The lawsuit was brought by Jeff Koopen, who was seriously injured as a passenger in a motorboat that hit a small, low-lying island. The boat was driven by Rick Aberle, who was found negligent after a jury trial.
A jury determined that Aberle was 35 percent responsible for the accident. Koopen was determined to be 10 percent responsible and his friend Collin Troia was found 55 percent responsible.
The woman is a 43-year-old news producer who says that she was in a unisex bathroom stall at Here Lounge when a club employee burst in and sexually assaulted her. The woman fled the club after her assault and was found a block away by a Good Samaritan who called police.
The Los Angeles Times reports that a jury found the bar 40 percent responsible for the woman’s sexual assault and found the bar employee 60 percent responsible. The bar employee disappeared after he was acquitted in a criminal case arising out of the rape.
NBC San Francisco reports that the 33-year-old mother has been accused of speeding into oncoming traffic around midnight Monday.
Witnesses report seeing the woman speed up to 60mph in a 40mph zone before the crash.
The woman crashed into a Toyota Camry on Osgood Road between Blacow Road and Auto Mall Parkway. The driver of the Camry was reportedly intoxicated and cited with misdemeanor DUI before being released at the scene. The driver suffered a leg injury but wasn’t hospitalized.
A 91-year-old woman was run over and killed on Fillmore Street last week. The SF Streets Blog reports that the crash happened last Thursday as the woman crossed mid-block on the street.
Authorities are declining to charge the driver with a crime or even cite him because the woman was jay-walking.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the city will settle the lawsuit to avoid an adverse jury verdict in the case.
The lawsuit was brought by Wanning Qian, who hurt when he was hit by a city public works vehicle and sent flying into the glass door of an art gallery. Qian was one of two pedestrians hurt when the van ran a red light at 14th Street and Franklin in September of 2012.
Mayor Edwin M. Lee and several other top city officials recently announced a pedestrian safety campaign called “Be Nice, Look Twice.”
The mayor says that in addition to encouraging individuals to be more aware of their surroundings, the SFPD will increase its safety enforcement efforts by bolstering the number of motorcycle cops on city streets.
A Petaluma-based slaughterhouse has issued a massive recall of 8.7 million pounds of meat processed in 2013. The Press Democrat reports that Rancho Feeding Corp. expanded a recall announced last month after an investigation revealed that it proceeded “diseased and unsound animals” without proper inspections.
The Dolan Law Firm recently filed the first lawsuit against Uber cab for the death of 6-year-old Sofia Liu.
Sofia Liu was run over by Syed Muzzaraf along with her mother Huan and brother Anthony. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Liu’s parents, Ang Jiang and Huan Kuang and has been covered in publications such as PC World.
The California state legislature has unanimously approved a bill designed to make jury trials faster and easier and to allow more plaintiffs with smaller claims to have their cases heard in court.