Blog Posts in January, 2011
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Posted on Jan 31, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Stretching for a foul ball a Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, a man fell from the second deck into the field level seats. The man fell during the fifth inning of a game between the Cleveland ...
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Posted on Jan 31, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Charges were filed late last month against a suspect in the fatal shooting of a woman at an apartment complex on Dunlap Ave. on Sunday December 19th. Jamal Jones, 24, was charged with criminal ...
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Posted on Jan 30, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Public groups have been critical of a delay by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that stalled a recall of the drugs Darvon and Darvocet, reports say. Darvon and Darvocet, which are made with the ...
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Posted on Jan 30, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Statutory-type litigation, which may be the basis for future suits, has been filed and will proceed to court alleging Yaz and Yasmin are harmful, reports say. The suits primarily involve Yaz and ...
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Posted on Jan 29, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A phony press release at General Mills Inc. which could have caused a stock decline with reports that President Obama had ordered a big investigation of the company after several food product recalls. ...
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Posted on Jan 29, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Reports say hundreds of personal injury attorneys are beginning preliminary preparations toward litigation against makers of Darvon and Darvocet, or Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals Inc., reports say. The ...
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Posted on Jan 28, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Darvon, and the related drug Darvocet, may have been found to increase the risk of heart attacks and bone fractures in elderly arthritis patients, reports from a new study finds. Reports say that ...
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Posted on Jan 28, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A Class-I recall was recently announced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration pertaining to the ev3 NanoCross.014" PTA Dilation Catheter, which has been reported to have the potential to crack or ...
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Posted on Jan 27, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Bayer Healthcare's popular birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin are under fire for possible links to an increase in blood clots, reports say. Bayer cites two studies it commissioned as proof that the ...
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Posted on Jan 27, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Teva Pharmaceuticals has reportedly issued a recall on its Metronidazole, a drug proscribed for the treatment of asymptomatic trichomoniasis and other bacterial infections. The drug is reportedly ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Sergio Banda Rodriguez, 28, was killed in December last year as he drove westbound on East Ben White Blvd approaching East Riverside Drive. The Red Chevrolet Silverado in which Rodriguez was driving ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A recall by two separate companies for similar safety issues are under way as of earlier this month, reports say, for drawstrings designs that apparently have become a strangulation issue. Although no ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Austin's last auto fatality occurred ten days before the end of the year, reports say, making 2010 a year with less than average roadway deaths - good news for the state's capitol. Still, it was ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A woman in Colorado was killed when the Toyota Camry in which she drove was a stuck by two errant wheels off a tractor trailer, which was traveling southbound on I-25 in Colorado, reports say. The ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Two Redwood City, California parks which had high levels of E. coli bacteria in their sandboxes will reopen with no sandboxes. Two years earlier, the city received a call from a grandmother of two ...
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Posted on Jan 11, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A ski lift accident at Devil's Head resort near the Town of Merrimac, Wisconsin recently left several riders injured. The chair lift, which was reportedly full of passengers, allegedly stopped and ...
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Posted on Jan 11, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A 57-year-old Nigerian woman died on a recent Delta airline flight from Lagos to Atlanta, reports say. The woman died about an hour before the flight landed at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta ...
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Posted on Jan 10, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A passenger died while in-flight on an American Airlines flight recently, with the victim's family claiming the crew ignored her pleas, reports say. The victim, Carine Desir, 44, died after a ...
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Posted on Jan 9, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A 19-year-old Stateline Nevada man recently after falling from a chairlift at Heavenly Mountain Resort, reports say. The man, Ryan Moore, who had moved to Stateline two years ago from Santa Ynez, CA ...
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Posted on Jan 8, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A tandem bungee jump turned to tragedy when a young couple plunged more than 200 feet to their deaths from a bridge recently. Reports say a set of snap-hooks failed when Tiziana Accorra, a 26-year-old ...
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Posted on Jan 7, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A woman attending a Christian festival in Oshkosk, WI, died recently after plunging about 45 feet from an amusement ride. The incident occurred at the Lifest when the Air Glory ride -- a ride whose ...
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Posted on Jan 5, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Reports say a cruise passenger from the Sea Princess, a Princess Cruises liner, died in Tortola, British Virgin Islands earlier this year. The man was reportedly pulled out of the sea in the area of ...
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Posted on Jan 4, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Reports say hundreds of people were evacuated from a Port Everglades cruise terminal after a customs agent stopped a man with a suspicious liquid that reports say caused the agent to become ill. The ...
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Posted on Jan 3, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Reports say Marblehead-based Rockmore Co. Inc., which operates the vessels Hannah Glover and Rockmore, were fined by prosecutors for knowingly dumping untreated sewage from the boats toilets into ...
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Posted on Jan 2, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Cunard Line's Queen Victoria cruise liner reportedly had 30 people quarantined out of the 2000 crew and passengers aboard a trans-Atlantic sailing early in 2010. The report of illness had had been ...
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