A paraglider has crashed into the Fox River killing 50 year old Jeffrey Carpenter. HIs wife, Audrey Carpenter, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit Friday in Cook county. Jeffrey Carpenter went on a mundane paragliding trip near Ottawa, from Skydive Chicago. The everyday flight took a turn for the worst when the paraglider crashed…
One man is dead following a tragic and heart wrenching workplace accident that could’ve been easily prevented. In addition, 41-year-old, Hugo Avalos-Channon was killed in April 2013 when he was cleaning a meat blender at Oregon based, Interstate Meat Distributors. Likewise, Avalos-Channon was cleaning the blender when for unknown reasons he fell, just as…
Meyerkord & Kurth has recently filed a wrongful death claim on behalf of a local St. Louis man who is seeking damages from a local hospital and treating physicians for the role they played in the murder-suicide of his three young children and wife. In a tragic case that has been garnering ample attention…
Our firm is proud to announce that we have settled two cases against the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) thus far this year. Highway design cases can be complex, but through our hard work and dedication we have successfully concluded two such cases this year alone. The first case involved the death of a…
Meyerkord & Kurth is currently representing the family of a man who was struck and killed by a dump truck while working on a jobsite in Ste. Genevieve County. It was around 10:45 am on Monday, July 2, 2012 when Larry Dye, a 31-year-old highway construction worker, lost his life while working on Interstate…