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From the outside, the healthcare industry seems incredibly regulated. It takes years for a drug or device to get approved by the FDA in many instances, so how do defective (and often deadly) medical devices make it on the market in the first place? Like other types of product liability issues, there are a few ways this […]

While work on construction sites comes with many known dangers, death should never be one of them. 34 year-old Jose Luis Delgado died earlier this year after a 76 foot fall from a new building he had been working on at 222 N. Wolfe Road (a property anticipated but not confirmed to be leased by […]

Knott’s Berry Farm is always a popular place for families to go and spend the day eating their famous friend chicken, hitting and rides and enjoying the sites. Unfortunately, one of their most popular rides is causing problems for patrons. According to the Orange County-based lawsuit, the log ride has been operating out of compliance […]

Did you know that Walmart receives around 13 personal injury lawsuits every single day? Forbes paints a picture of what this staggering number of daily lawsuits looks like, “After one of Wal-Mart’s 1.2 million employees gets to work at 9am, three lawsuits will be filed against the company by the time he or she takes a […]

Gyms, schools and just about every other activity you and your children participate in these days likely has you signing some type of legal liability waiver before you can get started. So what exactly are these waivers and how do they impact your ability to file a personal injury or wrongful death lawsuit in the […]

A Charleston jury recently found Georgia-based SAR Automation liable to the tune of $8.8 Million for the death of one of it’s employees back in 2013. 38 year-old David Priester Jr. fell from a moving elevated platform designed by SAR automation for the Boeing plant while he was working on the body of a Dreamliner […]

A Los Angeles jury just handed down the biggest damages award to date against Johnson and Johnson for their failure to warn about possible cancer risks in their baby powder products. How huge? $417 Million huge. While this verdict represents the first California case to go to trial, Bloomberg reports that there are currently 5,500 cases throughout […]

School is supposed to be a safe place for learning and developing and somewhere the parents can trust in the teachers and administration. Something went terribly wrong in that relationship for one family in Montgomery County, Maryland when their 14 year-old daughter died outside the school gym after repeatedly being denied her requests for her […]

Boats are a very popular recreational activity but while they can move at the speed of a car, they lack many of the important safety features including brakes, airbags and seat belts. This combination can ultimately end in death or serious personal injury. As you may have guessed, boating accidents occur most frequently in the […]

It’s a parent’s worst nightmare– your child is killed coming home from school. Taking his normal route home from his local Newport Beach, California elementary school, 8 year-old Brooks McCann was fatally struck by a CR&R Inc trash truck as he was crossing the street on his bike. OC Weekly reports on the recently filed […]

Here’s the issue: you were injured at a friend’s house or in a car accident with them and while you don’t want to sue them for your injuries, but you also need the money. What do you do? This scenario is a common one and the answer will make you happy– you don’t have to […]

Unarmed 21 year-old Nephi Arreguin was shot and killed back in 2015 while in his car in Cerritos, California by a police officer that was responding to a suspicious person call. The family of Arreguin aruged that the use of a firearm was unprovoked; the city argued that the deceased drove at the officer. Whatever […]

Slip and fall accidents are no joke and the seriously dilapidated sidewalks throughout all of Los Angeles are not only causing major injuries that the city is financially responsible for but they are also making certain routes nearly impossible to navigate for their handicapped citizens. Albeit slowly, the sidewalks in Los Angeles are about to […]

Jennifer Aniston’s highly anticipated 2015 backyard nuptials to fellow actor Justin Theroux was followed by a friend-filled honeymoon at the Four Seasons in Bora Bora. Unfortunately, the lively celebration honeymoon ended in death when the naked body of 28 year-old assistant Carmel Musgrove washed up on shore after a day and night of alcohol and […]

Settlement or trial is a common question for a range of legal issues, including California wrongful death cases. This important decision effectively does the same thing in bringing about a legal resolution to the case but they do so in dramatically different ways. The distinction can be confusing to a non-lawyer and not surprisingly, the decision […]

No surprise here. Fresh of the involuntary manslaughter conviction of 20 year-old Michelle Carter, the family of her then boyfriend Conrad Roy III have filed a multi-million dollar wrongful death lawsuit against her. The texting suicide case got a ton of media attention over the summer and culminated in Carter’s 15 month prison sentence. Conrad’s […]

Let’s quickly clarify something before we get down to the details- reality television star Dog the Bounty Hunter (real name: Duane Lee Chapman) is not personally suing New Jersey Governor Chris Christie but what he is doing is throwing his celebrity support behind a family that is suing Christie, among others. Twenty six year-old  Christian […]

Back in 2012, seven year-old Angelica Arreola and her parents and sister were walking home from Ritter Elementary School in Watts, California when a car hit the family in a designated crosswalk and quickly drove off. Arreola’s father was killed on impact and she died later that year from the injuries sustained from the fatal car […]

Two border officers and the US government were recently held responsible for the 2013 death of sixteen year-old Mexican Cruz Velazquez Acevedo after the border officers forced the teenager to drink a liquid that contained a methamphetamine that killed him. Apple juice. That was what Cruz Velazquez Acevedo told the drug suspecting border officers he […]

Elder neglect and wrongful death. Those are the basis for a recent lawsuit filed against Valley Convalescent Hospital in Bakersfield, California following the death of 80 year-old Robert Hopkins. The suit alleges that Hopkins had multiple falls (from both his bed and wheelchair) as a result of poor supervision with the final fall being the […]

We write a lot about more common wrongful death scenarios on our blogs but a recent case out of Joliet, Illinois serves as a reminder that every case is unique and not all deaths happen instantly. The quick backstory on this personal injury turned wrongful death case: 87 year old Elaine Catuara was enjoying a […]

When you lose a loved one as a result of the negligence of someone or something else, filing any type of legal action is probably one of the last things you want to do. But the unfortunate reality of the matter is that the law places very strict deadlines on when cases need to be […]

Back in 2015, fourteen-year old friends Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos went out on a fishing trip near their homes in Tequesta, Florida and never returned. The highly publicized sixteen day search for the duo was unsuccessful and now, on the two year anniversary of their disappearance, the mother of Perry Cohen has filed a […]