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News 4 Jax reports that one pedestrian was killed and another was injured when they were hit by a pickup truck while walking on U.S. Highway 1 in St. Johns County on Wednesday night, May 11. According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), the 35-year-old man and the 32-year-old woman, both from Hastings, were walking northbound just past North Boulevard around 10 p.m. when a 20-year-old behind the wheel of an Isuzu [...]

A division of Johnson and Johnson, DePuy Orthopedics, issued a recall notice to all patients who used two of their devices. The DePuy ASR XL Aceabular Hip System and the ASR Hip Resurfacing System, both a commonly used hip replacement device, were recalled due to the high failure rate of these devices. The Failure Rate of a DePuy Device Hip replacement surgery is expected to last i [...]

Fatal motorcycle accidents continue to increase this year as another life was taken away earlier this month when a man crashed his chopper into a police car on Route 65 near the Arizona-California border. According to SFGate.com, the victim, a 56-year-old man from Minnesota, lost control of his motorcycle due to a medical emergency. He struck the police cruiser after having crossed [...]

pIn a hotly contested legal battle in Sacramento, California, a jury awarded three plaintiffs $73 million in a lawsuit claiming that the Ford Motor Company was negligent and exhibited “despicable conduct” as well as “maliciousness or oppression” over their failure to warn customers and dealers that it had a defective tire on a 15-passenger E-350 Econoline van which plaintiffs claim was unsafe in its own rig [...]

pIn 2004, a a href="http://www.reiffandbily.com/lawyer-attorney-1325433.html" 15 passenger church van rolled over/a, the plaintiffs’ lawyers representing the deceased victims argued that the Ford Motor Company knew that the vehicle had faulty tires on its vehicles but refused to do anything about it. Plaintiffs’ attorney stated to the jury “the evidence is uncontested that Ford made a conscious decision to no [...]

pWhen Bill Brownwell was cruising in a a href="http://www.reiffandbily.com/lawyer-attorney-1325433.html"15 passenger van/a and suddenly felt a shake in the back of the van and to his right, he became concerned and alarmed and turned around to take a look at what the noise was. Brownwell was driving a 1993 Ford Econoline E350 15-passenger van on a church outing for a spring concert tour in 2004 when he lost control [...]

When Bill Brownwell was cruising in a 15 passenger van and suddenly felt a shake in the back of the van and to his right, he became concerned and alarmed and turned around to take a look at what the noise was. Brownwell was driving a 1993 Ford Econoline E350 15-passenger van on a church outing for a spring concert tour in 2004 when he lost control of the 15 passenger van when the right rear tire tread separated. L [...]

In a positive sign for plaintiffs’ lawyers and their clients involved in litigation against Toyota over problems regarding sudden acceleration, a Federal judge in California has tentatively decided not to dismiss the first of hundreds of lawsuits. Over 14 million vehicles were recalled by Toyota due to acceleration problems in several models together with brake defects. Toyota has maintained that the problems wer [...]

MercuryNews.com reports that a California jury awarded worker David Travis more than $11.7 million for his injuries suffered during construction of a San Rafael, California hotel in 2007. After hitting his head multiple times while working, he was nearly paralyzed and now has lifelong neurological injuries. It was determined that the general contractor, Bison Builders, did not provide a safe work environment, and t [...]

A bankruptcy court judge overseeing certain Chrysler assets approved a $24 million settlement in the death of a California longshoreman run over by a Dodge pickup. According to an article, the settlement comes more than two years after a Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded damages of more than $55 million to a deceased man’s family. The family argued the automaker had failed to fix and adequately warn consume [...]