It was like a scene from a horror/thriller movie. It was every child’s zoo nightmare translated into gory, grisly reality at the San Francisco Zoo. On Christmas Day, almost at closing time, a Siberian tiger somehow escaped from his grotto and went on a bloody rampage at the zoo’s café,…
Just as a Long Beach family was mourning the death of three girls in a fire caused by a space heater Friday, the girls’ aunt was wounded in a shooting not far from the home where her three nieces died, the Los Angeles Times reported. The 21-year-old woman was reportedly…
The family of a 49-year-old Iowa woman who was run over and killed by a police sport utility vehicle when she was sunbathing on Mandalay Beach in Oxnard, received a $2.75 million settlement from the city of Oxnard, according to a news article in the Star Tribune. Cindy Conolly was…
In his Nov. 17 “Talking Business” Column, New York Times columnist Joe Nocera meted out a scathing criticism of personal injury attorneys who represent about 27,000 victims of the defective drug, Vioxx, manufactured and aggressively marketed by pharmaceutical giant, Merck, a few years ago. I am one of those attorneys…
A Minneapolis personal injury law firm has filed a petition in federal court seeking access to the Interstate 35 W bridge, which collapsed Aug. 1, killing nine people and injuring at least 100 others. According to an article in the Winona Daily News , the law firm wants access to…
Even as officials are pulling out crushed vehicles and scouring the waters of the Mississippi for dead bodies, the Orange County Register reports that our Orange County bridges are in no better condition. The article points out that 16 bridges in the county are in worse condition than the 35…
In an ironic twist of events, Judge Robert H. Bork, a one-time Supreme Court nominee and one of the architects of the judicial conservative movement, has filed a trip-and-fall lawsuit against Yale Club demanding $1 million in compensatory damages in addition to punitive damages, according to a news report in…
A police officer is demanding compensation for a “slimy” prank two teenagers tried to pull off on him at a local McDonald’s franchise in Charles City, according to an Associated Press news report. Officer Josh Douglas has filed a lawsuit saying that when he was working nights two years ago,…
A jet ski accident sent a 14-year-old to Broward General Hospital Friday afternoon after a crash at a lake at Markham Park in Broward County, Florida, an NBC news affiliate reported. Officials said Tyler Goldberg apparently drove his jet ski into a wooden dock at a high rate of speed.…