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• Slip and Fall Injuries in Vermont

  Ed Van Dorn | January 31, 2007 7:08 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  A client asked us about her legal rights when she slipped on ice in front of a supermarket and sustained serious personal injury including a broken pelvis. Generally speaking supermarkets will carry insurance for these incidents but will only pay a claim if the supermarket was negligent in maintaining its premises. Simply stated negligence means that the supermarket acted unreasonably under the...

• Three People Seriously Injured in Car Accident

  Christina Cole | January 27, 2007 8:42 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Three Montpelier residents were seriously injured Friday, in a two-vehicle car accident on Ind. 18.Authorities say, Chance E. McCormick was driving his Dodge Caravan eastbound on the highway at 3:30pm when he lost control of the van in the snow that had blow on to the roadway.McCormick's vehicle slid counter-clockwise into a westbound lane, according to Blackford County police Lt. Jeff Sones,...

• Woman Suing Big Lots for Slip & Fall

  Christina Cole | January 23, 2007 5:27 AM | 2 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  A Berkeley County woman is suing the national retail store, Big Lots, after she injured herself when slipping and falling on the floor.Aline E. Valentin-Dunsmuir was a customer at Big Lots in June 2005. While she was there she slipped and fell on an unknown substance."The substance which was on the floor was in the nature of a hidden danger, trap, snare, pitfall or the like, "the lawsuit, filed...

• Woman Injured in One-Car Accident

  Christina Cole | January 17, 2007 7:50 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A Stowe woman is facing DUI charges after driving her car off of Route 100 near Waterbury Fish on Monday.Allison, Ladd, sustained minor cuts and bruises but refused to submit to a breathalyzer test after officers on the scene suspected she had been drinking and driving prior to the crash. Ladd lost control of her Ford Explorer and drove off the road, 75 feet into a marsh. She was taken to...

• Woman Hurt in Crash Under Influence of Prescription Drugs

  Christina Cole | January 11, 2007 5:49 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Police say a woman in her late 50s was hurt in a car crash off the County Road that sent her car into a concrete post and then off into the woods and finally into a tree.Elizabeth Dorries had to be extricated from her car at approximately 1:45am because her right foot was pinned up under the dashboard said Vermont State Police, Daniel Schneider. She sustained an incapacitating injury to her...

• Man Escapes Serious Injury after Plummeting off Interstate

  Christina Cole | January 05, 2007 8:05 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A man escaped serious injury Tuesday when his SUV plummeted off of Interstate 89, down a 40ft embankment and came to rest on its side beneath the busy underpass.David Pelkey, 30, received shoulder and facial injuries and he was treated and released. Pelkey was trapped in his overturned Chevy Tahoe for 20 minutes before rescue crews from Colchester, Winooski and Mallettes Bay were able to free...