Category : Wrongful Death
Parents File Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Fatal Berkley Accident
The parents of a little boy, who was killed in a Berkeley pedestrian accident involving a truck, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the truck driver, trucking company, school bus driver and others.
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Santa Clara County to Pay $2.3 Million in Bicycle Accident Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Santa Clara County has settled with the parents of one of the two bicyclists who were killed in an accident caused by a sheriff’s deputy, who dozed off at the wheel of his car. The County will pay $2.3 million to settle the wrongful death lawsuit
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Clayton Family Files Wrongful Death Claim Against Contra Costa County
The family of a man who died while trying to help a stranded motorist on a gravel-covered stretch of road is seeking damages from Contra Costa County. The claim alleges that William Tindall’s death occurred because of a defective and dangerous road condition at the site of the crash.
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Woman Killed in San Jose Pedestrian Accident
For Debi Dee Parsons-Mason’s family, it’s going to be a dark Christmas, after her death in a pedestrian accident in San Jose on Friday night. According to Mercury News, Parsons-Mason was struck by a truck as she was walking back home with her teenage son.
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Redding Pedestrian Accident Kills Woman
A pedestrian accident in Redding has killed a female employee of the Shasta County Sheriffs’ Office, Redding.com reports. The woman, 53-year-old Linda Runyon, was killed on Wednesday afternoon when she was crossing the road in a marked crosswalk.
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Wal-Mart Stampede Victim's Family Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Earlier this week, we carried a report on negligent security at Wal-Mart, and the death of a worker who died in a Black Friday stampede at a store in Long Island. The man, Jdimytai Damour was opening the doors to the store at 5 am, with an estimated 2,000 shoppers waiting outside. He had barely got the store doors open when the crowd of shoppers stormed in, creating a stampede. Damour was thrown to the ground, and died in the stampede. Later, it was confirmed that he had died of asphyxiation.
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Negligent Security at Wal-Mart Means a Dark Black Friday
Injuries resulting out of negligent security at Wal-Mart’s Black Friday sale are nothing new – ask personal injury lawyers across the country, and they’ll admit to having represented injured victims of these ferocious stampedes, resulting in confidential settlements with the retail giant. This time, however, the insane rush to snag the best buys of the year at a Long Island Wal-Mart store left one employee dead and several shoppers injured. Initial reports said that a pregnant woman was among those injured, and found sprawled on the ground after the stampede had subsided.
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CHP Report Says Driver Error and Truck Defects to Blame for Santa Clarita Truck Accident
A California Highway Patrol investigation report into the truck accident near Santa Clarita last year has concluded that the driver’s speed played a major part in the crash. The report has also expressed concern over the state of the tractor-trailer at the time of the truck accident, and this, the district attorney fears, could be used by the defense team as the principal cause of the accident.
Driver in Santa Ana Car Accident Sentenced to One Year in Prison
Leno Bertolotti’s family has reason enough to be furious with the sentencing given to the driver in the Santa Ana car accident that killed their 83-year-old patriarch. The 23-year-old driver, whose speed racing escapades with another car ended in the fatal car accident that killed Bertolotti, will serve a grand total of one year in prison.
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Teen Killed in Los Angeles County Pedestrian Accident
Before he died in a tragic Los Angeles County pedestrian accident , 15-year-old, high school student Patrick Demesa had a daily routine. He walked over after school to Target, and grabbed a drink before heading over to the building close by where his mother’s office was located. Together, the mother-son duo would then head for home. On October 16, there was nothing to suggest that Patrick Demesa’s day would end differently. Sure, the Ventura Boulevard is a busy junction, but the boy always took care to walk carefully on the marked crosswalk. This time was no different, but as Patrick crossed the street as he had done so many times before, a car driven by a 42-year-old female driver slammed into him. After hitting Demesa, the car apparently went right on, and slammed into a Buick nearby, pushing it into a Lexus. Before hitting Patrick, the woman had evidently run a red light.
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