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New Mexico Jury Awards $40 Million Verdict in Student Truck Driver Accident Although many of us don’t realize it, Interstate “Big Rig” trucking plays a vital part in our everyday lives. As an example, practically everything that you buy in your local supermarket was at some point transported by a commercial truck. The same holds true for the car you drove to the shopping center to buy your child’s back-to-school clothes: both your car and your child’s clothing were transported…

New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel Collapses: Catastrophic Building Disaster Revisits Tragedy in the Iconic French Quarter Without warning, an 18-story building under construction on Canal Street at the edge of the New Orleans French Quarter began to collapse just after 9:00 on Saturday morning. The building was to be a New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel when completed. More than 100 workers were in the structure at the time of the deadly calamity. By mid-afternoon, emergency personnel reported that at least one…

One Dead After Hard Rock Hotel Construction Collapse in New Orleans New Orleans officials have confirmed that one person has been killed and two more are missing after a partial collapse at the Hard Rock Hotel. The upper six floors of the hotel, which was under construction on Canal Street near the city’s famous French Quarter, collapsed onto each other just after 9 a.m. this morning. Although the number of victims injured in the accident was reported to be “in…

The CDC is tracking reports of lung disease that may be related use of e-cigarettes and other “vaping products.” In this post our defective products injury lawyer describes the symptoms of this disease and offers suggestions for those who believe they may have been made ill bu using these products.

25 Dead, 9 Missing After Fire Destroys Charter Scuba Boat According news reports published by Reuters, the New York Times and the Associated Press, 25 people are confirmed to have died after a charter boat was destroyed by fire while anchored off Southern California’s Santa Cruz Island early Monday morning. Nine others are reported to be missing and are presumed to have also been killed in what local authorities are describing as the worst maritime accident in California waters in…