California Failed to Discipline Doctors Guilty of Malpractice, Report States
Posted on Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Hundreds of California doctors who lost their hospital privileges for malpractice, incompetence and other serious errors have never been disciplined by state regulators, and the Medical Board of California doesn’t seem all that interested in [...]
continue readingTrain Crash Victims to Present Claim in LA
Posted on Monday, March 14th, 2011
More than 100 survivors and families of those killed in one of the nation’s deadliest passenger train crash will get to tell a Los Angeles judge about the disaster’s impact on their lives.
The Superior Court [...]
Parents of California Blast Victim Sue PG&E
Posted on Thursday, January 27th, 2011
The parents of a 20-year-old woman who was one of eight people killed in a Northern California gas line explosion are suing the pipe’s owner for negligence and wrongful death.
They filed the lawsuit against Pacific [...]
NTSB Makes 7 Recommendations in CA Gas Blast
Posted on Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
Federal investigators are urging a California utility to identify all of its gas transmission lines that haven’t undergone testing for safe operating pressures in the wake of a deadly pipeline blast last year.
The advice to [...]
Train engineer’s arm amputated after derailment
Posted on Saturday, September 11th, 2010
A Southern California surgical team has amputated the arm of a freight train engineer to free him from the wreckage of a locomotive that rear-ended a slow moving freighter on tracks 50 miles east of [...]
continue reading5 Killed in California Bus Accident, Many Injured
Posted on Saturday, July 24th, 2010
A Greyhound bus traveling to Sacramento from Los Angeles has crashed on a state highway in California’s Central Valley, killing five and wounding many others.
California Highway Patrol Officer Michelle Sigmond says the bus driver swerved [...]
Wrongful death suit filed against Napa county jail
Posted on Monday, May 17th, 2010
A woman has filed a wrongful death suit against Napa County after her son committed suicide while incarcerated at the Napa County Department of Corrections.
Gayle Brock alleges that jail officials did not provide Scott Mostek [...]
Family sues Calif., Caltrans for wrongful death
Posted on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
The family of a trucker who lost his life on the Bay Bridge is filing a claim against the state of California and Caltrans for wrongful death.
Tahir Sheikh Fakhar fell to his death on November [...]
LA Weight Loss Wrongful Death Suit Settled
Posted on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
A wrongful death lawsuit against L.A. Weight Loss Centers Inc. has settled for $700,000 in Madison County.
According to a March 3 order approving the settlement, L.A. Weight Loss will make payment to the two children [...]
Woman gets $23.4M for paralyzing crash in Ford
Posted on Saturday, February 20th, 2010
A California jury has awarded a woman $23.4 million in a civil judgment against Ford Motor Co. for a 2007 freeway accident that left her a quadriplegic.
Cynthia Castillo lost control of her 1997 Ford Explorer [...]