Personal Injury News Blog

When the Pinnick family of Joliet decided to take the case of their daughter’s death in a gruesome car crash to a “big league” law firm, they thought Corboy & Demetrio was a reasonable choice.
Corboy & Demetrio is “a premier national law firm (which) represents individuals and their families in serious personal injury and wrongful [...]

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A helicopter crashed in central Arkansas on Sunday, killing a state conservation officer who was patrolling for violators of a ban on deer hunting at night.
Sgt. Monty Carmikle, 45, was in the Game and Fish helicopter when the Vietnam-era craft went down in a field northeast of Quitman about 1 a.m., said commission spokesman Keith [...]

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The crash took place about 9:10 a.m. at Addison Street and Menard Avenue near Our Lady of Resurrection Medical Center on Chicago’s Northwest side.
The ambulance was en route with two patients to Our Lady of Resurrection. According to police, preliminary reports indicated that the ambulance was eastbound on Addison when it was hit by a [...]

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Massachusetts state troopers are investigating the circumstances surrounding the accidental shooting death of 8-year-old Christopher Bizilj at a gun show in Hampden County over the weekend. Bizilj was attending the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo, an annual event at the Westfield Sportsman’s Club, when he accidentally shot himself in the head with a 9mm [...]

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A bus has rolled over near Ann Arbor, Mich., injuring 10, including children.
Joyce Williams,the Huron Valley Ambulance spokeswoman, says the victims in Thursday’s crash are being taken to University of Michigan Hospital.
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Their conditions were not immediately available but Williams says nine of the victims need immediate medical attention.
The accident happened [...]

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One of the main arguments product and auto manufacturers make in product liability cases is that their product “complies with federal safety standards.” This article in the New York Times tells the tale of how the recall of more than 1 million defective Evenflo Discovery car seats came about. It’s frightening to see that government [...]

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A political rival yesterday blasted closed-mouthed Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for lending $50,000 to a small company that funds personal-injury lawsuits and could be hurt by efforts to limit lucrative awards to trial lawyers - including those at Silver’s law firm.
“You have Sheldon Silver putting the interests of [law firm] Weitz & Luxenberg and the [...]

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According to an ABC 4 News article, “Dogs attack Utah County men,” two Orem men were injured in a pit bull attack. Anthony Denovellis was walking near 600 East and 1500 South in Orem when three dogs, including a pit bull, began circling him. The dogs then left but returned minutes later and began circling [...]

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Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, announced that two Californians represented by the law firm today filed separate personal injury lawsuits against Yamaha Motor Corporation. Each plaintiff suffered injuries in accidents while riding the Yamaha Rhino side-by-side all terrain vehicle (“ATV”).
The plaintiffs allege that the Yamaha Rhino side-by-side contains multiple design flaws rendering it dangerously [...]

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This is the second time in a month that a New York court has held that when the allegations of a personal injury complaint make it clear that a policy exclusion applies, further investigation may be deemed “superfluous” or unnecessary, and the insurer will be found to owe coverage if it has not issued a [...]

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