Seventeen-year-old Justin James Wolff of Modesto died from being thrown off his all-terrain vehicle (ATV) west of Modesto, according to a recent article in The Modesto Bee. Wolff was riding with his friends in an orchard he was familiar with near Paradise Road when the ATV accident happened. California Highway…
Insurance giant Allstate leads the top 10 list of worst insurers in the country, according to a comprehensive investigation of thousands of legal documents and financial filings by the American Association for Justice (AAJ), a national trial lawyers group. According to this article, the group based this top 10 list…
Two proposed ballot initiatives aimed at making personal injury attorneys unavailable in Oregon did not receive the signatures required to qualify for the ballot, according to a LegalNewsLine.com report. Initiative 51, which would have limited attorneys’ contingency fees to 25 percent of the first $25,000 recovered in civil lawsuits and…
Jack Mabee, 17, of Oxnard, died in a train accident in Ventura when an Amtrak Surfliner train hit the car in which he was riding. According to an article in the Ventura County Star, Mabee was riding in the front passenger seat of a sedan traveling on a farm road…
A team of three leading scholars from top U.S. universities has discredited a study done by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) titled “Jackpot Justice: The True Cost of America’s Tort”, which calculated that the nation’s tort system imposes an annual “tort tax” of $9,827 for a family of four in…
Six teenagers between ages 13 and 17 were injured when a stolen Dodge Durango they were in rolled over and caught fire west of Porterville at Avenue 152 east of Road 192. Jasmine Mejia, 16, and 14-year-old Crystal Rosales suffered major injuries while 13-year-old Juana Pena, suffered moderate injuries, the…
Arturo Gonzalez, 34, died in an Anaheim construction accident after a forklift tipped over and crushed him. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, Gonzalez, working for subcontractor Padilla Construction, was plastering stucco on a new condo complex at the time of the accident. Another worker who…
Two Stockton animal control officers were bitten by a pit-bull that jumped out of the open window and attacked them even as they were investigating a report of the same dog attacking and biting a girl, the Stockton Record reports . The unprovoked dog attack happened when the two county…
Mundelein resident, Alla Mavlyanova, 43-years-old and her twin brother, Alex Yadgarov, of Wauconda recently filed a lawsuit against Hampton Plaza Health Care Centre at 9777 Greenwood Ave., according to an article in the Chicago Tribune. The siblings allege in their wrongful-death lawsuit that the Niles, Illinois nursing home’s employees were…
A fatal boating accident at Lake Havasu during the July 4th holiday weekend claimed two lives, according to a news report in the Havasu News. Tiffany Breslin, 14, of Murrieta and another unidentified 19-year-old woman died in the collision between a boat and a personal watercraft near the Needles Bridge.…