Blog Posts in October, 2010
Posted on Oct 23, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
An eight-month-old child and a three-year-old are in critical condition at a Baton Rouge area hospital after they were both thrown from a minivan earlier this month following a collision. According to ...
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Posted on Oct 23, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A South Texas man who was Tasered in June has now been named the victim of a homicide caused by an enlarged heart, drug intoxication and three jolts from the Taser, reports after a three-month probe ...
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Posted on Oct 23, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A robbery suspect died at a Dallas hospital earlier this month after resisting arrest and then being stunned by a Taser device, reports say. Freddie Lockett, 30, died after being shocked after an ...
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Posted on Oct 22, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
When a convenience store gasoline pump caught fire after being hit by a pickup truck and exploded recently, it killed one woman and injured at least one other person The woman, reported as 18-year-old ...
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Posted on Oct 22, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A one-year-old girl died recently when she drank a glass of water which also contained silver cleaning fluid. Identified as Triza Manlapig was declared deceased by Ospital Maynila, in The Philippines ...
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Posted on Oct 22, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Four-month-old Benjamin Glynn and his two-year-old sister Morgan narrowly escaped death from arsenic poisoning recently when the water they were given was found to be arsenic-based week killer. While ...
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Posted on Oct 22, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Recent reports suggest that 195,000 people in the U.S. die annually due to preventable hospital medical errors. The report, based on a recent study of 37 million patients from the years 2001-03, ...
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Posted on Oct 22, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Facing possible charges for the mix-up, a Brooklyn hospital confused a live patient with a recently deceased one, causing a family a great deal of grief in the process. Ninety-three-year-old Ella ...
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Posted on Oct 22, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A young Englishwoman, Aseelah Haqq, 33, of Middle Walk, Buxton, died after an order from her doctor that she deliver her child via a Caesarean Section rather than normal labor was ignored, reports ...
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Posted on Oct 22, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A Las Vegas hospital is facing criminal charges over the death of an infant whose umbilical catheter was severed, reports say. The child, who died in Sunrise Children's Hospital in Las Vegas, was ...
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Posted on Oct 22, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Thirty-four-year-old Ryan Arnold went into cardiac arrest and fell into a coma after surgery to remove part of his liver - which he was donating to his brother to save him from a life-threatening ...
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Posted on Oct 21, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
One 15-year-old girl died and two other people were hospitalized with severe injuries after an amusement park ride in Barcelona, Spain, broke in midair, reports say. The accident occurred when the ...
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Posted on Oct 21, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Several people were killed at a Chinese amusement park last month on Space Journey, a ride at Ecoventure Valley of Overseas Chinese Town in Shenzhen. To make matters worse, the way the accident has ...
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Posted on Oct 21, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Emergency crews responded to a call in July at the Extreme World attraction, located in Sauk County, Wisconsin, regarding a female juvenile who had been injured on Extreme World's "Terminal Velocity" ...
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Posted on Oct 9, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The father of the twin nine-year-old girls who drowned near the Texas City dike earlier this month has died, reports say. Hector Suarez-Palacios died Friday morning after being on life support after ...
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Posted on Oct 9, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Twin 9-year-old girls drowned earlier this month when they were swept by water currents near the Texas City dike, just south of Houston, TX. Reports say the girls, Alexandra and Samantha Suarez, were ...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Louisiana inspectors are focusing on the restraining device on a 21-year-old woman's seat which may have failed, vaulting the woman from a Baton Rouge Amusement park's roller coaster, killing her, ...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Louisiana inspectors are focusing on the restraining device on a 21-year-old woman's seat which may have failed, vaulting the woman from a Baton Rouge Amusement park's roller coaster, killing her, ...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A Vancouver boy who was hospitalized for an E. coli infection died recently. One of four children hospitalized due to an outbreak, the youngster, whose name was not released, had apparently contracted ...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A Knox County, Kentucky resident, died recently at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington after being admitted for intestinal problems. The victim, Vickie Shelton, had eaten ground beef before becoming ...
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