Wrongful Death

• Taser Maker Loses First Wrongful Death Case

  Scott Kappes | June 09, 2008 11:44 AM | 3 CommentsHouston, TX

  Over the past several years the use of taser guns by police officers has increased exponentially. Thousands have people have been injured and over 300 have died after being shocked with police...

• Family Files $145 Million Lawsuit Over Alleged Taser Death

  Scott Kappes | June 04, 2008 6:21 PM | 1 CommentHouston, TX

  The family of the late Jarrel Gray has filed a $145 million lawsuit against the Fredrick County, Sheriff Chuck Jenkins and Corp. Rudy Torres over the alleged taser-related death of the 20...

• Reckless Wrecker Kills Two

  Esmeralda Fuentes | October 19, 2006 3:24 PM | 1 CommentHouston, TX

  Late Wednesday night an elderly couple was killed instantly when a wrecker driver who was driving at a high rate of speed as they were leaving church struck them. Police stated the wrecker driver was driving about 90 mile per hour at the time of impact. The couple was trying to pull out to go eastbound on Wallisville when they were hit but the wrecker driver that was going twice the legal...

• Texas Nurse Charged with Killing 5 Dialysis patients

  Scott Kappes | April 03, 2009 12:16 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  In shocking news out of Lufkin, Kimberly Saenz, a former nurse at a Lufkin area dialysis clinic, was charged with the murder of 5 dialysis patients. According to prosecutors, Saenz injected bleach...

• Dog Owner Gets 15 Years For Fatal Mauling

  Scott Kappes | September 24, 2008 5:38 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  On Monday a California judge sentenced dog owner Marjorie Knoller to 15 years to life in prison, seven years after her two 100+ pound Presa Canarios fatally mauled her neighbor in the hallway...

• Woman Dies After Being Ignored in Hospital Waiting Room

  Scott Kappes | July 01, 2008 5:53 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Several employees of a Brooklyn hospital have been fired or suspended after a psychiatric patient died in the waiting room of the hospital. Staff members ignored the patient for an hour before...

• Families of Va. Tech Victims Awarded $11 Million

  Scott Kappes | June 19, 2008 11:28 AM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  On Tuesday a Virginia judge approved an $11 million settlement to be awarded to families of victims that were killed or injured in last year’s massacre at Virginia Tech University. The...

• Another Crane Accident Leaves Two Workers Dead

  Scott Kappes | March 26, 2008 1:48 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Yesterday two construction workers were killed and five others were injured when a portion of a crane fell 30 stories at a Miami high-rise condominium. The 20-foot portion of the crane that fell smashed through a nearby home being used by the contractor for storage. One worker inside the home was killed. With the terrible Manhattan crane collapse only ten days ago, the all too familiar scene has...

• Teen Dies From Complications During Breast Surgery

  Scott Kappes | March 25, 2008 1:47 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  An 18 year-old senior at West Boca Raton High School in Florida tragically passed away over the weekend after complications during breast augmentation surgery. Stephanie Kuleba, a well-liked cheerleader, was having corrective surgery to repair a symmetrical breasts and an inverted areola, when she suffered a fatal reaction to anesthesia used during the surgery. Doctors believe the cause of death...

• Magnetic Toys Pose Dangerous Health Risk If Swallowed

  Scott Kappes | February 05, 2008 1:18 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  "Don't swallow magnets," is the advice that four year-old Braden Eberle is giving to other children. Braden recently spent six days in the hospital recovering from surgery to remove magnets from his intestines. Last April Braden swallowed a piece from a Magnetix toy set. Braden somehow had gotten one of the magnets loose from one of the rods and swallowed it. His mother, Jill, was not that...