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Protecting Your Legal Rights and Interests After a Holiday Shopping Accident The holiday shopping season will soon be upon us. Historically, the holiday shopping season was said to start on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. In recent years, people start shopping for the yearend holidays far sooner, as early as the end of October or the beginning of November. With the increase in the number of people flocking to brick and mortar world stores during the holiday shopping season,…

A worker caught under a collapsed concrete slab at the old Galveston Flagship Hotel died of his injuries yesterday, say reports. The worker, Tauelangi Angilau, 65, of Salt Lake City, Utah, died Tuesday after a half-ton piece of concrete fell on him as he worked to demolish the historic Galveston hotel at 2501 Seawall Blvd.. Angilau, who was trapped for about 20 minutes before the slab was lifted off him and he was transported to University of Texas Medical Branch,…

A freak accident in Bellevue, Iowa left one dead and 23 others injured when two runaway horses pulling a wagon trampled spectators at a small-town Fourth of July parade, reports say.   The horses became spooked and bolted after they tangled with each other. At that point, one of the horses lost its bridle, reports say. The horses then galloped for several blocks with the wagon, trampling some and crashing into others. In addition, the wagon flipped and its two…

Stretching for a foul ball a Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, a man fell from the second deck into the field level seats. The man fell during the fifth inning of a game between the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers last summer. The incident occurred when Texas right fielder Nelson Cruz fouled a ball into the first row of seats along the first-base line. He simply leaned too far off the club level seat and toppled onto the seats below,…

A toddler became seriously injured earlier this year when his left leg became trapped between the escalator skirt and the side of escalator while descending the escalator. The accident, which occurred when the unnamed child somehow caught his foot in the device and then was pulled into the side of the steps of the conveyance, left the child with injuries to both legs. But the end result was serious injuries to his trapped leg, with some parts of his leg…