Posts tagged death

• Big Thunder Railroad Death Brings Big Admission From Disney

  Bob Carroll | December 04, 2005 4:52 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Big is a word that describes much of Disneyland and Disney World. In a big departure from normal business practice Disney has admitted that poor maintenance of the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride caused the death of its guest, a 22 year-old man. According to an article posted on SignOnSanDiego.com Disney has agreed to settle the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of the deceased...

• Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against Carwash

  Robert Blanchard | November 10, 2005 4:59 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A Tampa carwash is facing a wrongful death suit filed by a man whose wife died at the business in May.Brenda Brown was waiting for her car to be cleaned at Town N' Country Carwash on May 6th when a carwash employee driving a 2003 Isuzu Rodeo rammed into her. She died two days later.Brown's husband's wrongful death attorney alleges that the carwash was negligent by not training its employees to...

• Widow Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit For $15 Million

  Bob Carroll | October 25, 2005 5:34 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  The wife of Senator John Kerry (widow of Senator John Heintz) has settled her lawsuit for the wrongful death of her first husband. A total of $15 Million was paid in settlement of all claims for the death of Senator Heintz. Six others were killed in the same midair collision between a plane and a helicopter. The Associated Press reports the wife of Senator John Kerry (widow of Senator John...

• Skydiver Hit In Midair By Plane - The Plane He Just Left!

  Bob Carroll | October 09, 2005 9:55 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  How does the law define reckless conduct or wanton diregard for the safety of another? A death in Florida provides one answer. It may be a wrongful death caused by a mindless act well beyond a momentary act of carelessness.How does the law define reckless conduct or wanton disregard for the safety of another? Maybe a recent tragic death in Florida provides one answer. The news story was...

• Coumadin And Cardura - Prescription Error Causes Death

  Bob Carroll | October 05, 2005 10:25 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Two prescription drugs, both beginning with the same letter, Coumadin and Cardura, were confused by a pharmacy in Florida. As a result of the prescription error a tragic death occurred. Several breaches of internal pharmacy policies must have been tolerated or encouraged by management. Two prescription drugs, both beginning with the letter "C", Coumadin and Cardura, were confused by a pharmacy...

• $15 Million Verdict In Motorcycle Death

  Bob Carroll | September 24, 2005 4:30 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  Tampa Bay Online has reported on a significant wrongful death verdict in Tampa. I congratulate counsel from Pinellas County who obviously presented a compelling case for the anguish of the family over this tragic loss."TAMPA - The parents of a motorcyclist who died in an accident with a tractor-trailer won a $15 million verdict in a trial that ended Wednesday.About 4 p.m. on Oct. 31, Jeremy T....

• Blame The Children Of The Nursing Home Residents?

  Bob Carroll | September 22, 2005 6:15 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Just who is responsible for the timely and safe evacuation of the residents of nursing homes?The Louisiana Attorney General has got it right. The professions who were entrusted with the lives of their residents had the responsibility to provide a timely and safe evacuation. The relatives of the deceased residents will forever live with their loss and do not need the additional burden of the...

• Death By Duragesic

  Bob Carroll | September 21, 2005 4:06 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A patient in Tampa Bay who was provided prescriptions by his treating physician for over twice the proper number of Duragesic Patches, in increasingly more potent doses, was found dead by his wife on his living room couch in Florida.Had the doctor taken his patient on a downward spiral of narcotic addiction and dependence...?The medical records of the prescribing doctor held the answer to this...

• Riptide Drownings At City Beach

  Bob Carroll | September 21, 2005 3:50 AM | 2 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that a city’s public swimming area creates a duty to warn the public of certain dangerous conditions.The Court determined that a jury, under these circumstances, should be permitted to decide whether the city knew or should have known of the riptide at the city beach and whether it breached its duty of care by not warning of the danger it created.The...

• Furniture Tipover Causes 10,000 Injuries And Deaths A Year

  Bob Carroll | September 20, 2005 6:13 AM | 1 CommentPinellas, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) estimates that "8,000 to 10,000 victims are treated annually in U.S. hospital emergency rooms for injuries associated with the tipover of furniture. CPSC also receives reports of about 6 deaths each year. The majority of these injuries and deaths are to children."There are voluntary standards that apply to the children's furniture manufacturing...