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UCSF Shuttle Driver Facing Vehicular Manslaughter Charges For Passenger Death
A University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) shuttle bus driver is facing vehicular manslaughter charges due to his role in a fatal accident that took place last year on Octavia Boulevard. The San Francisco Examiner reports that Wallace J. Richardson, was driving a shuttle bus that collided with a big rig truck on July… Read More »
Lawsuit Filed Against Hospital For Exorbitant ER Bill
Our San Francisco personal injury attorneys know it is not uncommon to see exorbitant emergency bills in accident cases, including auto collisions, falls, and similar situations. Recently, a woman filed a lawsuit challenging a hospital’s $20,211 emergency room bill, incurred after she was involved in an accident caused by a driver going the wrong… Read More »
San Francisco Attorney Discusses Accident-Prone N-Judah Line
Frequent collisions on the N-Judah have made it Muni’s most accident-prone line, according to articles in the San Francisco Examiner and The Huffington Post. The N-Judah, which travels from Ocean Beach to the Caltrain station on Fourth and King Streets, was involved in a whopping 84 collisions between 2008 and 2011, averaging out to… Read More »
Family Settles $5M Lawsuit in Fatal California Car Crash
The Los Angeles Times recently reported that a settlement was reached in a case involving a horrific 2009 car crash between the LAPD and a young woman. The woman, who died a few days later, was 25-year-old Devin Petelski. Petelski was driving home from her job as a counselor for troubled children. She suffered… Read More »
San Francisco Mechanic’s Death Prompts Cal-OSHA Investigation
A mechanic working on a bus at a maintenance yard in the Bayview district suffered fatal injuries the morning of December 15, 2011, when the bus rolled over him. Fifty-eight year-old Walter Pietilla was working under the bus’ hood when it apparently rolled off the support ramp and pinned him underneath, crushing him to… Read More »
Airplane Accidents Avoided: Intoxicated Pilots Removed From Cockpits
There were two stories in the news recently about pilots who had been drinking, and were removed from their planes before takoff. The most recent such story of an airplane accident avoided involved a Delta Airlines flight from London to Boston, where the pilot was flagged after telling the tower that he was headed… Read More »
Alameda Jury Pools Don’t Reflect The Ethnic Balance of the Population According to ACLU Study
In any personal injury case, the composition of the jury is extremely important. Even if the case can be settled, that settlement will be largely based on what the lawyers think a jury might decide, if the case went to trial. For Oakland injury accident cases, any jury trial will likely be in Alameda… Read More »
Kaiser Malpractice Injury: Nursing Negligence Causes Death
Oakland Nurse’s Error is Determined Cause of Death The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that a patient at Kaiser hospital in Oakland died due to a nurse’s error in administering intravenous medication. Although the Chronicle’s initial story about this malpractice incident did not describe the error, later news reports said that the nurse, a… Read More »
Muni Accident Rate Down Due To Cameras Aboard Vehicles
A story in The San Francisco Examiner reports that San Francisco Muni accidents are down 50% with the installation of DriveCam surveillance systems in all of the Muni buses, according to a Muni study. Cameras Capture San Francisco Bus Drivers On Video The cameras are activated by sudden changes in velocity, such a sharp… Read More »
New Scan Helps Disclose TBI: Traumatic Brain Injury
A new MRI scanning technique, called diffusion tensor imaging, or DTI, can disclose abnormalities in patients with traumatic brain injury, whose injuries could not be seen on any diagnostic imaging, according to a study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and reported by the National Library of Medicine. As an attorney… Read More »
