Blog Posts in January, 2011
Posted on Jan 28, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
If you were driving down I-435 North to I-35 North in Kansas City, MO last week you might have seen fifty pigs running across the road. That is because a truck accident on Monday caused the driver to ...
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Posted on Jan 27, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Not only has he won an Olympic silver medal but now Terrence Parkin can add hero to his list of accolades. He was swimming at his local gym when he realized that a young boy had gotten stuck in one of ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
An officer finds himself on the other side of the court room this year as he is charged with a misdemeanor hit-and-run crash in Torrance. Richard William Hatten, 36, was represented by his attorney ...
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Posted on Jan 21, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Another horrible nursing home story surfaced in the news this week, this time surrounding a hospital in Illinois. The family of a former resident of the Maple Ridge Care Centre is suing over the ...
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Posted on Jan 20, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Tragedy struck in Minot when a 2010 Chevrolet pickup truck collided with a 2000 Pontiac minivan traveling westbound on U.S. Highway 2. Investigators learned that the 30-year-old man driving the ...
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Posted on Jan 19, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
A ten-car pileup in Los Angeles took the lives of three people and injured several more. The Pacific Coast Highway in Orange County was shut down for ten hours as a result of the massive accident that ...
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Posted on Jan 14, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Police responding to a disturbance on December 23 soon learned that the man responsible had trained his dog to bite another woman. The 56-year-old man from Orland Park has been charged with ...
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Posted on Jan 13, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
A former patient at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center was granted the $1.75 million in settlement money after an injury at the hospital left her seriously injured. This amount was approved by the Los Angeles ...
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Posted on Jan 12, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
A chain-reaction crash that shut down a busy intersection in West Los Angeles left one motorist critically injured and a pedestrian dead. A car traveling southbound on Federal collided with another ...
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Posted on Jan 7, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
A hit and run car accident took the life of Brigitte Burdine, a famous video game casting director, in Los Angeles last week. At this time detectives are still working to track down the person(s) ...
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Posted on Jan 6, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
When a ladder fell in the way of a school bus in Lee County, the driver and another student were injured. The bus driver, Christine Bianco Lataille and a 6-year-old boy were treated at Lee Memorial ...
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Posted on Jan 5, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Even though they had the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and several other pro-business groups to support them, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company were unable to convince the Nevada Supreme Court that they ...
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