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Wintertime Resort Tragedies: It’s Not Just Accidents on Skis and Snowboards Skiing and snowboarding are among the most popular wintertime recreational activities in the United States. People flock to ski resorts in the West and Northeast with abandon to take on the slopes as soon as snow permits. Sadly, every year people sustain injuries, including fatal ones, while skiing or boarding. In addition, other individuals sustain serious and even fatal injuries when at ski resorts when not on the slopes….

Dangerous Products at the Amazon Marketplace Who’s Responsible When Someone is Injured? Many people do not fully realize that products are sold through Amazon, the mammoth internet retail venue, in two different ways. Most folks who do understand that products of different types are sold through Amazon in two distinctly different ways don’t appreciate what historically has been the legal consequences of these disparate sales avenues. First, products are sold through Amazon directly. Second, hundreds of thousands of products are…

15 College Fraternities Suspended in January At The Doan Law Firm we usually post updates from our fraternity hazing database each calendar quarter along with an annual summary. However, the first month of the new year saw a record 15 fraternities that were suspended by their host schools. In today’s post our fraternity hazing injury lawyer presents a list of college fraternities that were either temporarily suspended pending investigation, suspended for at least 1 year, or permanently expelled by their host…

Former LSU Fraternity Member Sentenced in Hazing Death In a previous post we reported that former Louisiana State University student Matthew Naquin had been convicted of negligent homicide in the September 2017 fraternity hazing death of Maxwell Gruver. As a result of that conviction, in November of last year a judge sentenced Naquin to 5 years in prison, with 2½ years of that sentence suspended. During a court appearance on January 17th of this year, Naquin agreed to revoke his…

Houston Explosion, Fire Leaves 2 Dead; Hundreds of Homes Damaged An early morning explosion in northwestern Houston has left at least 2 dead and damaged an estimated 200 homes. As of 12:00 p.m. local time, some 20 people had been treated at area hospitals for what were described as minor and non-life-threatening injuries. Early reports suggest that 2 dead victims of the blast were Hispanic males, although it isn’t clear whether the men were employees of the facility where the…