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Slips and falls can be especially dangerous, especially when a victim falls from heights. According to a recent article in U-T San Diego, a young 7-year-old boy sustained critical injuries after he fell “about 30 feet from a third-story window at a Del Mar hotel.” How did this catastrophic hotel accident occur? The Child Abuse…

Defective tires are the cause of over 400 deaths annually in this country, and thousands of injuries. A tire defect usually occurs in the manufacturing stage, during a process where fabric, wire, and rubber are molded together to create tires as we know and use them. Today, San Diego’s 10News concluded an investigation revealing that…

Have you been reading news about sports-related brain injuries? Whether it’s a report about the dangers of concussions or other more immediate life-threatening injuries, these stories are becoming more prominent than they were in previous years (and decades). In fact, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) states that traumatic brain injuries are now the…

A freelance photographer happened to have his camera at the ready when a semi-tractor trailer truck slammed into a car parked on the side of the I-805 freeway. According to reports, just prior to the crash a driver clipped an electronic CalTrans sign and knocked it into the freeway. Numerous cars struck the debris, causing…

Southern California saw yet another unfortunate crash between a vehicle and a motorcycle, leaving several people with injuries. According to 10 News, on Tuesday a Yamaha motorcycle rear ended a 2012 Volkswagen Jetta in San Diego’s Torrey Pines neighborhood. California personal injury lawyers are all too familiar with the dangers of motorcycle versus vehicle accidents…

Our San Diego injury lawyer was encourages to read that the California Public Utilities Commission is showing that it takes threats to California consumer safety seriously this week with the announcement that it will investigate allegations of wrongdoing by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”). PG&E is responsible for building and maintaining a large portion…

When the U.S. Government brokered a bankruptcy for Chrysler two years ago, it allowed the car maker to discharge any obligations it owed to car accident victims with pending cases against the automaker, or those who had already won an award or settlement. The Wall Street Journal has tracked several stories of some of the…

The creator of an Australian hair care product will likely have to pay the $4.2 million dollar verdict rendered against him for knowingly infecting a Palm Springs woman with herpes. Thomas Redmond appealed the Riverside County verdict, but was unsuccessful. The verdict is thought to be one of the largest of its kind for this…

We have all heard about arrogant doctors (and lawyers for that matter), but this guy wins the prize. Dr. Red Alinsod, a Laguna Beach gynecologist was sued for branding his patients name into her uterus using a cauterizing device. According to reports, Dr. Alinsod carved the name “Ingrid” into the uterine wall, in inch-high letters,…

The fireworks show at San Marcos’ Bradley Park turned out to be a bit of a dud, and a painful dud at that, when an errant firework shot into a crowd of spectators and injured four people. Thankfully, the injuries don’t sound serious, but one individual was taken to Palomar Hospital for treatment and apparently…