Fresno Personal Injury Lawyer

"Wrongful Death" is a term lawyers use; it means a claim, for money, against a person who has caused the death of a close family member, usually a spouse or parent or a child. In most states a...

A mother is suing Nalgene over the use of the chemical Bisphenol A, or BPA, in its plastic containers. Nalgene Inc. announced last week that it will phase out production of its containers that...

Mauricio Alaniz, 19, of Turlock was critically injured in an auto addicent on Wednesday when 60-year-old Cherry Crawford, of Riverbank, swerved into his vehicle on McHenry Avenue in Modesto. Alaniz, a basketball player for Modesto Junior College, suffered severe brain injuries in the collision, and remains in critical condition at Memorial Medical Center. For more information on this subject,...

The family of Reverend Dennis Graham claims that nursing home abuse led to the minister's death. Dennis Graham died in September 2007 and, according to his family, the cause of his death was abuse and neglect from the nursing home where he was beilng care for. Sherry Cooke, the victim's sister, says that "what happened [to him] there was inhumane and would not be allowed to happen to animals."...

Vanessa Zamano, 9, of Kerman, was killed Monday night in a two-vehicle collision southeast of Kerman. The girl's father, Francisco Zamano, wsa northbound on Henderson Road, with Vanessa and another child as passengers in his Plymouth Neon. According to police, Zamano failed to obey a stopsign at the intersection of Henderson Road and McMullin Grade. Martha Decenteno, traveling westbound on...

Jordan Kedwards, 17, of Clovis, was killed Tuesday in an ATV accident in Madera County. Kedwards was a passenger on an ATV driven by 24 year-old Bonnie Pendergast. Pendergast lost control of the vehicle and it overturned, killing Kedwards. Pendergast was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and charged with vehicular manslaughter.For more information on this subject, please refer to the...

Most consumers are aware of the tidal wave of toys and other defective products containing excessive levels of lead that have been offered to American consumers lately. As noted in a recent reportRecently recalled toys from China include 675,000 Mattel Barbie accessories, 49,000 Disney Deluxe Winnie-the-Pooh play sets and about a million Fisher-Price character toys such as Elmo and Dora the...

A two-car motor vehicle collision in Pleasonton on Saturday resulted in the death of a 19 year-old girl, and the serious injury of two others. The auto accident occurred around 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, on Foothill Road in Pleasonton. The 19 year-old driver of a Ford Mustang, southbound on Foothill Road, collided head-on with a Mercedes SUV traveling northbound. Laurel Williams, a passenger in the...

Payless ShoeSource, Inc. has announced the recall of about 90,000 girls' boots, made in China, because of a risk of injury due to "slip and fall" accidents. The jeweled, "Hannah Montana" engraved boots have guitar-shapped zipper pulls, which can get caught on each other as the child walks, causing the child to trip. Payless has received reports of five instances of children tripping due to this...

Tyhler Carron and Nikko Landeros are students at Berthoud High School. The two boys, both 18, were on their school's wrestling team. On January 15 thery were on their way home in Carron's Isuzu Trooper, Carron was driving, when their vehicle got a flat tire. Carron pulled over to change the flat, and he and Landeros got out. They went to the back of the car and opened the rear doors to get the...