Houston Personal Injury Lawyer

On March 28, 2006, Texas residents Kent and Tamara Peterson were driving home when they were struck by a pick up truck. Both suffered serious injuries. Tamara suffered a stroke. This has since resulted in cognitive problems and permanent loss of the use of her left side.

The crash occurred on Highway 105 near Brenham, west of Houston. A pick up truck of Universal Cable Holdings, driven by Gary Wayne Gibbs, crossed the center line of the highway and hit Peterson’s car.

The Petersons sued the driver of the pick up truck, Gibbs, and his in San Jacinto County, Texas. On the 4th day of the trial, a verdict of $29,391,378 was awarded.

To learn more, contact the Houston Auto Accident Attorneys at Williams Kherkher at 1.800.220.9341.

On Tuesday July 11, 2006, a subway train derailed in downtown Chicago. The accident took place during evening rush hour traffic. The material under the train caught fire and the last coach was derailed.

All the commuters were evacuated within an hour. Over 60 persons were injured in the derailment. One of the those was 85-year-old Elfa Lari. She suffered a brain hemorrhage, broken ribs, a ruptured spleen and other injuries while trying to escape.

Lari sued the Chicago Transit Authority. The Transit Authority settled her lawsuit for $1.25 million.  To learn more, contact the Personal Injury Attorneys at Williams Kherkher.

An accident took place on April 18, 2002, where Scott White died as a result of injuries suffered while working at construction site.  White was working with a construction company IM & MC, LLC, which was located in Dothan, Alabama.  The company was the general contractor on a job under contract with Georgia Pacific to remove and replace a portion of the roof on an old plywood building on Georgia Pacific’s premises in Cedar Springs, Georgia.  The roof of the building at the time was in a bad state of repair.

Scott White was performing work on the roof and fell through.  The incident occurred as Mr. White and another employee were carrying a large tin sheet.  White stepped on a rotten part of the roof, which gave way, causing him to fall through.  He died the following day.

A lawsuit for wrongful death was filed by the widow against the contractor and Georgia Pacific.  The case was settled after mediation on January 11, 2008.  The amount of the settlement was not disclosed.

For more information, contact the Houston Personal Injury Lawyers at Williams Kherkher.

On April 7, state and federal investigators raided the house of Robert Rinaldi on the shores on White Island Pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts. They seized enough fireworks and explosives to blow up the neighborhood.

Neighbors said that’s nearly what happened 17 years ago, when a cache of fireworks exploded at 215 Sandy Pond Road.

More than 8 hours were spent by investigators from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the state fire marshal’s office and the Plymouth Fire Department taking fireworks and explosives from the home of Rinaldi.

Six improvised explosive devices were found in an 18-foot box truck along with homemade fireworks, a quantity of black powder, and chemical equipment. Rinaldi first came to the attention of authorities in the summer of 1990 after a nearby resident was injured with fireworks.

To learn more, contact the Personal Injury Lawyers at Williams Kherkher at 1.800.220.9341.

Six-year-old Abigail Taylor died of complications from a wading pool accident last summer. Abigail was seriously injured on June 29, 2007, when she sat on an uncovered drain in a wading pool at the Minneapolis Golf Club in St. Louis Park. The suction pulled out 21 feet of her small intestine. She died in March of this year after contracting cancer related to a triple-organ transplant.

In November, Abigail’s family sued the pool manufacturer Sta-Rite, owned by a Golden Valley company, as well as the country club. The Minnesota girl’s recent death changed the family’s lawsuit from a personal injury case to a wrongful death case.

To learn more, contact the Houston Personal Injury Lawyers at Williams Kherkher.