Latest Personal Injury Law News

Family files lawsuit against CenterPoint after children shocked, burned by power wire
Tuesday February 26th 2013, 6:07 pm Filed under Accident lawsuit

SPRING. Texas -- Ten days after a 5-year-old and her 3-year-old old brother were shocked and severely burned by a dangling power pole guy wire, an attorney has filed a lawsuit on the family’s behalf. “I don’t think this family is ever going to be made whole again,” said attorney Tony Buzbee, who believes the power company is solely responsible for what happened that day. “No parent would let ... [News Source]

Detroit area country club settles discrimination lawsuit with West Michigan atheist group
Tuesday February 26th 2013, 6:01 pm Filed under Discrimination lawsuit

Canceled event featuring Richard Dawkins prompted lawsuit . [News Source]

Woman's family launches lawsuit over fatal snowmobile accident
Tuesday February 26th 2013, 5:44 pm Filed under Accident lawsuit

A deadly Manitoba snowmobile accident is now the subject of a civil lawsuit. Mathilda Wollman, 48, was decapitated by a Manitoba Hydro guy wire while riding as a passenger on a snowmobile driven by Philip Waldner. The incident happened in February 2011 on a groomed trail in a ditch beside Hwy. [News Source]

Flint City Council Vice President Bryant Nolden sues Flint schools for sexual harassment, gender discrimination
Tuesday February 26th 2013, 5:22 pm Filed under Sexual harassment lawsuit

FLINT, MI -- A Flint city councilman is suing Flint schools after he claims he was the victim of sexual harassment and gender discrimination while working as a teacher. [News Source]

Atheist discrimination lawsuit settled with Michigan country club
Tuesday February 26th 2013, 3:27 pm Filed under Discrimination lawsuit

BUFFALO, N.Y. A New York-based atheist organization that accused a Michigan country club of discrimination says the lawsuit has been settled. [News Source]

Silicon Valley Star Lands New Job a Month After Sex Scandal
Tuesday February 26th 2013, 2:48 pm Filed under Sexual harassment lawsuit

A little more than one month after a sexual harassment scandal threatened to sink a Silicon Valley superangel, Keith Rabois has landed a new gig that puts him not too far from his old one. [News Source]

Mich. club settles atheist discrimination suit
Tuesday February 26th 2013, 2:32 pm Filed under Discrimination lawsuit

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A New York-based atheist organization that accused a Michigan country club of discrimination says the lawsuit has been settled. The Center for Inquiry says Tuesday that the Wyndgate Country Club of Rochester Hills, Mich., has agreed to pay it an undisclosed sum. [News Source]