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San Diego, CA Injury Accident Attorney Supports CAOC
Posted on November 12, 2009George Washington once said: Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. Letter of Instructions to the Captains of the Virginia Regiments [July 29, 1759]. The advocates of consumer rights, viewing the resources of defense firms and corporate defendants, can relate to the trepidation felt by the out-numbered and out-gunned Continental Army...
San Diego County Helicopter Crash Injures Two
Posted on September 24, 2009A helicopter crashed on September 20, 2009, in San Diego County. The crash occurred in a remote area of North San Diego County and two people were hurt in the accident. San Diego Sheriff's Lt. Gary Steadman reported on the incident, noting that the crash occurred very near Valley Center and was reported around 2:30 p...
Two People Injured in Knott's Berry Farm Roller Coaster Accident
Posted on September 23, 2009The popular Southern California amusement park Knott's Berry Farm had two guests injured on September 16, 2009, when a cable on the Xcelerator roller coaster snapped while the ride was in motion. The two victims were a 12-year-old boy and an older man, both of who had to be taken to the hospital...
Serious San Diego Bicycle Accident Causes Head Injury
Posted on September 22, 2009Last Thursday, a 67-year-old man was hospitalized for the injuries he suffered when his bicycle crashed in San Diego County's Linda Vista. He had been attempting to keep his hat on as the wind was blowing it off , according to police. The scene of the accident was the 1700 block of Ulric Street at about 11:45 a...
Teenager Injured After San Diego Pedestrian Accident
Posted on September 17, 2009A San Diego County boy was struck by a motor vehicle in Rancho Penasquitos, leaving him seriously injured, according to police. The boy is only 15 years old. The collision occurred just after 7 a.m. when the boy was trying to run across Carmel Mountain Road on the 13500 block of the residential neighborhood...
San Diego Pedestrian Dies One Year After 2008 Walkway Collapse
Posted on August 24, 2009A pedestrian walkway collapse at a construction site in the East Village of Downtown San Diego has claimed its' second fatality nearly one year after the initial accident. James Barham was recently found dead after accidentally overdosing on the painkillers he took for the back and knee injuries suffered in the 2008 walkway collapse...
Imperial Beach ATV Accident Injures San Diego Sheriff's Deputy
Posted on August 21, 2009Two San Diego County Sheriff's deputies riding all-terrain vehicles last weekend got involved in a crash in Imperial Beach while out on the ATV's, injuring one when he was catapulted forward off the one he had been riding on. The two deputies had been on northbound Seacoast Drive near Elder Avenue at 11:35 a...
San Diego Personal Injury Attorney Answers Client's Question: How Much is My Injury Accident Case Worth?
Posted on August 13, 2009Prospective clients to our San Diego personal injury law firm often ask, "How Much is My Personal Injury Case Worth?" It is the most frequently asked question besides, "How Long Will My Personal Injury Case Take?". Our San Diego injury accident law office takes pride in providing as much helpful and useful free information as we can to our personal injury clients and members of the public...
Los Angeles Boy Killed As He Crosses Street
Posted on August 13, 2009A Southern California boy was killed last week when he was crossing a street in Los Angeles. The 14-year-old boy from Inglewood named Semaj Spencer was the tragic victim of this hit and run pedestrian accident. The suspect of the death has been charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter and a felony count of leaving the scene of an accident...
San Diego Personal Injury Lawyer Answers Client Question: How Long Will My Personal Injury Case Take?
Posted on August 10, 2009One of the most frequent questions our San Diego personal injury law firm receives from prospective clients is, "How Long Will My Personal Injury Case Take?". Our office takes pride in providing as much helpful and useful free information as we can to our personal injury clients and members of the public...
Fatal Mission Bay Cruise Leads to Death of La Jolla Man
Posted on August 08, 2009San Diego's Mission Bay had a deadly even this week when lifeguards and divers found the body of a 28-year-old La Jolla man in the bay on August 9, 2009, over 12 hours after he dove off the Bahia Belle cruise ship with two friends. He did not make it to shore and drowned...
Seattle | Kirkland, Washington Motorcycle Accident Lawyer
Posted on August 04, 2009Just listened to an amazing interview by Ben Glass of Ben Glass Law in Fairfax, Virginia. He was interviewing Seattle, Washington motorcycle accident lawyer Max Meyers of Scott McDonald and Associates, PLLC, located in Kirkland, Washington. Mr. Meyers has built a niche injury accident law practice representing the victims of serious motorcycle accidents...
Interstate 5 (I-5) San Diego Car Accidents
Posted on August 03, 2009Interstate 5 (I-5 or "the 5") freeway is the major north-south freeway running along San Diego County's coastline. It is a very heavily traveled road and is the site of many traffic accidents, including car wrecks, motorcycle accidents, and truck crashes...
Fatal San Diego Pedestrian Accident Takes Life of Man, Dog
Posted on August 03, 2009A fatal San Diego pedestrian accident occurred over the weekend when a man and his dog were killed by a car while they were crossing the street, according to San Diego police. The victim was soon identified by the County Medical Examiner's Office as 79-year-old Billy Don Viele...
Spinal Cord Disc Injuries Caused by Accidents
Posted on August 02, 2009Most car accidents cause some type of injury to the spine. Often that injury is merely straining and spraining the soft tissues surrounding the spine which cause the spine to bend and flex. However, in many cases, the spine suffers a greater injury including injuries to the discs that cushion the vertebrae...
Helpful Information About Minor Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Posted on August 01, 2009Some of the most serious injuries that one can suffer from an accident are brain injuries. They are very debilitating and they often go undiagnosed or under-diagnosed. Two of the most common categories of brain injuries are minor traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI)...
Father of Chula Vista Girl May Face Charges in San Diego Trolley Accident
Posted on July 31, 2009Earlier this week, we posted a story about this fatal San Diego trolley accident in Chula Vista where 4 year-old Veronica Ramirez was killed. She had been riding on a bicycle with her father when they approached the trolley crossing at L Street. According to witnesses, the guard arms were down and the warning lights were flashing when Veronica's father decided to ride around the guard arms in front of the oncoming trolley...
San Diego Boy Hospitalized After San Marcos Scooter Crash
Posted on July 31, 2009A 12-year-old San Diego County boy ran a stop sign while riding a scooter, which resulted in a minivan vs. scooter accident in San Marcos, producing devastating results. A sheriff's deputy reported that the boy was airlifted to San Diego's Rady's Children's Hospital for treatment...
Interstate 15 (I-15) Truck and Car Accidents
Posted on July 31, 2009The Interstate 15 (I-15 or "the 15") freeway runs along the inland part of San Diego County and runs north from National City through Escondido and Temecula in the north until it reaches Nevada near Las Vegas. I-15 is a highly traveled shipping lane for interstate trucks and big-rigs...
San Diego City Council Takes on Pedicab Accidents and Injuries
Posted on July 31, 2009The highly publicized death of a San Diego tourist by a pedicab driver last month has given way to new regulations being put in place on pedicab drivers by the San Diego City Council, who met on Tuesday, July 28, 2009, to re-regulate many of the rules...
San Diego Bicyclist Dies on North Torrey Pines Road
Posted on July 31, 2009An elderly man cycling in San Diego County died last week while out on his ride. His identity had not yet been released, but he was known to have been riding his bicycle south along North Torrey Pines Road when he died, and had apparently experienced a medical problem, which was to blame for his death, according to San Diego Police Department officers who reported on the matter...
Knee Injuries Commonly Caused by Accidents and Their Treatments
Posted on July 30, 2009Knee injuries are commonly caused by personal injury accidents, particularly slip and fall accidents where the foot unexpectedly moves underneath the body in odd ways. Knee injuries can often be treated in an out-patient procedure. However, sometimes knee injuries are so severe that they require more serious surgery...
Interstate Trucking Accidents | San Diego Personal Injury Attorney
Posted on July 30, 2009Big rig trucking accidents are very serious. When a vehicle is struck by a tractor trailor, they are either completely destroyed or very seriously damaged. And that is just the car, not the passengers inside. Drivers and passengers typically either suffer lifelong injuries or are killed...
San Diego Bay Boat Crash Injures Father and Daughter
Posted on July 29, 2009An Escondido man, 33, and his 11-year-old daughter were seriously injured on July 27, 2009, in San Diego's Mission Bay when their private watercraft (PWC) crashed. The father and daughter had been on the same watercraft when it was struck by another vessel around 10:45 a...
San Diego Border Patrol Agent Shot in Chula Vista Attack
Posted on July 29, 2009Last Friday, federal investigators were on a mad hunt to find the suspect involved in the shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was shot in the head in Chula Vista. Unfortunately, the suspect has left only a confusing trail of evidence. Agent Robert Rosas, a 30-year-old married father of two was killed around 9 p...
Shoulder Injuries Caused by Accidents and Their Treatment
Posted on July 28, 2009Shoulder injuries are commonly caused by car accidents, typically by seat belts restraining the left shoulder while the body is accelerated forward by the force of a rear impact. San Diego accident victims need help treating these shoulder injuries and need helpful information to assist them in their recovery...
Valley Center Man Killed in San Diego County Bicycle Accident
Posted on July 28, 2009On July 21, 2009, a bicyclist was fatally injured on a rural road in North San Diego County when the bike he was riding was struck by by a pickup truck. The victim, Angel Guadalupe Galvez, 37, had been cycling southbound along Cole Grade Road in Valley Center as the 1992 Chevrolet pickup approached from behind, around 8:15 a...
