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• 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...

• 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...

• Slip and Fall in Parking Lot Results in Award of $390,000

  David Rowell | October 18, 2007 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Robert Yusem slipped on ice in a parking lot in a Pennsylvania industrial park in 2000, and suffered serious injuries, including fractures of his elbow, arm and ankle. It's taken seven years, but a jury recently awarded Yusems and his wife $390,000 in damages based on a claim of premises liabilty. In his "slip and fall" lawsuit, Yusems argued that the defendant parking-lot owner carelessly...

• 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...

• FDA to Update Food Safety Rules

  David Rowell | November 14, 2008 4:00 PM | 1 CommentFresno, CA

  Dismayed consumers saw story after story break in 2008 about food safety and the FDA's struggle to cope with domestic and foreign food contaminants: Salmonella, Listeria, Clostridium and other...

• 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...

• Palm Desert Man Killed in Motorcycle Accident

  David Rowell | October 08, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Robert Kolbeck, 65, of Palm Desert, California, was killed in a single-vehicle motorcycle accident on September 28, Kolbeck and his wife Carol, were morthbound on State Rout 247 near Victorville when Kolbeck apparently lost control of his vehicle. The motorcycle, a 2007 Harley Davidson Ultra, ran off the road and overturned. Kolbeck suffered major injuries and was airlifted to Palm Desert...

• U-Haul Sued for Wrongful Death

  David Rowell | September 16, 2007 9:04 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Demetrio Nagtalon rented a truck from U-Haul in San Francisco in December 2006, to move equipment from a video store he operated. When he had problems with the truck's parking brake, he drove it back to the U-Haul rental center for help. Bobby Johnson, a U-Haul employee, slid under the dashboard with pliers, trying to fix the parking brake. Instead of a repaired truck, Nagtalon ended up with a...

• Woman Sues over Slip and Fall at Wendy's

  David Rowell | August 24, 2007 10:40 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Delores Walker, of Chicago, filed a lawsuit against a Wendy's Restaurant in Chicago recently, seeking in excess of $50,000.00 in damages resulting from a slip-and-fall incident. Walker claims that Wendy's failed to inspect and maintain the restaurant, among other things, causeing her to fall and suffer permanent injuries.For more information on this subject matter, please refer to the section on...

• Fatal Auto Accident Kills 2

  David Rowell | August 23, 2007 1:05 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  In a deadly auto accident on Saturday, Danika Hayashi was driving southbound on Highway 395 in Kern County, at about 70 mph, when she decided to pass another southbound vehicle. Maybe she didn't look before passing, maybe she was just careless, but after she entered the northbound lane and saw a northbound vehicle approaching, she moved even further, into the northbound shoulder; there she lost...