A Georgia couple is suing their insurance company, Progressive, saying that the company spied on them by having their investigators, undercover, join their private church confessional group. The investigators joined the group in the hopes of getting information to use against the couple in an auto accident claim according to…
By: Staff Writer A state appeals court has ruled that victims of a crash at the Santa Monica farmer’s market when an elderly driver drove into a crowd of shoppers, may sue the city for failing to adequately protect the people at the market. According to an Associated Press news…
Sometimes, especially in dog bite cases involving young children, it’s hard to tell what’s scarier – the thought of a large dog viciously attacking the child or the denial of the dog owner who vehemently refuses to believe that his or her “pet” could do something like that. Take the…
An Alabama family has filed a federal lawsuit stating that a cremation company gave them the ashes of the wrong person. The family later found that the error was the result of a three-way mix-up, according to a news report in the Knoxville News Sentinel. That means two other deceased…
An award against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee has been upheld by Wisconsin’s Supreme Court to the tune of $16.8 million. The money was awarded to an 86-year-old man who was paralyzed as a result of negligent driving by a church volunteer, according to an Associated Press news report. Members of…
Authorities in Pineville, Missouri, are saying that a baby bassinet that was not part of Simplicity Inc.’s recall of 1 million defective cribs, is as much a death trap as the recalled cribs. How do they know? Because a 4-month old girl died in one of those 4-in-one bassinets. Little…
By: A Staff Writer This is extremely scary. Street racing in Southern California has become a pastime, a hobby – like baseball or a video game. An article in the Los Angeles Times that analyzes the issue of street racing, which has recently claimed several lives in the southland, says…
By: A Staff Writer A fiery collision, which ended with a 15-truck pileup on the Interstate 5 in Santa Clarita Friday killed three people, including two adults and one child and left at least 10 people injured. According to an Associated Press news report, the chain reaction crash, triggered off…
By: A Staff Writer Police last week arrested a man on suspicion of striking and critically injuring a 13-year-old boy who was riding his skateboard Monday night. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the boy, a student at Santiago Middle School, was trying to cross an…
A 21-year-old Huntington Beach woman, said to be one of the best softball pitchers in Orange County at one time, died in a tragic car crash in Costa Mesa over the weekend. Police now believe the single-vehicle crash was caused by what turned out to be a deadly combination of…