North County Injury Blog

This is an amazing jury verdict. In 2004, Daniel Carlock was scuba diving with Ocean Adventures Dive Co. out of Los Angeles. During a dive near an oil rig, Carlock surfaced about 400 feet from the dive boat when he had trouble equalizing the pressure in his ears. As he tread on the surface of…

If you live in San Diego County, there are two certainties: death, and car accidents when it rains. The heavy rains of the last few days have contributed to hundreds of auto accidents, and yesterday in North County there were two dramatic ones. First, in Carlsbad, two motorists had to be hospitalized after a serious…

Joel Miranda of Santa Ana will spend at least 10 years behind bars for his role in the death of Francisco Aquino, who was walking as a pedestrian when he was fatally struck by Miranda’s car. According the news reports, Miranda was driving a truck during the early evening of February 1, 2009 when he…

A man driving a Volkswagen Beetle suffered a suspected brain injury when his car collided with a Mazda SUV. The accident occurred shortly after midnight on October 10 at the intersection of Graves Avenue and Pepper Drive, where there is a three-way stop sign at a T-shaped intersection. The victim had to be removed from…

We have all see schlocky television ads for lawyers, but here’s a list of lawyer ads that should be given awards for their awfulness. Click here to see several AWFULLY HILLARIOUS LAWYER ADS But this one definitely has to be the best of the worst: Source: asylum.com The accident and injury attorneys at Walton Law…

Nationwide, fatal car accidents involving drunk drivers have been on the decline. But yesterday, a study was released listing the 20 cities in the United States where drunk driving is most prevalent, and San Diego tops the list. Not far behind San Diego was Los Angeles, which ranked seventh. Despite the trend downward, driving under…

Kitchens are full of inherent dangers – stove tops, knives, and other sharp, dangerous items. A tragedy in Missouri has lead to a wrongful death lawsuit by the family of a 2 year old, who was killed when the kitchen stove tumbled over onto the child, killing him instantly. Deondrew Watson, Jr. death could have…

As most know, the high-profile case involving the death of a San Diego family when the Lexus they were driving sped out of control and crashed has settled. Toyota Motor Corp. has agreed to pay relatives of the family of Mark Saylor an undisclosed sum to settle the case. How much? We will probably never…

A Lakeside residential care facility is the subject of an investigation by the California Department of Social Services for safety violations. The facility, Expanding Horizons, is the same home where a convicted sex offender was living when he wandered away from the home and sexually assaulted two boys. Neighbors of the facility had no idea…

We have all heard about arrogant doctors (and lawyers for that matter), but this guy wins the prize. Dr. Red Alinsod, a Laguna Beach gynecologist was sued for branding his patients name into her uterus using a cauterizing device. According to reports, Dr. Alinsod carved the name “Ingrid” into the uterine wall, in inch-high letters,…