Personal Injury Lawyer Journal

St. Joseph's Hospital in Orange has been fined $50,000 for a 2009 incident that caused serious personal injuries and the eventual death of a patient whose oxygen tank ran empty and wasn't refilled by employees.

The California auto defect law firm, BISNAR | CHASE, has recently filed a product liability wrongful death lawsuit against Chrysler Corporation and Diamond Dodge Chrysler of Flagstaff, Arizona.

An elderly woman was killed in a San Diego car accident after she was struck by television news vehicle at an intersection in the Kearny Mesa area. According to a news report in The San Diego Union-Tribune, the woman was crossing at the intersection of Shawline Street and Clairemont Mesa Boulevard the evening of January 21, 2010, when the vehicle hit her.

Tomika Monique Washington, 33, was killed in a Riverside car accident the morning of January 19, 2010 after she lost control of her vehicle on Highway 60 and crashed, The Press Enterprise reports.

A teenager who was killed in a Los Angeles car accident the morning of December 30, 2009 on the 5 Freeway in Santa Clarita, has been identified by local authorities as Emerald Arias.

Mary Cox, 84, died December 20, 2009 after she was critically injured in a Ventura car accident last month.

A 96-year-old man was killed in a Los Angeles car accident after he was hit by a vehicle while crossing a Lakewood intersection.

A 58-year-old driver was killed in a San Francisco car accident caused by a beanbag chair on the roadway. According to a CBS news report, the driver ran over the chair in the fast lane on Highway 280 the morning of December 8, 2009. The collision apparently stalled the 1996 Toyota Tacoma that came to a stop between the fast lane and the number two lane. The driver then, got out of the truck. Moments later, a 41-year-old man in a 2006 Toyota Tacoma hit the stopped truck and its driver, while trying to avoid more debris in the same area. California Highway Patrol officials said alcohol was not a factor in this fatal car accident. Authorities are looking for witnesses who may have seen the vehicle responsible for spilling the debris on the roadway.

A motorcyclist sustained fatal injuries in a Los Angeles car accident after he was struck by a vehicle the night of November 30, 2009, City News Service reports.

A woman who was killed November 19, 2009 in a San Francisco car accident has been identified as 70-year-old Jon Kong.