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San Bernardino County Big Rig Accident Kills Woman

Posted on December 04, 2008
Sang Kyung Oh, a 38-year-old San Jose woman, was killed in a big rig accident on a Mojave Desert highway on November 30, 2008. According to this news report in the San Jose Mercury News, Oh was a riding in...

FMCSA Approves New Rule to Keep Sick Truckers Off Roadways

Posted on December 04, 2008
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has approved a new rule that will require merging commercial truck and bus drivers? licenses with medical examination certificates into one electronic record. According to this Associated Press news report, this is part...

San Bernardino ATV Rollover Accident Kills Man

Posted on December 03, 2008
An Upland man who died in a San Bernardino all-terrain vehicle accident on November 29, 2008 has been identified as 28-year-old Victor V. Ortiz. According to this news Web site, Ortiz was on an off-road quad vehicle (or ATV) when...

Los Angeles Teen Killed - Van Plows Into Bus Shelter

Posted on December 03, 2008
A 14-year-old boy was killed and four other teens suffered injuries in a Los Angeles auto versus pedestrian accident on December 1, 2008. This horrific accident occurred when a van jumped a curb and slammed into a bus shelter in...

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Pit Bulls Attack and Kill Livestock in Mendocino County

Posted on December 02, 2008
Pit bulls on the loose have been attacking and killing livestock by the hundreds in Mendocino County, according to this news report in the Press Democrat. So far no dog attacks on humans have been reported. A federal trapper who...

Torrance Pedestrian Accident Causes Serious Injuries

Posted on December 02, 2008
A 54-year-old Long Beach man critically injured by a car on November 27, 2008 while getting out of his vehicle in Torrance has been identified as David Reichle. He was standing next to his car in the 2700 block of...

Lawndale Bicycle versus Garbage Truck Collision Kills Man

Posted on December 01, 2008
Elijah Miclea, 56, of Hawthorne was killed in a Lawndale bicycle accident on November 24, 2008 when he was struck by a Waste Management garbage truck, the Daily Breeze reports. The 11/24/08 fatal bicycle accident occurred at Marine Avenue and...

El Cajon Woman Suffers Brain Injuries from Nursing Home Negligence

Posted on November 30, 2008
A 44-year-old woman who suffered permanent brain damage as a result of poor care she received in an El Cajon County owned nursing home has been awarded $1.6 million in a court settlement. Ruth Lomeo suffered severe brain injuries after...

Rialto Train Crash Caused by Metrolink Running a Red Signal

Posted on November 28, 2008
Federal officials who investigated a November 20, 2008 Metrolink train crash in Rialto say the commuter train that sideswiped a freight train had run a red signal, according to an Associated Press news report. Although four commuters suffered relatively minor...

Lake Havasu Boating Accident Injures Three from California

Posted on November 28, 2008
Three California men ? 37-year-old Robert Moody, Sean Swanson, 41, and Gilbert Sanchez, 39 ? suffered major injuries in a Lake Havasu boating accident on November 22, 2008, the News-Herald reports. The 11/22/08 accident occurred when the boat the men...

City of Industry Bicycle Crash Injures One

Posted on November 27, 2008
James McClellan, 76, of Walnut, suffered serious injuries in a City of Industry bicycle versus big rig accident on November 25, 2008. According to this news report in the Pasadena Star News, McClellan was riding his bicycle on Lemon Avenue...

Worker Critically Injured in Irvine Industrial Accident

Posted on November 26, 2008
A 26-year-old worker at Ceradyne?s Irvine facility was critically injured in an industrial accident after being hit with flying shrapnel on November 22, 2008, The Orange County Register reports. The worker, who remains unidentified, suffered traumatic injuries to his head...

ATV Accident Changes Teenager?s Life Forever

Posted on November 26, 2008
Recently, I heard from Kim Smith, the mother of a young man who suffered severe brain injuries in an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) accident three years ago. Kim kindly agreed to share her story through our blog as a way of...

Northridge Construction Site Accident Injures Four

Posted on November 25, 2008
Four construction workers were injured in a Northridge scaffolding collapse accident on November 21, 2008, according to this CBS news report. The construction accident occurred at the four-story Village apartment complex that was under construction on the 9300 block of...

Man Killed In Rollover Crash On Highway 18

Posted on November 25, 2008
A 23-year-old La Verne man who died in a vehicle rollover accident on Highway 18 on November 22, 2008, has been identified as Timothy Richard Dewhurst, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports. Dewhurst, a passenger, was ejected from the 2003...

