Category Archives: Bay Area legal updates
Bay Area Businessman Dies Due to Bicycle Accident
Recently the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, based in San Francisco, California, lost its former board member, Duane Roth, to a bicycle accident. The accident, which occurred on July 21, caused injuries which led to Mr. Roth’s death on August 3. Mr. Roth was an important player in the San Francisco organization’s development of… Read More »
An Airplane Crash Attorney Evaluates the Causes in the Crash of Asiana Flight 214
Evaluating Causes in the Crash of Asiana Flight 214 Since the last blog on the topic, it has been discovered that there was a third fatality associated with the crash of Asiana airlines flight 214 at the San Francisco International Airport. Evidently, two of the fatalities occurred due to injuries sustained from the plane… Read More »
Legal Questions Surrounding Issues of Driverless Cars
As San Francisco law firm, we’ve been dealing with personal injury cases resulting from auto accidents for decades. New technology such as airbags and lane departure systems work to protect drivers from harm, but also have raised new liability issues in car accident cases. One particularly progressive form of automotive technology that may raise… Read More »
Lawsuits Filed from Asiana Airplane Accident at SFO
Asiana Airplane Accident Lawsuit Charges The passengers of Asiana Airlines Flight No. OZ 214 bound for San Francisco, California—which crashed on July 6, 2013 at San Francisco International Airport — filed personal injury actions. Younga Jun Machorro and her son, Benjamin Hyo-Ik Machorro, who were among the passengers aboard Flight 214, filed a six-page… Read More »
San Francisco Muni Light Rail Train Collision Ends in Personal Injury
Muni Light Rail Train Collision Injures 19 People A light rail train and a van collided in San Francisco at about 1:00 p.m. PDT on July 13, 2013. Nearly two dozen people were injured in the incident. According to City spokesperson Paul Rose, the van driver made an illegal left turn as the light… Read More »
Can California Restaurants Be Held Liable for Injuries from Criminal Activity On Premises?
According to a recent San Francisco news report, on June 16, 2013 at about 4:00 p.m. near Grant Avenue and Sutter Street, someone threw what looked like a quarter stick of dynamite through a restaurant’s window. A witness named Jonathan Danielson says that he followed the bombers and took a photograph of them with… Read More »
SF Attorney Discusses Animal Attacking and Killing Intern
Lion Attack Kills Intern At Big Cat Habitat in California A woman died tragically when a lion at the big cat habitat where she volunteered attacked and killed her, Fox News reported. Investigators expressed uncertainty regarding why the animal attacked the woman, and why the woman was inside the enclosure at all. State regulatory… Read More »
Local Lawyer Examines Tragic Cyclist Death After Collision with Garbage Truck
A 21-year old cyclist named Dylan Mitchell was killed in San Francisco in a crash on Thursday, May 23, 2013, around 6:45 a.m. when a Recology garbage truck traveling in the same direction turned right on South Van Ness Avenue and struck him. Dylan was riding his bicycle to work at the time. It… Read More »
Mother Sues Obstetrician, Hospital Over Alleged Botched Delivery
A woman, whose son was born with severe health problems, has sued the hospital where she delivered the child, and the obstetrician who handled the delivery. The mother contends that a series of missteps by the medical providers caused her son’s condition, according to injurylawyer-news.com. The Doctor Allegedly Didn’t Perform The Procedure Requested By… Read More »
Family Sues City, County, School District for Fatal Accident at ‘Intersection of Death’
A horrific accident at a Watts intersection did permanent damage to a Los Angeles family, leaving a father dead and a daughter suffering from severe and permanent physical injuries. According to a lawsuit the family recently filed, the tragedy was preventable, as the intersection had a long reputation for danger and injuries, but the… Read More »
