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• Civil Justice System Causes Bayer Corporation to Protect the Public

  Larry Knapp | November 06, 2007 7:37 AM | 0 CommentsStockton, CA

  This is the kind of publicity the civil justice system routinely fails to garner. While it is easy to target lawyers and lawsuits as the bane of all of society's problems, actions like the recent decision by Bayer to pull its drug Trasylol from the market demonstrate how important it is to have a system of redress that causes powerful corporations to consider the potential penalty of making...

• Big Business Brain Washing America

  Lawrence Knapp | June 04, 2009 5:06 PM | 3 CommentsStockton, CA

  The United States Chamber of Commerce, which represents three million businesses, is going to show an ad campaign that omits key facts to movie goers this summer. Big Business hopes that this...

• Rain Leads to More Automobile Accidents

  Larry Knapp | October 18, 2007 8:47 AM | 0 CommentsStockton, CA

  I had to take my car into the shop for some maintenance work this week. On the way, as I was driving on Highway 26, I watched a pick-up truck with a rack on it (clearly a contractor) get rear-ended by a small Honda. I could see as the truck was struck how unexpectedly violent and severe the impact was to the driver. It was hard to tell whether the driver had been injured. However, it was...

• Sizzler Settlement relates to Current Tomato Scare

  Howard Knapp | June 20, 2008 6:39 PM | 0 CommentsStockton, CA

  After eight years of battling insurance companies and mega corporations, the Kriefall family has finally held Sizzler responsible for their 3-year old daughter’s death. In 2000, the girl died...

• Safe Teen Driving Week Hopes to Cure Rise In Teenage Auto Acciedents

  Marlon A. Scarlett | April 21, 2009 7:31 PM | 0 CommentsStockton, CA

  Parents of teenage drivers, lend me your ear, this week is offically Safe Teen Driving Week. Recent statistics show that teenage accidents on our highways have been steadily increasing since 2005....

• Food Poisoning can lead to Injury and Death

  Larry Knapp | October 11, 2007 8:17 AM | 0 CommentsStockton, CA

  Conagra Foods, Inc. is pulling its pot pies from store shelves due to injuries that are hospitalizing people. While the company is not recalling its product, it is offering to reimburse the consumer for the cost of the pie. Food poisoning can lead to system wide infection and organ failure. Thus far there have been no deaths reported.Our office once represented an elderly gentleman who was...

• Highway 49 Drivers in MotherLode Exposed to Injury

  Larry Knapp | September 17, 2007 10:12 AM | 0 CommentsStockton, CA

  Highway 49 is the major arterial road that runs through San Andreas, Angels Camp and Sonora. Due to, among other things, the increased weekend traffic that occurs in the Mother Lode as a result of people looking to get away from the Bay Area and the Central Valley and escape to the Sierras it is not uncommon for increase exposure to injury. This was borne out in the news this weekend when...

• Wrongful Death Automobile Accident East of Stockton

  Larry Knapp | September 13, 2007 3:58 PM | 0 CommentsStockton, CA

  The wrongful death of automobile drivers and passengers on rural roads surrounding Stockton is a common occurrence and is happening more and more often as the population in the area grows. The 19-year-old driver of a 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse, from Fresno, unsuccessfully tried to pass a 2007 Toyota Corolla driven by a, 21-year-old woman, from Elk Grove, in the Farmington / Linden area resulting in...

• Toddler Killed in Stockton Driveway Accident

  Chrissie Cole | September 04, 2007 9:43 PM | 0 CommentsStockton, CA

  A tragic car accident yesterday claimed the life of a one-year-old Stockton girl while she was playing in her family's driveway.The accident occurred when the child's uncle, 36, moved his white suburban so he could wash it. As he backed out of the driveway, he felt like the vehicle hit something. He later told police he didn't see the little girl playing in the driveway.No arrests have been made...

• Bars Serving to Laker Parade Attendees Are Immune From Lawsuits

  Lawrence Knapp | June 17, 2009 2:03 PM | 1 CommentStockton, CA

  The 1978 Legislature made imposition of civil liability for furnishing liquor to an adult expressly prohibited. No Civil Liability. “No person who sells, furnishes, gives, or causes to be...