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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...

For those who are down on the Civil Justice System for whatever reason, consider the opinion of John Ritter's widow, Amy Yasbeck. Ms. Yasbeck's husband died under circumstances that led to medical malpractice claims. Several of the defendants, after evaluating their chances in front of a jury, chose to settle their claims. Apparently, there must have been enough merit in the claims that the...

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...

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...

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...

A jackhammer punctured a downtown electrical cable Wednesday afternoon. More than 700 homes and businesses lost power, and the worker using the tool was electrocuted.St. Joseph's Medical Center and Stockton City Hall were among the facilities in the dark since about 11:30 a.m. The hospital was relying on emergency generators and functioning normally, a spokeswoman said, although visitors were...

The Stockton, California personal injury law offices of Lawrence M. Knapp serves the needs of accident and negligence victims throughout Northern California and the Central Valley, from Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, Stockton, Sacramento, Marysville, Davis and Redding to Oakland, Pleasanton, Concord, Placerville, Tahoe, San Andreas, Angels Camp and Sonora. Our California personal injury lawyer...

Lawrence Michael Knapp was born in Passaic, New Jersey' has lived in San Antonio, Texas and migrated to the San Joaquin Central Valley in 1982. He attended the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California graduating in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Studies with minors in History and English. Subsequently he attended Humphreys College School of Law (also in Stockton,...

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