4 Year Old Killed, Father Injured, After Bicycle Hit by Trolley
Posted on July 27, 2009A 4 year-old girl, identified as Veronica Ramirez, was killed and her 34 year-old father injured when the bicycle they were riding was struck by a San Diego trolley in Chula Vista on July 26, 2009. The Chula Vista bicycle accident occurred on westbound L Street near Industrial Boulevard...
San Diego Motorcycle Accidents and Injuries
Posted on July 26, 2009Motorcycle accidents are more likely than car accidents to cause serious injury or death to the rider. San Diego motorcyclists, more than most motorists, need the help of a trained and experienced personal injury attorney. We recently added a helpful article about motorcycle accidents and injuries on our San Diego personal injury website...
Man Injured After Attack at San Diego House Party
Posted on July 23, 2009A San Diego house party on July 18, 2009, turned dangerous when a man in attendance there was knocked unconscious before he left in the early morning hours, according to police. The Rancho Bernardo assault occurred around 5 a.m. when the assailant insulted the victim's girlfriend at the party that was held on Grassy Trail Drive...
San Diego MTS Worker Shot on the Job
Posted on July 22, 2009A San Diego Metropolitan Transit System security officer was reported to be in stable condition in the hospital following a shooting attack on his life when he was shot twice while at the Grossmont Trolley Station in La Mesa late July 18, 2009. The shooting happened at 10:15 p...
Study Shows Driving While Texting More Dangerous than DUI
Posted on July 21, 2009The results of a study conducted by the Automobile Association of America has shown that driving-while texting (DWT) increases the likelihood of being involved in a car accident by a staggering 50 percent. A similar study also showed that DWT was considerably more dangerous than driving while under the influence (DUI)...
San Diego Motorcyclist Critically Injured on State Route 56
Posted on July 17, 2009A 50-year-old man presumably from San Diego County was left in critical injury around 12:40 p.m. on July 11, 2009, when he fell off of his motorcycle along Carmel County Road. The unidentified man had been trying to make a stop on the southbound side of the road while he approached state Route 56, according to San Diego police...
Downtown San Diego Trolley Accident Kills Pedestrian
Posted on July 15, 2009An eastbound San Diego trolley in Downtown San Diego struck and killed a pedestrian over the weekend on the afternoon of July 12, 2009, authorities say. The fatal trolley accident occurred on the trolley line on C Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues, shortly after 3 p...
4-Year-Old Child Hit in Carlsbad Pedestrian Accident
Posted on July 14, 2009On the evening of July 7, 2009, a 4-year-old girl from Carlsbad was hit by a car and flown to San Diego's Rady Children's Hospital after the accident to treat serious injuries. Carlsbad fire Battalion Chief Mike Lopez reported that it had happened on the 3400 block of Monroe Street just near Carlsbad High School...
Driver Not Charged in Connection with Fatal San Diego Pedicab Accident
Posted on July 14, 2009The recent San Diego fatality that had caught hold of the community was the accident where a woman died when she fell from the wagon of a pedicab as it was riding up a street that was expressly blocked to bicycles. Witnesses observed the driver swerving his own vehicle when the 60-year-old schoolteacher from the midwest fell and injured her head, later dying in the hospital from complications of the accident...
Woman Dies in San Diego Pedicab Accident
Posted on July 11, 2009San Diego has recently had its eyes on the almost unprecedented tragedy in a fatal pedicab ride. On July 4, a 60-year-old passenger who took a ride from a pedicab driver in the Downtown district died as a result of the ride after she fell from the wagon and suffered life threatening head injuries that ultimately took her life...
Obama Gives Auto Defect Plaintiffs the Cold Shoulder in GM and Chrysler Bankruptcies
Posted on July 09, 2009It appears from this ABC News story that Obama will not allow any reasonable and rational consideration stand in the way of nationalizing GM and Chrysler through bankruptcy--a deal that appears only to benefit the auto worker unions. In the latest move, apparently supported by the Obama Department of Justice, the bankruptcy court issued an order that allowed the "Old" GM to sell all assets to the "New" government- and union-owned GM, while leaving all liabilities--including claims by hundreds of people allegedly injured by defective vehicles--with the "Old" GM...
Escondido Fourth of July Party Turns Deadly
Posted on July 08, 2009A private residence house party in Escondido celebrating the Fourth of July last Saturday turned fatal when one party-goer was ultimately shot and killed at the festivities. The victim was identified as Daniel Eugene Alexander, 26, of Escondido. Escondido Police reported that Alexander had been shot in the head while at the party taking place on Vine Street near West Ninth Avenue...
Helpful Information About Minor Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI)
Posted on July 07, 2009One of the secret and silent serious injuries one can suffer during an accident is a minor traumatic brain injury (MTBI). Notably, Natasha Richardson died following a closed head MTBI injury after striking her head while skiing. It was also speculated that pitchman Billy Mays' death was caused by MTBI due to falling objects from the overhead compartments in his plane...
Helpful Information About Back Pain and Spinal Injuries
Posted on July 07, 2009One of the most common injuries suffered by San Diego accident victims is a spinal injury, typically resulting in pain to their back or neck. The spine is the foundation and structure for your entire body, so an injury to the spine can be very serious...
Oceanside Motorcycle Accident Caused by Hit-and-Run SUV Driver
Posted on July 03, 2009An Oceanside motorcycle crash on Highway 76 near the Interstate 5 onramp on June 28 was reportedly caused by a hit-and-run SUV driver who had fled the scene, along with his two passengers. The accident occurred around 7 p.m. on Sunday when the driver of a GMC Yukon ran a red light on westbound 76 as they drove toward the onramp, which then caused the motorcycle coming towards them to broadside the SUV...
San Diego Cyclist Hospitalized After Hitting Parked Car
Posted on July 03, 2009A 32-year-old cyclist from San Diego was hospitalized with major head injuries on June 29 after having crashed into a parked vehicle while he was riding his bicycle, San Diego police authorities have reported. The man had not been wearing a helmet, and crashed around the 3200 block of J Street in downtown San Diego around 2:20 p...
San Diego Motorcyclist Killed in Accident Identified
Posted on July 01, 2009A Wednesday evening motorcycle crash in San Diego County's El Cajon last week had left one man dead who had been traveling on his motorcycle. The rider was recently identified by the San Diego Union-Tribune as 37-year-old Lance Michael Hagerty. Hagerty had been killed when his motorcycle rear-ended a pickup truck as it was attempting to turn into a driveway about 5 p...
Was Pitchman Billy Mays Killed by MTBI; Second Celebrity Head Injury Death After Natasha Richardson?
Posted on June 29, 2009Did Billy Mays, the 50-year-old celebrity pitchman, die of a minor traumatic brain injury (MTBI) following a "hard" landing by a US Airways flight between Philadelphia and Tampa, Florida? That is the question buzzing around the internet right now. Mays had been flying home to Tampa after filming an OxiClean commercial in Philadelphia when the front tire of his US Airways flight exploded following the hard landing...
Fatal San Diego Pedestrian Accident on State Route 94
Posted on June 25, 2009A pedestrian on San Diego's State Route 94 who was killed last week has recently been identified. Patrick Edward Crowe, 51, was the victim of the fatal pedestrian accident in San Diego when he was reportedly dancing on the shoulder of highway state Route 94 when he ran into traffic last week was identified on Tuesday by the Medical Examiner's Officer.
San Diego Car Theft and Carjacking Near Imperial Avenue
Posted on June 24, 2009A San Diego man lost his SUV, phone, and wallet to an armed carjacker in the early morning hours in south San Diego on Sunday morning. The driver was heading home around 5 a.m. when a man with a gun confronted him while he was at a stop sign near Imperial Avenue and 54th Street in Emerald Hills, according to police...
San Diego Police Department Officer Acquitted for Oceanside Car Accident and Road Rage Assault
Posted on June 24, 2009The case involving off-duty San Diego Police Officer Frank White has finally been settled. On Monday, a jury found Officer White not guilty in this road-rage car accident that occurred in Oceanside in March of 2008 that culminated in the shooting of a woman and her young son...
Bicyclist Killed in San Diego Bike Accident
Posted on June 23, 2009A 22-year-old man was killed late on the night of June 19, 2009, while riding his bicycle in the Pacific Beach area of San Diego. The county's Medical Examiner's Office identified 22-year-old Jonathon R. Ramirez as the victim in this tragic San Diego fatal bike accident...
Chula Vista Bicycle Rider Killed While on Nationwide Bike Trek
Posted on June 23, 2009A memorial service is scheduled on Saturday for a Chula Vista man killed on June 21, 2009, during a cross-country bike tour in order to protest government bailouts. The suspect thought to have killed the biker was a drunk driver in Illinois who left the scene of the car crash and was later arrested...
Five People Stabbed in Dangerous Chula Vista House Party
Posted on June 22, 2009A Saturday night party on June 20 in Chula Vista turned dangerous and threatening when five people suffered knife wounds and had to be treated at local hospitals after a fight on the premises. The fight was located on 4th Avenue near Palomar Street in Chula Vista and happened about 11:30 p...
Hit-and-Run Pedestrian Accident Victim Identified
Posted on June 18, 2009The victim of the Normal Heights hit-and-run fatality in San Diego County previously reported on by the Jurewitz Law Group (Police Search for Suspect in Fatal San Diego Hit-and-Run Car Accident)has recently been identified. Yesterday, the man killed while walking across the 3200 block of Meade Ave at 1:30 a...
