11/6/2009 9:51:37 AM EST Posted by Christopher BauerEditor, Mealey's Personal Injury Report
and Mealey's Food Liability Report A federal judge on Nov. 5 dismissed a personal injury action brought by a Mississippi woman who was hurt in a one-vehicle accident while a passenger in a car driven by an Oscar-winning actor, after an undisclosed settlement was reached ( Demaris L. M ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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10/30/2009 9:41:00 AM EST Posted by Christopher BauerEditor, Mealey's Personal Injury Report
and Mealey's Food Liability Report A plastic pallet rental service announced recently that random testing of wood pallets used for transporting food in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore areas tested positive for three types of food poisoning bacteria. Intelligent Global Po ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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8/7/2009 9:55:53 AM EST Posted by Christopher BauerEditor, Mealey's Personal Injury Report
and Mealey's Food Liability Report Interesting piece in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer addressing how the city’s Public Health Department is changing the way it conducts inspections of Philadelphia’s 12,621 establishments that sell or serve food in an effort to curb foo ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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6/24/2009 12:32:41 PM EST Posted by Christopher BauerEditor, Mealey's Personal Injury Report
and Mealey's Food Liability Report An article appearing in the Philadelphia Inquirer chronicles a New Jersey man's fight with an insurance company to collect more than $19 million awarded to him for injuries suffered in a 2004 auto accident. As he waits, Nicholas Anderson's medical bill ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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6/5/2009 1:21:13 PM EST Posted by Christopher BauerEditor, Mealey's Personal Injury Report
and Mealey's Food Liability Report The San Francisco Zoo has agreed to pay $900,000 to two brothers who were attacked by an escaped tiger on Christmas Day 2007. Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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5/7/2009 9:44:58 AM EST Posted by Christopher BauerEditor, Mealey's Personal Injury Report
and Mealey's Food Liability Report MINEOLA, N.Y. — Wal-Mart agreed on May 6 to pay nearly $2 million and improve safety at its 92 New York stores as part of a deal with Nassau County, N.Y., prosecutors that avoids criminal charges in the trampling death of a temporary worker durin ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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4/20/2009 10:17:27 AM EST Posted by Christopher BauerEditor, Mealey's Personal Injury Report
and Mealey's Food Liability Report The Feb. 11 shooting death of Eric Birnbaum, a Philadelphia-area attorney, remains unsolved. Birnbaum was killed outside of his office as he arrived for work in Holland, Pa. The $10,000 in reward money offered by his firm remains unclaimed. ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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4/14/2009 10:17:46 AM EST Posted by Christopher BauerEditor, Mealey's Personal Injury Report
and Mealey's Food Liability Report The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) on April 9 released its final report on the investigation of an E. coli outbreak which occurred in August 2008 in northeastern Oklahoma, sickened 341 people and resulted in one death. The ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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3/17/2009 1:56:53 PM EST Posted by Christopher BauerEditor, Mealey's Personal Injury Report
and Mealey's Food Liability Report The Associated Press (AP) is reporting that the family of a woman mauled by a chimpanzee filed a lawsuit seeking $50 million in damages against the primate’s owner, saying she was negligent and reckless for lacking the ability to control “a ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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2/13/2009 2:16:29 PM EST Posted by Christopher BauerEditor, Mealey's Personal Injury Report
and Mealey's Food Liability Report
HOLLAND, Pa. — Attorney Eric Birnbaum, 51, was shot once in the back of the head as he arrived for work in a Philadelphia suburb on Feb. 11. He died at the scene. Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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1/31/2009 6:14:12 PM EST As noted in prior posts, California interprets the concept of nuisance very broadly, which has made this tort the weapon of choice in state court environmental and some toxic tort matters. Although addressing a second-hand smoke issue, the California C ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Read Comments (1)
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6/10/2008 2:44:46 PM EST Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to Philip Morris in Philip Morris USA, Inc. v. Williams (No. 07-1216, U.S. Sup.). Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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