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• Deadly Collision Kills Bakersfield Men

  David Rowell | June 18, 2008 4:26 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  A deadly automobile accident Monday night in Coalinga killed two Bakersfield men. While traveling at a high rate of speed, Scott Duke, in a 2008 Volvo, slammed into the back of a dump truck at a...

• Injury Accident on Highway 99

  David Rowell | June 13, 2008 11:27 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  A single-vehicleautoaccident on Highway 99 near Visalia has resulted in major injuries to a California man, the California Highway Patrol reports. The driver was air-lifted to Community Regional...

• ATV Deaths

  David Rowell | June 13, 2008 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Despite recent improvements in safety, ATVs remainsome of the most dangerousproducts available to consumers.An incident today illustrate that danger: a 67 year-old San Andreas resident was killed in...

• Tort Reform and Settlement

  David Rowell | June 12, 2008 2:46 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  An article in yesterday's Daily Report illustrates a problem well-known by most trial lawyers; the insurance industry would rather spend money fighting claims than paying them. The Daily Report...

• Wrongful Death claims

  David Rowell | April 30, 2008 1:15 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  "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...

• Mother Sues Nalgene Over Chemical in Plastic Containers

  Jenny Albano | April 25, 2008 6:15 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  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...

• Turlock Youth Injured in Auto Accident

  David Rowell | November 30, 2007 4:21 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  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,...

• Allegations of Nursing Home Abuse Surface in Pastor's Death

  David Rowell | November 01, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  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."...

• Child Killed in Kerman Auto Accident

  David Rowell | October 26, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  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...

• Teen Killed in ATV Crash

  David Rowell | October 25, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  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...