Police Search for Suspect in Fatal San Diego Hit-and-Run Car Accident
Posted on June 16, 2009San Diego police are searching for the driver of a car that allegedly left the scene of the fatal hit-and-run auto accident that occurred early Sunday morning in the Normal Heights neighborhood of San Diego. The victim of the accident, who is only known so far as a male in his 30s, was struck and killed just after 1:30 a...
Hit and Run Driver Injures Encinitas Bicycle Rider
Posted on June 15, 2009A woman on a bicycle coming home from a bar on the morning of June 12, 2009, in Encinitas was severly injured when she was hit by a van. The victim and her girlfriend were riding their bikes home on southbound Pacific Coast Highway 101 near Chesterfield Drive when the victim was struck...
ATV Crash in Valley Center Leaves Two Injured
Posted on June 10, 2009Two North County San Diego all-terrain vehicle riders crashed their ATVs just south of Rincon and had to be rushed to local hospitals on Sunday afternoon. The accident happened around 2:20 p.m. on Paradise Creek Road, just south of Paradise Creek Lane, as California Highway Patrol's website reported...
San Diego Boy Hospitalized After Being Hit by Car While Riding His Bicycle
Posted on June 04, 2009A 10-year-old boy was hospitalized on Wednesday afternoon while riding his bicycle in the Roseville area of San Diego, according to presiding police. The scene of the accident was on the 1000 block of Catalina Boulevard around 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, said San Diego police Sgt Bob Dare...
San Diego Woman Seriously Injured After Falling from Encinitas Bluff
Posted on June 02, 2009An unidentified woman in her 20s is currently in critical condition after falling nearly 100 feet down a cliff. The woman was a house guest at a blufftop home in Encinitas when she took the fall around 11 p.m., which left her with serious trauma to her back and head...
Victim's Family Seeks to Educate About San Diego DUI Car Accidents
Posted on June 01, 2009In January of 2006, Derek Ritter was only 48 years old when he was hit by a San Diego car driver high on methamphetamines, killing Ritter and leaving behind a fatherless family. Now, his surviving children are determined to publicize the tragedy, and bring light to the consequences of driving while under influences...
San Diego County Hit and Run Motorcycle Accident
Posted on May 27, 2009San Diego's East County saw a hit-and-run motorcycle accident that left the driver of the street bike hospitalized on Friday evening. The man had not yet been identified. California Highway Patrol reported that the motorcycle had struck a motor vehicle around 1:40 a...
Boy Hit in Encinitas Bicycle Accident Dies from Injuries
Posted on May 26, 2009An Encinitas boy who was struck by a motor vehicle while riding his bicycle more than two weeks ago is now dead, as reported by the Medical Examiner's Office. The 11-year-old boy, Robert Franklin Thompson, had been on life support since his May 6 accident at Rady's Children's Hospital, and passed away Friday at 3:30 p...
Escondido Pedestrian Bridge Opened in North San Diego County
Posted on May 20, 2009North San Diego County recently saw the unveiling of a pedestrian bridge, to help walkers and bikers traverse Lake Hodges, usually traveled by those going between destinations in Escondido and San Diego. Many who took this route have long been waiting for an alternate to having to take the busy Interstate 15, which has experienced many accidents and deaths in San Diego...
Valley Center Bicyclist Dies in San Diego County Bicycle Accident
Posted on May 19, 2009On Friday, May 15th, 2009, 5,200 cyclists participated in San Diego's designated Bike to Work day. This is a great way to reduce the use our gasoline and greenhouse gas emissions, but the event had a rough onset when a 43-year-old man was struck by a car on Wednesday while riding his bicycle in Valley Center...
San Diego Bike Riders Experience Increase in Theft
Posted on May 19, 2009A recent rash of bicycle thefts has made the San Diego City Courthouse begin to rethink the way it treats bicycles, including where to lock them. As a high-profile cycling city, San Diego bike riders have ample opportunity and plenty of good weather to commute via bicycle rather than car...
Boy Killed in Encinitas Bicycle Accident
Posted on May 12, 2009An 11 year-old boy in Encinitas was hospitilized with serious injuries after being hit by a car while riding an electric pocket bike, according to authorities. According to witnesses, the child rode into the path of a car from a driveway, onto the 1000 block of Double LL Ranch Road on Wednesday afternoon, shortly after 4:30 p...
California Highway Patrol Report Shows San Diego Motorcycle Accidents On the Rise
Posted on May 09, 2009May is National Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month, and just in time too, considering the nice weather and conditions that draw out more motorcycle and chopper riders across the nation than in other times of the year. The California Highway Patrol's is taking this opportunity to encourage all motorcycle riders, new and old, to be more vigilant and safe on California's roads...
Illegal Immigrant Pleads Guilty for Causing Fatal San Diego Bicycle Accident
Posted on May 09, 2009Marcos Garcia Jeronimo, 23, an illegal immigrant from Oaxaca, Mexico had already been convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter in connection with a San Diego hit-and-run car accident resulting in the death of bicycle rider Marcelo Bolom, 23, of San Diego...
Teen Bicycle Rider Critically Injured After Crashing Into San Diego Gorge
Posted on May 05, 2009A teenaged boy crashed his bike into Scripps Gorge yesterday in San Diego around 4:30 p.m. The teenager was riding his bicycle near the 10100 block of Scripps Ranch Boulevard when he lost control of his bike and pummeled 25 feet down the gorge. San Diego firefighters say that he was able to call for help from his cell phone...
Carlsbad Pedestrian Seriously Injured After Being Hit by Car
Posted on May 05, 2009A Carlsbad pedestrian accident occurred Sunday, May 3, at the intersection of El Camino Real and Kelly Drive in Carlsbad when a pedestrian was struck by car just before 8:30 p.m. Carlsbad police Sgt. Paul Mendes reported that the Carlsbad pedestrian was taken to Scripps La Jolla Hospital with numerous critical injuries...
Driver in Fatal Central California Tour Bus Crash had History of Prior Accidents
Posted on May 01, 2009You have likely heard about the recent deadly tour bus carrying tourists, mostly from France, from the San Francisco area down to Los Angeles, where they were due to depart back to France. The Orion Pacific tour bus had overturned on a highway overpass in Central California where four passengers were ejected from the bus as it lay in a wreck around 3:30 p...
San Diego Boy Injured in Tow Truck Accident
Posted on April 30, 2009Children all around San Diego County enjoy playing hide-and-seek in the evening with their neighborhood friends. Many children play all along their street and neighborhood paying little attention when crossing. Last week in North Encanto, an 11-year-old boy was playing a hide-and-seek game when he ran in front of a tow truck and was hit...
Overgrown Brush Along Solana Beach Road Poses Danger to San Diego Bicycle Riders
Posted on April 29, 2009Hullabaloo surrounded the 2005 addition of bicycle lanes along Via de la Valle in Solana Beach in North San Diego County, yet today the bike lanes are almost non-existent because of the lack of follow-up care by the City of San Diego. "Share the Road" signs do not mean much when about half of the 4-foot wide westbound bicycle lanes along Via de la Valle are encroached upon by growing bushes...
Teen Suffers Head Injury After Del Mar Bicycle Crash
Posted on April 27, 2009Sgt. Jack Reynolds of the Encinitas Sheriff's Station reported that a 14-year-old child was flown to Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego as a precaution after crashing his bicycle into a car in Del Mar. The accident happened this last Saturday morning when the bicyclist T-boned his head and hit his head on the ground...
Highland Entomologist Killed in San Diego County ATV Accident
Posted on April 24, 2009Highland resident Benjamin Lobato Huante, 49, who was an entomologist working in San Diego County in Fallbrook on Wednesday, was killed after his car tumbled off of a cliff more than 100 feet, and died. Huante had been setting traps for insects around the avocado trees in the area for study had been in an all-terrain vehicle that crashed when he overcompensated and fell down a cliff around 11 a...
Fatigue Significant Factor in San Diego Car, Bus, Motorcycle Accidents
Posted on April 23, 2009Many an accident on the road that cause injuries or even fatalities are not due to unsafe exterior conditions or even the irresponsibility of other drivers nearby. A lot of times, the fault lies in the interior conditions of our vehicles and, more often than not, fatigue...
Friend of San Diego Injury Law Firm Struck by Truck
Posted on April 21, 2009A friend of the Jurewitz Law Group and San Diego resident was riding his newly tuned-up bicycle around the uptown area of San Diego this last Saturday morning. The University Heights resident was heading back home after running some errands during this busy day and, as he was riding out of the parking lot of the Ralph's in Hillcrest, he stopped behind a grey Ford F-150...
Two San Diego Unified School District Buses Involved in Accidents
Posted on April 21, 2009The morning commute is a busy time for San Diego roads and many San Diegans are usually in a rush to make it to work on time. San Diego students are usually on their way to school at around the same time. Many of them ride the bus, a rather safe means of transportation...
Memorial Set for Men Killed in San Diego Car Accident
Posted on April 17, 2009Mario De La Rosa, 21, of the San Diego neighborhood of Serra Mesa had been driving his Toyota Camry significantly above the speed limit in the early hours just after midnight on Saturday, April 4th with his brother and passenger, Paul Albert Alferos Jr...
