Brett Caddell, 39, died of injuries he suffered in an Aug. 30 Fontana pedestrian accident, according to a news blog in the Riverside Press Enterprise. Caddell reportedly suffered severe head injuries when he was hit by a Mitsubishi Gallant driven by Fontana resident Darrel Eugene Stebbins. Stebbins was arrested on…
A 14-month old girl nearly drowned in the backyard pool of a Menifee home Sept. 5, according to this news report by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. The report states that the girl’s father, Scott Stevens, tried to perform CPR on the girl, who had reportedly lost consciousness and turned…
A San Diego jury has awarded more than $55 million in a California wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of four U.S. Marines killed after their helicopter struck a utility tower at Camp Pendleton. According to a Sept. 3 article in the San Diego Union-Tribune, jurors decided that San…
A Vallejo nursing home staff’s negligence caused a resident to choke to death, state investigators ruled as they cited and fined the facility in connection with the incident. According to a news article in the Times-Herald the AA citation issued to Crestwood Manor skilled nursing facility carries a $100,000 penalty…
Jaime Juarez, 56, of Salinas, died in a Aug. 25 rear-end Monterey County motorcycle accident after his vehicle was hit by a delivery truck when he was stopped at a red light, the Monterey County Herald reports. The driver of the truck, Luciano Acevedo, 26, of Watsonville, was arrested on…
State officials slapped a $100,000 fine on a Hemet nursing home owned by Valley Health System in connection with the death of a resident, who died two days after suffering a head injury, the Riverside Press Enterprise reports. Hemet Valley Nursing Home received an AA citation, which is the most…
Justin Ames, 14, died Aug. 22, in a San Bernardino bicycle accident when a San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department patrol car struck and killed him south of Drummond Avenue in Highland, the San Bernardino Sun reports. Justin and a friend were riding their bicycles near the intersection of Drummond and Ninth…
Jhovan Peralta, 4, drowned over the Labor Day weekend at a Chula Vista Lagoon Style swimming pool, according to a 10news report. Jhovan was reportedly found unconscious in the swimming pool at East Lake Beach Club on Lakeridge Circle. Paramedics took the boy to an area hospital, where he died.…
Orange County officials issued 67 DUI tickets to drunk drivers over the Labor Day weekend, The Orange County Register reported. There was also one fatal Orange County auto accident during this weekend as Dennis McIntyre, 64, of Fountain Valley, was killed after crashing his 1995 Toyota Tacoma on the northbound…
Current and former residents of 17 Los Angeles and Orange County skilled nursing homes settled for $2 million in a class-action lawsuit, which alleges that these nursing homes understaffed their facilities and did not provide proper training to their nursing staff, which resulted in poor quality care and negligence. According…