In another report of a swimming pool grate trapping a child, the Chicago Tribune reported that a lawsuit filed was filed by a father on behalf of a child that alleges Union City’s negligence caused his son to become trapped by a swimming pool grate at the bottom of the city swimming pool. As a…
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A spate of fatal bike crashes has recently been reported just as our law firm gears up for our Federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals arguments in our catastrophic accident case. Last year, deaths on the highway fell in almost every category except accidents involving motorcycles. “With the traffic being what it is in this…
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An olympic health and swim club was sued as the result of a drowning during a nudist party in 2007. The drowning victim’s family brought a wrongful death case in state court saying the facility violated state law by not providing a lifeguard for a party held by a nudist club. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported…
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Northern Virginia Police are unsure why pedestrian fatalities have nearly tripled from last year. There have been 10 pedestrian fatalities so far this year across Fairfax County. In 2008, there were a total of four pedestrian deaths in Fairfax County; in just the first eight months of 2009, there have been 10. This month two…
Continue readingThe City of Norfolk Virginia settled with the mother of a teenager who suffered permanent brain damage after being struck by a city truck for $7,500,000 one week prior to trial. Because the teenage Plaintiff will never be able to work or care for himself, this lawsuit was filed on his behalf by his mother. In December…
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