San Diego Bike Shop Employee Seriously Injured in Julian Motorcycle Accident
Posted on April 16, 2009Yesterday evening, a Jurewitz Law Group employee took his bicycle to a San Diego bike shop on Adams Avenue to get it tuned up and ready for the upcoming summer. Here is the story he told us this morning: One of the bike shop employees at the store was wearing a black, leather, motorcycle jacket...
California Judges Corrected on Application of Controversial Collateral Source Exception
Posted on April 15, 2009California judges recently received better guidance for how and when to apply a controversial exception to the collateral source rule, a rule that permits California injury victims to recover the full amount of medical bills incurred following an accident even if paid by a source other than the person who caused the accident (a "collateral source")...
Chula Vista Pedestrian Dies After Being Struck by Car
Posted on April 14, 2009A 90-year-old Chula Vista pedestrian was hit by a car nearby Broadway and Park Way in on April 1st at approximately 8 p.m. According to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office, the man was taken off life-support on Saturday afternoon because of the deterioration of his medical status...
Pilot Dies in Fiery San Diego Plane Crash
Posted on April 13, 2009A pilot of a small Piper Comanche crashed into a hillside at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station yesterday as it was heading to Brown Municipal field. The California airplane accident occurred shortly before 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 11. According to the FAA, the pilot made no distress call and simply fell off of radar and radio communication...
Nevada May Lift Medical Malpractice Damages Cap; Should California Do the Same?
Posted on April 13, 2009Well, it looks like the Nevada Medical Malpractice Reform Law may not see its' fifth birthday--or at least its' damage cap provision may not. Nevada legislators are considering overturning or raising the $350,000 cap for "pain and suffering" damages arising from medical malpractice...
Lakeside Child Pedestrian Hit by Car, Dies
Posted on April 13, 2009The San Diego County Medical Examiner's office reported last week that a 9-year-old boy was struck by a car near Riverview Elementary School in Lakeside. The boy was walking along Winter Gardens Boulevard south of Knoll Crest Place around 4 p.m. on April 6, 2009, when the fatal Lakeside pedestrian accident happened...
Angels Pitcher Killed in Fullerton Drunk Driving Car Accident
Posted on April 10, 2009Baseball fans the world over are mourning the loss of Nick Adenhart, who was killed in a hit-and-run auto accident early Thursday morning in Fullerton. Adenhart, 22, was a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and just struck out five batters over six innings in the Wednesday game against the Oakland A's...
San Diego Teen Injured in Old Town Bicycle Accident
Posted on April 09, 2009San Diego's Old Town neighborhood is known for its historic buildings and authentic mid 1800's Western atmosphere, but it is not immune to the dangers of the 21st century, with cars replacing the horse and buggy as transportation passing through the narrowly constructed streets...
Dangerous Pit Bull Dog on the Loose in University City Neighborhood of San Diego
Posted on April 07, 2009Last Friday evening San Diego police warned University City residents of a dangerous pit bull on the loose. The pit bull attacked another dog at the University Gardens neighborhood park on Governor Dr. at around 5:30 p.m. You can read more about this dangerous dog in this CBS8...
San Diego Charger Defensive Lineman Jamal Williams May Face DUI Charges
Posted on April 04, 2009The San Diego City Attorney's Office is considering pressing charges against the San Diego Chargers lineman, Jamal Williams, for driving his car under the influence of alcohol. Jamal Williams was arrested on February 1, 2009, on State Route 94 on the suspicion of drunk driving after he was pulled over for speeding in his Bentley...
San Diego Bicycle Accident Caused by Rider's Inattention, Vanity
Posted on April 02, 2009A fixed gear bicycle rider was injured when he crashed into the back of a truck on Adams Avenue in the North Park area of San Diego. The bicyclist was riding along Adams Avenue when he caught a glimpse of himself in a mirror that was attached to a truck...
Independent Medical Examinations are Neither Independent, Nor Medical. Discuss.
Posted on April 02, 2009Sorry, for borrowing the line from Mike Myers' Linda Richman character from Saturday Night Live, but it fit. The New York Times recently released an investigative report about the use of so-called independent medical examinations performed on behalf of insurance companies in workers' compensation cases...
Driving Under The Influence Of Drugs In San Diego
Posted on April 01, 2009Earlier this week, we posted this article on our San Diego Car Accident Lawyer Blog about a car driver under the influence of drugs who struck a bicycle rider. When that article was written, it was brought to light that many San Diegans do not know the difference between driving under the influence of drugs and driving under the influence of alcohol...
One of Tort Reform's Biggest Lies Disproved....Again
Posted on March 28, 2009We've written twice now about Oklahoma's current tort reform efforts led by Republican Senate President Pro Tem Tom Glenn Coffee (R--Oklahoma City), a former medical malpractice defense lawyer. You can read more here and here. One of the big myths leading the Oklahoma tort reform movement and tort reform in general is that without tort reform, doctors will flee to other jurisdictions with tort reform...
Will California Courts Force San Diego Personal Injury Victims to Disclose Private Facebook Information?
Posted on March 28, 2009Recently, an Ontario, Canadian court held that parties to a civil lawsuit must disclose social media posts and information during discovery--even if the user believed the post was made privately to his "network". We look at the ruling and whether California judges will require the same disclosure from San Diego injury victims...
Quick Safety Tips to Avoid San Diego Motorcycle Accidents
Posted on March 27, 2009The best way to avoid a San Diego motorcycle accident is simple: Motorcyclists need to make sure that they are visible to car and truck drivers. There are several easy ways to do that. They are: First of all, remember that San Diego drivers tend to have a difficult time spotting motorcyclists and reacting in time...
Pedestrian Struck by Car, Killed in Chula Vista Accident
Posted on March 24, 2009When cars driven by drunk drivers strike pedestrians in San Diego County, the result is never good. Unfortunately that was the case again this past Sunday, March 22, when Ester Quinette Monroe, 28, of Spring Valley, was struck by a suspected drunk driver as she walked on Broadway between C and D Streets in Chula Vista...
Champion Bike Racer Lance Armstrong Falls and Breaks Collarbone
Posted on March 23, 2009Earlier today, 7-time Tour De France Champion Lance Armstrong fell during the first stage of Spain's Vuelta Castilla y Leon. As a result of the fall, he was rushed to the hospital and treated for a broken collarbone. You can read Lance's statement about the crash here...
San Diego Bicycle Accident Causes Serious Injury
Posted on March 23, 2009A San Diego bicycle accident took place at the intersection of Genesee Avenue and Linda Vista Road on Friday, March 20, shortly after 3:30 p.m. in the Linda Vista area of San Diego. A car hit the bike rider, leaving him severely injured and forcing the closure of the intersection...
Oklahoma Tort Reform: An Unfounded and Misguided Attack on Injury Accident Victims
Posted on March 22, 2009About a month ago, we wrote about the emerging and ongoing efforts by Oklahoma Republican legislators and former medical malpractice defense attorney and Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tem Glenn Coffee (R-Oklahoma City) to initiate a new batch of tort reform measures...
What You Say on Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace Can Ruin Your San Diego Personal Injury Case
Posted on March 22, 2009Like many San Diegans, our office has enjoyed embracing the emerging social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and even MySpace (although we do not use MySpace any more for a variety of reasons). In fact, part of our office's outreach to our clients, San Diego, and injured people throughout the United States has been the creation and growth of our social networking presence (you can befriend us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or join our LinkedIn network)...
San Diego Boy Hit by Car and Seriously Injured in Carmel Valley
Posted on March 20, 2009A 7 year-old-boy was hit by a Volvo station wagon driven by a 59 year-old-woman at about 5:20 p.m. on March 18 in the Carmel Valley area of San Diego. The boy was skateboarding in the parking lot of an apartment complex when he was hit by the car. The boy slid under the car and broke several of his bones including a broken pelvis, fibula, and tibia...
California Senate Reviews Boating Under the Influence Bill
Posted on March 19, 2009The Daily Point of Orange County reported last Thursday, March 12 that the California State Senate is reviewing a new bill that would allow California and San Diego authorities to treat boating under the influence in our San Diego waters just like they would treat driving under the influence on our San Diego roads...
San Diego Pedestrian Hit by Car While Crossing Linda Vista Road
Posted on March 18, 2009On March 17, just before 7:30 a.m., an 82-year-old San Diego pedestrian was struck crossing Kramer Street in the Linda Vista area of San Diego. 21-year-old eastbound driver said that at the time of the car accident the sun was in her eyes and did not see the pedestrian crossing...
San Diego Pedestrian Struck By School Bus West Of Balboa Park
Posted on March 18, 2009Yesterday morning, a San Diego pedestrian walking just east of I-5 near Balboa Park was hit by a San Diego Unified School District bus, suffering minor injuries. You can learn more in this 10news.com story. View Larger Map The bus crash happened at around 8:30 a...
Arthur Newman Faces A Year In Jail If Charged With Death Of Bicyclist Walter Joller
Posted on March 17, 2009Arthur Newman has been charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter for causing a San Diego bicycle accident back in January when his car ran into Water Joller, an experienced Rancho Bernardo bicyclist. According to a Gina Coburn, a spokeswoman for the San Diego City Attorney's Office, the 55-year-old Newman faces a year in San Diego County jail if he is found guilty...
Car Crashes into MTS Bus in Downtown San Diego
Posted on March 16, 2009On March 12, a man driving a black Volkswagen Jetta caused a serious San Diego car accident after he ran a red light on Seventh Avenue and collided with a San Diego MTS bus that was eastbound on Broadway. The driver of the Jetta initially denied running the red light but after several witnesses reported otherwise, the investigating San Diego Police officers concluded that he indeed ran the light...
