Category Archives: Personal Injury
3M Wins Lawsuit Alleging Defective Earplugs Resulted In Soldier Deafness
3M recently announced a major victory in a lawsuit that alleged they sold defective earplugs to the U.S. military that resulted in several soldiers losing their hearing. A federal jury, however, sided with the company and found that the company’s earplugs did not cause the soldiers’ deafness. This is the second of three trials… Read More »
Lawsuit Settled In Plane Crash That Caused Death Of Tampa Surgeon
The estate of a Tampa surgeon who died in a plane crash was awarded the maximum settlement allowed under Indiana law, $700,000. The surgeon died after an employee placed the wrong fuel into his plane. The plane crashed shortly after takeoff. Since the lawsuit was filed against a municipal airport, the named defendant was… Read More »
Lawsuit Filed In Tallahassee Over Wastewater Leak
A lawsuit has been filed against the State of Florida after a Piney Point wastewater leak that required the evacuation of hundreds of residents after 215 million gallons of wastewater poured into Tampa Bay. Conservation groups say that the government and Florida’s environmental regulators ignored warning signs and allowed the leak to happen. Florida’s… Read More »
Paramedic Negligence Lawsuit Heads To Legislature
The law is often a winding path filled with several forks. Even those who have committed their lives to the study of the law will never understand the full breadth of it. It was created over generations by thousands of hands all working together though they never met one another. One concept under the… Read More »
Mother Files Lawsuit Against Seattle Public Schools For Caging Her Son
A Florida mother who claims that her child was put into a cage and mocked by the other children has filed a lawsuit against Seattle public schools saying that they violated his civil rights and intentionally inflicted emotional distress. The lawsuit accuses the school district of forcibly restraining him in a cage, discriminating against… Read More »
Personal Injury Lawsuit Could Go To Supreme Court
Company A hired a motor carrier Company B to deliver to haul Costco shipments. Company B provided the logistics, but one of their drivers lost control of his truck on an icy Nevada highway. The truck slid and crashed into another vehicle. The driver of that vehicle was left a quadriplegic because of the… Read More »
LEAD SMELTER INJURY LAWSUIT FILED IN TAMPA
A former lead smelter worker has filed suit against Gopher Resource on behalf of his young son alleging that the company’s dangerous and dusty work environment resulted in the boy being exposed to the neurotoxin. Hundreds of workers at a Tampa lead smelter have been exposed to dangerous levels of neurotoxins. The consequences have… Read More »
Florida Passes Nursing Home Protections While New York Revokes Them
For those of you who don’t know what’s going on in New York, the Governor was embattled well before several allegations of sexual misconduct were made by former staffers. New York raised the alarm over Cuomo after he forced the state’s nursing homes to take COVID runoff patients. Essentially, the argument was made that… Read More »
Nursing Home Sued For Gross Negligence
The new COVID-19 liability shield will prevent most lawsuits against nursing homes. The simple negligence standard has been replaced with a gross negligence standard. Plaintiffs now have to prove that the nursing home was not in “substantial compliance” with CDC regulations. How would a lawyer go about doing that? One case from Illinois could… Read More »
Hospital Sued After Paramedic Charged With Sexual Assault
A Tennessee hospital is facing a lawsuit after victims came forward to identify one of their paramedics for sexual assault. The paramedic is charged with sexually abusing female patients during ambulance runs. In at least one case, he is charged with drugging the patient. In cases like this, an employer would automatically be liable… Read More »