Wausau Personal Injury Lawyer

A 64 year old maintenance worker was killed in Derby, Connecticut when an elevator hit him on the head.
The man was working in the elevator shaft at the time of the accident. Authorities with the company are not quite sure what he was doing when the elevator fell.  The man had worked for the company for […]

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The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Vioxx manufacturer Merck & Co. is not responsible for medical monitoring for Vioxx users not claiming injury by the drug. The ruling invalidates a class action suit against Merck brought by users of the drug Vioxx, claiming that, although they have not yet suffered any known ill […]

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The family of a teenage boy who suffered broken bones and internal injuries during an arrest intends to sue for damages. Juan Vasquez, 16, sustained broken ribs, a lacerated liver, and kidney damage following a foot chase by Officer Charles Porter of the Denver police.
According to two other Denver officers, Porter was seen jumping on […]

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An Aberdeen woman won a $450,000 settlement from the city and state in a lawsuit over injuries she sustained when a street light collapsed onto her car in 2006. Lacey Hicks received severe injuries from the accident, requiring surgery resulting in physical disability and limited range of motion.
A subsequent investigation found that the bolts at […]

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In the first Waco case to be tried under “Lillian’s Law,” a tougher dog-attack law passed last September, Ancelmo Banda of Waco, TX, was charged with a felony last weekend in connection with an alleged attack on a sixth-grade boy by two of his pit bulls. According to the arrest warrant, the two dogs escaped […]

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In 2007, 739 people died in car accidents throughout Wisconsin. That number is slightly higher than the 712 people killed on all Wisconsin roads in 2006. These numbers were released by the State Department of Transportation.
While 739 is higher than 2006’s total, it is still below the 5-year average of 788 deaths per year. 111 […]

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Unfortunately, we have come to understand that police officers need to sometimes be held to the same criminal and potentially civil standards as everyone else.  That reality was reinforced recently in an article that was published in the Fon du Lac Reporter that told the terrifying tale of a Wausau police officer’s alleged attempt to […]

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