News tagged with 'Wrongful Death'

Attorney Keith Jones' son died in the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion. Now he is behind efforts to overturn the Death on the High Seas Act that limits recovery of damages for wrongful death on the high seas.

The parents of Nataline Sarkisyan cannot sue insurer CIGNA because under ERISA, employee-offered plans can't be challenged on the basis of decisions they make. However, following an incident where a CIGNA employee gave the finger to Mrs. Sarkisyan, the couple can sue for emotional distress.

Several Tobacco companies are planning to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and overturn a May racketeering lawsuit ruling that requires them to tell the truth about the dangers of smoking and of "light" and "low-tar" cigarettes.

The FDA is flexing its muscle over tobacco, banning the making and importing of flavored cigarettes that are especially appealing to young smokers.

New television ads will begin running in the Washington D.C. market urging Congress and President Obama to take action to protect people injured by defective automobiles who have no recourse through the courts under the Chrysler/GM  bankruptcy.

With medical costs soaring at an unsustainable level, President Obama told doctors at an annual AMA meeting that cutting down on practicing defensive medicine to avoid lawsuits will be necessary.  The president does not support medical malpractice caps on awards.  

On the second day of a hearing by the National Transportation Safety Board into a February air crash that killed 49, revelations show that long commutes, low salaries, and pilot fatigue constituted a “winking and nodding” at passenger safety.

Continental Connection Bombardier Q400  pilot Capt. Marvin Renslow, had not been adequately trained in auto-pilot and de-icing systems say family members of the 49 people who were killed on Flight 3407 last February. Pilot error and procedures will be the focus of a three-day NTSB hearing.

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.

The Cirrus SR20 is a "different" aircraft than a Cessna. Its sleek high performance design comes complete with a parachute for additional safety. But critics point out that the Cirrus has had triple the fatality rate of the Cessna in the last 10 years, overwhelmingly due to pilot error. 

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.  

Data from the Continental 3407 commuter plane crash in Buffalo last Thursday, is beginning to point to an overreaction by the crew to the systems that automatically took over in icyconditions. More analysis and data needs to be looked at before that theory is conclusive. 

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.

It was the discounts of Black Friday that saw a Long Island crowd burst through the doors of a Wal-Mart and knock down a security guard trampling him to death. Others were injured including an 8-month pregnant woman.

The first day of the cyberbullying trial of a mother, sounded more like a murder trial of a 13-year old girl who killed herself after being harassed online. The case will set a legal precedent for cyberbulling, which impacts about 40 percent of teenage girls.