The U.S. Department of Justice has sued drug manufacturer Actavis, seeking a permanent injunction against its subsidiary that makes the recalled heart drug Digitek. According to this Bloomberg News report U.S. regulators took the action on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration against the Actavis Totowa LLS subsidiary in…
Raul Hinojosa, a 28-year-old Bellflower resident, was killed in an accident on the 91 freeway in Orange County on November 16, 2008, which officials say was caused by a suspected drunk driver. Hinojosa and 20-year-old Matthew Lawetzki had pulled over on the side of the freeway just past Coal Canyon…
Eighteen-month-old Isabelle Jenkins and 2-year-old Tyler Frey-Cruz were two Orange County children who died in two separate swimming pool drowning accidents, The Orange County Register reports. We obtained the girl’s identity from an Orange County Coroner’s press release. The two drowning incidents occurred within three days last week when we’ve…
Three people – Jiwon Lee, 27, of Brea, Sarah Garrat, 25, of Bellflower and Ayesha King, 23, of Los Angeles – were injured in a Sunset Beach auto accident on November 12, 2008. According to an article in The Orange County Register, the accident was caused by a suspected drunk…
A case handled by my good friend Charles Boyk’s Ohio truck accident law firm recently resulted in a $1.25 million jury verdict for the plaintiff, who lost his leg in a truck accident. This case was brilliantly handled by Boyk and his law firm. The case was initially dismissed in…
Thomas Jackson, a 59-year-old Grass Valley motorcyclist, was injured after his Harley Davidson struck a deer on Highway 49 near Auburn Road on November 7, 2008, the Sierra Sun reports. The deer was killed in the crash and Jackson was thrown off of his Harley, leaving him with injuries. California…
I came across a news report in the Des Moines Register that shows how nursing homes with a history of abuse, negligence and other past violations receive hundreds of millions of your taxpayer dollars as bonuses. According to this eye-opening investigative report, a review of 81 bonus payment programs in…
Armando Hernandez, a 31-year-old Antioch man, died in a multi-vehicle accident on Interstate Highway 680 in Concord on November 8, 2008. According to an article in the San Jose Mercury News, two mattresses that apparently came off someone’s vehicle caused the fatal three-car pileup. Hernandez was driving his Mitsubishi Diamante…
A 42-year-old man was struck and killed in a Los Angeles County hit-and-run pedestrian accident on November 9, 2008. The pedestrian accident victim has been identified as Rigoberto Pivaral of Los Angeles. According to a news report in the Daily Breeze, Pivaral was found lying in the street unconscious next…
A Fort Wayne, Texas, woman has filed a lawsuit against ConAgra Foods, claiming that she fell ill with a salmonella infection after eating their peanut butter. The 76-year-old woman, Mildred Turner, said in her lawsuit that she bought the tainted Peter Pan peanut butter in November 2006, the same batch…