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• Vehicle Fire Investigation: Critical Part of Your Case

  Jennifer Moore | March 27, 2008 12:12 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Vehicle fire investigation is an expertise that requires specialized training. Among the challenges in a vehicle fire investigation is determining cause and origin from the remaining evidence in a devastating car, motorcycle or tractor trailer fire. Often, evidence has been destroyed and it is incumbent on the trained fire investigator to make determinations based on circumstantial evidence...

• Jefferson County Jury Awards $3.25 Million in Vehicle Fire Case

  Jennifer Moore | March 26, 2008 12:03 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The Courier-Journal reported that a Louisville jury awarded more than $3.25 million in damages to the family of a man who died from burns sustained in a vehicle fire. Attorneys at Grossman & Moore represented the family. For more information about the jury verdict and the facts of the vehicle fire, read the story in the Louisville paper. Bernard Mulligan was sitting in his 1995 Buick Riviera...

• Five Die in Car Wreck on I-65

  Jennifer Moore | March 20, 2008 8:27 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Tragedy struck early yesterday morning when a pick-up truck hydroplaned on I-65 and crossed the median colliding with another vehicle. A family of three was in the pick-up truck on their way to the State Capitol to participate in a 4-H Club visit. All three in the pick-up truck died as a result of the collision. Two other people died in the other vehicle. The Kentucky State Police is...

• Actor John Ritter's Doctors Cleared in Malpractice Suit

  Jennifer Moore | March 17, 2008 1:39 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  The family of John Ritter brought suit against his cardiologist and radiologist for medical malpractice. Actor Ritter died in 2003 of a torn aorta. A jury cleared both the cardiologist and radiologist of any negligence. The family had previously settled with eight other medical providers. The family argued that the cardiologist should have ordered a chest x-ray which may have revealed a torn...

• How Common are Medical Mistakes?

  Jennifer Moore | March 16, 2008 8:53 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  How common are medical mistakes that occur at hospitals across the U.S.? Unfortunately, more common than most of us realize. In an interview with 60 Minutes, Dennis Quaid recounted how his twins almost died due to a medical mistake. The twins almost died last November when nurses at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles mistakenly gave them an adult version of a blood thinner causing a drug...