InjuryBoard Dayton

The city’s storm sewer system became the escape route of a suspected drunken driver, in Findlay, on Tuesday, as police searched for him following a car accident.The chase ensued after a school bus...

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The FDA announced that twenty-one people, in thirteen states, have been diagnosed with salmonellosis that appears to have been caused by the same strain of Salmonella that was found in the recently...

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The family of a woman who died in a car accident with two Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers in 2006, was awarded a cash settlement of over $1 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against the state. The woman was killed when troopers struck her truck after their cruiser hydroplaned across the center line of the highway. All three were killed in the fiery collision.Both sides have signed a...

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A class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court of Pennsylvania, against AT&T Mobility. The suit alleges the carrier violated the Labor Standards Act by refusing to pay overtime to a former corporate recruiter and possibly others.The lead plaintiff was a regional corporate recruiter/staffing coordinator from May 9, 2007, to November 30, 2007."AT&T's refusal to authorize payment for...

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A Dayton man, 40, suffered severe head trauma in a car accident this morning, when he lost control of his vehicle and struck the porch of a house on Troy Street.The accident is under investigation as experts work to reconstruct the chain of events that led up to the crash. At this time police believe he was travelling at a high rate of speed when he left the road and slammed into the house....

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The Ohio Supreme Court upheld a state law last Thursday that limits how much a person injured by a defective product can collect in pain-and-suffering damages, reversing its stance on this important issue.Attorneys representing injured people and companies that support the concept of caps have followed the lawsuit filed by Melisa Arbino, a Cincinnati property manager, over the Ortho Evra Birth...

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We have all become too familiar with stories similar to this one. The holidays provide many with a few days off of work, Christmas bonuses to spend, and sadly, an opportunity to indulge in irresponsible behaviors. Unfortunately, this story has left one father in critical condition and the rest of his family dead. Yesterday, the 24-year-old Adrian man -- who records show had a blood alcohol...

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TROTWOOD, Ohio (AP) -- The FBI is investigating whether a policeman violated a pregnant woman's civil rights when he used a stun gun to subdue her, authorities in this Dayton suburb said Thursday.The woman had gone to the police department Nov. 18 asking police to take custody of her 1-year-old son, but tried to leave with the child after the officer started asking her questions, said Michael...

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Counsel Financial Services (CFS), the nation's largest provider of working capital credit lines exclusively to attorneys, announced today that it will provide loans to litigators representing Vioxx plaintiffs, in the wake of Merck & Co.'s recent announcement that it has established a $4.85 billion victim fund to settle thousands of lawsuits. Together with one of the largest financial...

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A Pittsburgh hedge fund manager was convicted Tuesday of defrauding Ohio's workers' compensation system.Mark Lay, CEO of MDL Capital Management, faces up to 20 years in prison for investment advisory fraud, mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.The charges were linked to the loss of $216 million he invested for the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation in a highly-leveraged...

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