- Claude Wyle | November 28, 2006 12:23 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsOur motorcycle accident lawyers won another great settlement in a motorcycle accident case. Our team of motorcycle accident attorneys settled this personal injury case, before litigation, for $280,000. This dangerous product case is all the more interesting, since our client, an El Sobrante motorcyclist, had just recently purchased this high-end motorcycle in San Rafael. As he was riding the...
- Claude Wyle | November 27, 2006 3:23 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsAfter three children suffered serious personal injuries from swallowing magnetic parts that fell out of dolls, Mattel recalled certain Polly Pocket Doll Sets. The newer toys are dangerous because they contain magnets that are smaller and more powerful than those used in older toys. The newer magnetic parts make these toys dangerous products for children because the magnets can cause damage to...
- Claude Wyle | November 24, 2006 11:31 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA 38-year-old Bay Point woman and her husband suffered serious personal injuries, including head and brain injuries and a broken leg last Friday night when they were both struck down in the crosswalk by a pick up truck. This pedestrian accident caused the woman near fatal injuries when she was dragged nearly 100 feet, after becoming trapped underneath the pickup. The woman was taken to John...
- Claude Wyle | November 23, 2006 10:51 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA series of auto accidents on Highway 880 near Fremont, that may have involved a potential hit and run, as well as alcohol and speeding last Saturday, has caused the wrongful death of two individuals and the serious personal injuries of several other people. It apparently began when an Oakland car driver crashed into the center median. The Oakland driver may have been originally struck by...
- Claude Wyle | November 21, 2006 4:15 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsDespite 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...
- Claude Wyle | November 20, 2006 8:54 AM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsLast 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.
- Claude Wyle | November 19, 2006 10:49 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe 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...
- Claude Wyle | November 18, 2006 3:50 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsA 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...
- Claude Wyle | November 17, 2006 9:47 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsHundreds 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...
- Claude Wyle | November 16, 2006 10:41 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsAn 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...
- Claude Wyle | November 15, 2006 9:58 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsOn 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...
- Claude Wyle | November 12, 2006 11:04 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsOur 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...
- Claude Wyle | November 11, 2006 10:11 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsThe 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...
- Claude Wyle | November 10, 2006 3:08 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsBausch & 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...
- Claude Wyle | November 09, 2006 2:39 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsWatch out if you buy store-brand acetaminophen caplets from Wal-Mart Stores or Walgreens or Costco Corp (and some others). Perrigo Co. a major manufacturer of store-brand acetaminophen, recalled 11 million bottles of the pain-relieving pills Thursday, after discovering some were contaminated with metal fragments. Although no injuries or deaths have been reported yet, these drug bottles certaily...
- Claude Wyle | November 07, 2006 5:03 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsAfter spending more than a week in trial in Martinez, in Contra Costa County, California in a food poisoning case, the judge ordered a mistrial. Our client, a beautiful six year old girl, got Salmonella food poisoning from a restaurant that had repeatedly failed to get a health department permit to operate. They were still selling food to the public, despite repeated failures to get a permit!...
- Claude Wyle | November 06, 2006 3:28 PM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)Congratulations to my partner, George Choulos, for another great result on a trip and fall case. $500,000! This trip and fall case, filed in San Francisco, California, is particularly notable since Choulos' client "tripped and fell" over a raised threshold and into an untempered glass shower door in his own apartment, on his way to the bathroom. Broken shards of glass pierced the man's body...
- Claude Wyle | November 03, 2006 12:34 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsWith and estimated 3.4 million uninsured drivers in California, it is vitally important that each of us protect ourselves by purchasing our own insurance for automobile accidents or motorcycle accidents. Although the State of California offers cheap insurance, only 26,000 people have signed up for the low-cost program. How do you protect yourself in the event of an car crash or a motorcycle...
- Claude Wyle | November 02, 2006 12:34 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsWhy are U.S. companies still distributing dangerous products (vinyl capes) for children? The news went out only on Halloween that 120,000 "Creepy Cape"costume capes were recalled due to their failure to meet non-flammability standards. The company selling these dangerous products from China is an American company, selling their flammable capes in California, and really should have known better....
- Claude Wyle | November 01, 2006 2:42 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsHalloween is the most scary night for parents, since children ages 5 through 14 are four times more likely to die in a pedestrian-automobile accident on Halloween night than any other night of the year, this according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Falls of children are also a leading cause of non-fatal injuries on Halloween.Alan Korn, director of public policy for the...
- Staff Writer | November 01, 2006 12:39 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA four-car accident closed three of the four eastbound lanes of I-580 Sunday afternoon. The crash occurred near the Beaumont Avenue exit, and the California Highway Patrol closed the lanes for more than two hours.A man killed in the four-vehicle wreck was identified as Richard Schiavo, 20, of Oakland. No information was available on the other victims' other injuries or the cause of the crash,...