her leg and hip at the nursing home. The daughter's complaint alleges wrongful death and claims that the nursing home's abuse and neglect...

• Worker Killed in Casting Machine Accident

  Jenny Albano | August 21, 2007 1:51 AM | 0 CommentsAkron, OH

  Matthew Salisbury, an employee of Brush Wellman Engineered Products, was crushed to death Sunday night in a casting machine. According to another employee, the machine broke down and Salisbury entered it to try and fix the problem. While he was trying to unclog the machine he became pinned and was crushed to death; another employee turned off the air compressor that powered the machinery, but...

• Kern County Death

  David Rowell | August 20, 2007 4:28 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  A 76 year old Kern County woman died from West Nile virus, the third West Nile death in Kern County this year. Although there is nothing to suggest wrongdoing by Kern County officials, that is not the case in Butte County. In Chico, a woman whose husband died from West Nile has filed a wrongful death suit against the City, claiming that the City knew of an increased risk of infection because of...

• TASER Death, Lawsuit Settled $100,000

  Jamie G. Goldstein | August 20, 2007 4:09 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  Ray Charles Austin died in September 2003 after he was shocked by a Taser several times. Austin was an inmate in the Gwinnett County Jail at the time of his death. Austin was shocked as a result of a fight he was engaged in where he bit part of a deputy's ear off.Austin's family settled the suit for $100,000 and agreed not to make public statements about the settlement. The agreement for...

• New school year increases risk for vehicular "back-overs"

  Chuck Boyk | August 18, 2007 4:07 PM | 0 CommentsSandusky, OH

  The start of a new school year brings excitement and new beginnings for students all over the nation. This time of year also brings an increased number of children outside as they wait for buses, in parking lots, or walk to and from school. The most tragic cases we handle at our Toledo, Ohio personal injury office are those that involve the death of a child. That's why we join Kids and Cars, a...