Latest Personal Injury Law News

Appellate court revives amputee's lawsuit over fall during home attic ladder installation
Sunday February 24th 2013, 11:05 pm Filed under Accident lawsuit

Contractor claims West Boynton homeowner negligent for injury during 2008 project Charles Umile fell about 10 feet during the installation of an attic ladder in a retiree's home west of Boynton Beach nearly five years ago, and the contractor's crippled right leg was later amputated after five surgeries failed to save it. [News Source]

Group files lawsuit over snowmobile trails
Sunday February 24th 2013, 10:05 pm Filed under Environmental lawsuit

An Adirondack environmental group is challenging New York state snowmobile policy changes in court.      Protect the Adirondacks says new road-like 12-foot-wide "community connector" trails would require cutting thousands of trees in the Adirondacks in violation of the state constitution's "forever wild" clause. The group says the trails also would allow large grooming machines in violation of ... [News Source]

Reid, Feinstein urged Sierra Club not to fight RPU
Sunday February 24th 2013, 4:22 pm Filed under Environmental lawsuit

Federal legislators urged the Sierra Club not to delay the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's Regional Plan Update prior to the environmental group's challenge to the wide-ranging plan this week. [News Source]

NY group files lawsuit over plan to widen Adirondack snowmobile trails
Sunday February 24th 2013, 3:15 pm Filed under Environmental lawsuit

ALBANY (AP) -- An Adirondack environmental group is challenging New York state snowmobile policy changes in court. [News Source]

NY group files lawsuit over snowmobile trails
Sunday February 24th 2013, 1:03 pm Filed under Environmental lawsuit

An Adirondack environmental group is challenging New York state snowmobile policy changes in court. [News Source]

NY group files lawsuit over snowmobile trails
Sunday February 24th 2013, 12:29 pm Filed under Environmental lawsuit

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - An Adirondack environmental group is challenging New York state snowmobile policy changes in court. [News Source]

Settlement is announced in lawsuit challenging approval of industrial project in Mira Loma Village, located south of …
Sunday February 24th 2013, 11:10 am Filed under Environmental lawsuit

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris recently announced a settlement in a lawsuit challenging the approval of an industrial project in Riverside County that would cause additional diesel truck traffic near a community already disproportionately affected by diesel exhaust and noise pollution. [News Source]