A giant retailer of home improvement goods in the United States recently admitted that it continued to sell products even after they were recalled for various faults, including those which could cause burn injury. The products include specific brands of:  Garage door openers Electric welding torches Electric blower vacuums Electric ranges with defective burners Emergency […]

The family of a former NHL player recently filed a lawsuit against the NHL for failing to keep the former player safe, and for the league’s failure to inform him of the permanent consequences of brain injury to which players like him are regularly exposed. This lawsuit comes about a year after over 200 former

A common perception when it comes to child abuse is that step children are more susceptible to being abused by their non-biological parent than a biological parent. One recent case here in California, the People v. Poletti, only added to this belief. The step daughter of the defendant in the case accused her step father,

Yet another young life of a motorcyclist was claimed on California’s roadways in late October of 2015, while another was left injured after the crash. Anthony Terrones from Lompoc, California was riding his 2003 Honda motorcycle southbound from Highway 1 to US 101 on October 30th when he collided with a 2015 Chevrolet Impala, and

In late September, California prosecutors announced that they would not be charging Caitlyn Jenner for her involvement in a fatal multi-vehicle wreck earlier this year. Jenner could have faced misdemeanor manslaughter charges in connection with the February 2015 accident. Authorities were investigating the accident, which claimed the life of Kim Howe, 69, who died when

On May 23, 2013 work was being performed on the trolley tracks at the Imperial Transit Station in the East Village. Workers left the scene without providing any cautionary signage, resulting in more than 10 people tripping over the exposed rail at separate times. It was David Long who took the most serious tumble, tripping

It is a tale which is not so unfamiliar to us here in Southern California, but it is one which continues to shock and horrify us all. One man is dead and a woman is injured due to a vicious dog attack which took place in the Riverside County community of North Shore in early

It has been a long and arduous journey for the parents and the children who were victims of child abuse committed by a former Miramonte Elementary School teacher. In late 2010, law enforcement began to investigate one of the school’s teachers, Mark Berndt, after they uncovered dozens of questionable photographs of children. Berndt was eventually

A teenaged girl suffered serious injuries when the car in which she was traveling crashed into a Los Angeles County fire truck. The car was severely damaged and the injured girl had to be extracted from the vehicle. The accident occurred on the Pacific Coast Highway in California.   The victim suffered traumatic brain injury