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• Strain of Salmonella Found in Two Breakfast Cereals

  Brent Adams | April 25, 2008 1:10 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  Two residents of New Hampshire are among an estimated 23 people who received personal injuries through illness in 14 states due to a strain of salmonella found in two breakfast cereals that were recalled by a company based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• Tire Manufacturer Fights Wide Access To Records In Defective Tire Suit

  Brent Adams | March 25, 2008 2:45 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  Cooper Tire Company has appealed to the 10th U. S. Circuit Court Of Appeals to fight an order of the lower federal court to produce records relating to the manufacture of tires.The families of several students of Utah State who died or received personal injuries from a van crash in 2005 have taken their lawsuit, which claims that the crash was caused by defective tires, to a federal court in...

• School Bus Accident

  Christina Medlin | March 16, 2008 10:40 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  A minivan collided with a school bus carrying 31 students to Durant Road Middle School in Raleigh, Wake County, NC. Fourteen (14) students and the bus driver were sent to the hospital. The driver of the minivan refused medical care. Although the driver of the minivan stated she had a green light, witnesses at the scene of the accident stated otherwise. The driver of the minivan was charged...

• Jetmax International Recalls Children's Wooden Storage After Child's Death

  Jenny Albano | November 17, 2007 2:27 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  Jetmax International Ltd., in conjunction with the CPSC, is recalling about 36,000 boy's and girl's storage racks with canvas totes after the death of an eight-month old boy.The infant was asphyxiated after the storage rack fell on top of him; the top rail of the shelf fell onto the boy's neck. The company has not received any other reports of incidents. Jetmax International decided to recall...

• $10.1 Million Settlement for Permanent Disabling Condition of Baby

  Brent Adams | September 11, 2007 8:48 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  A North Carolina hospital and physician agreed to a settlement of a medical negligence claim with a value of $10,169,065.00.The claim arose from a heart catheterization of a three month old girl which was done to investigate a congenital heart defect.During the heart catheterization procedure, an assistant in the operating room handed the cardiologist the wrong type of catheter. The cardiologist...

• Pit Bull Attacks UPS Driver

  Christina Medlin | July 27, 2007 10:10 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  A pit bull attacked a United Parcel Service deliveryman at a home in Orange County early Tuesday afternoon. The attack happened as the UPS worker delivered a package to a home on East Lebanon Road, northwest of Hillsborough. Orange County Animal Control workers seized the dog and will quarantine it for at least 10 days to determine if it has rabies. The owner of the dog is responsible the...

• New Law to Help Those Injured by a Doctor

  Christina Medlin | May 25, 2007 11:53 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  Those injured by the negligence of doctors often can not get a lawyer to take their case if the injuries are not catastrophic simply because the cost to litigate such cases is astronomical! Doctors and Lawyers have debated this issue for years in NC. Now NC Trial Lawyer and Doctors have come to a compromise. Under a bill being considered by the NC General Assembly, plaintiffs and defendants in a...

• Unsafe Products and NC's Statue of Repose

  Christina Medlin | May 18, 2007 8:02 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  A statute of repose normally applies in products liability cases and are enacted to limit the liability of manufacturers and sellers. A statute of repose begins to run from a certime time or event regardless of whether any claim has come about or any injury has occurred. NC consumers have protection for 6 years from the date of purchase of a product (regardless of what type of product). After 6...

• Beware of the Hidden Dangers of Reclining Seats

  Brent Adams | April 13, 2007 12:11 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  A Jacksonville, Florida jury awarded $16.9 Million to a young college student who was rendered a paraplegic in a motor vehicle collision. The student who was a passenger in a Ford Windstar had reclined her seatback.The Ford Windstar was involved in a low impact collision. However, because the student's seat was reclined, the seatbelt did not hold her in place.A Jacksonville, Florida jury...

• Charter Bus Flips After Crashing with Tractor - Trailer

  Christina Cole | March 16, 2007 2:50 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  A charter bus was involved in a trucking accident while returning to Williamston from Atlantic City, NJ, crashed with a tractor-trailer and flipped. A Washington woman was airlifted to the Medical College of Virginia on Thursday in Halifax.Five people - one from Jamesville and one from Washington, were airlifted to Pitt County Memorial Hospital after the bus collided with the tractor-trailer on...