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On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Monday, December 17, 2012 The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released the findings of its report on the crash of a tractor-trailer truck with an Amtrak passenger train in Nevada in 2011. The truck drove through the crossing gates and past […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Saturday, December 15, 2012 Distracted driving has become a well-know concern. The arrival of the cell phone, and more recently, the smartphone, has heaped more servings of distraction on the plate of drivers, who already availed themselves of other distractions like eating, […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 In a detailed investigation, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has published a series on pedestrian accidents along railroad tracks. The report describes the dangers of crossing or walking along the tracks from across the country. They began the investigation after the death of a […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Defective Products on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Taser International is being sued in St. Louis by a man claiming the company failed to warn police adequately of the dangers of shooting a taser into an individual’s chest. The man was shot with a taser in the […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Monday, December 3, 2012 A tour bus carrying 32 member of a church group ran into an overpass at the Miami International Airport on Saturday, killing two passengers and critically injuring three others. The bus crash occurred when the driver apparently took […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Medical Malpractice on Friday, November 30, 2012 A star basketball player developed a painful swelling in his arm, eventually causing his arm to swell to two or three times normal size. At that point, he knew something was wrong but he didn’t know what it was. […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Monday, November 26, 2012 As winter begins in the Midwest, weather worries change from thunderstorms and tornados to fog, ice storms and blizzards. While St. Louis has experienced some minor fog recently, the 100-vehicle crash on Interstate 10 in Texas points out […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Medical Malpractice on Friday, November 23, 2012 The family of a woman who died in September of 2011 in the Richmond Heights jail has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against two St. Louis hospitals, claiming they refused treatment and cleared her to leave the emergency room […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Monday, November 19, 2012 A Kansas City woman was killed and her one-year old son was in the hospital after an accident near Smithville Lake, MO, that was apparently triggered by a violent sneezing attack on the part of the driver of […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Thursday, November 15, 2012 Highway driving is not without dangers. When you are travelling at 100 feet per second, (68 mph) distant objects can suddenly become close in no time. A car or truck can change lanes unexpectedly right in front of […]