Just before Thanksgiving 2009, two juries handed down separate judgments ordering the maker of the hormone replacement therapy medication Prempro to pay former users of the drug more than $100 million in damages. The juries concluded from evidence present at the trials that Prempro use contributed to the women’s development of breast cancer. A Peoria,…
“Two Metro workers were struck and killed by a maintenance vehicle along a track Tuesday, the latest in a string of fatalities since last year in the Washington area’s commuter rail system.”So begins an Associated Press report on a Jan. 26, 2010, accident in which two automatic train technicians died after being hit by a…
On Jan. 17, two North Carolina teenagers were killed in a single-car accident in Gates County, NC, according to Wavy TV-10. Alexandria Drake, 35, the driver and also one of the teens’ mother, was driving the teens when she allegedly drove into a ditch, a fence and then a tree, causing the vehicle to overturn…
A school bus carrying 30 children was hit by a pickup truck at an intersection on U.S. 17 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina (NC). The Virginian-Pilot is reporting one of the vehicles ran a traffic light at the intersection leading to the truck-bus wreck. View Larger Map The crash was so severe that the bus…
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