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Category Archives: Personal Injury
A correction officer at Rikers Island snapped a photo of a nasty wound, which resulted from a random attack in the visitors’ center and shared it on Facebook with the caption of “The Things That Happens On The Island Shhh”. The injured man has now filed a lawsuit against the officer, the Department of Correction,… Read More »
Oscar Pistorius, the Olympian also known as “Bladerunner” has been charged with committing premeditated murder when he fired four shots into a locked bathroom door, hitting his girlfriend cowering on the other side. His girlfriend sustained gunshot wounds to her head, hip and arm leading to her death. Pistorius’ defense team has argued that the… Read More »
A Louisiana man has filed suit against a sperm bank because he claims their clinic gave two vials of his sperm to an ex-girlfriend who then used the sperm to impregnate herself. The man’s attorney said the child’s paternity has been proven. The boy is now two years old. The man claims he made the… Read More »
Don Cordell Bryant made the last mistake he will ever make when he failed to buckle up on January 15. The 56-year-old Shalotte resident was killed instantly when he was thrown from his car as it veered off the road and flipped over. Police have not yet ruled out the possibility of alcohol playing a… Read More »
John Coomer claimed that he was injured when he was hit in the eye by a foil wrapped hot dog, shot out of an air cannon by Royals’ mascot Slugerr, during a 2009 Kansas City Royals game. He sued the Royals for his injuries, which included a detached retina. Coomer lost his first trial and… Read More »
Elizabeth Kennedy of Greensboro did not have a good 2012. The 86-year-old woman may have been the victim of elder abuse at her nursing home, Maple Grove Health and Rehabilitation Center. Louise Jones, the victim’s daughter, said that she suspected elder abuse when she saw that her mother had taken a blow to the head…. Read More »
Andrew Olshan, a researcher at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, has a warning for dads everywhere: your job could lead to birth defects in your future children. Olshan and his team studied the work history of approximately 10,000 fathers from all over the country whose children, born between 1997 and 2004, had… Read More »
Pamela Pineda, a five-year-old Wilkes County girl, was hit when Rita Blevins Shew drove past a school bus, striking the girl as she got off the bus. The 52-year-old Shew faces up to a year in prison if convicted; she has been charged with passing a school bus and causing serious injury to a child…. Read More »
Peggy Fogelman, from Graham, NC found herself making an unscheduled visit to a Burlington home on January 9. The 82-year-old woman had been driving her car on West Chapel Hill Rd when she lost control of the vehicle. The car hit an embankment after it ran off the road and ultimately landed on the porch… Read More »
Twelve people were recently injured when a Greenville, NC city transit bus crashed into a convertible on January 8, 2013. The accident occurred when a driver of a Chrysler Sebring convertible turned right on red, cutting off the bus; the driver of the car was charged with failure to yield the right of way. The… Read More »
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