Information and news regarding catastrophic injuries.
Although Skechers claims Shape-ups will help tone your legs, buttocks, and core, many in the medical and fitness fields believe the shoes rocker-bottom sole is causing users to suffer serious stress fracture injuries. Shape-ups toning shoes alter the way a personal walks, which over time can put pressure on areas Read more »
Since being launched in early 2011, the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s online product safety information database, SaferProducts.gov, reports that more than 130 complaints concerning toning shoes, including Skechers Shape-ups, have been filed on the database. Consumers have reported torn ligaments, strained muscles, broken bone injuries, chronic tendinitis, and chronic pain Read more »
Victims of California construction accidents may be able to file a personal injury claim against the person or entity responsible for the accident. Workers’ compensation benefits may not be enough to cover the cost of treating a serious accident-related injury, and victims injured through no fault of their own deserve Read more »
Despite being a known carcinogen (substance or agent capable of causing cancer), asbestos is still widely used in the U.S. construction industry. Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring minerals known for their tensile strength, sound absorption, and resistance to heat, chemicals, and fire. These properties make asbestos ideal Read more »
After three days of testimony, U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Miller ruled that the federal government should pay $17.8 million in damages to the surviving family members of four individuals who were tragically killed in a Marine Corps jet crash. Dong Yun Yoon, a retail store manager, tragically lost his Read more »
After a two-and-half week trial, a Philadelphia jury awarded an Akron, Ohio doctor and his fiancé $11.35 million in damages for injuries they sustained in a devastating plane crash outside Atlanta. The airplane accident verdict, which was one of the largest in Ohio, was against Winner Aviation, a Pennsylvania-based company Read more »
SAN DIEGO COUNTY – As of 6 a.m. Friday in San Diego County, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) had made 33 suspected drunk driving arrests over the Thanksgiving holiday. According to the CHP, the number of arrests had increased slightly over the number of arrests made last year during the Read more »
ARKANSAS – The family of a man who was killed in a devastating truck accident received a $7 million verdict for damages associated with his tragic death. The lawsuit claimed Dunaway Timber Company and their truck driver, Morgan Quisenberry, were responsible for causing the accident that killed Roger Reagan as Read more »
A Montgomery County, MD jury awarded $2.032 million in a pedestrian accident case that took the life of one elderly pedestrian and seriously injured another elderly pedestrian. On October 9, 2008, Yunshu Li and her husband, Xiufeng Wang, were run over by a dump truck while walking in a Read more »
A panel of six jurors in Broward County, Florida, awarded a $15.4 million dollar verdict to Dwight Grant, a man who suffered a serious brain injury in a drunk driving accident. Grant was a passenger in the back seat of a car that had stopped for a raising drawbridge Read more »