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3 Truck Accident Causes Fatality

Posted under: Auto Accidents, Trucking Accidents, Wrongful Death— Glenn Phillips @ 9:15 am

Washington State Troopers reported 51-year-old Reyes Gonzalez Junior died at the scene of a three truck accident on State Route 127. This happened around 1 p.m.

Troopers report Gonzalez was driving a 2001 Dodge Ram when he passed in a no passing zone striking a 1995 GMC semi tractor driven by 52-year-old Jerry Plunkett of Yakima. The two hit head on. Plunkett was taken to Garfield Hospital along with his passenger, 50-year-old Debra Plunkett. Then a third vehicle driven by 71-year-old Robert Carlton of Boise hit Plunkett’s vehicle.

Carlton and his passenger, 70-year-old Charlotte Carlton were taken to Garfield Hospital. Everyone involved in the accidentally reportedly had their seat belt on.

If you or a family member has been injured in the state of Washington, please contact the personal Injury lawyers at Phillips and Webster, PLLC. With easy accessible offices in the Seattle, Washington; Bellevue, Washington and Woodinville, Washington areas.

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Wrongful Death Cases Settled at $2.8 Million

Posted under: Wrongful Death— Glenn Phillips @ 9:19 am

On Monday, July 28, 2008, a Kendall County Judge approved the largest wrongful death settlement in Kendall County history, for $2.8 million. The decision resulted from the death of 22-year-old Shannon M. Orr, who was killed when a grocery store truck rear-ended her car near Route 126 and Ridge Road in Na Saw Township in Kendall County, Illinois. The accident and death took place on April 23, 2004.

According to reports, Orr’s car was stopped behind a concrete truck on Route 126 when the semi-trailer food truck approached from behind Orr’s car, and failed to stop, pushing her car into the concrete truck and causing it to burst into flames and collapse.

If you or a family member has been injured in the state of Washington, please contact the wrongful death lawyers at Phillips and Webster, PLLC. With easy accessible offices in the Seattle, Washington; Bellevue, Washington and Woodinville, Washington areas.

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Semi Truck Accidents

Posted under: Auto Accidents, Trucking Accidents— Glenn Phillips @ 9:47 am

Scores of semi truck drivers are causing highway accidents due to their health. Drivers have suffered seizures, heart attacks, and spell of loss of consciousness. Thousands of drivers have a commercial truck license and also qualify for full federal disability payments. The US Transportation Department reports that 5,300 people died and 126,000 were injured in semi truck accidents in 2006.

If you or your loved one was injured in a semi truck accident please contact the semi truck attorneys at Phillips & Webster serving Washington State consumers.

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Two Car Accident In Yakima

Posted under: Auto Accidents— Glenn Phillips @ 7:32 am

Four people were injured in a two-vehicle accident Sunday morning near Rimrock on Highway 12. The 10 a.m. accident occurred when a westbound vehicle turned into the path of a vehicle traveling east, Washington State Patrol troopers said.

Both drivers were injured, but neither was transported to a hospital.

Two passengers in one of the vehicles also were injured and were transported to Yakima Regional Medical and Cardiac Center, the patrol said.

Both vehicles were totaled.

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Pick Up and Bus Crash

Posted under: Auto Accidents— Glenn Phillips @ 3:01 pm

Pierce County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a fatal crash in which a pickup collided with a school bus in Spanaway.

Investigators say the truck apparently slammed head-on into the bus at a high rate of speed. The pickup driver was killed, but the school-bus driver was not hurt.

If you or a family member has been injured in the state of Washington, please contact the car accident lawyers at Phillips and Webster, PLLC. With easy accessible offices in the Seattle, Washington; Bellevue, Washington and Woodinville, Washington areas.

