Wrongful Death

• Wrongful Death of Woman Working at Metra Station

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 15, 2007 7:35 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  A Riverside woman was killed while she was working at the Berwyn Metra station last year. A Range Rover drove up the embankment outside the station and crashed into the wall of the station where Kathleen Talmage was working at the time. The lawsuit claims that the city had plenty of notice that the street, Windsor Avenue leading up to the train station was dangerous and needed to be better...

• Family Files Suit After Son Is Killed In Train Crash

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 14, 2007 3:45 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  A New York family lost their son to a train accident in June of 2005. The man was driving his car early in the morning on a sunny June day when his car collided with a train. He never saw or heard the train coming. The sun glare blinded him and made the oncoming train invisible.The family filed a wrongful death suit against the train company saying that they were careless and negligent and...

• Accident in Atlanta Killing Seven Is Not the First Here

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 12, 2007 11:41 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  The Atlanta bus accident that occurred two weeks ago killing seven, including five Ohio baseball players, is not the first accident on this Atlanta interstate. Catherine Hartman also was a victim of this road nearly five years ago in 2002. The accident occurred back in 2002 when Hartman believed the exit ramp was a commuter lane. She still suffers from her injuries today.It is believed that...

• Four Die In Helicopter Crash

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 11, 2007 5:15 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  Four people were killed Thursday afternoon while on a helicopter tour in Hawaii. The helicopter reported problems only two miles after it had taken off. The helicopter crash is one of many that have occurred in Hawaii and in Alaska and are the reason for a recent push on new helicopter safety regulations.The National Transportation Safety Board issued a request for tougher regulations on tour...

• Hospital Gives Wrong Drug and Lies About Cause of Death

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 11, 2007 10:30 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  A South Carolina man died in November 2002 after he was given the wrong drug before he underwent surgery. The man died from cardiac arrest but the family did not know this until after the man's body was exhumed and autopsied. Originally they believed he died of natural causes but when the truth leaked out the autopsy confirmed the real cause of death. The man was given Lidocaine instead of...

• Comcast Sued for Wrongful Death of Customer

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 10, 2007 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  A Chicago woman made the biggest mistake of her life, which turned out to be deadly, when she did something we all do at various times in our life. She allowed the Comcast cable installer to enter her home. She and another woman were found murdered that same day. A lawsuit has been filed against Comcast for the murders.The man accused of murdering the women, Anthony Triplett, has a history of...

• $55 Million Verdict Against DaimlerChrysler

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 09, 2007 4:00 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  DaimlerChrysler was found liable for the death of a 38 year old man who died in 2004 after being run over by his own truck. Richard Mraz, a loving father and husband, had put his truck in park but because of a defect in the transmission of his Dodge Dakota truck, the truck was not in park and caused Mraz to be run over. He suffered from severe head injuries that turned fatal seventeen days...

• Fifth Baseball Player Looses Life

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 09, 2007 10:25 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  A bus accident that had killed six people now claims a seventh life. A fifth baseball player died from injuries he suffered in the accident that happened in Atlanta, Georgia on March 2, 2007. Zach Arend had been in critical condition since the accident suffering from collapsed lungs, a fractured pelvis and abdominal and chest injuries.Currently there are still three players that are...

• Man Dies After Ford Causes Fire

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 08, 2007 3:30 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  A man from San Antonio, Texas died last year after his 1994 Ford Mercury Marquis caught fire in his garage. The fire spread to his house and killed him. The fire started in the engine compartment of the car, and it is believed that it was caused by a faulty switch in the engine. Ford had previously recalled defective switches but there was no recall for the 1994 Mercury Marquis.The Ford...

• 8 Students Die in Tornado

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 05, 2007 4:41 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  Bad weather in Alabama turned worse when excessive winds turned into a tornado that ripped through the Enterprise High School in Enterprise, Alabama. Students were brought into interior hallways of the school to wait out the storm, but as the tornado passed the school, it claimed 8 students' lives.Many are now saying that the deaths of the 8 could have been avoided. Sirens warning of the bad...