What is the worst kind of defective product? A good candidate is a baby-killer. And that is what the Infanto Baby Slings “SlingRider” and “Wendy Bellissimo” (sold by several large retailiers such as Target, Babies R Us and Burlington Coat) turned out to be. Today the federal agency responsible for…
Today I read news reports that, on Friday evening, December 5, a woman drove her car into a pedestrian in Cicero, Onondaga County, New York. Twenty-nine-year-old Leann Doyle of Canastota struck 51-year-old Joanne Schoenfelder of Bridgeport while she was standing in front of a residential mailbox on Route 298. The…
Let me tell you about another heartbreaking wrongful death settlement. Heartbreaking for two reasons, as I will explain below. A middle-aged married woman was walking to work in Geneva, Ontario County, New York. To get to work she had to cross Routes 5/20, also known as Hamilton Street. She crossed…
Ok, imagine this: A speeding car strikes and instantly kills your 3-year-old child as you watch helplessly from a nearby lawn in Seneca County. Turns out the speeding driver was drunk. Your 3-year-old had wandered up to the road as you were distracted by your 2-year-old who was throwing a…