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1 Man Killed and a Woman Injured in Accident

Posted under: Auto Accidents— Glenn Phillips @ 11:59 am

A man was killed early this morning in Federal Way when he lost control of his Mazda sedan, hit a curb and struck a pickup in the opposite lane. The 19-year-old woman driving the Ford pickup was taken to Harborview Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

If you or a family member has been injured in the state of Washington, please contact the auto accident lawyers at Phillips and Webster, PLLC. With easy accessible offices in the Seattle, Washington; Bellevue, Washington and Woodinville, Washington areas.

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Heparin A Defective Drug?

Posted under: Product Liability— Glenn Phillips @ 1:53 pm

The image of the Illnois-based drug company Baxter International Inc. has been sullied by the recall of Heparin, according to Bob Parkinson Cheif Executive of the company. Parkinson said the company’s international reputation has suffered from the scandal surrounding the blood-thinning drug, heparin.

Heeparin was taken off the market a few weeks ago after reports surfaced that it caused possibly fatal reactions. The Food and Drug Administration has recorded more than 80 fatalities and 1,000 negative reactions in people who experienced at least one allergic reaction to heparin since 2007.

The FDA said the heparin produced by Baxter and other companies was tainted in China with a chemically altered dietary supplement made from animal cartilage.

If you or a family member has been injured in the state of Washington, please contact the defective drug lawyers at Phillips and Webster, PLLC. With easy accessible offices in the Seattle, Washington; Bellevue, Washington and Woodinville, Washington areas.

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Contaminant In Drugs cause 81 Deaths

Posted under: Medical Malpractice, Trasylol— Glenn Phillips @ 3:18 pm

In Washington, D.C. Federal drug regulators believe that a contaminant detected in a crucial bloodthinner that has caused 81 deaths was added deliberately. A third of the material in some batches of the thinner heparin were contaminants, “and it does strain one’s credulity to suggest that might have been done accidentally,” Dr. Woodcock said. Two weeks ago, Food and Drug Commissioner Andrew C. von Eschenbach told a Senate subcommittee that the contamination was done “by virtue of economic fraud,” but he quickly withdrew the remark, saying he had “probably gone too far.” Dr. Woodcock’s statement on Tuesday was part of growing chorus that has labeled the heparin contamination as perhaps the most brazen poisoning episode since 1982, when seven people in the Chicago area died after taking Tylenol that had been laced with cyanide. The Tylenol case led to substantial changes in product packaging, and the heparin contamination has led both Democratic and Republican committee members to call for major changes in the way the F.D. A. functions and is financed. Tuesday’s hearing was also the first in which family members of those who died were asked to testify. LeRoy Hubley of Toledo, Ohio, described how both his 65-year-old wife and his 47-year-old son died within a few weeks of each other. Both suffered from a genetic kidney disease that required constant dialysis, for which heparin is routinely used. “As Christmas music softly played in the background, we each said our goodbyes,” Mr. Hubley said, breaking down in tears. “Then my wife and love of 48 years drifted away.”
He did not know for weeks after their deaths that his wife, Bonnie, and son, Randy, had been givencontaminated heparin. “Now I am left to deal not only with the pain of losing my wife and son, but anger that an unsafe drug was permitted to be sold in this country,” he said. David G. Strunce, chief executive of Scientific Protein Laboratories, the company that supplied contaminated heparin material to Baxter International, which manufactured and distributed the finished drug, described the contamination as “an insidious act” that “seems to us an intentional act upstream in the supply chain.”
The F.D.A. has identified Changzhou SPL, a Chinese subsidiary of Scientific Protein Laboratories, as the source of the contaminated heparin. A Congressional investigator said the contaminant, oversulfated chondroitin sulfate, cost $9 a pound compared with $900 a pound for heparin. Mr. Strunce said that his company tried to find the original source of the contamination but was stopped by the Chinese authorities. Robert L. Parkinson, Baxter’s chairman and chief executive, told the committee, “We’re alarmed that one of our products was used in what appears to have been a deliberate scheme to adulterate a lifesaving medication.” Chinese officials have disputed the F.D.A. contention that the contaminant caused death and injury, and they have insisted on the right to inspect American drug plants if the F.D.A. insists on inspecting Chinese ones.
David Nelson, a Congressional investigator, told the House panel that had the F.D.A. inspected the Chinese plant, the contamination could have been averted. F.D.A. officials have admitted that they mistakenly failed to conduct an inspection of the Changzhou
SPL plant but said that an inspection would not have been able to uncover the contamination. The agency finally conducted an inspection of the facility in February and found so many problems that the F.D.A. blocked the plant from exporting to the United States. Mr. Nelson was even more critical of Baxter International, which bought heparin ingredients from Changzhou SPL from 2004 through 2008 but did not inspect the facility until September 2007.The company sent one person who spent one day in the plant, Mr. Nelson said. Five months later, the F.D.A. discovered myriad problems, he said. “It really is impossible for a plant to have fallen that far out of compliance in five months,” Mr. Nelson said. Under withering questioning, Dr. Woodcock said that the F.D.A. would need another $225 million annually to inspect every foreign drug plant every other year, the frequency most say is needed. The agency will spend $11 million this year on foreign drug inspections. There is a growing bipartisan consensus on Capitol Hill that the F.D.A. needs a rapid increase in its budget to ensure the safety of the nation’s drugs, medical devices and food. The Bush Administration has proposed increasing the agency’s budget next year by only 3 percent to $1.8 billion, not enough to cover even its expected cost increases.

