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• Fork lift fatality??

  Tom Hastings | November 16, 2011 10:45 AM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A fall from a skid atop a forklift, at Tri County Converters and Scrap Metal Recycling, claimed the life of a 38-year-old man on November 2, according to Edinburg Fire Chief Allen Smith....

• Pain Caused by Drunk Driver Never Goes Away

  Fred Schultz | August 07, 2009 11:46 AM | 1 CommentBloomington, IN Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  I was really moved by an article in today's paper. Larry Haywood is a victim of a drunk driver who killed his daughter and grandson twenty years ago. This week, he was speaking to a group of 250...

• Owen County Car Crash a Reminder of the need to Drive Safely

  Fred Schultz | July 20, 2009 1:18 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An early morning car crash in Owen County is a stark reminder of the need for all of us to be careful while driving. According to the Herald Times, two vehicles were involved in a collision where...

• Why Does it Take Tragedy to Force a Change?

  Fred Schultz | June 30, 2009 10:42 AM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  It took the death of a six-year-old boy, and a great-grandmother's determination to force long-overdue safety changes in three Greene County railroad crossings. The boy's great-grandmother wrote a...

• Man Dies in Workplace Crane Accident

  Fred Schultz | June 12, 2009 12:22 PM | 1 CommentBloomington, IN Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  I was sorry to read about another workplace death involving a crane accident last week. According to the report, a worker fell over ninety feet to his death from a crane up in Gary. A coroner...

• A Tragic Tractor-Trailer Accident

  Fred Schultz | November 19, 2008 3:34 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  I just read online about a horrific tractor-trailer accident that happened in December of 2006 where two children were killed. Apparently, the story recently made the news because counsel for the...

• Home Safety Very Important

  Fred Schultz | July 20, 2008 5:32 PM | 1 CommentBloomington, IN Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  I recently read in the paper a tragic story about a boy who died when garage door that was propped up by a board fell and pinned the boy's neck undereath. Apparently, the boy suffocated before he...

• Scott Peterson Wrongful Death Trial Delayed

  Chrissie Cole | June 29, 2008 10:05 AM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Scott Peterson, convicted of killing his pregnant wife, is heading to court again – this time civil court. Laci Peterson’s parents have filed a multimillion-dollar wrongful death lawsuit against...

• Widow Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Disney Cruise Lines

  Chrissie Cole | January 28, 2008 12:57 AM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A widow has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Disney Cruise Line, blaming the company for her husband's death from injuries he suffered last year while on an 11-day cruise out of Barcelona, Spain. He died August 14th, he was 78.The suit alleges that her husband died because a poorly designed, raised threshold on a bathroom doorway caused him to trip and fall; because the ship's medical...

• Indiana Court Reinstates Wrongful Death Lawsuit

  Chrissie Cole | December 26, 2007 12:40 AM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Wrongful Death
  

  The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled, on Wednesday, that the estate of an Allen County woman can proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit filed against a Fort Wayne nursing home.In August, Martha, fractured her hip. After surgery, she was transported to Bethlehem Woods Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. In the days following the surgery, her incision was torn due to the wheelchair, provided by the...