Posted on January 17th, 2012
Today, divers found the bodies of 2 of the missing people aboard the Costa Concorida cruise ship that crashed last Friday night. Currently, officials believe 24 passengers and ship staff are still missing.
The death toll from the accident is now at 11 people. The ship was carrying 4,200 people when it crashed into rocks off of the coast of Italy. Several people were injured in the fatal accident.
The ship’s captain says that documents did not show that there were any rocks in the area. However, the cruise ship’s operators, Costa Cruises and Carnival Cruise Lines, say that the captain was never supposed to be in the area, and that he left the course that officials had approved for the ship.
Posted on April 14th, 2011
A Pennsylvania family recently filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Cleveland Indians. The suit was filed on behalf of 54-year old Doug Johnson who died a week after visiting the Indians’ Progressive field in June 2010. While visiting the ballpark, a 25-foot tall inflatable slide weighing 400 pounds fell on top of Johnson.
Johnson was taken to Cleveland Clinic where doctors treated him for back injuries before he returned home to Greensburg, Pennsylvania. A week later, Johnson collapsed at his home and died. According to the suit, Johnson had suffered from a pulmonary embolism caused by the injuries he incurred at the ballpark.
Posted on January 12th, 2011
A Pennsylvania woman recently filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the hunter that accidentally shot and killed her husband. Her husband, Barry Groh, was shot and killed at the age of 52 while hunting outside of Quakertown. The man that shot Groh, David Manilla, told police that he mistook Groh for a deer.
In the lawsuit, the widow, Theresa Groh, claims that Manilla is trying to hide assets. In particular, court documents claim that Manilla transferred expensive real estate holdings to other family members. Manilla would most likely be trying to hide assets to avoid a high settlement in court.
Posted on October 28th, 2010
A BAE Systems employee who was involved in a workplace accident on October 12 recently passed away as a result of the injuries he incurred in the accident.
According to reports from the Harrisburg area Occupational Safety and Health Administration Office, 63-year old Dale Lentz had worked with BAE since 1966 and started working as a maintenance man in 1971. Lentz was performing maintenance on an overhead garage door from a lift similar to a cherry picker when the accident occurred. A fellow BAE employee found Lentz at 7:25 A.M. trapped in between the garage door above and the lift.
Rescuers were able to help Lentz out from the lift and took him to York Hospital where he passed away five days later.
Our thoughts and prayers are with Lentz’s family and friends.
Posted on June 25th, 2010
Pennsylvania native John Anczarski was bicycling across the country beginning in his hometown of Ringtown, Pennsylvania to California to raise money for breast cancer research when he was involved in a tragic accident. The 19-year old was struck by a car in a reservation in Laguna, New Mexico about fifty miles west of Albuquerque.
Anczarski’s friends were with him when a sport utility vehicle hit him yesterday, leaving him with serious head injuries. Anczarski later passed away at a nearby hospital.
The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs will handle the investigation because the accident occurred on tribal lands. The driver was said to be an older male member of the reservation, but his identity has not yet been released.
Anczarski’s friend who were with him at the time of the accident are speaking out to inform the public of their friend’s wrongful death and the terrible costs that careless driving mistakes can have.
Our sincerest sympathies go out to Anczarski’s family and friends.
