Posts tagged General Personal Injury

• Retail Stores Becoming Concerned About "Heelys"

  Brent Adams | January 02, 2008 11:30 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Wary about potential premises liability issues and personal injuries, many stores and malls are taking precautions when it comes to trendy wheeled sneakers. One such place is Dubuque, Iowa, where stores are implementing policy changes and new signage.According to Zach Shank, manager of a Hy-Vee in the city, the shoes have been banned in his store. He said the decision was prompted by complaints...

• Nightclub may be liable for stabbing outside its premises

  Brent Adams | December 06, 2007 10:37 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A New York, NY man, Jason DeJesus, has filed a novel premises liability law suit against the Roxy, a popular New York City night club, for a stabbing that occurred outside the premises. His lawyer David Perecman has made the argument that his client was improperly protected by The Beer Garden, Inc., which owns the Roxy, after Mr. DeJesus was stabbed by another club patron a block and a half...

• Hunter Recovers $2 Million for Deer Stand Collapse

  Brent Adams | April 11, 2007 11:00 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A North Carolina hunting club has agreed to pay $2 Million as a result of a deer stand collapse.The 54 year old hunter suffered a T-1 burst fracture which resulted in paraplegia.The hunter was sitting in a wooden deer stand and fell when it suddenly collapsed. The hunter fell approximately 30 feet to the ground.The hunter alleged that the hunting club was careless in failing to properly inspect...

• Hotel Shower Burns Causes Scarring and Disfigurement

  Brent Adams | March 27, 2008 11:07 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A 79-year-old Hurricane Katrina refugee from New Orleans has filed a $100 million negligence suit against a New York, New York hotel, claiming that she fainted and suffered personal injuries due to being scalded while taking a shower in the hotel.According to Ethel Tropez, who now resides in Live Oak, Texas, the March 29, 2007 incident in the Hotel Chandler resulted in being badly burned and...

• Medical Malpractice Insurance Execs Give Back Profits

  Brent Adams | December 03, 2007 10:37 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  If anybody believes the false the inurance industry generated propaganda that there is a medical malpractice crisis, they should consider the recent revelation concerning Medical Mutual Insurance Company of North Carolina and its four top executives including its CEO. According to the Raleigh, North Carolina News and Observer, the North Carolina Department of Insurance, after an...

• Virginia Family Recovers $9.25 Million in Mesothelioma Claim

  Brent Adams | July 10, 2007 11:09 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The widow of a New Port News shipbuilder, who died from exposure to asbestos while working at a New Port News shipyard, recovered a verdict of 9.25 million dollars for his death. The verdict was awarded by a jury in State Circuit Court in Virginia. The verdict was returned against two suppliers to the shipbuilding injury: John Crane, Inc. and Garlock Sealing Technologies. John Crane, Inc. is...

• Frequently Asked Questions regarding North Carolina Workers' Compensation Law

  Robin Martinek | April 03, 2007 8:43 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Does my employer fall under the North Carolina Workers' Compensation Statutes? If an employer has three or more employees, it is subject to North Carolina Workers' Compensation Statutes and required to either maintain workers' compensation insurance or qualify as self-insured. Who monitors and adjudicates workers' compensation claims in North Carolina? The North Carolina legislature has...

• COPD Drug May Be Harmful

  Brent Adams | March 26, 2008 2:49 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to a statement made on Tuesday, March 18 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a drug used for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be harmful to those who use it. As if the disabling condition of COPD was not difficult enough, the FDA says that Spiriva, a lung drug manufactured by Pfizer Inc. and German-based Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutical...

• Oprah Winfrey Sued By Audience Member

  Brent Adams | March 25, 2008 2:27 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A woman has filed a lawsuit claiming that while she was in Chicago, Illinois, she received personal injuries in a rush for seating at the set of the Oprah Winfrey talk show.According to the claims of Orit Greenberg, Harpo Studios exhibited negligence through their failure to control the audience during the December 5, 2006 incident. She filed the suit seeking damages in excess of...

• Hormone-replacement drug manufacturers must pay$ 27 Million punitive damages

  Brent Adams | March 07, 2008 2:22 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A federal jury awarded an Arkansas breast cancer victim $ 27.2 million punitive damages award yesterday on top of $ 2.7 million in compensatory damages after she developed breast cancer from taking the defendants' hormone replacement drugs.The jury found that the defendants had not adequately warned Donna Scroggin that the drugs caused an increased risk of developing breast cancer.She had...