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• Dangerous Products: Silicone Implants Back On the Market

  Claude Wyle | November 21, 2006 4:15 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Despite documented risks of these dangerous and defective products, the FDA said that two companies can now again sell silicone breast implants. It's been about 14 years since these dangerous and controversial products were forbidden, however they will again be sold along with some new warnings about their potentially serious risks and hazards. It's very rare that a dangerous medical device is...

• Truck v Motorcycle Crash With Serious Injuries on I-680

  Claude Wyle | November 20, 2006 8:54 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Last Tuesday night a motorcyclist suffered serious personal injuries in a motorcycle accident with a truck on northbound Interstate 680 near Pacheco, just south of Highway 4. According to the Contra Costa Fire District, the motorcycle accident delayed traffic while firefighters treated the motorcyclist. The injured biker was taken to John Muir Medical Center.

• Murder Conviction Upheld In Oakland Car Crash

  Claude Wyle | November 19, 2006 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  The conviction for second-degree murder of a driver in a car crash who killed another driver while being chased by police in Oakland, California, was upheld by an appeals court in San Francisco on 11-16-2006. The reckless driver was originally convicted in Alameda County Superior Court, and sentenced to 30 years to life in prison because he deliberately acted with conscious disregard for the...

• 11 Million Verdict in Solano County Wrongful Death Case

  Claude Wyle | November 18, 2006 3:50 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  A Solano County jury awarded a family $11 million for the death of a husband and five year old son in a big rig crash on Interstate-80. The defendant was Swift trucking. This was the biggest award for a personal injury or wrongful death case in Solano County. The wrongful death plaintiff in this truck collision case suffered more than money can possibly compensate, however this jury did the...

• Dangerous Medical Devices Still Implanted After Recalls

  Claude Wyle | November 17, 2006 9:47 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Hundreds of individuals every year are implanted with faulty and dangerous medical devices. The primary reason doctors are implanting dangerous products into patients after the devices have been recalled is that these defective medical devices are poorly tracked and there is no standardized identification system. The FDA is failing to track these devices and failing to notify patients that they...

• Jail Time for SUV Driver Who Fled Scene of Car v. Bicycle Accident

  Claude Wyle | November 16, 2006 10:41 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  An SUV driver involved in a car v. bicycle crash, which caused a spinal cord injury and head injuries, to the cyclist, received three years probation and 90 days in County Jail on Monday, not because he was at fault, but because he fled the scene of a bicycle v. car accident. While the fault for the paralysis and the head injuries to the cyclist is disputed, the SUV driver was prosecuted because...

• Death of Fremont Child in Car Crash: No Safety Restraints

  Claude Wyle | November 15, 2006 9:58 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  On Sunday night, a 4 year old Fremont girl was killed in an automobile collision on Interstate Highway 880, when a San Leandro woman crashed her Mustang into a Mitsubishi, that flipped into oncoming traffic. The Mitsubishi then struck a Toyota Sequoia SUV head on. Although eight people suffered personal injuries in this multi car accident, the child that was killed was not properly restrained...

• 2.5 Million Settlement by our Truck Accident Lawyers

  Claude Wyle | November 12, 2006 11:04 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Our truck accident attorneys fought for, and won a $2,500,000 settlement, for a sixty-six year old woman, who was paralyzed when she was rear-ended and run off the road by a big rig, in Monterrey County, California. The truck driver lied to the CHP and said that our client had made and unsafe pass over the double yellow line, and that she had clipped the front of the big rig. Although the police...

• Hit-and-Run Driver Surrenders Five Days After Serious Car v. Truck Accident

  Claude Wyle | November 11, 2006 10:11 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  The driver of a car who rear ended a truck on the Altamont Pass on Highway 580 last Saturday, and fled the accident scene has surrendered to the CHP. A 22 year old woman who was driving a Toyota Echo rammed a pick-up truck full of people, causing the pick-up truck to go off the road and to roll over several times. The family of five who were in the car v. truck accident all suffered serious...

• Bausch & Lomb Still Not Playing Straight About Eye Infections

  Claude Wyle | November 10, 2006 3:08 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Bausch & Lomb Inc. failed to formally report, as required by law, thirty-five foreign cases of fungal eye infections linked to one of its contact lens solutions. This reporting failure happened after the company had suspended sales of its ReNu with MoistureLoc solution, and after the FDA had begun an investigation of the manufacturing plant where Bausch & Lomb made the MoistureLoc...