Orange County Personal Injury Blog
Posted on Nov 30, 2011 By Orange County Personal Injury Lawyer
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputy has been accused of driving his motorcycle drunk and crashing into the back end of another vehicle on the 405 freeway on the evening of July 5. The ...
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Posted on Aug 5, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
The City of Chicago approved a $6,500,000 settlement of a lawsuit which stemmed from the death of a boy (8 years old) and a head injury to an eleven year old girl. The children were crossing the ...
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Posted on Jul 1, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
Five hungry men walked to Denny's on South Main in the early morning hours of May 31, 2010. They left hungry - and angry. The men, all black and all in their 20s, were refused entry twice after they ...
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Posted on Jul 1, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
The jury hearing the case of Ereck Plancher, the Central Florida player who died during a pre-practice conditioning workout in 2008, returned a verdict of guilty on a charge of negligence against the ...
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Posted on Jun 29, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
An attendant on the Amtrak train struck by a tractor-trailer rig in Nevada last week, in a fiery crash that killed at least six people and injured dozens more, sued the trucking company on Tuesday. ...
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Posted on Jun 28, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
MOBILE, Ala. , June 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 23, 2011 , after five years of litigation and two appeals to the Alabama Supreme Court, a Mobile County, Alabama jury returned a $40 million ...
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Posted on Jun 28, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
The mother of a 19-year-old Cornell University sophomore who died after drinking heavily at a fraternity house in February filed a wrongful- death lawsuit against the fraternity on Monday, saying her ...
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Posted on Jun 24, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
Three families have filed a federal lawsuit against a Panguitch-based boarding school for troubled teens, claiming the institution failed to supervise a counselor charged with sexually abusing several ...
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Posted on Jun 17, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
Who sues kids for cyberbullying? A Houston lawyer does when his daughter becomes the target of a nasty video posted on Facebook, according to a lawsuit filed this week in Harris County. Last month, ...
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Posted on Jun 14, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
The administrator of the estate of murder victim Umi Southworth has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city, claiming Lexington police acted in "a reckless, wanton and egregious manner" by ...
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Posted on Jun 14, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
The parents of two Dacula boys who drowned last year are seeking $10 million each in lawsuits that claim Gwinnett County firefighters were negligent in the boys' deaths. Jacob Bullock, 14, and Marvens ...
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Posted on Jun 13, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A jury awarded two families $100,000 at the conclusion of a federal trial here Thursday after finding that the Wayne County school system failed to protect their children from being sexually harassed ...
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Posted on Jun 13, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A lawsuit filed after a Utah car crash killed two people will be the first in the country to put Toyota Motor Corp. on trial over allegations that it made defective cars that are responsible for the ...
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Posted on Jun 13, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A 37-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., man said he’s considering legal action after being tossed off his flight in Detroit on Sunday for saying the F-word. Robert Sayegh was on a Delta Airlines carrier flight ...
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Posted on Jun 10, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A Butte County jury awarded $30 million Tuesday to a Chico woman whose head was gashed by a boat propeller in a horrific wakeboarding accident five years ago on Lake Oroville. The Superior Court panel ...
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Posted on Jun 3, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
Houston athlete, 23, contends guards for Patti LaBelle attacked him Lawyers for a West Point cadet who says bodyguards for soul singer Patti LaBelle beat him while he was waiting for a ride at a ...
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Posted on Jun 1, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A Norwalk couple was awarded $58.6 million Wednesday, a record for a single incident of medical malpractice in Connecticut, in a case involving an obstetrician accused of waiting too long to perform a ...
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Posted on May 31, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
On May 13, 2011 , a Wilson County jury awarded $1.6 Million in damages to 23-year old Samuel C. Rollings , as just compensation for an injury he suffered while at work at the Fredonia Cooperative ...
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Posted on May 27, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
The father of an up-and-coming, Bosnian-born fashion model whose body was discovered inside her car submerged in the North Branch of the Chicago River filed a wrongful death lawsuit today against the ...
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Posted on May 27, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A lawsuit brought by four young male members of an Atlanta megachurch who said its pastor, Eddie Long, coerced them into sex has been "resolved," their attorney said on Thursday. B.J. ...
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Posted on May 24, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
The deputy was drunk when his sheriff's SUV collided with a smaller car, seriously injuring the other driver — who was high on methamphetamine and opiates. On the morning of June 29, 2008, ...
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Posted on May 24, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
The Metropolitan Police Department will pay $1 million to the family of a mentally ill man killed two years ago in a confrontation with officers. The settlement approved Monday by the agency's Fiscal ...
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Posted on May 23, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
An Los Angeles Police Department sergeant who claimed he was the victim of retaliation for being gay awarded $1.16 million on Thursday by a jury. Jurors deliberated about a day before finding in favor ...
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Posted on May 23, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
An 11-year-old girl became pregnant and contracted a sexually transmitted disease after she was raped in a sauna by a summer camp counselor at a YMCA in upstate New York , the family's lawyer ...
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Posted on May 23, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
California's biggest provider of medical lab services, accused of overcharging the state's medical care program for the poor and disabled, agrees to pay $241 million in what is the largest ...
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