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Lawsuit alleges nursing home caused patient’s severe injuries

Lawyers for Hayward resident Mark Sandholdt claim Windsor Country Drive Care Center neglected their client and wrote a letter to his insurance provider that fraudulently stated he was refusing treatment. Because of that letter, the insurance company dropped its coverage, they added. The lawsuit alleges elder abuse, financial abuse, negligence, and negligent hiring and supervision […]

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Aviation and automobile industry forum on safety

Leaders from the aviation and automotive industries joined with top U.S. Department of Transportation officials to discuss how safety lessons from aviation can be applied to the auto industry. The Enhancing Safety Culture in Transportation forum was co-hosted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Aviation Administration, and was attended by top

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Maine crash victim files suit against bars who served drunk driver

A Harpswell, Maine lobsterman who suffered significant injuries during a motor vehicle crash on January 6, 2015 is suing the driver, a Brunswick convenience store and four Brunswick bars that allegedly served her alcohol that night for negligence and violation of the Maine Liquor Liability Act. Samuel Desjardins’ 2001 GMC pickup truck was struck by

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$13 million awarded to Las Vegas woman in lawsuit against Lowe’s

Kelly Hendrickson, a 38-year-old mother of three, was looking at palm trees in the garden center of a Lowe’s home improvement store in July 2013 when she slipped on a “slimy, wet substance” draining from the bottom of several planters, she told a jury April 7. She fractured her skull in the fall and permanently

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$1,406,178 verdict for automobile collision in Burlington

Shareholder Heather Webb and Associate Kevin Conner received a combined verdict of $1,406,178, entered by the Honorable Andrea Darvas following a nine day King County Superior Court bench trial that ended on November 19, 2015.  The case arose from a May 24, 2012 automobile collision in Burlington, Washington, when a Safelite commercial van rear ended the

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$51 million in New Orleans East 18-wheeler accident

A jury returned a $51.5 million judgment Tuesday, April 12, in a lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who was severely injured by a tractor-trailer truck in New Orleans East. Connie Jones Marable received what is thought “to be the largest jury award ever made” to a single plaintiff in Judge Piper Griffin’s division of Orleans

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Port of Bellingham ordered to pay $16M to injured ferry worker

A federal jury has ordered the Port of Bellingham to pay just over $16 million in damages to an employee who was injured while operating a faulty passenger-loading ramp at the Bellingham Port’s cruise terminal in 2012. Shannon Adamson suffered life-threatening injuries when the passenger gangway ramp fell nearly 20 feet while she was adjusting

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