Personal Injury Claim

Bayer Pharmaceutical have come under fire from a number of parties taking personal injury cases against the firm because of the firms failure to make consumers aware of the health risks their oral contraceptives, Yaz and Yasmin, present.

Over 100 personal injury cases have been taken against the pharmaceutical company in the US, including a group of 8 women from Toronto and stage actress, Brenda Hamilton who is an understudy for the Broadway musical "Wicked", who suffered a stroke after taking the pill.

BP's efforts to try and clear the massive oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico could lead to the oil giant facing even more personal injury lawsuits than they already have.

Over 100 lawsuits have been filed against BP, Transocean, Halliburton and Cameron International in areas of law including lost wages, business loss, lost profits and loss of use of property as well as numerous personal injury and wrongful death cases.

On top of all this, the firm is now facing a new string of personal injury lawsuits; in the form of toxic/chemical exposure and poisoning.

Victoria Little, 53, of Harford County was awarded a $3.5 million settlement at the conclusion of her case against two surgeons and their firm, Vascular Surgery Associates, whom she had bee suing for medical malpractice.

Mrs. Little had undergone surgery for blocked arteries. Her lawyers, James Cardea and Scott Kurlander, claim the two surgeons had used an improper grafting technique during the surgery.

Doctor Soma Mandil was yesterday awarded $7.2 million in personal injury settlement from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Doctor Mandil fell and sustained a broken elbow in March 2007. She had been walking and then slipped on a rubber mat on a walkway in the Newport-Pavonia PATH station.

The accident has prevented her from returning to work at New York's NYU Medical Center, where she worked as an attending physician.

Dionne Bolton, a 21 year old from Edinburgh, Scotland, has been ordered to pay £200 in personal injury compensation($290 approx) to a police officer for ordering her dog to bite him.

The dog bit Consatble McGee on the backside, resulting in puncture wounds which required Consatble McGee to go to the hospital.

Constable Andrew McGee was one of 9 officers to enter Ms. Bolton's house, having obtained a search warrant to enter it.

Ms. Bolton apparently repeatedly shouted at her dog to "bite him", pointing at Constable McGee.

PA personal injury attorney Feldman Shepherd yesterday announced that they 11 of their personal injury attorneys were named amongst 2010's Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® (with 3 in the top 10). Mark W. Tanner, the firm's co-managing partner was also featured on the cover of the Philadelphia Magazine supplement which the list is published in.

On top of this great news, 3 of the firm's personal injury attorney's were named amongst Pennsylvania's 2010 Rising stars, which recognizes up and coming lawyers in the area.

Survivors of the Oil rig explosion which took place on April 20th and has led to an underwater oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico have urged memebrs of a House committee to hold BP and Transocean accountable for the accident, according to CNN.com

Workers on the rig said that they had consistently been asking for more help and that the explosion was 'hardly the first thing to go wrong' on the oil rig.

A Gwinnet County jury has awarded Mr. Roger McTaggart and his wife Glenda compensation of $317,000 in a personal injury case which could have very far reaching consequences for Yamaha.

Yamaha are facing a high number of lawsuits over their 'Rhino 660' utility-terrain vehicle (UTV) and it's safety problems, in particular is 'unsafe' design.

This is the first case in which Yamaha have been forced to pay, with the implication that future cases may be settled in the same way, leading to millions of dollars in costs for the company.

Jeffery Yates, a former barge worker, has been awarded a $14 million settlement from his former employer, Hercules Offshore.

Mr. Yates was struck by a falling pipe which had been temporarily tacked to the barge's derrick. When normal work began on the ship again, the vibrations caused the pipe to become loose and fall 90 feet before striking Mr.Yates in the head.

Mr. Yates was represented by Houston, Texas personal injury firm Arnold & Itkin LLC.

A woman in California is suing Google maps for a personal injuy claim, claiming their directions sent her down an unsafe road, which resulted in her being hit by a car.

The woman, Lauren Rosenberg says she followed directions that she had been provided with from Google Maps and that they led her onto a highway,which had no pedestrian walkway or sidewalk, and on which she was struck by a car.