http://www.personal-injury-info.net/blog Features articles and information on personal injury law, lawyers and the legal system. Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:25:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A year after Carlos Sousa, Jr., a 17-year-old was mauled by a Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo, his family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. On Christmas Day 2007, a 243-pound tiger, Tatiana, mauled the youth and injured his two friends, Paul and Kulbir Dhaliwal. Police investigators at first ... http://www.personal-injury-info.net/blog/index.php/news/tiger-mauling-lawsuit-filed/ New York City Major Bloomberg and his administration have decided to settle a class action lawsuit concerning homeless families stemming back to 1983. The longstanding lawsuit acknowledges that plans to reduce the homeless population as expected have failed. There are currently over 9,000 homeless families that include over 14,000 homeless children ... http://www.personal-injury-info.net/blog/index.php/news/nyc-homeless-families-lawsuit-settled/ In San Jose, California a federal jury awarded the family of Robert Heston, Jr. $6 million after the man died due in part to being repeatedly tasered by police. Taser International of Scottsdale, Arizona the maker of the taser guns were found to be responsible in the death of Heston. According ... http://www.personal-injury-info.net/blog/index.php/news/taser-product-liability-suit-gets-6-million-award/ The U. S. Secret Service, long charged with protecting presidents, vice-president and their families has been hit with a racial discrimination lawsuit. According to the employment discrimination lawsuit, black agents have been passed over for promotions and have been subjected to racial epithets both verbally and in email form. According to ... http://www.personal-injury-info.net/blog/index.php/news/racial-discrimination-lawsuit-filed-against-secret-service/ There is a wrongful death lawsuit against ex-Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada that has been consolidated this week in Maryland. Also implicated in the case brought forth by 10 Bolivians living in the U. S. is ex-defense minister Jose Carlos Sanchez Berzain. Both ex-President and ex-defense minister fled to the ... http://www.personal-injury-info.net/blog/index.php/news/wrongful-death-lawsuit-against-ex-bolivian-president-proceeds/ In Greenwich, Connecticut, parents of a 6-year-old boy have filed a lawsuit against the pool manufacturer, Shoreline Pools and the city in regard to a fatal drowning. According to the lawsuit, the boy was trapped by the water intake at the deep end of the pool and could not set ... http://www.personal-injury-info.net/blog/index.php/news/parents-of-6-year-old-file-pool-entrapment-lawsuit/ The Catholic priest sexual abuse scandal continues, at least in Green Bay as a person named John Doe 119 has filed a lawsuit against a former priest and the diocese. According to the lawsuit, ex-priest John Patrick Feeney is named as the offender and the Green Bay Diocese is named ... http://www.personal-injury-info.net/blog/index.php/news/sexual-abuse-lawsuit-brought-against-green-bay-catholic-diocese/ Georgia prisoners have filed a class-action lawsuit against corrections officers for allegedly beating and torturing the inmates. The lawsuit tells a story of routine beatings of restrained inmates along with deprivation of food and water throughout the state. The charges also allege that over 40 guards sought to cover up the ... http://www.personal-injury-info.net/blog/index.php/news/georgia-prisoners-file-lawsuit-against-guards/ Approximately 90 New York residents have filed a toxic tort lawsuit against IBM that they say caused birth defects in infants and cancer in adults. The lawsuit claims a toxic plume of chemicals including trichloroethylene was released from an IBM plant into the soil, groundwater and air. According to the seven ... http://www.personal-injury-info.net/blog/index.php/news/ibm-toxic-plume-lawsuit-filed/ In 2003, Walter Rich died in the infamous Station Nightclub fire in Boston, which took 100 other lives. But, this hasn’t stopped an old friend, Brian Sullivan from suing him. While at Rich’s home, Sullivan tripped over a 55-gallon drum buried in the garage floor. The fall caused Sullivan to tear ... http://www.personal-injury-info.net/blog/index.php/news/dead-man-not-liable-in-lawsuit-against-him/