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• Trucking Accident Injures Man

  Christina Cole | December 28, 2006 4:16 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents

  A man was taken via Life Flight Helicpoter to Erlanger Hospital this morning after he suffered extensive internal injuries in a truck accident on I-75 North, according to the Chattanooga Police Department spokesman Sgt. Tom Layne.The name of the man has not yet been released. The driver crashed his 2005 Ford Focus into the back of a big tractor-trailer that was hauling a backhoe about a mile...

• COPIC to Return $10M to Physicians

  Christina Cole | December 22, 2006 3:26 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  On Wednesday, the state's largest medical malpractice insurer said it will return $10 million to the Colorado doctors that it covers. COPIC Insurance Co. covers over than 80% of privately insured Colorado Doctors. The distribution follows a September announcement that there will not be an overall rate increase for doctors during 2007. "One of the promises we make to our insured physicians is...

• Workers' Compensation Perjury gets Man Jail Time

  Christina Cole | December 22, 2006 3:08 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  A judge has sentenced Lamoine Lobsterman Wednesday, to seven months in jail for lying under oath about the work he was paid for while collecting workers' compensation benefits.The judge said the sentence must serve as a deterrent to others who might be tempted to do the same thing. William Fennelly, 48, plead guilty earlier this month in Penobscot County Superior Court to two counts of felony...

• Collision with Rig Kills Man

  Christina Cole | December 22, 2006 2:59 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents

  A Sparta man died on Tuesday morning just after his pickup truck collided with a truck on McMinnville Highway in White County.Malcolm D. Price, 72, was killed when his 2006 Chevy pickup crossed the center line and struck the left side of a 1009 freightliner traveling the opposite direction according to Tennessee Highway Patrol Report.The driver of the larger truck, Stanley Hurd, 44, of Sparta,...

• Two Students Killed in Car Wreck on the Way to School

  Christina Cole | December 22, 2006 2:49 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Two Morgan County students died in a two-car accident today on the way to school.Three other children were injured on Old Harriman Highway between Oakdale and Harriman. The car driver, junior Jordan Langley, and a passenger in the other car freshman Jason Neal, were killed.The three students that were injured are 8th graders Brandon Neal, junior Josh Brown and junior Seth Moore. They were taken...