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A Pinal County natural gas pipeline explosion devastated a family in their home, killing a father and daughter and severely injuring a mother. The investigation into the Pinal County explosion has only just begin. However, officials already presume that the explosion had something to do with the major Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline that runs near the family’s residence, located in a rural area outside of Coolidge, Arizona. The explosion occurred at about 5:30 a.m. Sunday morning. The blast occurred…

A Florida woman was convicted in 2016 to serve five years in prison for DUI manslaughter arising from her killing of person while driving drunk in the Sunshine State. As unbelievable as it might seem, this same person killed yet another person while driving drunk this past week. In the most recent incident, the driver (identified as Jennifer Carvajal, age 24) also seriously injured two other people. Carvajal was bulleting down Interstate 4 in Hillsborough County at around 1:30 a.m….

Follow-up: 2 Confirmed Dead, 1 Missing After Hard Rock Hotel Collapse Two workers have been confirmed dead and a third is missing but presumed dead three days after the partial collapse of a hotel that was under construction near New Orleans’ historic French Quarter. The cause of the accident, which occurred at the site of a Hard Rock Hotel that was being erected along Canal Street, is under investigation by state and federal workplace safety agencies, including the Occupational Safety…

New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel Collapses: Catastrophic Building Disaster Revisits Tragedy in the Iconic French Quarter Without warning, an 18-story building under construction on Canal Street at the edge of the New Orleans French Quarter began to collapse just after 9:00 on Saturday morning. The building was to be a New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel when completed. More than 100 workers were in the structure at the time of the deadly calamity. By mid-afternoon, emergency personnel reported that at least one…

Who Is Liable in “Mass Shootings” and Other Acts of Public Violence? As the recent mass shooting incidents in El Paso and in Dayton, Ohio, have tragically demonstrated, we live in a society where acts of “planned” or “premeditated” public violence have become a matter of great concern in regard to public safety. Although we will avoid the very real issues of concern to both the law enforcement and civil libertarian communities, at The Doan Law Firm we believe that…