Blog Posts in December, 2010
Posted on Dec 30, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
Luckily for one doctor in Arkansas his medical malpractice suit was dropped when he treated an ill juror in front of the other jurors. Dr. Stephen Eichert was being sued by Christina Renee Chaffin for ...
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Posted on Dec 29, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
A woman in Southaven recently won her slip and fall case against the hospital where her husband was being taken care of. Brenda Dowland won 75 percent of the damages she was seeking and 25 percent for ...
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Posted on Dec 28, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
While Christmas of 2010 will be remembered in North Carolina for the tremendous amount of snow that fell on over 100 counties across the state, it was also be ruled as the time when several deaths ...
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Posted on Dec 24, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
Drivers in eastern North Carolina need to take more caution when driving in the snow as a recent storm took the lives of three people last Thursday. Across the region there were dozens of cars ...
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Posted on Dec 23, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
Tragedy struck on a construction site in York County, PA this week when a man was buried alive. Jory Raber III, 20, was discovered to have been buried alive on a construction site in the 700 block of ...
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Posted on Dec 22, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
A woman in Des Plaines is attempting to sue police over the wrongful death of her son. The young man, Krzysztof Kaczor, 24, of Elmwood Park, was seen with an ax when police responded to a shots fired ...
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Posted on Dec 16, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
The family in West Richland won their medical malpractice suit this week against Kadlec Regional Medical Center. Their case involved a 4-inch-long piece of plastic tubing that was found inside their ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2010 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
Wal-Mart faces another slip and fall lawsuit after a customer hurt himself in their Bogalusa store on an unidentified substance on the floor. Virgil L. Thomas claims to have fallen in the store on ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
A mourning father in St. Louis has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a haunted house. His fifteen-year-old daughter, Brittney Holmes, blames the operators of The Darkness Haunted House for ...
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Posted on Dec 9, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
Cynthia Hill, 47, is being charged with nursing home abuse after stealing the identities of three of her patients. Officers with the Collinsville Police Department began their identity theft ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
Heartache struck a family in Brunswick County, NC when their four-year-old son ran out into the street and struck by a car. Jalen was crossing the street to play with his brothers who were playing ...
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Posted on Dec 7, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
A Pennsylvania appeals court has upheld a $20 million verdict in a wrongful death suit. The case centers around a liposuction that was filed as medical malpractice . A panel of judges from the ...
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Posted on Dec 2, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
Walmart is at the root of another lawsuit this month after a worker is claiming injury on the job. Joshua Clark filed a lawsuit for premises liability after being injured on the loading dock. The ...
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Posted on Dec 1, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
A serious accident in Currituck County left a man dead at the Roberts Brothers farm last Wednesday. Jimmy Lyons, 63, was servicing some equipment when another worker, not realizing Lyons' position on ...
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