JULY 28, 2009 – A jury awarded nearly $2 million to a woman whose husband was killed when his golf cart plunged down a steep rocky hillside at a San Diego County golf resort, authorities said. Edwin Payne, 65, was halfway through a round of golf when he lost control Read more »
Widow Awarded Nearly $2 Million in Vista Golf Cart Accident
by San Diego Accident Lawyer July 28, 2009 » Add the first comment.
Chula Vista Hospital Fined in Patient’s Death
by San Diego Accident Lawyer March 6, 2009
MARCH 6, 2009 – Chula Vista’s Scripps Mercy Hospital has been fined for the death of a patient last year. The critically ill woman visited the facility on February 28, 2008 because she was suffering from low blood sodium. Though the hospital staff encouraged her to stay, she left the Read more »
Multiple DUI Offender Given Life Term for 2007 Fatality Accident
by San Diego Accident Lawyer November 12, 2008
NOVEMBER 12, 2008 — John Joseph Taskey Jr., 47, of La Mesa, on parole for his fifth drunken-driving conviction, was given a sentence of 15 years to life in prison today at a sentencing hearing in San Diego Superior Court. Taskey pleaded guilty last month to second degree murder charges Read more »
U.S. Department of Justice Study Reveals Trends in Civil Trials
by San Diego Accident Lawyer October 31, 2008 » Add the first comment.
A 20 page report released this week by the Bureau of Justice Statistics at the United States Department of Justice revealed plaintiffs won more than half of all civil trials in state courts in the year 2005. The report was the first of its kind to represent national statistics for Read more »
Driver in 2007 fatal accident pleads guilty
by JDC October 16, 2008
A motorist who killed a woman in a 2007 San Diego auto accident has pleaded guilty. 47-year-old John Joseph Taskey was traveling westbound on Interstate 8 when he rear-ended another vehicle near West Mission Bay Drive. A passenger in that vehicle, 75-year-old Rosa Degerman, suffered severe internal injuries. She died Read more »
Settlement reached in 2006 bike accident
by JDC September 5, 2008
A settlement has been reached in a 2006 accident in La Jolla. 71-year-old Robert Coon had been riding his bicycle in the bicycle lane on La Jolla Mesa Drive when his front tire got caught in a sunken depression in the roadway. Mr. Coon was thrown of f the bike Read more »
Wrongful death suit won in 2003 ferry crash
by JDC September 4, 2008
The family of a man who died in the Staten Island Ferry crash has won a wrongful death lawsuit. 44-year-old John Healy was killed when the ferry operator struck the concrete pier in 2003, killing ten others and injuring many. His family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City Read more »
Ford Motor Co. sued after Arizona accident
by JDC
A man is suing Ford Motor Co. after he was injured in an accident last October in Arizona. 31-year-old Luis Pena, a U.S. Border Patrol officer, was responding to a narcotics call when his pickup truck began to drift to the right on Federal Route 20. When Mr. Pena tried Read more »
Mexican man wins case against U.S. government
by JDC August 27, 2008
A Mexican man has won a case against the government after he bought a car filled with marijuana. Francisco Rivera Agredano bought a Nissan Pathfinder at a government auction in San Ysidro in 2001. Approximately four months later, he was pulled over at a military checkpoint near Ensenada and soldiers Read more »
Four local hospitals fined
by JDC August 25, 2008
Four hospitals in the San Diego area have each been fined $25,000 for mistakes that put patients in danger. Pomerado Hospital in Poway was fined for using an anesthesia machine that was not working properly. Three patients remained partially conscious during surgery and experienced a great deal of pain. A Read more »
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