By: Matthew A. Paré, Attorney at Law
TEMECULA, CALIFORNIA - The ownership group that operates the Burger King restaurant located in Temecula, California, recently agreed to pay $20 million in cash settlement to the family of a child who was seriously hurt on their playground. The boy was 8-year-old Jacob Buckett, who went to the restaurant [...]
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By: Matthew A. Paré, Attorney at Law
FONTANA, CALIFORNIA - A recent street race ended by taking the life of Irene Beatriz Porras, 19, of Fontana, and hurting her infant child, who was thrown from the car. Ms. Porras and her child were in the vehicle with Eric Escobedo when he decided to race another car. [...]
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By: Matthew A. Paré, Attorney at Law
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, CALIFORNIA - 12-year-old Angelina Posca and her father Angel Jorge Posca, 58, of Palmdale, California were tragically killed by a large truck. The truck was being driven by 43-year-old Marcos Costa, who has been arrested on charges of vehicular manslaughter and felony reckless driving. In the [...]
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By: Natalie B. DeClusin, Attorney at Law
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - In the early morning on Sunday, March 29, 2009, an 18-year-old female University of Southern California student was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver as she was walking in a crosswalk at the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street. Her companion, a 19-year-old [...]
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By: Natalie B. DeClusin, Attorney at Law
CALIFORNIA - Although the California Highway Patrol (CHP) has determined that an astounding 95.7 percent of California motorists use their seatbelts, they want to improve that statistic. This is largely based upon CHP’s finding that more than 30 percent of vehicle passengers killed in auto accidents in 2007 and [...]
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Personal Injury Practice: Burn Injuries
By: U. Kelley Riedel, Attorney at Law
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A new bill was introduced in the United States Senate last month by Senator John Kerry (D, Massachusets) to help burn victims obtain Social Security disability victims quicker than ever before. The bill, titled “Social Security and Medicare Improved Burn Injury Treatment [...]
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By: Yvonne L. Sanchez
While most victims who are involved in a serious accident seek medical attention sometime following the accident due to complaints of generalized pain, pain is not an immediate sign of a traumatic brain injury. Indeed, many who have later been diagnosed as having suffered a traumatic brain injury following a serious [...]
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By: U. Kelley Riedel, Attorney at Law
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Earlier today, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, along with State Farm of Bloomington, Illinois, announced an immediate recall of “State Farm Good Neigh Bears” due to a potential choking hazard posed to children.
About 800,000 State Farm Good Neigh Bears have been [...]
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By: Matthew A. Paré, Attorney at Law
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - An elderly man 82 years of age was hit by a car yesterday while he was standing in a crosswalk. The man was crossing a Linda Vista street Tuesday morning when he was hit by a car. The vehicle was driven by a 21-year-old woman. [...]
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By: Matthew A. Paré, Attorney at Law
Monday night a 7 year-old boy died after the vehicle he was in was struck by another vehicle in El Cajon. The child’s name is Aram Gorgees, and he is from El Cajon. Aram was riding in the rear left passenger seat of a vehicle at around 9:40 p.m. [...]
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