A West Haven High School graduate died on Monday, September 23 after his car crashed into a utility pole, police said. 18-year old A.J. Cedillo died at Yale-New Haven Hospital due to serious, life-threatening injuries he sustained in the crash. His passengers, three teenage girls, are alive but ...
Over 2 million various electric dehumidifiers that were manufactured by Gree Electric Appliances are being recalled due to risk that they may overheat and cause fire, according to an article published by USA Today on Thursday, September 12. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CP...
A Connecticut carnival ride lost power Sunday afternoon, leaving 18 people, most of them children, injured. When the “swing” ride at the Oyster Festival in Norwalk lost power, riders immediately fell to the ground. Twelve children and one adult were transported to hospitals in the area, many suf...
Four children and one other person – it is still unclear if he or she was an adult or child – were left injured after a school bus accident on I-84 this morning. The accident occurred around 7:30 a.m. near the Connecticut Boulevard ramp. A press release revealed that the injuries for those invol...
The propane explosion that killed one man and injured two others in August of 2012 has been officially declared an accident. The accident occurred when homeowner John Wilkinson and his friend Athony Fratino III attempted to repair a propane leak in Wilkinson's home, causing an explosion so powerf...
Automaker giant Jaguar recently recalled two of its models in the U.S. for possible stalling issues and a defective power window that may injure occupants, according to a report published on Thursday, August 15. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the first recall af...
11,097 recent Ninja 300 models will be recalled by motorcycle maker Kawasaki to address an electrical issue. According to the recall, the 2013 model of the Ninja 300 is affected by an “improper setting in the Electronic Control Unit (ECU)” that may cause the motorcycle to stall if the driver red...
Authorities have reported two fatalities after a small propeller plane crashed into two homes near Connecticut's Tweed New Haven Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration said the aircraft, a small multi-engine passenger plane, left Teterboro Airport in New Jersey early Friday morning and cra...
At least three persons were injured in a two-vehicle accident that occurred in Bloomfield on Sunday morning, July 28. Bloomfield police responded to a two-car accident at 1266 Blue Hills Avenue around 3 a.m. Authorities found 19-year-old Jamar Johnson unconscious and suffering from several broke...
New laws have been passed in Connecticut in order to get tougher on distracted drivers. One law will raise fines and change distracted driving citations to a moving violation. The offense will now appear on your driving record, making it available to car insurance companies when they're calculati...
A construction worker in Meriden, CT, suffered serious injuries after being trapped between a collapsed retaining wall and a dump truck. The man had been working at the site of a new car wash when the collapse occurred at approximately 3 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17th, pinning him against a dump tr...
Two buses collided on Interstate 95 in Stratford, Connecticut on Wednesday, July 3, 2013, leaving at least ten individuals injured. The collision occurred before 10 in the morning, and also involved a tractor trailer and another car. Several of those involved in the accident had to be taken to a ...
The recent collision of two trains in Connecticut, which left more than seventy passengers injured, occurred only two days after an inspector's report noted safety issues with the tracks on which the trains were travelling. According to the report, the area on which the derailment and collision o...
Attorney Paul Levin and his wife Emmanuelle were recently honored at the third annual Hands & Hearts reception with a Hands & Hearts Appreciation Award for their support of the Wheeler Clinic's community service efforts. The two were among a group of 12 individuals and organizations recognized by...
A study conducted by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety reports that using voice-based text messaging services, which are increasingly being introduced into new vehicles, is almost as dangerous as conventional texting and more distracting to drivers than simply making a phone call with a handh...
A Dutch court ordered a former businessman to pay approximately $520,000 in civil damages to victims of chemical weapons attacks in Iraq. The businessman, Frans van Anraat, is currently serving a prison sentence for his involvement in war crimes committed by the regime of Saddam Hussein against I...
An accident involving two portable trailers resulted in the death of a Connecticut man on Thursday, April 18, 2013, at a construction site in Northampton, Massachusetts. Multiple government agencies are investigating the accident, including local police, Massachusetts State Police, state health r...
A group of five women who were inmates in a county jail in Suffolk County, New York have filed a putative federal class action lawsuit over alleged sexual abuse by a correctional officer. Watts, et al v. County of Suffolk, et al, No. 2:13-cv-01691, complaint (E.D.N.Y., Mar. 28, 2013). They allege...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the federal agency that investigates major transportation-related accidents and makes safety recommendations to state and federal lawmakers, recently reported on its investigations into several train accidents, one involving a collision with an aut...
Stories of college students who drink too much and end up in the hospital are all too common, and far worse harm can occur due to hazing and other activities, including severe injury and death. Many states, including Connecticut, have laws against hazing on the books, but they typically only prov...
Rates of fatalities among teenage drivers, specifically those ages sixteen and seventeen, have declined overall during the past thirteen years, according to a recent report from the Governors' Highway Safety Association (GHSA). The report, which compares preliminary data for the first half of 201...
A jury in a Connecticut federal court awarded a $41.7 million verdict to a woman who, as a student at a Connecticut school, contracted an illness on a school trip to China that left her permanently disabled. Munn, et al v. Hotchkiss School, No. 09-cv-00919 (D. Conn., complaint filed Jun. 11, 2009...
A man who lost his leg when a Connecticut State Police cruiser struck him on a highway has received a substantial jury verdict. The jury reduced the $25 million verdict to $16.2 millionbased upon a finding of comparative negligence on the part of the plaintiff. Even with this reduction, the verdi...
Our laws place obligations on doctors that correspond with the tremendous amount of trust we place on them. As medical technology advances, however, newer medical devices may exceed the skills that most doctors have worked for years to develop. These devices may offer cost-saving, or even life-sa...
An air traffic controller employed by a private company was negligent in clearing a small plane for flight from the airport in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, according to a recent lawsuit. Bucklin v. Serco, Inc., No. 2:13-cv-00052, complaint (D. Wyo., Mar. 4, 2013). The plane crashed in the mountains, ki...
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