The following summary is compiled from multiple sources including The Buffalo News WBFO (NPR), the Buffalo Police Department, and the New York Times. On the night of April 11th 2019 Sebastian Serafin-Bazan, an 18-year-old “pledge” of the University of Buffalo’s Sigma Pi fraternity, was present at the fraternity’s off-campus residence at 69 Custer St in Buffalo’s University Heights area. According to two police sources, Serafin-Bazan’s fraternity “brothers” forced the young man to perform repetitive “exercises” from the late evening of…
Nauman Hussain enters “not guilty” plea after an accident on October 6th that killed 20 in Upstate New York. Hussain faces 3 to 15 years in prison for each count. Read more from the experienced bus accident lawyers at The Doan Law Firm.
In the midst of an evacuation undertaken in response to a gas leak in Durham, North Carolina, on the morning of April 10, 2019, a massive explosion occurred involving six buildings. One building was completely destroyed, that structure being the headquarters of Prescient Company. The Durham Fire Chief had been a first responder on 9/11 in Washington, D.C., described the scene in Durham as looking like the front of the Pentagon after the terrorist attack, albeit on a smaller scale….
A Maine State Trooper was killed in the second “freak” accident in the past month. Read more from the commercial truck accident lawyers at The Doan Law Firm about how “freak” accidents happen and the legal implications that follow.
Although it has no stated definition in law, the term “freak accident” is often used to describe an accident that is caused by a sequence of unlikely events occurring at roughly the same time. These accidents are sometimes called “perfect storm” accidents. In today’s post, the commercial truck accident lawyer at The Doan Law Firm reviews the known facts of one such accident. He then discusses how the law determines liability when dealing with an accident that may, at first…