Posts tagged Wrongful Death

• Medical Malpractice Suit Seeks $1.5 Million Against Ohio Doctor

  Chrissie Cole | May 29, 2009 12:05 PM | 0 CommentsAkron, OH Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Dr. Stejpan Gardilcic and Urology Associates of North Central Ohio Inc. are being sued for $1.5 million by the son of a man, 84, who died in 2007. The medical malpractice lawsuit, filed earlier...

• Quong Hop & Co. Tofu Recall Expanded - Listeria Discovery

  Courtney Mills | October 03, 2007 5:03 PM | 0 CommentsAkron, OH Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Quong Hop & Co. of San Francisco, California is expanding its recall of tofu products due to the discovery of contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The recall has been expanded due to discovery of Listeria bacteria during sampling in three of the company's twenty-nine tofu product lines. While Listeria may present only minor discomfort to healthy adults, children, the elderly, and...

• Worker Killed in Casting Machine Accident

  Jenny Albano | August 21, 2007 1:51 AM | 0 CommentsAkron, OH Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Matthew Salisbury, an employee of Brush Wellman Engineered Products, was crushed to death Sunday night in a casting machine. According to another employee, the machine broke down and Salisbury entered it to try and fix the problem. While he was trying to unclog the machine he became pinned and was crushed to death; another employee turned off the air compressor that powered the machinery, but...

• U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Toxic Exposure Death Case

  Jack Landskroner | June 06, 2007 9:30 AM | 0 CommentsAkron, OH Category: Wrongful Death
  

  The widow of a leukemia victim failed to persuade the Supreme Court Monday to consider allowing her to sue oil companies over her husband's exposure to a toxic chemical which eventually resulted in his death. The decision not to accept this case will have severe repercussions to workers across the state of Alabama where the original claim was brought. In essence, the Supreme Court has slammed...

• Loyalty of Hoover Employees Lost on Company

  Jack Landskroner | April 04, 2007 3:14 AM | 0 CommentsAkron, OH Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  When clients and their families call my office seeking representation after a catastrophic workplace injury, whether it be a head injury or even a wrongful death claim, the call is often predicated with the statement: " we are not the type of family that sues." I am always puzzled by this predicate statement because in essence it suggests the clients are the type of people to let someone else...

• Pedestrian Killed in Accident in Barberton

  Jack Landskroner | April 03, 2007 11:06 PM | 0 CommentsAkron, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Very little information has been disclosed about the death of a pedestrian in Akron this week after a vehicle struck him in the roadway on Nortan Avenue. A 59-year-old Akron man was killed after being struck by a car when he crossed a Barberton street about 8:30 p.m. Monday. Larry W. Dean, whose last known address was on Chester Avenue in Akron, was crossing Norton Avenue near Fifth Street...

• Another Death Caused By Drunk Driving On 71

  Jack Landskroner | March 29, 2007 8:56 PM | 0 CommentsAkron, OH Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Another life has been taken by a drunk driver. This time the reckless actions of a driver under the influence took the life of a Cleveland area man when a collision occured earlier this week.. The woman accused of killing a Brook Park man in a head-on crash on Interstate 71 Tuesday night had an alcohol level that was more than twice the legal limit, Cleveland police Lt. Thomas Stacho said...

• Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settled with Foster Agency

  Christina Cole | February 28, 2007 1:49 AM | 0 CommentsAkron, OH Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A wrongful death lawsuit has been settled between a woman and foster care agency that had placed her son with a couple that is now convicted of murder, for their part in the 3-year-old boy's death.The woman has waived her rights to any payments in the $206,000 settlement that will be split between the brother and sister according to an agreement that was approved on Tuesday by a Butler County...