Blog Posts in August, 2012
Posted on Aug 31, 2012 By Pacific Attorney Group
A series of mini-quakes have been rocking Southern California recently, and many fear that they may be the precursor to a massive quake like the 1994 Northridge disaster. Yet the small quakes have not ...
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Posted on Aug 30, 2012 By Pacific Attorney Group
Small aircraft are often hard to handle, and susceptible to the danger of changes in the weather. On Saturday afternoon, a small plane crash landed in a small district in Southern California. ...
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Posted on Aug 24, 2012 By Pacific Attorney Group
Health professionals say that they have seen more and more painful skin infections that stem from the ink used for tattoos. According to The Huffington Post, some tattoo parlors carry cheaper ink that ...
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Posted on Aug 23, 2012 By Pacific Attorney Group
Getting Help After a Los Angeles Bike Accident Because there is very little protection available for bicyclists on the road, many riders suffer serious injuries after being involved in Los Angeles ...
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Posted on Aug 23, 2012 By Pacific Attorney Group
The Master’s College, a small private school in the Santa Clarita Valley, always puts on an extravagant week of welcome for the incoming students of each school year. One of the activities on ...
Continue reading "International Student Dies in Sand Pit at the Beach" »
Posted on Aug 23, 2012 By Pacific Attorney Group
As a common phase of growing up, teenagers often suffer with various forms of acne on their body and face. They will try anything to make it going away, and they find no comfort in their parents ...
Continue reading "Dangerous Drugs on the Market: Accutane" »
Posted on Aug 14, 2012 By Pacific Attorney Group
Auto accidents occur on the daily in Los Angeles. With so many people living, working, and commuting throughout this large city, it is inevitable that accidents will happen on our congested roadways. ...
Continue reading "Preventable Driver Factors that Lead to Car Accidents" »
Posted on Aug 14, 2012 By Pacific Attorney Group
About 3,000 Filipino workers spend their days in banana plants run by the Dole Food Company, working with the fruits that come into the headquarters. At Dole, the fruits are treated, labeled, and ...
Continue reading "Dole Foods Workers Sue Because of Pesticide Exposure" »
Posted on Aug 14, 2012 By Kylie Dempsey
Eva Longoria was listed as the defendant in a recent car accident case in Los Angeles. The super star plowed her car into another driver’s car back in 2010, and he has been relentless in ...
Continue reading "Eva Longoria Settles Car Crash Lawsuit Out of Court" »
Posted on Aug 14, 2012 By Pacific Attorney Group
What is Workers' Compensation? Workers' compensation, also known as worker's comp, is an insurance program that provides financial compensation to employees who suffer job-related injuries ...
Continue reading "Alternatives to Workers' Compensation After a Los Angeles Workplace Accident" »
Posted on Aug 10, 2012 By Pacific Attorney Group
When Pharmacists Harm, Not Heal Each day, pharmacies fill dozens, if not hundreds or thousands, of prescriptions. Between filling prescriptions, receiving and sending phone calls and faxes from ...
Continue reading "Pharmaceutical Negligence: Prescription Mistakes That Can Result in Injury or Death" »
Posted on Aug 9, 2012 By Pacific Attorney Group
There are a variety of ways that a person can be injured and plenty of different claims that come to court. Yet there are certainly more common personal injury cases. The most common reason that ...
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Posted on Aug 8, 2012 By Pacific Attorney Group
Louisiana Woman Injured in Ambulance Accident A Louisiana jury awarded $117 million personal injury verdict to a woman who was severely injured in 2010 while riding in an ambulance that crashed into a ...
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Posted on Aug 6, 2012 By Pacific Attorney Group
A country Transportation Department worker had been sent to Riverside neighborhoods to eliminate the weeds that were sprouting up through the concrete. While he was getting rid of the unattractive ...
Continue reading "Killing Weeds Ended in Tragic Fire in Riverside" »
Posted on Aug 3, 2012 By Pacific Attorney Group
U.S. Department of Transportation Releases Plan to End Distracted Driving Earlier this summer, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation issued a " Blueprint for Ending Distracted ...
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Posted on Aug 2, 2012 By Pacific Attorney Group
405 Accident Kills Two Road Workers, Injures a Third Last week, two drivers collided in a Los Angeles auto accident on the San Diego Freeway (405), causing their vehicles to veer into a road ...
Continue reading "Road Construction Zone Accident on 405 Leaves 3 Injured, 2 Dead" »
Posted on Aug 2, 2012 By Pacific Attorney Group
For every 100,000 sanitation workers in the United States, 30 will die on the job. This sobering statistics proves that sanitation workers are among the most at-risk employees in America. These ...
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