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• Nursing Home Abuse Report Leads to Closure

  David Rowell | November 15, 2008 1:19 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Following recent reports of an increase in nursing home abuse and neglect, state and Federal agencies may be increasing their surveilance and inspection efforts. A round of such surveys by the...

• 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...

• Fresno Car Accident Kills One Woman

  Shannon Weidemann | July 18, 2007 10:21 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  A car accident in Fresno County over the weekend killed a woman from Sanger. She was a passenger in an SUV that hit a semi-truck on Kings Canyon Road. The California Highway Patrol says the woman was a passenger when driver of the SUV tried to pass the truck, but had to swerve back into the right lane when another car approached. The SUV hit the semi, the driver lost control and the SUV...

• Lawsuit Upheld Over Missed Cancer Diagnosis

  David Rowell | November 22, 2008 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Pamela Rock sued her doctors and others claiming that, through their negligence, her breast cancer was not diagnosed in a timely fashion and worsened and spread into her lymph nodes, a much more...

• Salmonella Danger from Dry Pet Food

  David Rowell | November 12, 2008 11:10 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that, despite reports and recalls in 2007, eight new cases of Salmonella poisoning in humans from contaminated pet food were...

• Student's Death Leads to Wrongful Death Lawsuit

  David Rowell | October 19, 2007 8:51 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Jodi Woods was a student at the University of Tennessee, studying to be a teacher. In June 2006 she felt so sick that she went to the Emergency Department at Community Hospital in Martin, Tennessee. She told the staff that she had a severe headache (she described it as "the worst in her life"), and had other symptoms of bacterial meningitis, a life-threatening infection of tissue around the...

• Wrongful Death Suit Filed In Deadly Crash

  Chrissie Cole | August 15, 2009 9:44 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  The families of four victims tragically killed in a car wreck last week are suing for unlimited compensation. The wrongful death suit, filed on August 6th in Fresno County Superior Court targets...

• Two Chowchilla Teens Killed In Fiery Crash

  Chrissie Cole | March 11, 2009 9:01 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  A tragic car accident claimed two teens driving on a rural road in Madera County on Tuesday. The car accident happened when the driver failed to heed a stop sign at the intersection of Road 9 and...

• 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...

• Fresno Man Dies in Auto Accident

  David Rowell | October 06, 2007 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Jesus Reyes of Fresno died Wednesday afternoon in a two-car automobile accident in Fresno County. Reyes was eastbound on Adams Avenue and failed to stop at the intersection with Cornelia Avenue. A Nissan pickup truck, southbound on Cornelia, struck Reyes' vehicle in the intersection. Reyes was ejected from his Ford Explorer and struck his head on a metal grapevine post. Reyes was declared dead...