Showing posts with label lawsuit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lawsuit. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Bystander's deaths from Michigan State Police pursuits sparks lawsuit

Family members and community organizers are demanding answers after two crashes involving Michigan State Police troopers have left two Flint women dead in less than a month.

Article here

Attorney Geoffrey Fieger announced that he would file a $50 million lawsuit on behalf of the victims.

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Mary Free Bed Hospital sued for discrimination



Grand Rapids - A nursing supervisor is suing Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, alleging the hospital granted a family's request not to have black employees care for a white male patient.
Jill Crane, a nurse and employee of the hospital since 2000, accuses the hospital of racial discrimination in the lawsuit filed Nov. 27 in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids.

Article here.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

It's all fun and games until someone's butt ends up in the thresher



Farmers used to be letting tourist- types get close to the earth, by letting them thresh their own grain. That might not be the case any longer, since the law suits began.

Article here. 

OK, here's a tort analysis on the law suit: The farmer will  have to defend based on the adequacy of the warning, and what a reasonable person would consider dangerous. The article mentions that the warning sign had a stick figure, with a limb getting injured.