Nursing home abuse and negligence has become one of the most serious forms of personal injury plaguing our senior population in the United States today. Here is a list of nursing home abuse-related stories that were in the news lately: AA Citation: Pacific Coast Manor, a nursing home in Santa…
This is unbelievable. A U.S. Court of Appeals twice struck down the Bush administration’s regulation giving truck drivers more time behind the wheel. But last week, the Department of Transportation (DOT), a federal agency paid for with our tax dollars, decides to reinstate this regulation, which is controversial because it…
The Department of Transportation last week released new statistics, which show that the daily death toll from drunk driving crashes is significantly higher during the holiday season. Data released by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration shows that between 2001 and 2005, there were about 36 deaths a day as…
A Georgia jury has awarded $3 million in compensatory damages against Ford Motor Co. in the case of a 76-year-old woman who died after the seat back of her car broke in a rear-end accident. Mary Reese of Augusta, Ga. was driving a Ford Tempo when she was struck from…
The parents of two young girls who were killed in a big rig crash in Madera County last year, have reached a $9 million settlement with the trucking company, the Fresno Bee reported. The accident occurred June 9, 2006 when a concrete pumper truck rear-ended the family car on Highway…
This holiday season has already witnessed a multitude of DUI fatality crashes in Los Angeles and Orange counties. A lot of times, the person who is killed is not the drunk driver, but the passenger or the driver of the car that is struck. This time, it happened in the…
Just as a Long Beach family was mourning the death of three girls in a fire caused by a space heater Friday, the girls’ aunt was wounded in a shooting not far from the home where her three nieces died, the Los Angeles Times reported. The 21-year-old woman was reportedly…
Ford Motor Co. is recalling almost 1.2 million vans, sport utility vehicles and heavy-duty pickup trucks because of a faulty engine sensor that could cause sudden stalling and cause drivers to lose control of their vehicles, according to a news report in the watchdog Web site Consumeraffairs.com. The automaker reported…
Eight children were injured – one critically – in a 15-passenger van crash in Queens. The students were being transported to school illegally because the bus driver did not have the required license, according to an article in the New York Daily News. Nine-year-old Rebecca Frazier suffered severe head injuries…
Two young girls were killed and another was critically injured in an apartment fire at 1052 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., Long Beach, California early Friday morning. Long Beach firefighters knocked out the fire within five minutes of their arrival. The fire inside the converted garage apartment was reportedly caused…