Posts tagged Wrongful Death

• Family Awarded $1.5 Million In Fraternity Hazing Death of Son

  Amy Rothschild | December 11, 2007 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  In 2003, a student who pledged Psi Epsilon Chi fraternity died of water intoxication at the hands of fourteen fraternity members during a hazing incident. Eleven of the students pleaded guilty to the death of the student. The family brought a claim for wrongful death against all fourteen members of the fraterinity including John Burnius, one of the convicted tormentors. The New York State...

• Settlement of Wrongful Death Case Reached For $2.25 Million In Plant Explosion Case

  Amy Rothschild | November 19, 2007 2:04 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  The mother of a masonry worker who was 24 years old when he was killed in an explosion on October 12, 2005, as he was finishing a wall at Triumph Food Plant, a nearly completed pork processing plant in Missouri., filed a wrongful death lawsuit for the death of her son. The wrongful-death case was settled for $2.25 million. Investigators determined that gas leaking from an uncapped valve fueled...

• Mother Files Lawsuit Alleging Death of Child Resulted from Taking Over-the-Counter Children's Cough Medicine

  Amy Rothschild | November 15, 2007 3:00 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  An Illinois woman whose child died after taking children's cough medicines filed a lawsuit Wednesday, November 14, 2007, alleging that drug makers should have warned of the medicines' dangers sooner. The lawsuit names Walgreen Co. and McNeil, a unit of Johnson & Johnson. Experts testified before the Food and Drug Administration last month that the medicines posed a major health threat to...

• Lawsuit Filed Against School District In Drowning of Boy on Property Owned By School District

  Amy Rothschild | November 14, 2007 3:23 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  The family of a nine year old boy who drowned in a drainage ditch in Kansas City, Kansas, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the boy's school district. The boy was walking with friends through a field near his elementary school when rainwater swept him off his feet and into a drainage ditch. The boy was trapped in the opening of a drainage ditch and was submerged under water for...

• Jury Awards $3 Million Dollars in Nursing Home Neglect Case That Results in Patient's Death

  Amy Rothschild | November 05, 2007 5:52 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A jury in Platte County, Missouri rendered a verdict requiring the owner and operator of Barry Manor and White Oak nursing facilities to pay more than $3 million to the estate of a former patient who died in 2004. Of this amount, $500,000 was awarded in actual or compensatory damages. The balance of the award or $2.5 million was awarded as punitive damages or as punishment for the aggregiousness...

• Untreated Man In Emergency Room Dies Waiting for Treatment

  Amy Rothschild | October 31, 2007 2:31 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A 33-year-old man complaining of chest pains and pains going down his left arm, died outside Olive View-UCLA Medical Center Sunday. After waiting for medical treatment for more than three hours, the man walked out of the emergency room, collapsed on the pavement and died minutes later. Health official have cited the hospital for medical problems five times this year.While the man's pulse,...

• Drunk Driver and County to Pay Combined $8.5 Million to Family of Girl Who was Killed While Crossing Street

  Amy Rothschild | October 23, 2007 2:05 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A jury in Arizona issued a verdict on Friday, October 19, 2007, which will require Pima County and a drunken driver to pay a combined total of $8.5 million to the family of a girl who was killed in August 2004, while crossing the street. Of this amount, the County will have to be $520,000. The balance of the verdict must be paid by the drunk driver who is serving almost 11 years in jail for...

• Daughter Files Wrongful Death Suit Alleging that State Improperly Belted Her Wheelchair-Bound Mother Which Resulted in Mother's Death

  Amy Rothschild | October 08, 2007 5:01 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Sharon Miller, the speicial administrator of the estate of her mother, Elizabeth Massears, filed a wrongful death suit on October 2, 2007, against Central Illinois Taxi in Madison County Circuit for the death of her mother. The lawsuit alleges that on October 4, 2005, her mother was being transported by a taxi company from her residence at the Blue Fountain Nursing Home to a doctor's...

• A Wrongful Death Suit is Initiated Against General Motors Corporation

  Amy Rothschild | September 11, 2007 10:05 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  In Jackson, Mississippi, the family of Martha Burns initiated a wrongful death case against General Motors Corporation. Ms. Burns, an educator who was committed to children with disabilities and special needs, died in a one-car accident in Alabama about five years ago. Ms. Burns' family's lawyer claims that Ms. Burns died because and interior switch improperly opened the door when it was hit...

• Mother Files Wrongful Death Action Against Manufacturer of Exploding Gasoline Container

  Amy Rothschild | September 04, 2007 11:58 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Rene Green, the mother of twenty (20) year old Jonathon Green, filed wrongful death and survival actions on August 28, 2007, against Blitz, USA, in the Eastern District of Texas. In late winter in Texas, Ms. Green's son was burning brush in a barrel. He tried to pour additonal gasoline onto the brush but the gas container manufactured by Blitz, USA, exploded resulting in the boy becoming...