A fire-safety equipment manufacturing company’s appeal has been denied in the case of a firefighter whose widow received $40 million in damages from them. The announcement came on Tuesday, February 1, 2011. In 2007, Angela Martin and her children were awarded $27 million in a judgment against Survivair Respirators Inc. and its parent company, Bacou-Dalloz….
A grandfather of eight lost his life when a heavy tree fell on him this week as he worked as a lumberjack in Bedford County, Virginia (VA). The Bedford Sheriff’s Department said Jake R. Goff , 72, of Sky Rock Road died while logging with a coworker in the vicinity of Wheats Valley Road, Roanoke.com…
The lawsuit claims administrators knew of the emotional abuse but did nothing to stop it or protect the teenager before he hanged himself.
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)….
According to the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department, a woman from Martinsburg, West Virginia (WV) was killed in a car and truck crash on Saturday, January 8th, 2011. The accident was reported at 9:13 a.m. that morning, and the victim, Kimberly Bail, was pronounced dead at the scene. The blue Chevy Cavalier that she was driving…