When a customer requests weekend delivery of a large package during the holiday season, a FedEx route driver should not have to risk life and limb to do so. Yet that is exactly what happened to Doug Landau’s client over the Christmas season. This brave Army veteran was attacked by several of the Defendants’ dog…
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Our injury and disability law office received a call for help from a lawyer with an International Airport accident case. The attorney, Daniel Mesghenna Berhane of Washington, D.C., possesses the ability to converse with clients from sub-Saharan Africa in their native tongue. Specializing in Immigration law, Mr. Berhane was contacted by a woman who was…
Continue readingIn a sweeping victory for consumers, the United States Supreme Court this morning held that FDA drug regulation does not preempt common law claims for damages under state law. Diana Levine, the courageous plaintiff in this lawsuit, lost her arm after being injected with the drug Phenergan, brought suit against the drug maker, Wyeth. The…
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Common Carriers are such means of transportation as busses, trollies, trains and airplanes. The term “common carrier” is important because the law places a high degree of care on owners and operators of these conveyances. Doug Landau is shown after a safe trip aboard an Ecuadorean Bus. In a Negligence Personal Injury case against AMTRAK…
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Sometimes more than one recovery may be had from the same tragic accident. In a case handled by my late friend Bob Arthur, a self-employed structural engineer fell from a ladder and broke his leg. The injured plaintiff brought suit against the owner of business for failure to provide ordinary care in providing and holding…
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