Several people trying to enjoy a St. Patrick's Day parade in Hartford on March 9 ended up spending time in the hospital after a negligent driver drove recklessly onto the sidewalk. Fortunately, the hit and run car accident did not cause any serious injury.
The 27-year-old driver, from Windsor, is accused of hitting three pedestrians on a sidewalk, according to police. The man failed to stop, fleeing the scene and getting into another accident. He was finally arrested on Interstate 91.
Putting a loved one in a nursing home is a difficult decision for many Connecticut residents. It is hard to entrust a loved one's care and livelihood with assistants, who may not even be properly trained. In addition, abuse is common in nursing homes. One family knows this fact all too well. The family is suing a nursing home for wrongful death after an 88-year-old woman was involved in a fight, and died from her injuries.
The woman was a resident at Summit City Nursing & Rehabilitation, located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The nursing home is owned by Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County (HHC) and American Senior Communities, LLC. (ASC), the defendants in the lawsuit filed by the woman's family.
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When conditions on the road are not optimal, it is important for drivers to be even more alert to reduce the chances of an accident. Hazardous road conditions can lead to an increase in car accidents due to slippery roads or limited visibility from fog or rain.
Hartford drivers may have experienced the icy road conditions that plagued the surrounding areas on Feb. 25. The roads were particularly bad on Interstate 384, which resulted in its partial closure by the state. Several accidents that occurred on the highway were reported in the early morning hours.
Car accidents can occur in a fraction of a second, sometimes as a result of a distracted or reckless driver. A normal trip to the store can turn into a nightmare when an accident occurs and the parties involved are injured or killed. Connecticut residents rarely anticipate getting involved in deadly accidents while exiting their own driveways, however, but that's what police say happened recently.
Our Hartford readers may be interested to learn that a 92-year-old man died from injuries sustained in a car accident that occurred as he was pulling out of his driveway. That's when police say that his Honda collided with another car.
Walking from one place to another may seem to be a low-risk activity, but when people and vehicles share the roadway, the risk of danger and harm can actually be quite high. Car accidents involving pedestrians can result in serious injury or death, and victims who survive may have to deal with long-term pain and suffering.
A family is trying to recover from a car-pedestrian accident on Feb. 11. The collision happened in Milford, Connecticut, when police say the four were walking on the shoulder of Bridgeport Avenue near Cowles Street. Two family members sustained severe trauma, one was not injured and another sustained only minor injuries. The injured parties were taken to a local hospital, where two of them are still reportedly in critical condition.
Any accident can have devastating consequences, but this is particularly true when a truck is involved. Because of their weight and size, trucks often cause extensive damage and more serious injuries compared to a typical car-on-car collision. A Yale University student found this out when he was involved in a truck accident that resulted in a fatality.
The tailgating festivities before the annual Yale-Harvard football game, which was held in New Haven, Connecticut, were in full swing on Nov. 19, 2011. A student driving a U-Haul truck entered one of the lots set aside for tailgating. The truck suddenly accelerated and hit three party-goers before veering off and hitting other parked trucks.
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Schools are charged with keeping students safe while they are on school premises. When parents send their children to school, they usually have a reasonable belief that their children will be cared for and supervised and that no ill harm will befall them. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. When a student dies on school property, school officials or the school district may be implicated in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Hartford readers may be interested in an upcoming wrongful death suit that involves just such a scenario. The mother and stepfather of a 14-year-old boy who drowned in 2012 in a Manchester, Connecticut, school pool have filed papers saying that they will sue the town and school system.
Although nothing can replace a loved one who is taken away suddenly or violently due to the negligence of another person, a wrongful death lawsuit award can help to offset the financial loss experienced by remaining family members. When an individual is killed in a crash, surviving family members can choose to sue the responsible party for damages, even if legal charges were never filed against them.
Jury selection in a wrongful death lawsuit began in Hartford recently. The case involves a 2009 wrong-way crash that killed a 20-year-old pre-medical student, who was on her way to the airport to fly on a humanitarian mission to Africa.
Being seriously injured or losing a loved one to an auto accident can be a traumatic experience. Victims of car accidents who have suffered great pain or loss due to other people's negligence may find it difficult to accept their misfortunes, and they may feel the need to seek justice. The law protects innocent victims of auto accidents by punishing those who are found guilty of negligent driving.
A 24-year-old man from Manchester, Connecticut, received an 18-month prison sentence recently for his involvement in a car accident that caused severe injuries to two women. He pleaded guilty to second-degree vehicular assault and DUI. One of the victims, a 62-year-old woman driving the car that the man's car collided with, said that the sentence was not long enough. She had kidney disease, and the internal injuries she sustained due to the accident caused cysts in her kidneys to rupture.
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When injuries are sustained as a result of medical malpractice, treatment costs can add up quickly. Some victims of medical malpractice receive monetary settlements for their injuries. If the victim received medical services through the state-federal Medicaid program, Medicaid may stake a claim to a portion of the settlement. One family that has been granted a medical malpractice settlement is questioning whether Medicaid can legally stake a claim to part of the settlement. Hartford residents may find this story interesting, because it may directly affect settlements that occur in cases where Medicaid funds were used to provide treatment.
The suit stems from a Cesarean section delivery in 2000 in which the newborn girl sustained injuries that led to a cerebral palsy diagnosis. The child is blind and deaf and has other developmental problems. The doctor who performed the procedure had a history of drug abuse and voluntarily surrendered his medical license in 2000, but he claims he wasn't using drugs at the time of this birth.
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