Fraud Case Verdict for a Wal-mart Executive Too Simple – Court of Appeals
The appeals court has ordered, last Tuesday, to review the punishment given to a former Wal-Mart executive for his fraud case. The offender, Tom Coughlin, was sentenced to home detention but the prosecutors contended that U.S District Judge Robert T. Dawson disregarded the weight of the defendant’s crime and focused more on his status in the community.
Daughter Dead from Head Injury, Father Charged Christus With Wrongful Death
Robert Bowden, beneficiary of Zora Bowden who was hit by a car while backing out from a parking lot of a grocery store and rushed to the Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital in Texas but died a few days after the incident due to subdural hematoma, charged the hospital and Zora's attending physicians of wrongful death suit. Bowden filed the lawsuit with the Jefferson County District Court on August 13.
Epoxy Supplier Indicted in Fatal Tunnel Collapse
The lone supplier of epoxy used in the construction of the Big Dig tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts was finally charged in court last Wednesday. This is for providing inadequate adhesives used on bolts to secure the tunnel ceiling of the most ambitious and costly road project in the history of the United States. The incident, which happened July 10, last year, has resulted to the death of Milena Del Valle, 39, who was crushed by the concrete panels from the ceiling that subsequently shatter and broke down. Yet, her husband was able to crawl out of the ruins and sustained only minor injuries.