A defective seat mounting or restraint system is now suspected to be the cause of death of Gavin Fletcher, a popular Times Colonist sports editor, who was ejected from his Nissan Infiniti along with his driver’s seat when the Nissan crashed last year according to an article in the Times…
The American Association for Justice (AAJ) scored an important victory this week. According to the group’s President, Kathleen Flynn Peterson, the Senate with a 53-41 vote beat back a proposal to preempt state law and put sweeping limits on medical malpractice actions involving OB/GYN care. Of all the issues before…
A Napa family is suing a local nursing home alleging that caregivers did not follow the care plan specified for the resident, which resulted in her death. According to an article in the Napa Valley Register, Eulalia Grimoldi died within a couple of months of being admitted to the Napa…
A 28-year-old female driver was arrested in Hemet on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence after she fatally struck a bicyclist on a city street, the local NBC news station reports. The 38-year-old bicyclist was reportedly riding on North Yale Street at about 8 p.m. Dec.…
A head-on crash involving two vehicles on Highway 111 near Indio left three people, including an infant, dead and four others injured, according to a news report in The Desert Sun newspaper. Officials are still trying to determine what caused the early morning crash, which occurred in a farming community…
A man was dead in Norco after his trailer caught on fire sparked off by an electrical short from a remote-control car battery, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported. Donald Lee Moss, 38, was asleep in his trailer when flames ripped through the RV he was staying in, the article stated. Moss…
A 2006 Honda Civic collided with a Freightliner tanker truck on Highway 37 Friday morning killing Micheal McIntosh, 24, of Travis Air Force Base according to Vallejo, California fire officials, as reported on the Times-Herald website. The big rig accident occurred at about 2:30 a.m. when the Honda spun into…
While it’s not necessarily a quick fix, there may be a way parents can protect their children from unsafe toys containing lead-based paint this holiday season. According to National Public Radio, there are a few inexpensive testing kits out there that will allow parents to test toys for lead before…
An Arizona jury awarded $36.5 million this week to the family of a man who was killed in a Kansas big rig crash. According to an article in the Arizona Republic, the four-week trial ended the way it did because the trucking company did not want to hand over driver…
State officials have imposed a $100,000 fine on a Fontana nursing home in connection with the death of a resident in March, the Riverside Press Enterprise reports. As it turns out, it is the second death for which Citrus Nursing Center has been blamed for in the last three years,…