By Bob Van Voris May 20 (Bloomberg) — R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. must pay $29.1 million to Connie Buonomo, the widow of a Florida man who started smoking at age 13 and died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2008, a jury in Fort Lauderdale said. The unanimous verdict today by six state [...]
May 19, 2010 By JDJournal.com Residents have filed a class action lawsuit in New Jersey State Court, Hudson County against Honeywell International of New Jersey and PPG Industries of Pennsylvania for dumping and failing to clean up cancer-causing hexavalent chromium waste in their neighborhoods. According to today’s press release at PR Newswire, the [...]
By Bill Hendrick WebMD Health News May 17, 2010 — Nearly 2 million toy dart gun sets that have been linked to two asphyxiation deaths in the Midwest are being recalled by Charlotte, N.C.-based Family Dollar Stores, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said today. The China-made toys, sold exclusively at Family [...]
April 10, 2010 By: Matthew Mosk, ABC News Over the past two years, controversial coal boss Don Blankenship has twice agreed to courtroom settlements requiring his company to clean up a checkered safety record, yet federal documents show Massey Energy mines continued to rack up serious violations in advance of the explosion that killed [...]
Posted April 1, 2010 By: Wytv.com Three Marine recruits were killed after an accident involving at least seven vehicles in Warren Township Wednesday afternoon. Along with a driver and another recruit, the three had been headed to Cleveland to take their military entrance exams. “I’ve done this probably 100 times,” said Lt. Joe Dragovich, commander of the Warren [...]
Reported by Newsroom Solutions February 15, 2010 Toyota is suffering yet another potentially costly blow related to the vehicles it makes. Federal agencies are seeing a sudden spike in the number of fatal accident complaints linked to Toyota vehicles. “The Detroit News” cites the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in reporting the [...]
By Mari A. Schaefer Inquirer Staff Writer The driver of the car who was huffing before she struck two pedestrians, killing one outside Delaware County Memorial Hospital pleaded guilty today to homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence, aggravated assault and a drug charge. Rachael Jankins, 20, of Havertown was sentenced to [...]
Posted November 13, 2009 By Jessie-Lynne Kerr, jacksonville.com A Circuit Court jury in Flagler County Thursday returned a $5.1 million verdict in a wrongful death case stemming from a 2006 fatal collision between a fully loaded tractor-trailer and a Honda minivan. Ingrid Falkenstein, 67, who had just retired to Palm Coast with her [...]
Posted October 22, 2009 by courierpost.com MOUNT VERNON, Ind. — A 9-year-old boy was killed and two people with him were hurt Wednesday night in an ATV accident in Posey County. Authorities say the boy and a 12-year-old girl were passengers on an ATV driven by Phillip E. Gross on Maier Road south [...]
BY SCOTT FITZGERALD LEE NEWSPAPERS 09/16/2009 MARION, Ill. — A 65-year-old Southern Illinois woman died days after she was burned in a fire in an operating room, a lawyer for her family says. Attorney Robert Howerton of Marion says a state of Tennessee death certificate shows that Janice Diane McCall of Energy, Ill., [...]
