Sugarland was named in a lawsuit filed by forty four survivors of the Indiana State Fair stage collapse, and also by family members of four people who died. Lawyers have alleged breach of reasonable care to the victims. The complaint states that Sugarland and the other entities owed a duty…
Occupational Health & Safety Administration (OSHA) collects data and formulates statistics each year regarding workplace injuries and workplace fatalities. The data is extensive and broken down into workplace categories, but one thing is certain: thousands of workers are injured or die at work each year. OSHA has worked recently to prevent…
Brian Bradley and two other workers were struck by lightning while finishing concrete work on the seventh floor of an Atlantic City casino project. Bradley died from his injuries, but the other two survived with minor injuries.The fire chief, Brooks, said that Bradley had been in bad shape when the…
Kent Morton was a painter working on the Ambassador Bridge in Michigan when he fell to his death in January. His estate is suing the company he worked for, Seaway Painting, as well as Detroit International Bridge Co.Representatives of his estate filed suit in March claiming that the scaffolding underneath…
Mark Fidrych was an All-Star pitcher for the Detroit Tigers for five years when his career was cut short by injuries. He was Rookie of the Year in 1976, but knee and shoulder injuries limited him to fifty eight major league games.He died from sudden asphyxia by suffocation after his…
A Westford family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against National Grid after an accident in August 2011 when a woman was crushed to death by a backhoe that fell off a trailer and landed on the family’s van on Interstate 495. A National Grid supervisor lost control of a company-owned dump truck…
On March 6 there was an explosion at a Valero oil refinery in Memphis, Tennessee in which a subcontractor was killed and two others were severely burned. A multimillion dollar wrongful death and injury lawsuit was filed against Valero as a result.The lawsuit alleges severe and gross negligence for failing to ensure…
On August 30, 2010 at the Mets vs. Braves game at Turner Field, a six year old girl was struck by a foul ball which fractured her skull and damaged her brain. The line drive flew over the visitor’s dugout before anyone could get out of the way.The child’s father…
A new study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) says that regulations will reduce costs, but will not reduce patient access to pharmaceuticals. The California statute has become a model for many other states, so their recent amendment was the focus for the study.The study examines physician dispensing before and after…
In 2010, a Deno Electric employee, William Nichols, died in a propane gas explosion in Norfolk while working at the Village at River’s Edge condominium complex. His family filed a wrongful death suit against EnergyUSA Propane and Smolinsky Brothers Plumbing and Heating. The lawsuit claimed that EnergyUSA negligently under-filled a new propane tank…