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Dangerous Products at the Amazon Marketplace Who’s Responsible When Someone is Injured? Many people do not fully realize that products are sold through Amazon, the mammoth internet retail venue, in two different ways. Most folks who do understand that products of different types are sold through Amazon in two distinctly different ways don’t appreciate what historically has been the legal consequences of these disparate sales avenues. First, products are sold through Amazon directly. Second, hundreds of thousands of products are…

Kobe Bryant Tragedy: A Look at the Helicopter Crash Investigation As the nation mourns the tragic death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter GiGi, and seven other people, the investigation into the underlying cause or causes of the deadly helicopter crash is now underway. The crash occurred on Sunday, January 26, at about 9:45 in the morning. The flight had only been in the air for about 45 minutes before the crash. Before boarding the chopper, Bryant and his…

15 College Fraternities Suspended in January At The Doan Law Firm we usually post updates from our fraternity hazing database each calendar quarter along with an annual summary. However, the first month of the new year saw a record 15 fraternities that were suspended by their host schools. In today’s post our fraternity hazing injury lawyer presents a list of college fraternities that were either temporarily suspended pending investigation, suspended for at least 1 year, or permanently expelled by their host…

What Is a FAA Part 135 Operator? In the wake of the helicopter crash that took the lives of former LA Lakers star Kobe Bryant and 8 others, there has been considerable news coverage of the fact that the helicopter was owned and operated by Island Express, a “Part 135” aircraft operator. However, these same news reports often fail to describe what a Part 135 operator actually is. In today’s post the aircraft accident injury lawyer at The Doan Law…

The Latest Chapter in the Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal in the United States 2019 marked a new round of broad media coverage about the sexual abuse of children by priests and other people in positions of authority in the Catholic Church in the United States and in some other religious faiths as well. The spike in media coverage largely resulted from the fact that a growing number of Catholic dioceses in the United States were undertaking some effort with attorneys…