News tagged with 'Personal Injury'

Wal-Mart Stores has agreed to better control crowds, something it didn’t do in its post-Thanksgiving Day stampede that left one man dead in a Long Island store last year.  It's part of a settlement to avoid a repeat at all 92 New York stores and it also avoids criminal prosecution for the giant retailer.

Nick Schuyler is recovering in a Tampa, Florida hospital and may be released soon, but there is still no word of his friends in the fishing boat that capsized in the Gulf of Mexico Saturday night. The Coast Guard says capsizing is the number one safety hazard for hundreds of small boats off the Florida coast each year. 

Both conductors were text messaging just before a fatal train collision last September that killed 25 aboard a Los Angeles Metrolink commuter train, the National Transportation Safety Board reports.  

People guilty of domestic violence misdemeanors should not be allowed to possess guns. That decision by the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday was written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, just back from cancer surgery.  The high court was trying to decide whether someone convicted of simple battery, a misdemeanor, should be blocked from gun possession, just as is someone convicted of domestic violence.

It was about as good as a crash landing can be - a US Airways A320 with 148 passengers, makes a landing in the Hudson River after trying to take off from LaGuardia Airport and coming in contact with a flock of birds.

Two teenage girls are facing years in jail and thousands in fines, charged with abusing and sexually humiliating elderly Alzheimer's disease and dementia nursing home patients who couldn't fight back. Other teens allegedly watched and said nothing.

A wrongful death lawsuit will be filed by the siblings of a man who was hired as a temporary worker at a Long Island Wal-Mart. He was trampled to death when the store opened its doors to about 2,000 bargain-hunters on Black Friday.

Structured settlements that pay the victims of personal injury, or their estate, is one of the businesses of AIG, which is in financial trouble. The states should protect the monies in Reserve Accounts for now.

A Massachusetts judge recently ordered the owners of a tugboat to pay $1.1 million for damages their vessel caused to a tugboat-barge in the Cape Cod Canal. In August 1999, the tugboat Mary Turecamo , owned by Moran Towing Corp., and the barge Florida , owned by Petroleum Transport Corporation, were tied together t

Oklahoma's Attorney General, Drew Edmondson, announced this week that the state has filed suit against the owner and driver of a tugboat that rammed into an interstate highway last month, killing 14 people. On May 26, Capt. William Joe Dedmon, an employee of Magnolia Marine Transport Co., was pushing two barges up the

The Ingram Barge Company has settled a lawsuit with a former employee who suffered serious head injuries while working on a boat on the Ohio River. Christopher Eldridge, 24, was severely injured in 1999 when a cable aboard the barge snapped and struck him in the head. The $10 million settlement, reached Tuesday, is b