Actress Gwyneth Paltrow recently found herself being sued for crashing into a fellow skier, Terry Sanderson, at Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah. Today Paltrow filed a counter suit saying that the man who accused her of hitting him was in fact the one who did the hitting. Her counter claim states that the…
An 18-year-old Fountain Valley man has died in a snowboarding accident in Lake Tahoe, according to a news report. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said that a friend found Wyatt James Colvard unconscious on the slopes at Heavenly Resort in Lake Tahoe. The ski patrol transported Colvard down the mountain where paramedics attempted to resuscitate…
A 35-year-old chairlift at the popular Sugarloaf Ski Resort in Maine that was scheduled for repairs or replacement broke while carrying a full load of skiers up the mountain, sending both adults and children plummeting to the ungroomed snow below. According to a news report, eight skiers were hospitalized, including five adults and three children…
An Illinois teen died while scuba diving in a Kankakee County quarry with his Venturing Crew 188 troop, a co-ed division of the Boy Scouts. Kenneth G. Uhl, who was only 16, was certified for open water diving. The diving group realized Uhl was missing during a regular safety head count. Uhl failed to surface…
An Illinois teen died while scuba diving in a Kankakee County quarry with his Venturing Crew 188 troop, a co-ed division of the Boy Scouts. Kenneth G. Uhl, who was only 16, was certified for open water diving. The diving group realized Uhl was missing during a regular safety head count. Uhl failed to surface…
47-year-old Lauren Perdriau Ward was killed by a big rig truck while riding her bicycle in Silicon Valley. The accident occurred on Alpine Road near the I-280 overpass. Investigators say it looks like the accident occurred on the left hand side of the truck. The bicycle and the truck were both traveling westbound, and police…
An eleven-year-old Orange County boy was riding his bike to school when he was hit by a van and hospitalized with head injuries. The 1970 Volkswagen van struck him around 8:30 a.m. near Brookdale Lane and Sunridge Drive in Huntington Beach, California. The accident occurred just blocks from Isaac Sowers Middle School in a residential…
A judge in Morris County, New Jersey recently increased a $100,000 pain and suffering award to $1 million in a product liability lawsuit against Yamaha Motors Company, the manufacturer of the snowmobile involved in the plaintiff’s accident. The case is unusual because judges are far more likely to reduce an award (called remittitur) than adjust…
An Orange County, California woman was killed when she lost control of a go-kart in a flea market parking lot and careened into the adjoining street, where she was struck by a car and instantly killed. 67-year old Fullerton resident Hwa Oh was helping her sister who was a vendor at an Orange County swap…
Twenty-year-old Declan Sullivan was killed while filming a University of Notre Dame football practice from a hydraulic scissor lift as part of his on-campus job. The lift was extended to a height that just exceeded the football goal posts, and either blew over or collapsed in a strong gust of wind during the team’s practice,…