The family of Randy Rakes, a 38-year-old Finksburg, Maryland pedestrian who died last year after he was hit by a police cruiser, has filed a $15.8 million wrongful death lawsuit against Trooper Dale Derr, the police officer who was driving the vehicle, and the Maryland State Police. Rakes had been…
The family of a 12-year-old boy that died from a staph infection is going to sue the city of New York with a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit. Omar Rivera’s mother, Aileen Rivera, says she will sue the city because doctors at Kings County Hospital Center misdiagnosed his illness. Omar…
A couple is suing Walgreens for wrongful death. The Missouri couple is claiming that the woman miscarried her baby because a Walgreens pharmacy accidentally gave her a chemotherapy drug instead of the prenatal vitamin that a doctor had prescribed her. Instead of being given the prenatal vitamin Materna, a Walgreens…
The National Safety Council says that accidental deaths are increasing in the United States. It also cited accidents as the number three cause of death in Washington D.C. and the number six cause of fatalities in Maryland. The NSC says that accidents are the major cause of death for people…
Victor Z. Kolako, the former metrobus driver who killed two female pedestrians on Valentine’s Day in a deadly motor vehicle accident, pled guilty to two counts of negligent homicide last Friday. As part of his plea agreement, prosecutors will pursue a prison sentence of no more than three years for…
A Hagerstown man died on Monday afternoon in Ringgold Pike in northern Washington County when the 2005 Honda Pilot SUV he was riding in was struck by a Ford Explorer in a head-on collision. Paul Allen Vanderford died at the accident scene. The driver of his car was his 15-year-old…
Kevin Stavely, a 17-year-old teenager from Sunderland, Maryland, died last Saturday in a single car accident in Huntington. Stavely was riding in a car being driven by 19-Year-old David M. Clark. According to police, Clark was driving under the influence of alcohol when the accident happened at Shelley’s Crossing and…
The family of a 69-year-old woman killed in a hit-and-run accident collision last September in Rockville, Maryland has filed a $30 Million civil lawsuit. Ketty Emilce Alvarado died after allegedly being struck by a bakery truck driven by David Marc Friedlander on the morning of September 26, 2006 at the…
Richard W. Moser, a Maryland State Highway worker, died on Wednesday after being struck by a white pick-up truck on U.S. 340 eastbound close to I-70. Maryland State Police say that Moser was working on the side of a bridge that morning when Brian McCully drove his pick-up truck onto…
Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley has signed into law a bill that imposes penalties on failing to stop at a nonfunctioning traffic light located off a highway exit ramp. The penalties will be the same as for running a red light. The state legislation created the bill after a deadly motor…