InjuryBoard Fayetteville Archives

• Insurance Agency Must Pay $5.8 Million for Failure to Obtain Workers Compensation Insurance

  Brent Adams | October 12, 2007 10:21 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  A large insurance agency has been ordered to pay $5.8 Million to a small business because it failed to obtain workers compensation insurance for that business. The agency, Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Insurance Services, also failed to tell the company that it was not covered by workers compensation insurance. An employee of the small company was burned while at work and filed a workers...

• Pickup Truck Slams Into Back of Loaded School Bus

  Brent Adams | October 10, 2007 11:00 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Approximately 25 students in the Coats-Erwin middle School in North Carolina sought medical attention after the bus in which they were riding to school was rear-ended by a pickup truck.The collision occurred near Erwin, North Carolina on Red Hill Church Road near the intersection of Ash Avenue at about 7:10 a.m. on Wednesday, October 10, 2007.The Dunn, North Carolina Daily Record reported that...

• Manufacturer of Defective Child Seat Ordered to Pay $10.4 Million

  Brent Adams | October 10, 2007 10:07 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  In July of 2000, 4-month-old Tyler Malcomb, was killed when he struck his head on his car seat hard plastic shell after the seat was ejected in a roll over crash. The manufacturer of the defected car seat, Evenflo Company, before this tragedy, had considered lining the shell of the "On My Way" car seat with foam. Unfortunately, the company decided not to install this padding. Tyler might have...

• Ford Recalls 3.6 Million Vehicles because of Faulty Cruise Control

  Brent Adams | October 09, 2007 4:41 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A defective cruise control switch has caused concern from owners about the safety of their cars. As a result, Ford motor company is recalling 3.6 million passenger cars, trucks, sport utility vehicles and vans which contain this potentially dangerous cruise control switch.This switch has lead to previous recalls based upon reports of fires. This recall includes more than a dozen vehicle models...

• America Loses Battle Against Drunk Drivers

  Brent Adams | October 04, 2007 8:58 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, death from drunk drivers increased in twenty-two states during 2006. There were 13,470 deaths from drunk driving nationwide in 2006. This number is down only slightly from the 13,582 deaths that occurred from drunk drivers in 2005. In 2006, Texas led the country with the most deaths from drunk drivers (1,354 in 2006). This was...

• Long Delays For Social Security Disability Claimants

  Brent Adams | October 02, 2007 11:33 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Social Security Disability claimants should file their claims for Social Security Disability at the first indication that they may be disabled. The backlog of disability cases is so great that there is a long wait for cases to be heard and decided.The long delays have caused a great hardship on disabled claimants who are financially strapped and have no savings and are now out of work.The number...

• Daimler-Chrysler Settles Death Claim for Dodge Ram 2500 Defect

  Brent Adams | October 02, 2007 8:55 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Daimler-Chrysler has settled a wrongful death claim brought by the family of Felix Lassiter who was killed as the result of a defect in his 2004 Dodge Ram 2500.On March 20, 2004, Mr. Lassiter, a farmer in South Montgomery County, Alabama, parked his defective truck in order to get out and open a gate on his farm. As he got out of the truck, the vehicle started backing up suddenly and ran over...

• Football Player Sues Coach and School

  Brent Adams | October 01, 2007 6:26 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A former high school football player is suing the town of Coventry, Connecticut and his former coach over a leg injury that was the alleged result of carrying a player twice his size in a practice drill in 2005. The personal injury suit, filed in Rockville's Superior Court, alleges that Peter John Francis Murphy, a junior at Coventry High School at the time of the incident, was injured as a...