Category: Personal Injury

Tiger Woods faces a wrongful death lawsuit after a 24-year-old employee at the golfer’s flagship restaurant crashed his car after being served alcohol while working as a bartender. According to a CBS news report, Woods is being sued along with his girlfriend Erica Herman and his Woods Jupiter Corporation, which runs the restaurant in Jupiter, Florida. …Read the rest »

A California jury returned an unprecedented $2-billion verdict against Monsanto in favor of a couple who said their cancer was caused by long-term exposure to Monsanto’s popular weed killer, Roundup. According to a CNN news report, the verdict in Oakland includes more than $55 million in compensatory damages to the couple and $2 billion in punitive damages. This verdict is in line with several recent jury verdicts against Monsanto involving Roundup. Thousands of similar cases are also pending at the federal or state level. …Read the rest »

A report from State Farm Insurance shows it paid $123 million for 3,280 dog bite injury claims last year, which was a 9 percent decrease compared with dog bite claims in 2017 and a drop of 7 percent in the total amount paid. However, according to Insurance Journal, California has been on the top of State Farm’s list in 2017 and 2018 for the highest number of dog bite injury claims at 409. The total amount paid by State Farm in dog attack cases totaled $18.6 million in 2018. …Read the rest »

Earlier this month, the United States Postal Service (USPS) releases statistics about dog bite incidents involving mail carriers. Well, there was good news and bad news. The good news was that the number of postal employees attacked by dogs nationwide fell to 5,714 in 2018, more than 500 fewer than 2017 and more than 1,000 fewer since 2016. …Read the rest »

Makeup company Sephora has reached a settlement with a woman who claimed she got oral herpes from a lipstick sample. According to a CBS Los Angeles news report, Elena Davoyan of Glendale filed the lawsuit against Sephora in October 2017 saying she got a cold sore on her lip after trying a lipstick sample at Sephora’s store at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue. The lawsuit also stated that Davoyan did not have herpes or cold sores before visiting the store or trying on the lipstick sample. The terms of the settlement were not revealed. …Read the rest »

Self-driving car company Waymo is planning to more than double its driverless car operations in Arizona this year with a new Technical Service Center in Mesa. According to a report in the Arizona Republic, Waymo brought its driverless cars to Chandler, Arizona, in 2016 and now has a 60,000-square-foot garage and operations center there with hundreds of vehicles driving test routes and carrying passengers in the region. …Read the rest »

Two women have been seriously injured in a dog attack in Northern California’s Butte County. According to a KTXL news report, Gary Parsons told the station he was in his front yard when he had to run from nine loose dogs from his next-door neighbor’s property. When he slammed the door, the dogs charged another neighbor, a woman. Parsons said the dogs mauled her and almost got her main artery in the neck. The injured woman has been identified as Sarah Davi. …Read the rest »

A mother has filed a personal injury lawsuit on behalf of her 5-year-old daughter who she said was bitten when she attempted to pet an emotional support pit bull at Portland International Airport after getting the dog owner’s permission to do so. According to a report in The Washington Post, the girl’s mother Mirna Gonzalez said she had stepped away from Gate C7 to buy coffee on Dec. 18, 2017, when she heard her daughter scream. She ran back and saw her daughter Gabriella’s face covered in blood. …Read the rest »

NBA player Blake Griffin is facing a dog bite lawsuit from a man who says Griffin’s dog bit him as he ate at an upscale Los Angeles restaurant last year. According to a report in People.com, the plaintiff, Emmanuel Aframian, claims he was at A Votre Sante Mediterranean Restaurant on June 10, 2018 when Griffin’s dog lunged and viciously attacked him without being provoked. …Read the rest »