Vista Drunk Driving Suspect Arrested After Car Accident and Abandoning Injured Passenger
Posted on March 13, 2009On Thursday, March 12, at about 5 p.m., a 19-year-old teenage drunk driver was heading southbound on North Indiana Avenue in the North San Diego County city of Vista. The teen failed to stop before the turn, which caused the car to hit the curb and blow a tire out...
Motorcycle Rider Seriously Injured in San Diego Motorcycle Accident
Posted on March 09, 2009On Friday, March 6, at approximately 6:30 a.m., a motorcyclist was riding west on Barnett Avenue in the Midway neighborhood of San Diego when a car changed lanes striking the motorcycle with its driver's side door. The motorcycle rider ended up pinned under the car and was later taken to UC San Diego Medical Center after emergency personnel responded to the car accident...
Workers' Compensation Coverage is Still Effective for San Diego Workplace Accidents Even When Worker is at Fault
Posted on March 06, 2009Most of the time, when San Diego workers are injured on the job, worker's compensation should cover the costs of the injury. It usually does not matter whether the worker is at fault for the injury or if the injury is caused by an unsafe condition on the site...
Jens Roger Noet Identified as Man Killed in Ramona Pedestrian Accident
Posted on March 06, 2009Yesterday we posted a story about an unidentified pedestrian killed in Ramona car crash. Our post can be found here.That pedestrian turned out to be Jens Roger Noet, a 34-year-old man, or, according to 10 news, a "transient." Noet was headed down Main Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets in Ramona on Wednesday when he was fatally struck by a semi-truck...
San Diego Wrongful Death Verdict to be Reviewed by California Supreme Court
Posted on March 05, 2009A San Diego jury awarded the widow of a motorcycle rider and his two children $4.9 million after he was struck on a motorcycle by a truck driver. After the verdict was read, the judge--as is typical--polled the jurors for their votes. However, the judge forgot to get the answers from one juror to two of the 13 questions asked during the polling process...
El Cajon Psychiatrist, Dr. Wayne Funk, Accused of Collecting And Dispensing Surplus Medication Pills to Patients
Posted on March 03, 2009Pedestrian Mohamed Abdirahman Husien Struck By Car And Killed On Way to Services in San Diego
Posted on March 02, 2009Pit Bull, Rottweiler, and Wolf Hybrid Dog Bites are Still Rampant in San Diego
Posted on February 27, 2009San Diego Boy Dies in National City ATV Crash
Posted on February 24, 2009On February 21, 2009, a San Diego boy died in an ATV crash in National City when he lost control of the ATV motorcycle and crashed into a wall. The victim, 12-year-old Julio Lizarraga of San Diego, was taken to a hospital around 3 p.m. but was pronounced dead shortly after being admitted...
The Oklahoma Expert Certification Tort Reform Bill: A Good Idea or Does It Not Go Far Enough?
Posted on February 22, 2009The Oklahoma legislature is currently considering a tort reform bill that would require people wishing to file a civil lawsuit for professional negligence (medical malpractice, accounting malpractice, legal malpractice, etc.) to obtain and attach an affidavit that the person has consulted with a qualified expert who has reviewed the facts of the case...
San Diego Medical Malpractice Caused by Unlicensed Doctor
Posted on February 19, 2009A Chula Vista woman was sent to jail recently after pleading guilty to committing medical malpractice by performing abortions without a medical license. Bertha Bugarin plead guilty to nine counts of practicing medicine without a license, one felony count of grand theft, and one misdemeanor count of "dispensing dangerous drugs" to her patients at her Chula Vista clinic where she claimed to be a doctor...
San Diego Man Allegedly Committed Medical Malpractice by Selling Unapproved Medical Devices
Posted on February 19, 2009James Folsom, 68 of San Diego, faces 26 felony counts for medical malpractice by selling illegal medical devices in San Diego that he claimed would treat a variety of medical conditions through the passage of electrical currents. He faces 140 years in prison and $500,000 in fines if convicted, according to this news story in the San Diego Union-Tribune...
Hit and Run Driver Arrested After Causing San Diego Bicyle Accident
Posted on February 18, 2009On the morning of February 7, a 19-year-old woman committed a "hit and run" car accident when her vehicle caused a Mira Mesa bicycle accident near the intersection of Calle Cristobal and Camino Miranda. The bicycle rider, a 51-year-old man, suffered serious injuries to his head, back, and sides...
San Diego Bicycle Accident Caused When Truck Struck Bike Rider
Posted on February 17, 2009On the morning of February 15, 2009, a pickup truck caused a San Diego bicycle accident when it veered off the road and struck a bicycle rider on Sea World Drive near Friars Road. The driver of the pickup truck appears to have caused the bicycle accident due inattention when he looked down to pick something up from the floor of his truck...
Lemon Grove Rehab Center Accused of Medical Malpractice Death
Posted on February 16, 2009On February 12, 2008, the California Department of Public Health issued a "AA" citation against the Lemon Grove Care and Rehabilitation Center. The Center was cited due to accusations of inadequate care and neglect, leading to a patient's death. The Director of the California Department of Public Health, Dr...
Client Testimonial: San Diego Slip and Fall Client, Rosemary M. of Spring Valley, California
Posted on February 14, 2009Here is what our client, Rosemary M. of Spring Valley, California, has to say about how our office helped her. The Jurewitz Law Group represented her in a San Diego slip and fall accident and recently obtained a very good settlement for her.
New Surgical Checklist May Reduce San Diego Medical Deaths and Complications
Posted on February 13, 2009San Diego patients may benefit from new safety checklists. The World Health Organization estimates that approximately 500,000 surgical deaths and complications occur worldwide every year due to inexcusable medical malpractice. Too many times patients have signed incorrect surgical consent forms allowing medical staff to incorrectly label them for a planned procedure...
Man Injured Last Summer in San Diego Construction Walkway Collapse Dies
Posted on February 13, 2009Last August, a covered construction walkway at the intersection of Imperial Ave between 15th and 16th Streets in the East Village area of San Diego collapsed on several pedestrians, seriously injuring three people. One of the three seriously injured pedestrians was Tyrone Allen, a 49 year-old-man...
San Diego: Follow Injury Accident Attorneys The Jurewitz Law Group on Twitter
Posted on February 13, 2009San Diego, Do you want to know what our San Diego injury accident law practice is up to? Want to know of important news regarding San Diego? Want to know about important developments in the law, particularly concerning accident victims and the public? You can now follow the Jurewitz Law Group on the social networking "micro-blog" site, Twitter...
Homeless San Diego Men Hit While Crossing the Street By Father Joe Carroll
Posted on February 11, 2009Sometimes you can't make up the news. Father Joe Carroll--the San Diego advocate for the poor and homeless--hit two homeless men crossing the street in the crosswalk at the intersection of 16th Street and F Street in Downtown San Diego on January 31...
San Diego Woman Raped After MySpace Meeting
Posted on February 10, 2009Two San Diego men, Brian Shippee and Robert Melgoza, plead not guilty in San Diego Superior Court Friday for the alleged assault and battery and rape of a San Diego woman after a "MySpace Meetup" went horribly wrong. Another man, Vincent Barnett, Jr...
Atlanta Judge Declares Georgia Medical Malpractice Cap Unconstitutional; Could California Be Next?
Posted on February 10, 2009Yesterday, Atlanta (Fulton County) State Court Judge Diane Bessen ruled that the Georgia cap on medical malpractice non-economic damages (usually referred to as "pain and suffering") violated the Georgia Constitution. The cap was enacted by the Georgia legislature as part of a sweeping tort reform bill in 2005, known as SB3...
Pacific Beach Pedestrian Accident Caused by Suspected Drunk Driver
Posted on February 09, 2009A woman was hit and severely injured an alleged drunk driver as she was crossing the intersection of Reed Avenue and Mission Boulevard in the Pacific Beach area of San Diego. The driver of the car--Alan Mabrey, 45, of San Diego--initially walked away from the scene but returned later where he was arrested by the San Diego police...
San Diego Man Dies in Miramar Landfill Workplace Accident
Posted on February 08, 2009A San Diego man was killed on February 6 at the Miramar Landfill in a workplace accident when a forklift fell from a rental truck on top of him, crushing him. The man, Lee Haleem, was at the landfill because he was relocating his business and went to the landfill as part of his move...
Defective Products: 4-Year-Old Mission Viejo Girl Dies in Washing Machine
Posted on February 07, 20094-Year-Old Kayley Ishii of Mission Viejo, California was killed at her home after she climbed into a front loading washing machine which was then turned on by her 1-year-old brother. Kayley Ishii was inside the water filled washing machine for approximately 2 minutes before she was found by her mother...
US Government Recalls Childrens' Playsets Used in San Diego
Posted on February 06, 2009The US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Playland International of Carrollton, Georgia, announced a voluntary recall of Arch Swing Sets commonly used in San Diego County playgrounds. The recall notice is here. The reason for the recall is that the metal around the welds on the top of the set frame can fail and cause the top bar to fall injuring children and bystanders...
Ventura County Man Seriously Injured in Thousand Oaks Motorcycle Accident
Posted on February 06, 2009On Monday, February 2, 2009, a Thousand Oaks motorcycle accident seriously injured Ventura County resident, Ambrosio Rodriguez. Mr. Rodriquez was taken to the hospital for his injuries after a Buick driven by Denis Liu pulled out from a parking in front of Rodriguez's motocycle while Rodriguez was driving eastbound on Hillcrest Drive near Boardwalk Avenue...
