California Personal Injury Attorneys

It is a well-established fact that understaffing is a problem that is at the root nursing home neglect and abuse. We constantly see examples of cases where a catastrophic injury or fatality could have been prevented if only the nursing home had adequate qualified personnel to take care of its patients. An Orange County jury has ordered St. Edna skilled nursing home in Santa Ana to pay $3.1 million to a woman who became brain-injured because she was given a morphine overdose at the facility. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, 57-year-old Barbara Lefforge was only at the nursing facility for less than six hours when the overdose occurred. Read the rest of this entry »

Authorities have identified a woman killed in a multi-vehicle car accident in Anaheim as 46-year-old Isabel Tizapan Ortega. The Orange County Register reports that Ortega's daughter sustained critical injuries in this July 15, 2010 street intersection crash. Anaheim police say the accident occurred at the intersection of East Miraloma Avenue and North Blue Gum Street when a 2005 Nissan sedan driven by Tizapan was struck by a 1997 blue Chevy pickup truck. The Nissan was headed north on Blue Gum and the Chevy pickup truck was going east on Miraloma. Read the rest of this entry »

Derek Roberts, 45, was killed in an Orange County car accident after the vehicle in which he was a passenger crashed on a Trabuco Canyon roadway. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the fatal car crash occurred the night of June 29, 2010 on Live Oak Canyon Road near Old Stage Road. California Highway Patrol officials say Roberts was a passenger in a 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer traveling south when the 32-year-old female driver unsafely turned and lost control. Read the rest of this entry »

Occupants of a vehicle were injured in a Santa Ana car accident the morning of June 13, 2010. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the injury collision occurred near the Orangethorpe Avenue off-ramp of the northbound 57 Freeway. California Highway Patrol officials said an SUV struck a sedan, which then overturned. Occupants of the sedan were injured, but it is not clear how serious the injuries were. The male driver of the SUV fled the scene of the crash, but was arrested shortly afterward. Read the rest of this entry »

A school office employee who sustained serious injuries in a dog bite incident the afternoon of June 8, 2010, has been identified as 65-year-old Marilyn Reyes. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, Reyes was attacked by a loose dog, which wandered into the office. Reyes was attacked unprovoked and bitten numerous times. She suffered puncture wounds and had to undergo surgery to repair a ruptured artery. The dog has been quarantined in a county facility. The dog owner has been identified and an investigation is ongoing. Read the rest of this entry »

A hit-and-run accident in Aliso Viejo resulted in serious injuries to a 65-year-old woman who was a passenger in a Toyota Matrix that was struck by another car at a street intersection. The Orange County Register reports that the accident occurred the night of May 22, 2010 at the intersection of Aliso Viejo Parkway and Moulton Parkway. Read the rest of this entry »

A 6-year-old girl suffered injuries in a dog bite incident in Lake Forest after a loose dog attacked her in the driveway of her own home. According to a Los Angeles Times news report, the girl's mother shot the dog, believed to be a pit bull mix or boxer, which attacked her daughter the morning of May 19, 2010. Two of her daughters, ages 3 and 6, were walking to a neighbor's house when the dog attack occurred. The dog quickly got on top of the 6-year-old and repeatedly bit her. Read the rest of this entry »

One woman sustained injuries in an Orange car accident after her vehicle was involved in a crash with another vehicle at an intersection. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the driver of a Ford Taurus had to be extricated from her car after it was T-boned by a Nissan Altima at the intersection of Lincoln Avenue and Glassell Street the morning of May 13, 2010. The driver of the Nissan was uninjured. The driver of the Ford Taurus was transported to a local hospital with unknown injuries. Read the rest of this entry »

Three people were injured in an Orange County car accident after two vehicles were struck by another car whose driver, authorities say, was operating erratically just before the collision. The Orange County Register reports that the injury collision occurred the afternoon of March 26, 2010 on the 5 Freeway near El Camino Real, in San Clemente. The driver of the Mercedes, who officials say was speeding and driving recklessly, slammed into the center divider after which the car struck a BMW and another car. The driver of the BMW sustained critical injuries. A passenger in the BMW and the driver of the other car were also taken to a local hospital with injuries. Read the rest of this entry »

A 26-year-old skateboarder sustained serious injuries in an Orange County car accident after he was struck by a suspected drunk driver the morning of March 28, 2010.The Orange County Register reports that the man was skateboarding on Moulton Parkway near Aliso Creek Road, in Laguna Niguel, when he was struck by a 2003 Suzuki driven by 22-year-old Andrew Colleta. The skateboarder suffered a broken leg, cuts and scratches. Colleta was arrested on suspicion of felony drunk driving. Orange County court records indicate that Colleta received speeding tickets in previous years including, one for "driving across, over or upon divided highways." Read the rest of this entry »