Blog Posts in September, 2011
Posted on Sep 17, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
When 21-year-old Gregory Minetti began having trouble coming ashore during a storm near Newport, RI, his 23-year-old friend jumped in to try to save him. He drowned instead. Nicholas Napolitano, 23, ...
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Posted on Sep 12, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Disease Control have been investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis infections linked to alfalfa sprouts, reports the CDC ...
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Posted on Sep 10, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
personal injury attorney The CDC reported that 99 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Agona have been reported from 23 states since the middle of July, with the outbreak linked ...
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Posted on Sep 10, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Houston police were investigating a fatal traffic accident that occurred at 5200 Katy Freeway, also known as West Interstate Highway 10, on the service road early in the morning last month. Two ...
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Posted on Sep 8, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
St. Joseph, , police have ruled a hotel hot tub drowning of a three-year-old boy and accident, as indicated from a recent autopsy performed on the boy. The death of Parker James Wilson, who died ...
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Posted on Sep 7, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Lawyer
The popular anti-depressant drug medication known as Zoloft has been recently linked to birth defects, if taken while a mother is pregnant. For many years, Zoloft was widely prescribed to ...
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Posted on Sep 5, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A member of Mission High School's 2010 Academic Athletic Association championship boys' basketball team, Stafone Jackson, 20, died on a camping trip of an apparent drowning earlier this month. ...
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Posted on Sep 4, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Austin Police Officers responded to an auto-pedestrian collision in the 100 block of East Slaughter Lane in the middle of last month. Reports say that a white 1996 white Toyota sedan was stalled in ...
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Posted on Sep 4, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Emergency crews have been credited with saving the life of a two-year-old boy after he nearly drowned in a backyard pool in Providence, RI earlier this month. Firefighters had been called to the ...
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Posted on Sep 3, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
German Robert Koch Institute reported in July that 852 patients with hemolytic uremic syndrome were identified who had come down with the illness though the Shiga toxin-producing E. coli bacteria ...
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Posted on Sep 2, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Search teams recently found the body of a man who had been feared drowned in Dalewood Lake, near Meridian, Miss. Charles "Chip" Fleming, 42, of Kemper County, disappeared underwater early in ...
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Posted on Sep 1, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Senators Charles Grassley, D-Iowa, and Herbert Kohl, D-Wisconsin, have voiced concerns that nursing homes are over-prescribing antipsychotic drugs to control the behavior of senior patients, reports ...
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