Who Pays for My Medical Bills After My San Diego Injury Accident?
Posted on February 05, 2009Ever wonder who pays for your medical bills, and when, after you are injured in a San Diego accident? It is probably one of the most common questions that we receive at the Jurewitz Law Group. The answer can be somewhat complex depending on your particular resources...
Judge to Review Verdict in San Juan Capistrano Bicycle Accident
Posted on February 05, 2009This Friday, a judge will review a $8.3 million verdict against the City of San Juan Capistrano awarded to a 14-year-old boy, Trenten Miller, who lost his leg during a bicycle accident. The judgment was to be finalized last month. However, San Juan Capistrano decided to file an objection to the jury findings and overturn the verdict...
San Diego Bicycle Accident Lawyers: The Jurewitz Law Group
Posted on February 05, 2009With a strong cycling community that participates in such events as Critical Mass, San Diego needs lawyers that understand California bike accident law to protect bicyclists from inattentive car drivers, large insurance companies who typically side with car drivers, police accident reports which do not reflect drivers? duties to bicyclists on the road, and defective product manufacturing...
Why San Diego Medical Malpractice Victims Can't Find a Lawyer--A Lesson in MICRA
Posted on February 04, 2009A very good article appeared today on the anewscafe.com website explaining a common plight of California and San Diego medical malpractice victim: they can't find lawyers to take their legitimate injury cases! The reason, pure and simple, is the California legislature artificially capped damages in medical malpractice cases more than 30 years ago when it enacted the Medical Injury Compensation Act of 1975 ("MICRA") which capped "general damages" (typically called "pain and suffering") at $250,000...
San Diego Consumers Have New Tool to Fight Car Title Fraud
Posted on February 04, 2009The US Department of Justice launched an online database available to all government agencies and to consumers to help detect automobile title fraud, theft, and other crimes involving cars. The new database, called The National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS, editor: Great acronym, guys!), launched on January 30, 2009 and is available to consumers through several fee-for-service websites...
California Medical Board Allows Doctor to Keep License After Aiding Illegal Abortions
Posted on February 04, 2009The California Medical Board permitted a doctor to keep his license after committing medical malpractice by aiding an unlicensed doctor perform illegal abortions. Dr. Mohammad Bararsani, who runs a cash-only abortion business at his Women's Care Center on Crenshaw Boulevard in Torrance, California, was also charged with seven other cases of negligence and incompetence...
Los Angeles Judge Rules Against Car Owners in Defective Seatbelt Lawsuit
Posted on February 03, 2009On Thursday, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ruled that a seatbelt manufactured by Takata Corp. of Japan was safe and met federal safety standards. The ruling ended a lawsuit brought by car owners who had claimed that the TK-52 seatbelt--installed in approximately 4 million cars in California--was improperly tested and subject to its' buckle opening during collisions...
California Supreme Court Rules San Diego Consumers Cannot Bring "Preemptive" Lawsuits
Posted on February 03, 2009Last week the California Supreme Court ruled that California consumers cannot bring "preemptive" lawsuits--lawsuits that are brought to stop an injury before the injury actually occurs--for violation of state consumer law. The Court ruled that only people who have suffered an actual injury can bring suit under the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act...
San Diego Salmonella Food Poisoning Tied to Unlicensed Texas Plant
Posted on February 03, 2009San Diego residents suffering from food poisoning due to salmonella in their peanut butter products appear to be the victim of a Texas processing plant that went unlicensed and uninspected for years. The Plainview, Texas plant for Peanut Corporation of America was never inspected until it came under investigation by the FDA...
Client Testimonial: San Diego Slip and Fall Clients, Ed and Gloria F. of Vista, California
Posted on February 03, 2009We love hearing from clients who are pleased about our services and the results we get for them. A positive testimonial from a client says more about what we can do than all the yellow page ads in the world. Here is what San Diego slip and fall clients, Ed and Gloria F...
How Insurance Companies Deny San Diego Claims
Posted on January 30, 2009The American Association for Justice (AAJ) recently released a report for the public describing the dirty tricks insurance companies use to deny or minimize the claims of injury victims. The tactics described include denying claims, confusing consumers with insurance policy language and interpretation, and delaying claims for as long as possible.
Traumatic Brain Injury Diagnosed in Sixth Former NFL Player
Posted on January 30, 2009A 6th former National Football League player has been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries similar to what boxers suffer from multiple blows to the head. Doctors at Boston University School of Medicine studied the brain of Tom McHale and determined that he suffered from traumatic brain injury before his death last May...
California Emergency Room Doctors Sue State For Failing Health Care System
Posted on January 29, 2009California emergency room doctors have filed a class-action lawsuit against the State of California alleging that California's healthcare system--stretched and burdened by its' thin budget and high demand for services--is about to collapse on itself. The suit comes at a time when hospitals and emergency rooms are closing at alarming numbers, leading to limited emergency care for injured Californians...
City of San Francisco Claims California Health Insurance Companies Discriminate Against Women
Posted on January 29, 2009In a lawsuit filed earlier this week, the City of San Francisco alleged that California insurance companies discriminate against women by charging higher premiums than they charge for men. The lawsuit argues that the approved health insurance system permits insurance companies to impose "gender ratings" within their pricing policies...
San Diego Woman Stabbed After Car Crash
Posted on January 29, 2009Late Wednesday night a 69-year-old woman was assaulted and stabbed in the neck with a box cutter by the man who had just rear-ended the car the woman was driving. The surprise attack caused the woman to step on the gas to flee and ended up crashing her car head long into a tree...
San Diego Man Struck by Car While Crossing the Street
Posted on January 23, 2009Early in the morning today, a San Diego man was seriously injured when he was struck by a car while crossing the street at the intersection of Genesee Avenue and La Jolla Village Drive in the University Town Center area of La Jolla. View Larger Map The 70-year-old man was crossing the intersection against a red traffic signal when he was struck by a 1983 Toyota sedan driven by a San Diego woman...
MSNBC Takes on Federal Medical Device Preemption
Posted on January 22, 2009Federal preemption of state laws is a dry subject. It puts lawyers and law students asleep. However, the consequences of preemption can be both real and significant. The Supreme Court recently in Riegel v. Medtronic decided that a state tort injury actions for defective medical devices are barred when the FDA grants the device premarket approval through the federal Medical Devices Act...
California Bans Texting While Driving
Posted on January 01, 2009In an effort to reduce car accidents due to negligence and inattentiveness, California has made text messaging while driving effective today. A similar law passed earlier in the year made it illegal to drive while talking on a cellular phone handset...
Jurewitz Law Group Announces the Opening of Its' Carlsbad Office
Posted on July 15, 2008The Jurewitz Law Group announces that it has a second location to serve clients seriously injured by slip and fall accidents, dog bites, bicycle accidents, boating accidents, and by defective products in North San Diego County. We have opened a second office conveniently located in Carlsbad and within easy driving distance from San Marcos, Encinitas, Oceanside, Vista, and Escondido...
California Hands Free Cell Phone Law Enforced Starting Today
Posted on July 01, 2008Today is the first day for enforcement of California's Hands Free Cell Phone law. Starting today, motorists talking on a cell phone without a hands free system will be fined $20 for the first offense and $50 subsequent offenses.
New Court of Appeal Case: Horseplay Around Pool an "Accident" Under Homeowners' Insurance
Posted on June 30, 2008On Friday, the California Court of Appeals denied State Farm Insurance's Petition for Writ of Mandate seeking to have the trial court issue judgment in favor of the insurance company. At issue in the case, titled State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. v. Superior Court, was whether the trial court erred in ruling that State Farm owed a duty to defend its' insured from a lawsuit for personal injuries where its' insured threw the victim into a pool, landing on an exposed step...
Jurewitz Law Group Announce New Blog Dedicated to San Diego Car Accident Injuries
Posted on June 30, 2008Earlier today, the Jurewitz Law Group launched its' newest information blog, www.sandiegocaraccidentlawyerblog.com, dedicated to provide San Diegans with information about local car accidents, what to do to prevent car accident injuries, how to properly insure yourself prior to being involved in an accident, and what to do once you have been involved in an accident and are injured...
Escondido Police Shoot and Kill Pit Bull
Posted on June 27, 2008Earlier today, Escondido police shot and killed one of two pit bulls that had attacked a woman's dog. View Larger Map The attack happened near the intersection of West 10th Avenue and South Maple Street in Escondido. Neighbors report seeing the dog being attacked and came to fend off the pit bulls with shovels...
Sacramento Jury Awards Fired Employee $116,000 After Being Fired
Posted on June 27, 2008A federal court jury in Sacramento awarded Erma J. Alaniz, a fired office manager, $116,031 from her former employer, Dr. Rober Peppercorn, finding that Dr. Peppercorn unlawfully retaliated against Ms. Alaniz. The jury found that Dr. Peppercorn's actions violated the California Fair Employment and Housing Act...
Imperial Valley Woman Accuses Employer, 2 Others of Assault
Posted on June 25, 2008On the evening of June 7, Yessenia "Jesse" Moreno of Westmorland, a town outside El Centro in the Imperial Valley, reported that she was assaulted by her employer and two others while she was working at The Town Pump, a local restaurant. ?All I know is (her co-worker, Estella Jimenez) ran toward the bar area, I get halfway to the bar, and before I know it the owner Andrew (Salazar) comes at me in a hostile way and her sister comes at me yelling at me,? Moreno said...
