Articles Posted in Personal Injury

Trina Jackson plans to sue J. Ruiz Learning School, LLC for Miami-Dade personal injury to a minor. Jackson’s five-year-old daughter, Kayla, attends the daycare center. The little girls says that she has been slapped, hit, and scratched many times while at the daycare.

Jackson claims that her daughter was victim of negligence, assault, and battery while at the Miami facility last April. She says that video footage from surveillance cameras shows a group of girls jumping on her daughter and ripping one of her braids out of her head. Jackson contends that the caregiver that was there appeared to ignored the altercation.

Jackson says that when she complained about marks she found on her daughter after the alleged incident, the caretaker told her that nothing happened and that her daughter’s braid was already gone when she arrived at the preschool that day. However, according to Jackson’s Miami personal injury lawyer, the footage shows a daycare employee grabbing Jackson’s daughter’s scalp to check it after the alleged assault. The surveillance footage also shows one teacher punching a boy’s face,.

Fela Netkin is seeking Margate personal injury damages from her local Sav-a-Lot pharmacy because she says that they mistakenly gave her 5 times the prescribed dose of her anticoagulant medication. Because of the pharmacy’s negligence, Netkin says that she suffered bleeding and bruising and had to go to the hospital.

Per court documents, Netkin says that she had her prescription filled at the Margate pharmacy in June. However, instead of 45, 1 MG tablets of warfarin sodium, which was what the prescription was for, she was administered 45, 5 MG tablets.

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John Graney is suing Ex-NFL football star Larry Johnson for Miami-Dade County personal injury. He contends that the former Kansas City Chiefs running back beat him after a party last May on Miami Beach. Johnson also used to be signed with the Washington Redskins and the Cincinnati Bengals.

Graney, who is from Miami, claims that without provocation Johnson used a “closed fist” to “viciously” hit him multiple times, kicked him while he was on the ground, and chased him down the street. The plaintiff says that he sustained a torn rotator cuff and three herniated discs and is suffering form post-traumatic shoulder, wrist, and back pain.

Meantime, Johnson is denying the allegations. The police report describes Graney’s injuries as a “minor laceration” and “small abrasion.”

A judge in Florida has approved the $421,400 Fort Myers personal injury verdict awarded to a 68-year-old woman who got hurt at a Wal-Mart store when she was thrown to the ground by a loaded, motorized stock cart. Janice Morris fractured several pubic bones during the accident and had to take three months off work.

Court documents state that Morris got hurt at the Wal-Mart on Ben C. Pratt/Six Mile Cypress Parkway on Oct. 10, 2009 in the packaged meat section. In her Lee County personal injury complaint, Morris accuses Wal-Mart of failing to properly supervise and train the employee that was operating the cart and neglecting to warn shoppers that there was a potentially hazardous condition inside the store. Morris also contends that the cart did not have an audible beeper and that its operator, Richard Hesson, should have realized that patrons might not hear the cart approaching.

The Fort Myers, Florida premises liability verdict awards 250,000 for future pain and suffering, $150,000 for past pain and suffering, and $21,400 for past medical expenses.

Edgardo Toucet Echevarria is suing Future Foam Carpet Cushion for Florida personal injury. The 44-year-old contract worker is seeking compensatory and punitive damages after a “peeler machine” he was working with severed his penis on January 13, 2010.

Echevarria, who is employed by Spartan Staffing, contends that he wasn’t trained to run the machine, which employs a steel blade to cut blocks of carpeting foam. In his Florida injury complaint, he states that the “surgically sharp steel blade” cut through his pelvis, severing his penis and testicles, and “virtually cutting his body in half.”

Echevarria says that he was injured while removing a “foam core” from the machine at the request of supervisors and that this maneuver activated the machine. He claims that employees improperly took off the machine’s protective guard and that Future Foam knew of prior instances of workers getting hurt or dying when this type of machine lacked the required protections. He is arguing that Future Foam “had a duty” to not act in a way that would likely result in a worker’s injury or death.