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A social worker from Joplin, Missouri, severely injured while trying to assist disable adults during the Joplin tornado, has been denied worker’s comp insurance for his injuries.  He was injured attempting to assist three developmentally disabled adults.  He did not have medical insurance because he could not afford the premiums.  He now has medical bills exceeding $2.5 …

A jury recently delivered a $25 Million verdict in an asbestos lawsuit against a major oil company brought by a former employee. It is one of the largest verdicts ever handed down in a Virginia personal injury case. After almost three weeks of trial in Newport News Circuit Court the seven-member jury began deliberating on …

The United States Coast Guard is currently investigating why a barge hit the Martin Luther King Bridge in St. Louis, Missouri, Monday morning. The barge accident occurred around 2 a.m. when a barge struck the pier causing four barges to break away while moving downstream. This was no apparent damage to the bridge, but engineers …

While cameras at traffic stops have seen much press, cameras at railroad crossings have had much less attention. In May of 2008, a camera was installed on Rock Hill Road near downtown Webster Groves to catch motorist trying get past railroad warning devices. During the first 1 ½ years, it has resulted in about 1,100 …

Amtrak train traveling from Lee’s Summit to St. Louis was involved in two train-auto collisions with pick-up trucks on Thursday. At 8 a.m., a 44 year old man drove around a crossing bar that had just been lowered and was struck. The truck was sheared in half and the man was ejected about 40 feet. …

A Texas family filed a wrongful death suit earlier this month over a fatal truck accident on a Dallas tollway, naming the truck driver and a Texas toll company as defendants. In the suit, the family alleges that the trucker was following too closely to another vehicle when he lost control of his truck and …

An Illinois plaintiff has filed a lawsuit in St. Clair County against his former employer, Wal-Mart, alleging he was terminated in retaliation for filing a Workers’ Compensation claim for an injury he sustained on the job in December 2008. Ten days after being injured, plaintiff’s doctor treated his injury and gave orders for him to …

A Dupo man filed suit in St. Clair Circuit Court last month against his employer claiming that the company fired him in order to avoid paying for medical treatment. At the time of the accident, the plaintiff worked for a food service manufacturing company and sustained an injury to his left hand on the job. …

In July 2007, the plaintiff sustained a traumatic head injury when the arm of a telescoping crane suddenly broke while he was working. When the crane broke, it dropped its load of floor trusses, causing some of them to ricochet off other materials and strike him in the head and chest. As a result of …

Years after being exposed on the job to radiation and toxic materials at an Ohio uranium enrichment plant, families of the exposed workers are fighting a state ruling that is keeping them from receiving workers’ compensation death benefits. According to the state, the claims missed the 2-year statute of limitations to receive benefits for a …