Last month, according to Bloomberg.com, a Philadelphia jury awarded $10 million to the family of a teenage girl who developed Stevens – Johnson syndrome after she took Children’s Motrin. According to the Mayo Clinic, Stevens Johnson Syndrome is a sever sensitivity reaction that can be caused by many drugs. Stevens-Johnson…
Be careful driving this weekend. The roads will be wet. Pay special attention when you are driving on the Golden Gate Bridge, as accidents there can cause a car to move accross into traffic traveling in the opposite direction. Last month, a man from Colma was placed under arrest for…
This week
An 18-year-old woman from Rohnert Park named Kaitlyn Dunaway was charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter for allegedly running over a 2-year-old girl, according to sfgate.com. Dunaway was distracted by texting when she crashed her vehicle in to Cali Murray and Cali’s mothers as they walked through a cross walk holding…
Stacking is a term that means treating multiple policies that apply to a single loss as cumulative—as a “stack” of coverage—rather than each as mutually exclusive. Therefore, stacking issues can arise almost any time multiple policies cover a single loss. Stacking refers, literally, to the stacking of policy limits. In…
This morning a man had stopped his pickup on the shoulder of Highway 101 in Brisbane because he was having mechanical trouble and was struck and killed by another vehicle, according sfexaminer.com. As he was standing in front of the pickup, a man driving a Camry veered onto the shoulder…
Sony has announced the credit card information of millions of users has been compromised–after its Sony Online Entertainment PC gaming service had been hacked and the PlayStation network service had been breached. And now consumers are banding together and filing class action suits against Sony. A law firm in Toronto…
According to consumeraffairs.com, Sears has been selling extended warranties, what they call maintenance agreements, and then not following through on the promises within those agreements. Typically employees offer consumers the agreement at the time of purchase, and the agreement generally states that the consumer is eligible for the 3 year…
A crash occurred this morning on Highway 1 near Montara State beach at about 6:45am, according to SFexaminer.com. Two vehicles appeared to have been involved in the collision, which caused one driver to drive off the road and plunge more than 100 feet to his death. At the moment, his…
A man from Virginia was awarded $212 million this week in a case against Botox maker Allergan Inc, according to newsinferno.com. The man, Douglas Ray, age 67, claimed that the drug left him brain damaged and disabled, and that Allergan neglected to warn his physician about Botox’s Risks. Botox is…