Blog Posts in December, 2010
Posted on Dec 31, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
The family of a man being escorted to prison is now suing the transportation company with a wrongful death suit. Shawn Robert Talbot, 29, was being taken from southern Arkansas when the van, operated ...
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Posted on Dec 30, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Ashley Victoria Prado-Zamorano, 16, lost her life in a single-vehicle crash that left six others injured as well in Willows. She was riding in a passenger van driven by Erika Diaz, 33, when the driver ...
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Posted on Dec 29, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Deputy Tony Miller was on the scene immediately when a man walked onto the train tracks near Los Angeles and died last week. Although Miller has been patrolling the busy tracks for less than a week, ...
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Posted on Dec 23, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
The Lorillard Tobacco Company is not getting away easily now that its lawsuit hearing is in full swing. A Massachusetts court has already given out $71 million in compensation to the family of a woman ...
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Posted on Dec 22, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
The Houston Space Center finds itself in the middle of a slip and fall lawsuit this month. The plaintiff, Senny Oommen, claims that he slipped and fell on a wet floor when visiting the museum. The ...
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Posted on Dec 21, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Tragedy struck in Palmdale on Sunday evening when two people lost their lives in a car accident . California Highway Patrol officer Patrick Kimball announced that the two cars involved in the accident ...
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Posted on Dec 17, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
An odd car accident occurred in the 1400 block of West 17th Street in San Pedro last, awakening residents at 1:05 in the morning. The Black Fusion, reportedly driven by a drunk driver, went airborne ...
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Posted on Dec 16, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
A new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research reveals that the number of dog bites that result in a human's hospital visit has increased over the past few years. In 1993 the number of dog bite ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
A truck accident on a freeway exchange in Los Angeles caused rushed-hour nightmare last week when a tractor trailer carrying 42,000 pounds of Christmas trees overturned on the highway. California ...
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Posted on Dec 10, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
An Allstate Insurance Company review says that more people in California crash their cars on December 15 than any other day during the year. This comes from data collected over the past four years ...
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Posted on Dec 9, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
A Los Angeles police officer can take a breath of relief as a jury sided with him over a wrongful death suit. The lawsuit was brought by a woman who stated that the officers who arrived at the scene ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office has finally identified the body of a 7-year-old boy who was struck and killed by a transit bus in Milwaukee last week. Cassius Clacks, along with his two ...
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Posted on Dec 3, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
The westbound lanes finally reopened on 10 Freeway in South Los Angeles after a multi- car accident killed one woman. Police are still unsure as to what caused the 4:45 AM accident that injured three ...
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Posted on Dec 2, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Toyota Motor Corporation has received another notice of a lawsuit against it for issuance of dangerous products . Unmi Suk Chung is claiming that in 2008 her 2004 RX330 Lexus began to accelerate on ...
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Posted on Dec 1, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
A Blue Line train in South Los Angeles hit a passenger car on Thursday night, injuring seven people in the in the crash. All seven people were treated at the scene of the accident, with only two ...
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