A Madera County jury awarded $2 million to the family of a woman killed in an accident at the intersection of Highway 41 and Road 416 on July 5, 2008.On Jan. 27, the jury found that the intersection was a dangerous condition of public property. The verdict ended a four-week Madera County Superior Court trial…
The Highway Patrol is investigating a one-vehicle wreck that required the driver to be airlifted from Onslow County, North Carolina (N.C.) to Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville. Trooper J.L. Morton says 27-year-old Ruben Lopez Camacho ran a stop sign at the intersection of Francktown Rd. and Cow Horn Rd. in Richlands, North Carolina (N.C.)…
In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk Injury Board, my colleague Randy Appleton notes that a rail safety and injury attorney in our office was recently interviewed by a reporter for WVEC, the local ABC TV affiliate, about the need for an automatic emergency braking system for the HRT Tide light-rail system in Norfolk,…
Decades of evidence that the narcotic painkiller propoxyphene caused irregular heartbeats in users that were so severe some people taking the medication died suddenly from heart attacks prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ask drug makers to pull their propoxyphene products from the market in November 2010. The leading manufacturer of the drug,…
Safeway is enhancing its efforts to ensure that pharmacy protocols are followed after a six-week pregnant woman was given the wrong medication at one of its stores. Mareena Silva was given a prescription for Methotrexate–a drug used to treat cancer–instead of the antibiotic ordered by her doctor at a Safeway in Fort Lupton, Colorado (CO)….