Jurewitz Law Group Has Gone Paper-less: A Report and How-To Guide
Posted on June 24, 2008The paperless office has been the dream of many San Diego businesses, including personal injury lawyers. The benefits are tangible and real: reduced office storage space, the ability to access file documents from any file right on your desktop, remote access to any office file from anywhere in the world, and the ability to share and communicate with clients instantaneously through e-mail...
California Court of Appeals: Medical Bill Adjustment and/or Writeoff Not Enough to Sustain Collateral Source Attack
Posted on June 24, 2008San Diego injury victims have repeatedly had their cases undervalued by insurance companies and their attorneys who reduce the victims' medical bills by the amount paid or written off by medical insurance companies. This process, arising from the misapplication of two Court of Appeal opinions--Hanif and Nishihama--have allowed insurance companies directly attack and gut the collateral source rule...
Medical Malpractice Protections Extended to EMTs While Driving
Posted on June 22, 2008In February of this year, the California Court of Appeals extended the protections afforded to medical doctors under the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA) to emergency medical technicians (EMTs) who are in the process of transporting patients for medical care...
Shuttle Drivers Sue SuperShuttle; Claim They Were Improperly Called "Independent Contractors"
Posted on June 16, 2008A class-action employment lawsuit was filed by current and former drivers of SuperShuttle International, Inc., a van service serving many of California's airports (including San Diego's Lindbergh Field), alleging that the company cheated them out of millions of dollars of wages by classifying the drivers as "independent contractors" or "franchisees" instead of employees...
California Teenager Killed in Jet-Ski vs. PWC Collision
Posted on June 15, 2008Saturday morning, Lauren Taguchi, 17, of Northridge was killed when her jet-ski collided with another personal watercraft on the Colorado River in Riverside County. Ms. Taguchi died after her jet-ski struck the other personal water craft head on. The other operator, Ricky Scott Ledford of Las Vegas, helped Ms...
Motorcyle Accident Kills Driver in San Bernardino
Posted on June 08, 2008A motorcyclist was killed in San Bernardino when she fell off her motorcycle and was run over by a big-rig truck. Sharon Woodcock, 51, of Long Beach, was driving her motorcycle eastbound on Interstate 10 and making the transition to northbound Interstate 215 when she fell off her Harley Davidson and fell into the adjoining lane...
Del Mar Car Accident Kills Man, Injures Pro Surfer
Posted on June 07, 2008Early Saturday morning, alcohol and gross negligence combined to cause a fatal car collision at the intersection of northbound Coast Boulevard and 20th Street in Del Mar, a beautiful beach community north of San Diego. View Larger Map At 2:00 a.m., a professional surfer, Milton Willis, was driving a car with his passenger, Bradley Dillahunty...
Hit and Run Accident Caught on Video
Posted on June 06, 2008The video below is disturbing on several levels. First, 78 year-old Angel Torres was struck and seriously injured while crossing a street in Hartford, Connecticut when two vehicles sped down the street and struck him while he was standing in the opposite lane of traffic...
Escondido Construction Worker Killed in Chula Vista Construction Accident
Posted on June 02, 2008Last Thursday, a construction worker was killed in Chula Vista when a wall fell crushing him to death. The wall was to a building being demolished to make room for Unified Port of San Diego convention and hotel area. On Sunday, the worker was identified as Austin Sawicki of Escondido...
Help Available for San Diego Wildfire Victims
Posted on June 02, 2008The October 2007 San Diego Wildfires were a scary time for most of the region as wildfires raged and traveled great distances carried by powerful Santa Ana winds. It was, we believed, a horribly tragic natural catastrophe. Now, there is significant evidence that two of these fires--the Witch Creek and Rice Canyon fires--may have been caused by defective SDG&E power lines...
San Diego: Only 30 Shopping Days Left to Buy Your Hands-Free Device
Posted on June 01, 2008Quick little reminder. On July 1, the California Hands-Free Cell Phone Law goes into effect requiring everyone to use a hands-free system when driving a vehicle. Sending a text message while driving will also be a citable offense. Although the increased safety of using a hands-free device while driving is debatable--not talking on the phone at all is the safest route--it will be the law...
Rising NHL Star, 21, Killed in Motorcycle Accident
Posted on May 30, 2008The Vancouver Canuck's Luc Bourdon, a rising defensive star for the NHL team, was killed earlier today in a motorcycle accident in New Brunswick, Canada. Bourdon was driving his motorcycle on the road between Lameque and Shippigan, his hometown, when his motorcycle collided with a transport truck...
6 Cars and a Motorcycle Crash on Scenic Ortega Highway
Posted on May 29, 2008Earlier today, both sides of Ortega Highway, a scenic--but notoriously dangerous--road between San Juan Capistrano and Lake Elsinore, were closed due to a major accident involving six cars and a motorcycle. An ambulance and tow truck were called to the scene to attend to the victims and their vehicles...
Explosion Rattles San Diego Construction Site; Injures 14
Posted on May 27, 2008On Tuesday, the windows of the Jurewitz Law Group rattled. It wasn't an earthquake, but it seemed like it was from an explosion. Only later on that afternoon did we discovery that an explosion had occurred at the nearby Downtown San Diego Hilton, injuring 14...
Injured San Diego Workers May Recieve Greater Disability Payments
Posted on May 26, 2008In 2004, in the face of ever increasing insurance premiums, the California passed extensive Workers' Compensation reform. One of the targets of the reforms was to reduce permanent disability payments to workers who had been permanently injured at work...
Most Likely Areas For Dog Bites in San Diego; Bites by Breed
Posted on May 20, 2008A recent news story by NBC 7/39 highlights the areas in San Diego where victims are most likely to be bit, the breeds most likely to bite, the months in which dog bites are most likely to occur, and the typical age of victims. Not surprisingly, the months when dog bites are most likely to occur are warm-weather months, the most prevalent being July, when people are outside with their dogs enjoying the weather...
1 Dead, 22 Injured in Southern California Bus Crash
Posted on May 19, 2008A bus carrying passengers from Southern California to Laughlin, Nevada for a gambling trip overturned Saturday morning, killing one passenger and injuring 22 others. The bus, operated by Royal American Tours and Charters of Glendale, was seen veering across lanes and into the median shortly before the crash...
Careless Driver Hits CHP Motorcycle Assisting Stranded Motorist; Officer Injured
Posted on May 18, 2008Unfortunate video of an accident that happens more often than you would expect: a vehicle on the highway strikes another vehicle pulled over along the emergency lane. The officer pulled over on I-80 in Sacramento to assist another driver push his vehicle off the highway after the driver had run out of gas...
Unsafe Speed Kills 1 San Diegans, Injures 2 Others
Posted on May 18, 2008Early on May 17, one person was killed and two others injured in San Diego when the driver lost control of the Oldsmobile he was driving while traveling westbound on I-8. Moments later another vehicle, a Nissan Maxima, crashed into the wreckage. CHP officers blamed excessive speed as the cause of the accident...
Class Action Lawsuit Filed to Protect San Diegans
Posted on May 15, 2008Earlier today, a class action lawsuit was filed in United States District Court in Los Angeles, alleging that State Farm Insurance had unjustly enriched itself by receiving and retaining payments that belonged to its' insureds. According to the complaint, State Farm obtained these payments by violating California law by the "Make Whole Doctrine...
Britney Spears Involved in Third Notable Car Accident
Posted on May 14, 2008Earlier today, Britney Spears crashed the front of her Mercedes SL into the rear of a red Ford Explorer while driving on the Strip in Los Angeles. Luckily there were no significant injuries. This is the third notable accident Britney has been involved in...
Trucking Accident Severely Injures Driver
Posted on May 14, 2008A tractor-trailer truck loaded with Coca-Cola bottles flipped on top of a Honda Civic, injuring the driver of the Civic. The driver, Eduardo Ibarro, was entrapped in his vehicle with his leg caught under the Civic's dashboard. Trucking companies and truckers are highly regulated...
House Investigates Defective Medical Device Protections
Posted on May 14, 2008Earlier this year, the United States Supreme Court held in Riegel v. Medtronic that lawsuits based upon state tort law were preempted (barred) by federal law IF the FDA had granted the alleged defective product "pre-market approval" as a medical device...
Doctors Against Malpractice Lawsuits...Until It Happens to Them
Posted on May 14, 2008It's no secret that doctors are key proponents of protections from medical malpractice lawsuits. That's understandable. Nobody wants to be sued and nobody wants to pay damages. Then again, nobody wants to be hurt by their doctor's breach of the standard of care...
Man Charged with Vehicular Manslaughter in Death of Orange County Teen
Posted on May 12, 2008The Orange County DA filed felony charges against Jeffrey Woods, 20, of Huntington Beach last week in connection with the death of Danny "Oatie" Oates, 14. Mr. Woods is being charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence when he ran his truck into his victim as he was crossing the street on his bicycle...
Tort Reform Hypocrite Settles Slip and Fall Lawsuit
Posted on May 11, 2008As reported by the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog, former Supreme Court nominee, strict constructionist judge, and tort-reform advocate Robert Bork settled his lawsuit against the Yale Club after he fell while attempting to step onto the dais to speak...
