The California Court of Appeals ruled in a recent personal injury case stemming from a school bus accident. The case, Gaita v. Capistrano Unified School Dist., Cal. Ct. App. (2015), followed a school bus rear-ending another vehicle on the freeway. The plaintiff filed a personal injury suit against a bus driver…
The California Court of Appeals recently rendered a decision in a case, Kaiser v. Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula, Cal. Ct. App. (2015), that dealt with an appeal from a case involving a fatal motorcycle collision. The plaintiff’s husband was involved in a motorcycle accident following an event that thousands of…
In a recent medical malpractice case, Maher v. County of Alameda, 223 Cal. App. 4th 1340 (2014), the California Court of Appeals had before it the issue of what constitutes a foreign body for the purposes of tolling the relevant statute of limitations. The plaintiff was treated by several healthcare professionals…
In a recent Court of Appeals decision, Sumrall v. Winco Foods, LLC, Cal. Ct. App. (2014), the court had before it an appeal in a grocery store premises liability action. The plaintiff entered a Temecula grocery store operated by Winco following a rainy morning. After walking through a carpeted area, the…
A second lawsuit was reportedly filed against Caitlyn Jenner, following a fatal car accident that happened in February in Southern California. The personal injury lawsuit was reportedly filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. It alleges that Jenner was responsible for causing the crash by driving “negligently, carelessly, recklessly and wantonly.” The relatives of…
In a recent California Court of Appeals case, Vollaro v. Lispi, 224 Cal. App. 4th 93 (2014), the court had before it an appeal stemming from a car accident in which Lispi rear-ended the car in which Vollaro was a passenger. The driver and owner of the car that was struck…
In a recent California Court of Appeals case, Cardiel v. Marquez, Cal. Ct. App. (2014), the court had before it a car accident case that was being challenged for a failure to move forward. The plaintiffs sued the defendants for a rear-end collision, including both the driver of the car…
There was quite a stir at the Los Angeles International Airport this past Sunday, when the driver of a Porsche accidentally accelerated, presumably rather than braking, and struck a nine-year-old girl before crashing into a nearby terminal. According to a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department, the girl was…
The famous California search engine and innovation company, Google, admitted in a statement earlier this month that the self-driving cars that it has invented have been involved in 11 minor car accidents since the company began working with the technology six years ago. The company stated it had notified the state…
In a recent court of appeals case, Grebing v. 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc., Cal. Ct. App. (2015), the court had before it the issue of whether to hold liable a health and fitness club for an injury that occurred when a piece of weight-lifting equipment broke and struck the…