Blog Posts in August, 2011
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Posted on Aug 31, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Robert Lee Cameron Jr,, 43, was crossing the street in the 5800 block of North IH 35, when reports say a 2000 gold Nissan Maxima traveling southbound in the 5800 block of North IH 35. Struck him as he ...
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Posted on Aug 30, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Just three weeks after a child nearly drowned at a South Carolina water park, another child was also rescued. Rescuers were called to Otter Creek Waterpark earlier this month after a two-year-old girl ...
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Posted on Aug 29, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced earlier this month that it has notified healthcare professionals of a Class I recall of the GE Healthcare Vital Signs Hygroscopic Condenser Humidifier ...
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Posted on Aug 29, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
After leading Starr County authorities on a wild chase, a suspected smuggler jumped out of his car and into the river in an evident attempt to escape into Mexico. But he was exhausted and went under ...
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Posted on Aug 28, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The aunt of a New Jersey toddler has been charged after the boy drowned in a New Jersey lake earlier this month, reports say. Reports say Felicia Tucker, 26, of Monroe Township, has been charged with ...
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Posted on Aug 27, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A group of eight Texans filed suit against the maker of Avandia, the diabetes drug, adding to the growing list of lawsuits over the drug and its maker. The suit alleges GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia ...
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Posted on Aug 27, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Houston personal injury attorney Austin Police Officers responded to an auto- pedestrian accident early last month which occurred in the 1800 block of East State Highway 71. The incident occurred when ...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A handful of women have become co-plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the makers of transvaginal mesh, reports say. The complaints were raised after doctors of each of the women used the devices during ...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Amanda DeLoach Slappey, the widow of The widow a Leesburg, Ga., man, has filed suit against the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, seeking $40 million in damages for the death of her husband who drowned ...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Houston police were continuing their investigation of a fatal traffic accident that occurred in the 9400 block of Westheimer early laps month. The incident occurred when the male driver of a Ford ...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
35-year-old Marlowe Young apparently tried to swim to shore from a pontoon boat he and three friends had rented from a nearby marina recently when he drowned. He was not wearing a life jacket. Young ...
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Posted on Aug 23, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Charges have been filed against a suspect arrested in a fatal traffic accident in the 9400 block of Westheimer early last month. The suspect, Miguel A. Zepeta-Rodriguez, 20, is charged with criminally ...
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Posted on Aug 23, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Eight-year-old Jesus Lara noticed a toddler in the water in his Plano apartment and assumed somebody trying to see how long they could go under water without breathing. But then he saw the bubbles ...
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Posted on Aug 22, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Reports say police are investigating the drowning death of an 8-year-old boy at a New Castle County home pool. Reports say Aiysir Bess was riding his bike in the back yard of the house when he crashed ...
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Posted on Aug 22, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Lewis & Clark County charged Leo Mathis, Sr. with negligent homicide in his son's death, after his son slipped out of his grasp while they were trying to cross a creek. Reports say that ...
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Posted on Aug 21, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Suffolk County, New York police are continuing their investigation of a drowning of a woman who was aboard a sinking boat in Port Jefferson. Reports say that 71-year-old Georgia Johnson, of Patchogue ...
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Posted on Aug 20, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Nicole Kissel overcame cold water, cold air and powerful tides to help save a boy from drowning. Dale Ostrander, 12, of Spanaway, WA, had gone to the beach on a trip to the Long Beach peninsula which ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2011 By Jimmy Doan
If you get hurt working offshore, you need to call an attorney immediately. The oil company representatives and attorneys will try to get you to sign documents releasing your rights to sue them. Often ...
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Posted on Aug 14, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A woman on a whitewater rafting trip drowned earlier this month when the raft she was in flipped in a class III rapid on the New River Gorge National River, reports say. The woman, Judy Brown, of ...
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Posted on Aug 10, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Eric Brimlow, 27, of Syracuse, New York, fell from the rim of the Crater Lake caldera in Crater Lake National Park after venturing beyond a barrier wall at Sinnott Memorial overlook. Reports say he ...
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Posted on Aug 8, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Reports say that a study has suggested that Chantix patients face a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes and other serious cardiovascular events. The study, conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins ...
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Posted on Aug 7, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
An amusement park along the Jersey Shore boardwalk that closed after an 11-year-old girl fell from a Ferris wheel to her death reopened earlier this month even as an investigation continues in ...
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Posted on Aug 6, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
According to reports, birth defects in central Appalachian where mountaintop coal mining wears down the topography and destroys wildlife and botanical life in a process called "coal washing" ...
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Posted on Aug 4, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Officials of the Sea Princess, a Princess Cruises cruise ship, found evidence of a third norovirus aboard, prompting a "prolonged and intensive sanitization" before the ship set sail from ...
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Posted on Aug 3, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A reported 18,416 pounds of boneless, fully cooked ham products produced by Carolina Pride Foods, Inc., of Greenwood, South Carolina, has been liked to the dangerous foodborne pathogen, Listeria ...
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