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In 2004, Ruben Zamora, an oil field worker who was disabled prior to the accident, lost control of a 1993 Ford Motor Company Explorer sports utility vehicle when a tire lost its tread. The Explorer rolled over and the 41 year old driver was ejected from the vehicle. Ruben Zamora lost control of the 1993 Explorer when a tire lost its tread and was ejected from the vehicle as it rolled over. Mr....

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On July 8, Kourtney McGee of Cleburne was in her second trimester when she went to Huguley Memorial Medical Center of Fort Worth because she was bleeding. She gave birth prematurely to Jacob Dwayne Robinson, who did not survive. Hospital staff told Ms. McGee, the mother, and Milburn "Pete" Robinson, the father, that their child's body would be taken to the morgue.When the funeral director...

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Calais Weber and Cecilia Chen suffered personal injuries when a chemistry experiment burst into a ball of fire at a private boarding school in Hudson, Ohio. The personal injury lawsuit settled for $18.9 million. Calais suffered burns over 46 percent of her body, and Cecilia was burned over 18 percent of her body. In addition to the intense pain, Calais also suffered deep depression. Calais...

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Two students filed a lawsuit against their flight instructor as a result of a 2004 plane crash near the Dubuque airport. Just prior to the crash, the pilot had tried to make an emergency landing in order to remove ice that was accumulating on the airplane and to assess the weather conditions. Fortunately, no one was killed as a result of the crash. All three men walked away with minor injuries....

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After 8 hours of deliberatations, a jury in Hartford Connecticut issued a jury verdict of $3.4 million to a construction worker who was seriously injured when a nail became embedded in his brain as he worked with a nail gun. The jury held that Stanley Works and Home Depot, which sold the nail gun, were partly for the worker's injury in 2003. The court held that the worker was 55% at fault,...

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A Georgia jury has awarded a woman $10 million for injuries that resulted from a sponge left inside her body during surgery. The sponge was not discovered until a CT scan was performed 10 days after the initial surgery. The 67-year-old woman developed a number of complications and infections that required subsequent surgeries, according to court records. For more information on this subject,...

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Lynn and James Flaherty of Bethel Park, Pittsburgh couple won a $3 million malpractice lawsuit against two doctors and a physician's assistant after the woman was misdiagnosed as having a sinus infection. Mrs. Flaherty visited the doctors' office in 2001 complaining of headaches and nasal discharge. The doctors were not available. The physician's assistant recommended additional testing and...

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A severely brain damaged boy and his mother received almost $8 million in damages on Thursday, October 26, 2007, in a lawsuit against a Maine hospital and one of its midwives. The verdict was rendered in Auburn, Maine. The verdict in favor of Sasha Emond of Lewiston and her son, Odysseus, was described as the largest malpractice award ever handed down in Androscoggin County Superior Court. It...

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On October 22, 2007, a Florida jury awarded $4 million to a boy from Tampa who suffered permanent damage to his arm during a pick-up football game at a private school. According to the lawsuit, school staff members were not supervising the game when another student jumped on the plaintiff's arm. The boy, who was 12 years old at the time of the accident, broke his left arm in a schoolyard...

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A federal jury in Peoria, Illinois awarded a South Carolina woman $15 million after finding that a tire on the motorcycle she was riding had a defect which resulted in a fall and severe brain damage. The jury deliberated over two days before deciding that defendant Goodyear Dunlop Tires North America Ltd. was liable for the May, 2002, incident on Interstate 55 in Livingston County, Illinois.In...

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On Thursday, October 11, 2007, drug companies announced that they will voluntarily recall over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for children over the age of two years, even though physicians have warned that the medications could post health risks for children up to the age of six years. Both phyisicians and federal regulators warned of the potential health risks to children prior to the...

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On September 14, 2007, after an eight day trial, a Charleston County jury consisting of 9 women and 3 men, ordered WSCS-TV (Cahnnel 5) and Jefferson-Pilot Communications, it's former owner, to pay $3.95 million dollars to Charleston attorneys Elizabeth and Christopher Murphy to compensate them for a smear campaign initiated by Don Feldman, the station's former news director. $3.7 million was...

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Currently, if you are under the age of twenty-one (21), you must wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle in South Carolina. Bikers older than twenty-one (21), however, are not required to wear them. Unfortunately, the older bikers are no more immune to head injuries caused as a result of motorcycle accidents than those under the age of twenty-one (21). The head injuries are often fatal. Those...

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Joe Nemecheck of NASCAR fame, has honored the lives of the nine (9) firefighters whose lives were tragically lost in a warehouse fire in Charleston, South Carolina that occurred on June 18, 2007. Mr. Nemecheck's car for the Pepsi 400 Nextel Race in Daytona, South Carolina that was held on July 7, 2007, displayed a scene on his racing car which included the names and ages of the deceased...

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On July 4, 2007, two fireworks crew members were injured, one of them being severely burned, during a July 4th fireworks display in Washington, D.C. Leftover fireworks exploded at the National Mall. In another community fireworks display in nearby Vienna, Virginia, seven other individuals were injured including five children. It has been reported that the injuries occurred when some fireworks...

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