An elderly woman broke her leg after she was thrown out of her wheelchair when the van she was riding in suddenly stopped. Her caregiver did not call for medical assistance. Emily Springer, a retired teacher, was 95-years-old on the…
An elderly woman broke her leg after she was thrown out of her wheelchair when the van she was riding in suddenly stopped. Her caregiver did not call for medical assistance. Emily Springer, a retired teacher, was 95-years-old on the…
An unarmed man was shot and killed by a Los Angeles Police Department Officer. Sergio Navas’ family filed a wrongful death lawsuit. Sergio Navas, 36-years-old, died on March 5, 2015. The incident began when two LAPD officers spotted a gold…
Failure to monitor a patient on an anticoagulant is the alleged cause of Helen Kill’s death on October 3, 2013. According to the details of the statement of claim filed with the lawsuit, Kill passed away as a result of…
Eleven-year-old Landon Wood had no idea that a cookie purchased at a Publix Super Market would trigger his severe nut allergy, causing him to go into anaphylactic shock and die. The Wood family were on a trip to visit Landon’s…
A wrongful death lawsuit has taken a decade to wend its way through the legal system, ultimately ending up in the Connecticut Supreme Court. On Feb 8, 2005, William McDermott stopped on the sidewalk to watching the progress of tree…
A pipeline worker’s widow filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her husband’s employer. During Robert McDannell’s attempt to rotate an unsecured, 128-foot-long load with slings attached, a 7,000-pound pipe crashed through the window of his heavy loader,. McDannell, who worked…
If a wrongful death lawsuit is filed with the assistance of an attorney, the family or plaintiff of the deceased may apply for pre-settlement funding from a litigation funding company. In one such horrific wrongful death case, Travis Miller, 25,…
A wrongful death case involving the death of a man in a wave pool with his two young daughters occurred during a 2011 holiday. A wave struck 44-year-old Patrick Page while riding in an inner tube, and the force of…
A family dinner outing ended in the death of 48-year-old John Kocak in a Greenfield, Mass. restaurant’s bathroom. Kocak choked to death on food. This story might have had a different ending, if the restaurant where Kocak died, after temporary…
Warren Carter, New Orleans resident, first experienced chest pains in 2003. He was initially diagnosed at Oschner Health Center as suffering from acid reflux. In 2004, still having medical issues, Mr. Carter sought further medical advice from another hospital and…