Rialto Metrolink versus Freight Train Collision Injures Five

Posted on November 23, 2008
Five people were injured in a Metrolink versus freight train collision in Rialto on November 20, 2008 ? the second such accident in less then three months. The 11/20/08 crash was far less serious than the catastrophic head-on collision in...

Fatal Anaheim Industrial Accident Kills Pest Control Worker

Posted on November 21, 2008
Erik Sanchez, 30, was killed in an Anaheim industrial accident on November 17, 2008 when an 18-wheeler pinned him against a loading dock at a refrigerating storage facility, The Orange County Register reports. The fatal 11/17/08 on-the-job accident occurred at...

New FMCSA Truckers Hours-of-Service Rule Inadequate and Ineffective

Posted on November 21, 2008
This week, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued a new rule governing the number of hours that commercial truck drivers can drive each day. These are known as the truck drivers? hours-of-service. What?s special about this new rule?...

Bicyclist Killed in La Puente Big Rig Collision

Posted on November 20, 2008
Santiago Aguilar, a 27-year-old man, was killed in a bicycle versus big rig accident on November 14, 2008 in La Puente, the Pasadena Star News reports. The 11/14/08 crash occurred at the intersection of Valley Boulevard and 7th Avenue, California...

Safety Advocates Support Anti-Lock Brakes in all Motorcycles

Posted on November 20, 2008
This week the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS) issued a statement supporting the long-due amendment of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard. The amendment would require motorcycle manufacturers to install antilock braking systems (ABS) in all motorcycles...

U.S. Regulators Sue to Shut Down Heart Drug Manufacturer

Posted on November 19, 2008
The U.S. Department of Justice has sued drug manufacturer Actavis, seeking a permanent injunction against its subsidiary that makes the recalled heart drug Digitek. According to this Bloomberg News report U.S. regulators took the action on behalf of the Food...

Escalator Accident in Universal Studios Injures Eight

Posted on November 19, 2008
Eight people were taken to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries after they were injured in an amusement park escalator accident at Universal Studios on November 17, 2008, the Los Angeles Daily News reports. The accident occurred at the...

Orange County Swimming Pool Accidents Claim Two Lives in Three Days

Posted on November 18, 2008
Eighteen-month-old Isabelle Jenkins and 2-year-old Tyler Frey-Cruz were two Orange County children who died in two separate swimming pool drowning accidents, The Orange County Register reports. We obtained the girl?s identity from an Orange County Coroner?s press release...

Man Killed in Orange County DUI Accident

Posted on November 18, 2008
Raul Hinojosa, a 28-year-old Bellflower resident, was killed in an accident on the 91 freeway in Orange County on November 16, 2008, which officials say was caused by a suspected drunk driver. Hinojosa and 20-year-old Matthew Lawetzki had pulled over...

Orange County DUI Accident Injures Three

Posted on November 17, 2008
Three people ? Jiwon Lee, 27, of Brea, Sarah Garrat, 25, of Bellflower and Ayesha King, 23, of Los Angeles ? were injured in a Sunset Beach auto accident on November 12, 2008. According to an article in The Orange...

California Deer Causing Increased Vehicle Accidents

Posted on November 14, 2008
Thomas Jackson, a 59-year-old Grass Valley motorcyclist, was injured after his Harley Davidson struck a deer on Highway 49 near Auburn Road on November 7, 2008, the Sierra Sun reports. The deer was killed in the crash and Jackson was...

Charles Boyk ? Best Ohio Personal Injury Attorney

Posted on November 14, 2008
A case handled by my good friend Charles Boyk?s Ohio truck accident law firm recently resulted in a $1.25 million jury verdict for the plaintiff, who lost his leg in a truck accident. This case was brilliantly handled by Boyk...

Mattresses on Highway 680 Cause Fatal Auto Accident in Concord

Posted on November 13, 2008
Armando Hernandez, a 31-year-old Antioch man, died in a multi-vehicle accident on Interstate Highway 680 in Concord on November 8, 2008. According to an article in the San Jose Mercury News, two mattresses that apparently came off someone?s vehicle caused...

Negligent Nursing Homes Could Get Taxpayer-Funded Bonuses

Posted on November 13, 2008
I came across a news report in the Des Moines Register that shows how nursing homes with a history of abuse, negligence and other past violations receive hundreds of millions of your taxpayer dollars as bonuses. According to this eye-opening...

Texas Woman Sues ConAgra Foods over Salmonella-Tainted Peanut Butter

Posted on November 12, 2008
A Fort Wayne, Texas, woman has filed a lawsuit against ConAgra Foods, claiming that she fell ill with a salmonella infection after eating their peanut butter. The 76-year-old woman, Mildred Turner, said in her lawsuit that she bought the tainted...

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