Blog Posts in June, 2011
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Posted on Jun 30, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Ruptured gas line caused an explosion in San Bruno, California, killing four people, injuring dozens and destroyed almost 40 homes. A natural gas explosion and inferno turned parts of San Bruno, ...
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Posted on Jun 29, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A natural gas line exploded earlier this month outside a large Minneapolis supermarket, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air and creating a mess during rush hour. No serious injuries were ...
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Posted on Jun 28, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Reports say a gas main that exploded in a residential neighborhood in Philadelphia killied a gas company employee and injured six people. The explosion occurred in the Tacony neighborhood of ...
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Posted on Jun 27, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The 16-year-old girl killed in a crash in a Wal-Mart parking lot was laid to rest earlier this month, reports say. The young girl, Ashley Moore, died when the SUV she was riding in smashed into the ...
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Posted on Jun 26, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A vendor for Pepsi Beverages Company of Roanoke, Edward Smallwood, suffered severe head trauma while making a delivery Friday morning at the Salem Walmart, reports say. Smallwood, 33, was injured in ...
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Posted on Jun 25, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A 20-year-old man was arrested in connection with a Rhode Island fight where another man was dragged and run over by an SUV in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart. Police arrested Patrick J. Oliveira at ...
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Posted on Jun 24, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The death of a toddler who died earlier this month after family members found her in a pool behind her North Charleston, S.C. home has been ruled an accidental drowning, reports say. 21-month-old Nora ...
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Posted on Jun 23, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
An Arizona City youth was hospitalized and listed in fair condition after being mauled by three dogs after school one afternoon last month. Ten-year-old Jason Hamilton was walking home from school ...
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Posted on Jun 20, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Twenty-five-year-old Dallas Wiens, of Fort Worth, was a construction worker when he was badly disfigured in a power line accident two years ago. He recently became the first person in the United ...
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Posted on Jun 19, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Houston police are investigating a fatal construction accident that occurred at the South Highway, also known as State Highway 288 on April 22nd. The victim, Manuel A. Seja, 47, of Houston, was ...
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Posted on Jun 18, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Reports say drinking too much Red Bull may lead to heart damage, a reported study says. Reports say a recent study of 30 university students aged between 20 and 24 years old found that drinking just ...
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Posted on Jun 17, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A study by Johns Hopkins University found that some energy drinks contain so much caffeine and stimulants that they should also carry a warning label about the potential risks of consuming the ...
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Posted on Jun 15, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A study conducted by the Cancer Prevention Institute of California involving 80 Vietnamese women from 20 different salons in California claims that Toulene, a solvent used in nail salons can cause ...
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Posted on Jun 15, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A recent study in the medical journal Pediatrics says Energy drinks are dangerous and that they can cause heart palpitations, seizures, strokes and even sudden death in young children and teens. The ...
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Posted on Jun 14, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A cruise ship carrying more than 100 tourists collided with a cargo ship in a Danube River channel near the capital of Slovakia, reports say. No injuries were reported, but the German cargo ship, the ...
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Posted on Jun 14, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A man was rescued from drowning in a hotel swimming pool recently, but swift action and EMS response saved the man. The accident, which occurred at the a Saturday just before 5 P.M. at the Best Value ...
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Posted on Jun 13, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A cruise passenger ended up in jail in Cozumel during a port call, reports say, after he and his wife and four children, ages 17 to 25, rented a Jeep to explore beaches on the island. The incident ...
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Posted on Jun 13, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A Florida resident was killed following a pedestrian traffic accident late earlier this month in Daytona Beach. Kimberly J. Staton, 36 of Port Orange ran into traffic and into the path of a southbound ...
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Posted on Jun 12, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A Phoenix toddler died after being found in a backyard pool in west Phoenix recently. Reports say the toddler found his way into the backyard pool through an unlocked doggie door. Reports say ...
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Posted on Jun 11, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Reports say the body recovered from the Elm Fork of the Trinity River is that of Hwanyeo Park of Coppell, TX. Coppell police had been searching for the man, reported missing since May 3rd. Park was ...
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Posted on Jun 10, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
An Illinois court recently found a Romeoville man not guilty by reason of insanity in the drowning death of his 18-month-old son, reports say. Chidi Esi, 29-year-old, was convicted recently of ...
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Posted on Jun 9, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The mother of a woman killed in the September 11th attacks was hospitalized recently from a near-drowning in a swimming pool in Orange County California's Rancho Santa Margarita, reports say. The ...
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Posted on Jun 8, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers arrested a Stover, MO couple in Camden County in after reports say they filed a false report of a drowning incident on the Missouri River at Franklin Island in ...
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Posted on Jun 7, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
An Ohio woman drowned last month when information she was given from the 911 operator after floodwaters swept her Volkswagen Beetle into an Ohio creek kept her in the car instead of trying to save ...
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Posted on Jun 6, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Houston police are investigating a fatal traffic accident that occurred at 10500 Knoboak Drive in Houston when a lone driver lost control and crashed into a drainage culvert on April 18 th. The ...
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