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Administration officials at Ohio State University announced the suspension of a trio of fraternities as the school continues to deal with the immense fallout from a sex abuse scandal abuse scandal in the university’s athletic department involving nearly 300 student victims. The latest round of lawsuits in mammoth sex abuse scandal were filed at the end of 2019 The Ohio State University fraternities that were suspended by the school include Phi Delta Theta, until August 2024. Zeta Beta Tau and…

On any given day in the United States, you can find one headline after another online, on the air, and in newspapers that roar: Bicycle Rider Killed in Downtown Accident Man Pleads Guilty in Fatal Bicyclist Crash After Bicyclist Killed in Crash, Driver Sentenced to Eight Years for Vehicular Homicide Woman in Bike Crash Reportedly Suffered Head Injury Driver Asleep at Wheel in Car-Bike Fatal Accident Bicyclist Killed in Hit and Run Accident Bicycle accidents occur at an alarming rate…

Class Action and Mass Tort Lawsuits Everyone has seen the “lawyer ads” that urge you to contact a toll-free number if you have been injured by using some particular product or medical device. But did you know that many of the lawsuits filed in such cases are classified as either class action or mass tort lawsuits rather than as individual personal injury lawsuits? In today’s post the class action/mass tort lawyer at The Doan Law Firm will explain the similarities…

During the summer of 2019, a North Carolina woman began to harbor suspicions that her mother wasn’t receiving adequate care in the nursing home where the 86-year old woman lived. The woman worried that her mother was being left unattended for prolonged periods of time when she was in need of assistance. In order to have a better idea of what was and was not going on with her mother at the nursing home, the woman installed a portable camera…

Regarding deaths that were linked to fraternity hazing or to fraternity sponsored “social events,” 2019 was the deadliest year in the past decade. In today’s post, our fraternity hazing lawyer gives a year-end recap of fraternity hazing practices that led to the needless deaths of 8 young men.