Posts tagged Wrongful Death

• Widow Sues Disney Cruise Line For Wrongful Death Of Husband

  Amy Rothschild | January 28, 2008 9:28 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Marilyn Piazza of New York, has brought a wrongful death suit against Disney Cruise Line claiming that the company is at fault in the August 14, 2007, death of Santo L. Piazza, her husband. Mr. Piazza was 78 years old at the time of his death.Mrs. Piazza alleges that her husband died on a Mediterranean cruise in the summer of 2007 as a result of poorly designed raised threshold on bathroom...

• Family Of Man Killed In Bus Crash Files Wrongful Death Action

  Amy Rothschild | January 17, 2008 1:54 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Pedro Mendez was killed on January 2, 2008, when a chartered bus owned by Capricorn Bus Lines Inc. of Houston, and in which he was a passenger, crashed. The crash occurred when the driver of the bus became sleepy, veered off the highway and and tried to pull back onto the highway. The driver overcorrected resulting in the bus zigzagging across the highway. The bus then rolled over before...

• Cases Settled Involving Helicopter Crash

  Amy Rothschild | February 25, 2008 9:29 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  In 2002, a medical helicopter crashed in Norfolk, killing three people aboard. The helicopter had just left a Norfolk hospital on June 21, 2002. when the pilot reported trouble. The helicopter subsequently crashed at the airpoirt. The pilot, an emergency room nurse and a paramedic were killed. The families of the thre three victims filed suit. On February 19, 2008, the the famiilies'...

• Offer of Settlement Made by State to Families of Students Killed In Virginia Tech Massacre

  Amy Rothschild | March 26, 2008 2:44 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Virginia State officials have offered about $100,000 to each of the the families of those killed in the April 16, 2007 Virginia Tech massacre if they waive their rights to sue the State of Virginia and Virginia Tech. The State has said that even if they were to be sued and found liable, a state law known as "sovereign immunity" which means that the state can do no wrong., each families'...

• U.A. Veteran's Affairs Secretary Faces Wrongful Death Suit by Family of Iraq War Veteran

  Amy Rothschild | July 31, 2007 9:34 AM | 1 CommentCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  The family of an Iraq war veteran recently filed a lawsuit in Springfield, Massachusetts, on July 30, 2007, alleging negligence against Jim Nicholson, the secretary of Veterans Affairs Secretary, in the suicide death of their son. The action states that the Veterans Affairs (VA)is at fault for the death of Jeffrey Lucey, a 23 year old Marine who committed suicide in June 2004, after he was...

• Family Sues Over Six-Year-Old Son's Pool Drowning

  Amy Rothschild | January 29, 2008 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  On January 28, 2008, the parents of a six-year-old boy who drowned when his arm got caught in a strong underwater swimming pool suction drain, filed a law suit agains the the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, Shoreline Pools and other defendants. The lawsuit, which asks for more than $15,000 in damages, states that Shoreline Pools ad a history of violating building code requirements. The lawsuit...

• 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...

• Jury Awards Family $28 Million in Wrongful Shooting of 12 Year Old Boy By Police

  Amy Rothschild | March 11, 2008 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Today, a federal jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, awarded $28 million to the family of a 12 year old boy who was shot by police on Christmas Eve in 2002. The boy was unarmed at the time he was killed. After the boy's death, his family filed a wrongful death claim against Troopers Samuel Nassan and Juan Curry alleging that they acted intentionally. Apparently, the jury agreed. The jury...

• Alleged Nursing Home Neglect Spawns Wrongful Death Action

  Amy Rothschild | August 21, 2007 9:17 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  The daughter of an eighty-two (82) year old resident who died at a nursing home has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the nursing home. The resident, who had been residing at the nursing home since 2004, died three days after she fell and fractured her leg and hip at the nursing home. The daughter's complaint alleges wrongful death and claims that the nursing home's abuse and neglect...

• Trucking Company To Pay $9 Million For Wrongful Death Of Two Sisters

  Amy Rothschild | December 17, 2007 2:01 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Seven and two year old sisters died when the family car in which they were riding was rear-ended by concrete pumper truck. At the time of the accident, the truck was driving at an unsafe speed and was not able to stop in time to avoid hitting the family's vehicle, which had stopped to assist a disabled vehicle. The trucking company, Brundage-Bone Concrete Pumping,will pay $9 million to the...