Playgrounds can be a dangerous place for kids if there is defective equipment on the premises. Recently, the family of Alexis Durant filed a Texas playground accident lawsuit suing the owner of a Houston McDonald’s for injuries she sustained while playing at the eatery. According to Durant’s mother, on July 24, the 2-year-old was choking [...]
New York Tire Blowout: 2 Killed in Tour Bus Crash Carrying Indian Tourists
July 27, 2011
Police are saying that the reason the driver of the tour bus taking Indian tourists to Niagara Falls lost control of the vehicle was because a tire blew out. The catastrophic New York bus accident claimed the lives of two women, while injuring the 34 other passengers and the bus driver. Some of the more [...]
Auto Products Liability: Conversion Van Safety Defects Can Prove Catastrophic During a Traffic Crash
July 23, 2011
If you or someone you love was injured in an accident while riding a conversion van, you should speak with an experienced auto products liability law firm immediately. Unfortunately, some of these full-size cargo vans that have been fitted with “luxury” amenities for camping and road trips may have sacrificed safety for utility and accessory. [...]
CPSC Says Certain Kids’ Outerwear with Drawstrings Pose Strangulation, Entrapment and Death Hazard to Kids
July 18, 2011
In a unanimous vote, members of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission have approved a new federal safety rule for children’s outerwear. Per the final rule, kids’ upper outerwear, sizes 2T through 16 with certain bottom or waist drawstrings and those with hood or neck drawstrings in sizes 2T through 12 possess substantial product hazards [...]
Inflatable Pools Pose Significant Drowning Risk to Young Children, Says American Academy of Pediatrics
July 13, 2011
With summer here, our child injury lawyers want to remind parents and guardians to take the precautions necessary to make sure that children are properly supervised when swimming and pools are properly maintained and secured when no one is around to decrease the chances of accidental drownings. While in the past, our products liability lawyer [...]
Florida Auto Products Liability: Toyota Smart Key Blamed for Woman’s Carbon Monoxide Death
July 8, 2011
Chastity Glisson’s family is suing Toyota for Florida auto products liability and wrongful death. The 29-year-old died on August 25 from carbon monoxide poisoning when she left her Lexus running in her garage. Also nearly killed in the CO poisoning accident was Timothy Maddock, who was Glisson’s boyfriend. He is suing the automaker for his [...]
A Right to Bear Arms in Denver?
July 5, 2011
Should a Washington resident who has a concealed weapons permit from Florida be allowed to openly carry a hand gun in Denver? That is the question currently presented to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit now that Plaintiff Gray Peterson was recently denied his motion for summary judgment in Denver District [...]
Grass-Roots Group Sues Cold War Uranium Mill Over Waste Disposal Practices
July 1, 2011
Colorado Citizens Against ToxicWaste, Inc. (a grass-roots group based in Canon City) filed a lawsuit against several defendants including the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Cotter Corporation outraged over the state official’s approval for Cotter to dump radioactive sludge from its uranium mill into one of their two impoundment ponds. During the [...]
