Blog Posts in 2010
Posted on Nov 13, 2010 By Drowning Lawyer
At around 6 a.m. last Thursday, the Carnival Splendor glided into the Port of San Diego, pulled by a group of tug boats. The 4500 passengers and crew were ecstatic the trip was over and they would be ...
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Posted on Oct 12, 2010 By Drowning Lawyer
The father of the twin nine-year-old girls who drowned near the Texas City dike earlier this month has died, reports say. Hector Suarez-Palacios died Friday morning after being on life support ...
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Posted on Oct 12, 2010 By Drowning Lawyer
Twin nine-year-old girls drowned earlier this month when they were swept away by water currents near the Texas City dike, just south of Houston, TX. Reports say the girls, Alexandra and Samantha ...
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Posted on Sep 9, 2010 By Drowning Accident Lawyer
A plastic solar panel ended the life of a four-year-old child in Gouverneur County, New York last month. Police have ruled the drowning an accident. Reports say that Thomas Keith Vanschaick, of ...
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Posted on Sep 8, 2010 By Drowning Injury Attorney
While celebrating South Korea's advance into the knock-out phase of the World Cup in Seoul, a 20-year-old college student drown in the nearby Han River. The Korean student, identified only by Lee, his ...
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Posted on Sep 7, 2010 By Drowning Accident Lawyer
While excercising in an LA Fitness swimming pool south of Houston, a 70-year-old woman was nearly drown, prompting a gym member to perform CPR and resuscitate her at the scene. After another swimmer ...
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Posted on Sep 6, 2010 By Drowning Accident Attorney
Montreal Police are reportedly investigating a drowning that occurred at the popular Mont Saint-Sauveur Water Park late last month. When several attendants began screaming when they noticed a body in ...
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Posted on Sep 5, 2010 By Drowning Injury Lawyer
Police in Hollywood, Florida are investigating the apparent child drowning of a toddler last month. The child, reported as two-year-old Valentino Llenderrozo, was found in a pool in Hollywood shortly ...
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Posted on Sep 4, 2010 By Drowning Accident Lawyer
Walter Dines, 18, of Glen Burnie, Md., jumped from the high basalt cliff at Gladstone's High Rocks Park to join friends in the water, at the urging of older adults on the rocks. He struggled to swim ...
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Posted on Sep 3, 2010 By Drowning Injury Attorney
A tragedy was avoided last month when three visitors took swift action to save a drowning man's life at Osoyoos Lake, near Brookvale Campground in Vancouver, Canada last month. When a 39-year-old man ...
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Posted on Sep 2, 2010 By Drowning Accident Lawyer
Pressure for answers mounts in the drowning of a Harlem who died while on a school field trip. Criticism has increased against inexperienced chaperones involved in the trip, mainly three adults who ...
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Posted on Sep 1, 2010 By Drowning Accident Lawyer
Reports say several brothers from the Caramegee family, of Tucson, AZ, were swimming at their apartment's pool, when one of the older children noticed one of the younger ones at the bottom of the ...
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Posted on Aug 30, 2010 By Drowning Accident Lawyer
Officials in Connecticut have identified a 31-year-old man drowning victim. The man, whose body was recovered in a pond after a boating accident in the Jewett City section of Griswold, had been ...
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Posted on Aug 29, 2010 By Drowning Attorney
A worker on the Seaspan Shipping terminal in Delta, Vancouver, Canada died last month after he fell into the Fraser River and drowned. The man, who was only identified as a mid-forties worker, was ...
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Posted on Aug 28, 2010 By Drowning Accident Attorney
An investigation was being conducted late last month to probe the circumstances under which 77-year-old longshoreman, Delmont Blakeney, of Oakland, CA died. Reports say fellow workers have blamed the ...
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Posted on Aug 27, 2010 By Drowning Injury Lawyer
A Gainesville man drowned attempting to save four children off Key Biscayne early last month. Reportedly, four children were standing on a sandbar just before when it washed away. Douglas Frank ...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2010 By Drowning Accident Lawyer
A six-year-old girl who was pulled from a public pool in Northeast Washington DC and was taken to the hospital in critical condition, died a day after the accident, reports say. An investigation at ...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2010 By Drowning Attorney
A five-year-old boy was saved from drowning in the club pool Wednesday at the Omaha Country Club by two members, reports say. The youth, Scottie Camero, was initially treated by the two club members, ...
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