Dallas Employment Law Specialist Offers Tips to Avoid Legal Liability at the Company Party

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com/cdklawyers.com// 12/10/2011 While a company party should be a time for fun and merriment, an employer must prepare carefully to avoid potential legal issues. Dallas employment lawyer Keith Clouse provides the following tips.   First, an employer should consider the added legal exposure that serving alcohol can bring. To avoid alcohol-related problems, an […]

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Examines Workers’ Compensation Benefits and Subrogation Rights

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com/cdklawyers.com// 12/09/2011 Following a collision that rendered him paraplegic, an employee was paid workers’ compensation benefits. He and his wife sued several third parties for causing the wreck. His employer intervened to protect its subrogation rights for the workers’ compensation benefits it had paid to the employee. Following a vacated jury verdict, the […]

Oklahoma State Victory Celebration Injures Football Fans

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com12/05/2011 // WPB, FL, USA // Injury Lawyers News // Nicole Howley Stillwater, OK — Several people were injured in a post-game celebration that turned chaotic as thousands of fans rushed onto the field, after Oklahoma State University beat their rival University of Oklahoma, reported Reuters. Several different reports have indicated that somewhere […]

Snapped Cable at New Jersey Construction Site Kills Worker

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com12/05/2011 // WPB, FL, USA // Injury Lawyers News // Nicole Howley North Bergen, NJ — A work-related construction accident killed a worker Saturday, December 3, 2011, when a cable pulling a trash container snapped and was flung into the back windshield of a truck. The fatal construction accident occurred in a residential […]

Queens Nursing Home Resident Dies in Staircase Fall

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com12/05/2011 // WPB, FL, USA // Injury Lawyers News // Nicole Howley Queens, NY — Police are looking into an accident at a Queens nursing home that led to the death of a resident over the weekend. The wheelchair-bound resident fell down a staircase Sunday morning, December 4, 2011, at Margaret Tietz Nursing […]

North Texas Woman Loses Hand After Being Hit by Airplane Propeller

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com12/05/2011 // WPB, FL, USA // Injury Lawyers News // Nicole Howley McKinney, TX — The editor of an online fashion magazine, LoloMag.com, was seriously injured when she accidentally walked too close to a small plane’s propeller. The North Texas woman lost her hand in the Saturday, December 3, 2011 accident that took […]

18-Wheeler Jackknifes, Catches Fire in Northwest Houston; 2 Injured

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com12/05/2011 // WPB, FL, USA // Injury Lawyers News // Nicole Howley Houston, TX — Two people were rushed to the hospital after an 18-wheeler jackknifed in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 on Monday, December 5, 2011. The 18-wheeler accident took place around 2:45 a.m. on the Katy Freeway eastbound near the […]

CPSC: Nygala Corp. Recalls Halloween Projection Flashlights for Burn/Fire Risks

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com12/02/2011 // WPB, FL, USA // Injury Lawyers News // Nicole Howley Teterboro, NJ — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Nygala Corporation have announced a voluntary product recall of Halloween Projection Flashlights for fire and burn hazards the product poses to consumers. The CPSC announced the nationwide recall on December […]

Classroom Experiment Injured 4 at Southern Minn. Junior High

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com12/02/2011 // WPB, FL, USA // Injury Lawyers News // Nicole Howley Maple Grove, MN — Four students were rushed to the hospital, including one student whose face caught on fire, after an experiment went terribly wrong at Maple Grove Junior High, reported CBS Minnesota. The ninth grade students were conducting a methanol […]