BANKING GIANT Citigroup has taken action in the New York courts to salvage its cut-price deal to rescue Wachovia, the troubled lender which spurned Citi for an offer seven times higher from Wells Fargo, writes Arthur Beesley , Senior Business Correspondent, on Wall Street.
Citi said late on Saturday that it had secured a temporary order [...]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill designed to expand the availability and effectiveness of construction insurance and limit an industry practice to force subcontractors to pay the full cost for legal defense in construction defect lawsuits.
Assembly Bill 2738 was authored by Dave Jones, a Sacramento Democrat, in response to subcontractor complaints about burdensome contracts [...]
Lawyers for the estate of Tammi Small and the son of Roger Smith said they will file claims for damages with Intercity Transit. The transit agency has 60 days to resolve claims before plaintiffs can sue. Olympia also could be pulled into a lawsuit. But Connie Cobb, the city’s claims manager, said she has not [...]
Boston business consultant John B. Callahan was murdered in 1982 and according to his wife in their last telephone conversation the said he was going to Washington D.C. This is one of the more shocking criminal cases I have covered in quite some time, it is very tragic.
The victim’s body was eventuallydiscovered at Miami International Airport [...]
Below is one of the coolest, most amazing stories by a former U.S. Marine who worked as a paralegal for several top trial lawyers, and who actually became a lawyer with no college degree on the California State Bar Law Office Study Program. This guy is so good, he was admitted into law school [...]
It has been reported that the first memorial has been held for one of the 25 , Howard Pompel age 69 from Moorpark was held on Wednesday.
The memorial was held at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center for the insurance agent and father of three, with more than one hundred [...]
September 19, 2008 (by Otto Smyth)
There was a , at the downtown cathedral Our Lady of the Angels. Officer Desha was on the police force for seven years and had recently transferred to Parker Center Headquarters and began riding the Metrolink train.
Relatives, friends and colleagues were present; a horse without rider was escorted [...]
In the never ending saga of , today, September 19, 2008, there was Metro-Rail light train wreck that occurred when a Metro Blue line of Los Angeles County, rammed a Metro bus close to downtown when undergoing today’s commute. 13 people are known to be injured according to fire officials on the scene.
This [...]
I have been following the recent Chatsworth Metrolink accident and been reading the injury lawyer blog by Mike Ehline. I received permission to republish some of his news stories. Many of you may not even know that railroads are actually allowed to weigh the costs of human life over making things safe, since [...]
September 16, 2008-
Ever since the news that at the time of the train crash in Chatsworth, the NTSB has sought an order banning the use of cell phones by train operators on Metrolink trains.
The question frequently being asked, is did the train operator see the red light, or was he text messaging? Did he [...]