If you or a family member has been injured in the state of Washington, please contact the Trasylol lawyers at Phillips and Webster, PLLC. With easy accessible offices in the Seattle, Washington; Bellevue, Washington and Woodinville, Washington areas.

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Two Teens Killed In Car Crash Near Colfax

Posted under: Auto Accidents— Glenn Phillips @ 3:15 pm

Whitman County sheriff’s deputies say the car went out of control on a curve on Glenwood Station Road and came to rest upside down in a creek in about a foot of water.

The two Colfax teens were declared dead at the scene.

A 15-year-old girl was taken to Whitman Hospital and Medical Center in Colfax with injuries described as nonlife threatening.

Deputies blame high speed and negligent driving for the accident.

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Chrysler recalls nearly 500,000 vehicles

Posted under: Product Liability— Glenn Phillips @ 8:47 am

After dozens of reports of fires in Dodge Durango and Jeep Liberty sport utility vehicles, DaimlerChrysler AG’s Chrysler Group recalled nearly 500,000 vehicles Friday.

The automaker was also recalling 149,605 Jeep Liberty SUVs from the 2006-2007 model years to fix the heating-ventilation-air conditioning blower motor. Chrysler had received a dozen reports of fires from Liberty owners.

In the Liberty recall, Gates said the blower motors could fail if the air conditioning is being used on high during hot weather.

Drivers who smell an odor such as overheated plastic should keep their blower motor below the highest setting until they bring their vehicle in for service, Chrysler said. Liberty owners are expected to receive notices about the recall in May.

If you or a family member has been injured in the state of Washington, please contact the Product liability lawyers at Phillips and Webster, PLLC. With easy accessible offices in the Seattle, Washington; Bellevue, Washington and Woodinville, Washington areas.

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August 1, 2008

3 Truck Accident Causes Fatality

July 28, 2008

Wrongful Death Cases Settled at $2.8 Million

July 24, 2008

Semi Truck Accidents

July 16, 2008

Two Car Accident In Yakima

May 9, 2008

Pick Up and Bus Crash

May 7, 2008

1 Man Killed and a Woman Injured in Accident

May 6, 2008

Heparin A Defective Drug?

May 2, 2008

Contaminant In Drugs cause 81 Deaths

May 1, 2008

Two Teens Killed In Car Crash Near Colfax

April 24, 2008

Chrysler recalls nearly 500,000 vehicles