San Diego Lawsuit Brings Attention to Food Contamination
Posted on May 11, 2008Last week, a man diagnosed with hepatitis A filed a lawsuit against a La Mesa Chipotle restaurant. The man, Terry Wesley, claims that he became sick on April 24 after eating at the Chipotle restaurant and remains sick to this day. The lawsuit was filed just as San Diego County health officials reported another hepatitis A case that officials believe may also be linked to the La Mesa restaurant...
San Diego Judge Orders Starbucks to Return $100 Million to California Employees
Posted on March 21, 2008Earlier today, San Diego Superior Court Judge Patricia Cowett ordered Starbucks to pay $100 Million to its' California baristas in back tips and baristas that had been wrongly directed to shift supervisors. In addition, Starbucks' shift supervisors were enjoined from sharing in future tips...
San Diego Drivers Get Rate Cut: Allstate Ordered to Stop Charging Excessive Rates
Posted on March 20, 2008The California Department of Insurance has ordered Allstate Insurance Company, who insures about 10% of all California cars, to reduce their rates by 15.9%. DOI has insisted that insurers adhere to the key rate factors in determining the appropriate risk that an insured will be involved in an automobile accident: a person's driving record, the number of years behind the wheel, and the number of miles driven per year...
Warmer Weather Means More San Diego Boating Accidents
Posted on March 19, 2008San Diego is a boaters and waterman's paradise. From open ocean sailing to jet-skiing and water-skiing in Mission Bay, San Diegans take to the water when the weather gets warmer. Not surprisingly then that boating accidents increase at this time of year...
Automobile Insurance for San Diego's Roads: What You Need
Posted on March 14, 2008Most San Diegans drive with auto insurance. But most are severely under-insured or don't have the right kind of insurance. Unfortunately, we usually get to advise clients of their proper insurance needs ONLY after they've been in an accident and it's clear to them they were under-insured...
San Diegans, Beware! Progressive Insurance's Newest Dirty Trick!
Posted on March 14, 2008Progressive Insurance's slippery and underhanded tactics have been profiled before. See here. Here too. Now comes Progressive's latest dirty trick: offering personal injury settlements before victims even get a chance to see a doctor. Here's how the new strategy works:
Crippled San Diego Injury Victim Beats Ford Motor Co....Again (x5)
Posted on March 13, 2008We've written about Benetta Buell-Wilson before. Earlier this week, the California 4th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld its' ruling that Ms. Wilson was entitled to $82.6 Million after the US Supreme Court held that the Court of Appeals should review its' ruling...
Injured San Diego Patients Deserve MICRA Reform
Posted on March 12, 2008Doctors, like anyone, are not infallible. Every day, thousands of San Diegans put their trust, their bodies, and their health in the hands of doctors. Fortunately, there are many fine and skilled doctors in San Diego. However, that does not prevent incidents of medical malpractice from occurring--some of which result in lifetime injuries or death...
San Diego Patients Should Know About Their Doctors
Posted on March 09, 2008Recently, it was discovered that six cases of Hepatitis C were caused by grossly negligent practices at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada. Among the cost and safety cutting procedures alleged were directions to staff to use syringes and vials of anesthesia more than once--despite the risk of spreading diseases...
San Diego Injury Victims Might Be Affected By Latest Fee Cap Initiatives
Posted on March 09, 2008It is not often that we report on the legal happenings of other states. But this time it is important to let San Diegans know about several efforts to cap the percentage of a recovery contingency fee lawyers can receive--and to understand why such limitations are short-sighted and dangerous...
Contingency Fees Preferred by Clients, Study Finds
Posted on February 06, 2008The Manhattan Institute is a conservative think tank that pushes a tort-reform agenda as it attacks plaintiffs' attorneys for numerous evils, both real and perceived. One of the primary gripes tort-reformers have against plaintiffs' attorneys is that the contingency fee agreements used so prevalently in litigation--a legal fee agreement where the client pays a percentage of any recovery to the attorney for his services--unjustly exploit clients who cannot afford hourly attorneys' fees and thereby unjustly enrich attorneys at their expense...
San Diego Man Awarded $215,000 Following Melee
Posted on January 28, 2008A Jurewitz Law Group client was awarded over $215,000 for injuries he suffered during a physical altercation involving approximately 10 people in the Mission Beach area of San Diego over Father's Day Weekend 2006. The Court found held Angelo's Towing, Inc...
Recent Jury Verdict Demonstrates the Risk of Litigation
Posted on January 07, 2008Clients occasionally seem to be puzzled by the fact that, sometimes, even if they win a trial they might not obtain any monetary recovery. They generally realize that they could lose a trial--that the jury might decide completely against them. But not receiving money for injuries after a jury decides in their favor? Unimaginable...
San Diego Teacher Awarded $1 Million in Discrimination Lawsuit
Posted on January 06, 2008On December 11, 2007, a former Chula Vista third grade teacher won a judgment of more than $1 million after a jury decided that she had been fired due to becoming pregnant. Danielle Coziahr was a third grade teacher at Silver Wing Elementary School in Otay Mesa from 2004-06...
New California Laws Affecting California in 2008
Posted on January 01, 2008Every year, the wonderful California legislature hands down new laws that affect how all Californians live their lives. Here are a few key laws effective January 1, 2008: 1. California minimum wage has been increased $0.50 per hour to $8 per hour for employees...
San Diego Man Awarded $5.7 Million for Undiagnosed Skin Cancer
Posted on May 23, 2007It's always nice to trumpet the accomplishments of friends and their deserving clients. Last Friday, a San Diego Superior Court jury awarded $5.7 million verdict to a bedridden San Diego man who claimed a doctor failed to diagnose his skin cancer. Under the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act, the award will be reduced to $1...
City of San Diego Earns Brief Reprieve From Developer's Verdict
Posted on May 23, 2007The US Supreme Court predictably refused to review a California Court of Appeals' ruling throwing out the bulk of a San Diego jury's verdict awarding developer Rocky de la Fuente $95 Million after the City of San Diego breached a development agreement and took steps to devalue the land upon which it was to built...
San Diego Consumers Ripped Off by Baskin Robbins; $491K in Fines Paid
Posted on May 22, 2007Last week, the San Diego District Attorney and California Attorney General settled a consumer protection lawsuit against Baskin Robbins from the company's selling of hand-packed, pint sized containers of ice cream. Baskin Robbins agreed to pay over $491,000 in fines and costs...
House Moves to Protect San Diego Property Owners from Eminent Domain Seizure
Posted on May 21, 2007House Agricultural Committee passed an eminent domain reform bill on Friday. The bill will now go to the House floor for a vote. While many say that the bill does not go far enough to protect property owners after the Supreme Court's decision in Kelo, it would be an improvement...
Record San Diego Roll-Over Verdict To Be Reviewed....Again (x3)
Posted on May 21, 2007Know all those HUGE, "outrageous" verdicts that tort reformers cite as proof that juries are out of their minds and are too plaintiff-friendly? This is the story of one such verdict and, unfortunately, it is not unusual. In 2004, a San Diego jury awarded Benetta Buell-Wilson and her family nearly $370 Million dollars in a Ford Explorer roll-over case...
San Diego Union Tribune Takes on Progressive's Property Damage Division
Posted on May 20, 2007In an article printed in today's newspaper, the San Diego Union Tribune takes on Progressive Insurance's property damage program. According to the article, critics argue that Progressive's program violate's California's anti-steering laws by allowing its adjusters to write their own property damage estimates and direct their insured's to pre-approved body shops for the work...
San Diego Needs Contingency Fee Lawyers
Posted on May 18, 2007Yesterday, the Bush administration instructed all levels of the federal government that they cannot, under any circumstances, hire attorneys on a contingency fee basis. Reportedly, this does not happen very often but it has not prevented the tort reform supporters like The US Chamber of Commerce and US Chamber for Legal Reform from applauding the move...
San Diego Injury Victims: How Not to Perform at a Deposition
Posted on May 17, 2007Every person I know gets nervous when it is time to sit for a deposition. They worry that they'll have to deal with the worst imaginable movie deposition with opposing counsel yelling at them, wagging their finger, and calling them a liar. Very rarely does that ever happen...
Third Wrongful Death Suit Filed in California Against Singer Brandy
Posted on May 11, 2007The December 30, 2006, accident on the San Diego Freeway involving singer Brandy has spawned its' third wrongful death lawsuit related to the death of Awatef Aboudihaj. Aboudihaj's husband, Marouane Hdidou, has filed a wrongful death claim against Brandy...
San Diego Consumers Protected By Defeat of Tort Reform Class Action Legislation
Posted on May 11, 2007Earlier today, the California Assembly rejected AB 1505 by failing to pass it out of the Assembly Judiciary Committee. The bill received so little support that when Van Tran (R-Costa Mesa) moved the bill, it did not receive a second and therefore failed without a vote...
Important New California Case Helps Prevailing Injury Victims; Could Lead to Abuse
Posted on May 09, 2007Prevailing parties just received help from the California Court of Appeals in obtaining full cost reimbursement after judgment. In El Dorado Meat Co. v. Yosemite Meat and Locker Service, No. F049334, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal upheld a trial court's ruling to award Yosemite Meat (as the prevailing party), nearly $150,000 in costs pursuant to California Code of Civil Procedure (CCP) Section 1033...
California Automobile Insurance--The One Coverage You Absolutely Need.
Posted on May 08, 2007There are hundreds of automobile injury accidents in San Diego each month where victims don't have a prayer of being fully compensated for their injuries. Unless they have the ONE coverage that they absolutely need. That coverage is....uninsured motorist coverage...
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