Blog Posts in June, 2012
Posted on Jun 29, 2012 By Raleigh Personal Injury Lawyer
The Sloan Flushmate III Pressure-Assist Flushing System is being voluntarily recalled after injuring 14 of the product's users in bizarre explosion accidents. According to the Consumer Product ...
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Posted on Jun 27, 2012 By Raleigh Personal Injury Attorney
A wrongful death lawsuit is being waged against several responsible parties whose contributing negligence may have caused the auto accident that killed the Thomasville woman, Talia Oxendine. Two years ...
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Posted on Jun 25, 2012 By Raleigh Workers' Compensation Attorney
One North Carolina worker filed suit against his employer, M & M Properties Management Inc., after he was swiftly terminated just five days after giving notice of his intention to file for ...
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Posted on Jun 20, 2012 By Raleigh Personal Injury Lawyer
The state Supreme Court recently reversed a decision made by Clark County District Court back in 2009, regarding a slip and fall accident that happened on the premises of a Las Vegas restaurant, ...
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Posted on Jun 18, 2012 By Raleigh Personal Injury Attorney
The family of Grant R. Sleeper, a former Richmond Jail inmate, is seeking $10 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against the jail, the city, Sheriff C.T. Woody Jr., and several employees of Richmond ...
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Posted on Jun 15, 2012 By Raleigh Personal Injury Attorney
After agreeing to pay $146 million to state regulators of all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2010, American International Group (AIG) is finally doling out their share. Upon the discovery ...
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Posted on Jun 13, 2012 By Raleigh Personal Injury Lawyer
On June 10, 2012, New York Giants tackle David Diehl was arrested after crashing his BMW into several parked cars in Astoria, Queens around 8 p.m. that night. Upon arriving at the scene, law ...
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Posted on Jun 11, 2012 By Raleigh Personal Injury Attorney
Pedestrian injury and/or fatalities are most commonly caused by careless or unsafe driving practices. When involved in an auto accident as a pedestrian, it is unlikely that anyone would be able to ...
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Posted on Jun 8, 2012 By Whitley Law Firm
On Monday, up-and-coming GAA star T. Maguire, only 24 years of age, lost his life in a single-vehicle accident that took place just south of Perth in Australia. The popular athlete was reported dead ...
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Posted on Jun 6, 2012 By Whitley Law Firm
As announced by Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, a reduction in the insurance surcharge for workers' compensation will invoke widespread savings of over 2 million dollars to employers in the state of ...
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Posted on Jun 4, 2012 By Whitley Law Firm
In an effort to educate residents of North Carolina on the dangers of texting while driving and other unsafe driving behaviors, the state's highway patrol has officially declared June as " No ...
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Posted on Jun 1, 2012 By Whitley Law Firm
The City of Westland is being sued by a grieving woman whose adult son was killed during a confrontation with state police. Specifically, four of the city's police officers as well as a Garden ...
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