San Diego Personal Injury Attorney Blog

Authorities arrested and charged Michael Gordon, 23, with felony involuntary manslaughter for a dog attack that left a young girl dead in January, according to the Charlotte Observer. Gordon’s two pit bulls mauled five-year-old Makayla Woodard to death on January 12. The dog attack occurred at approximately 11 a.m. in Gordon’s back yard. Makayla was walking through Gordon’s back yard to access a pen to play with her own dogs when Gordon’s dogs attacked her. Makayla’s grandmother, Nancy Presson, 67, tried to pull the dogs off the young girl. The dogs also attacked Presson. Presson suffered dog bites and scratches on her arms and shoulders, and Makayla died en route to the hospital. When local Waxhaw, North Carolina officers arrived on the scene, they pulled the dogs off Makayla and Presson. One of the dogs went back to attack the young girl again, forcing officers to shoot it. The other…
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The Triad Group has issued a voluntary national pharmaceutical recall of alcohol prep pads that may be contaminated with Bacillus Cereus, a harmful and potentially deadly bacterium. Poisoning from the pads has caused least one known death. Doctors pronounced two-year-old Harrison Kothari dead on December 1, 2010 from organ failure. Harrison was recovering from surgery—a cyst removal—at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston at the time of his death.  Hospital staff allegedly used the recalled to clean a drain in Harrison’s spine during his hospitalization, according to MSNBC.com. “They had no explanation as to how he contracted it,” said Sandra Kothari, Harrison’s mother.  “They know it’s rare in the hospital.” “These wipes were used in his care every single day, multiple times a day,” says Shanoop Kothari, Harrison’s father. “We’re confident that’s the cause.  There was no other explanation that made any sort of sense,” Shanoop Kothari said. “He contracted…
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On Friday, January 21, a pit bull attacked Barbara Plunk, an 85 year-old woman from Moreno Valley, according to the Press-Enterprise. Plunk received treatment and underwent surgeries for injuries sustained to her arm and torso at a nearby hospital. There were no witnesses to the dog attack, and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department did not release any details. Plunk was on the phone with her daughter at the time of the attack.  Her daughter called the police, fearing her mother had suffered a stroke because she sounded “unintelligible” on the phone.  Animal control quarantined the canine responsible for the dog attack. Investigators and crime scene investigators had roped off Dow Street with crime scene tape and were examining evidence on Friday night.  Dow Street is an unpaved rural road with no streetlights.  According to neighbors, the zoning on the land is for horses. Plunk is an avid gardener who owns…
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