Archive | May 2012
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Trucker crushed by steel coils obtains million dollar settlement
An Alabama truck driver was severely injured in May 2009 while loading massive steel coils, weighing about 10 tons, onto a flatbed trailer for the steel company, Olympic Steel, Inc. Instead of laying the coils flat as requested by McGhee, they were loaded vertically upright as preferred by the customer. Before McGhee could chain them [...]
Parents sue for son’s death in “Big Cypress” incident
Teenager Daniel Huerta and driver Johnson Atilard were killed when Atilard drove a juvenile justice program vehicle off a Florida road into a canal. At the time, Atilard was transporting a group of teens back to the Big Cypress Wilderness Institute, a behavioral camp for at-risk youth. Now Huerta’s parents, José and Anita Huerta, are [...]
Insurance Companies Spend Millions on Dog Bite Claims
Most people do not realize how common dog bite injuries really are. The Insurance Information Institute estimated that nearly $479 million in dog bite claims were paid by all insurance companies in 2011, spokeswoman Loretta Worters said. In 2010, it was $413 million. State Farm Insurance, one of the nation’s largest home insurers, paid more [...]
Celeberty Bret Michaels settles lawsuit against CBS Broadcasting
On June 2009 Bret Michaels, according to reports, was at the Tony Awards and hit in the head with a set piece. Michaels has claimed that this caused brain injuries and a brain hemorrhage that nearly killed him, in addition to a busted lip and broken nose. Along with the physical damages he suffered, he claimed because [...]
Neck Injury Compensation 10 Years in the Making
This year a jury in a US District Court in DC awarded $2.9 million to the family of a mentally disabled resident, who was deemed to have a neck injury that complicated his health and eventual death in the year 2000 at the age of 68. According to The Washington Post, breathing difficulties experienced by the man—for which [...]
Girl Wins $8.3M from KFC
Restaurant KFC has been ordered to pay $8.3M to a girl who, according to the court, suffered severe brain damage and was paralysed from eating a Twister wrap. The girl was 7 years old when she suffered salmonella encephalopathy — a brain injury linked to food poisoning that also left her with a blood infection and septic shock. [...]
