Raynor Marketing, Ltd., of New York (NY) agreed to pay a civil penalty of $390,000 in a settlement with the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The case in question involved broken office chairs. Raynor Marketing denies any violation, and will not state that the chairs contain a hazardous defect. However, the company did import and distribute…
A woman was driving a Ford Explorer in 2005 when she was hit by another vehicle. The impact from the crash combined with her weight was apparently enough to cause the driver’s seat to collapse backward. This defect caused a fracture in the woman’s vertebra as she hit the back seat. The victim filed a…
The family of a Texas (TX) man who died from a prescription drug overdose was awarded $10.1million in a wrongful death lawsuit. The lethal cocktail was prescribed by a doctor whose license was later revoked for running a “pill mill.” Michael Skorpenske, of Conroe, Texas, died July 7, 2007, two days after ingesting hydrocodone, Xanax…
In his latest post to our firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyers Blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro writes about a BNSF switchman who has received a $4.9 million jury award to cover medical expenses, pain and suffering stemming from a severe ankle injury incurred during a locomotive collision. Rick notes that railroad operators such as Amtrak, BNSF,…
According to The Dispatch, a Burton Road truck accident in Thomasville, North Carolina (NC) may have been hit and run crash that left a 71 year-old man dead. The Thomasville victim was thought to be going out to collect his mail on Wednesday, January 2, 2011, when he was found lying dead on the road…