Miscellaneous

• Workers Injured In Coal Dust Explosion Accident May Have Rights Beyond Worker's Compensation Benefits

  David Lowe | February 04, 2009 9:46 AM | 3 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Yesterday's coal dust silo explosion at We Energies' Oak Creek power plant injured six employees preparing to perform repairs inside the structure. The injured employees work for ThyssenKrupp...

• Tree Stand Manufacturer Settles Suit By CPSC

  David Lowe | January 11, 2008 1:47 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Ardisam, Inc. of Cumberland, Wisconsin is paying $420,000 to settle a suit by the Consumer Product Safety Commission alleging that it failed to report personal injuries suffered by hunters using its tree stands when the stands unexpectedly detached from trees. Even though the company allegedly became aware of at least nine injury incident reports as early as 2000, the company did not report the...

• David P. Lowe, Attorney at Law

  Staff Writer | January 03, 2006 11:54 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  The November 2005 issue of Milwaukee Magazine and Wisconsin Super Lawyers named David P. Lowe as one of its "Super Lawyers". David is a 1977 graduate, cum laude, of Marquette University Law School, where he served on the Editorial Board of the Marquette Law Review. Following a two year clerkship with United States District Judge Myron L. Gordon in the Eastern District of Wisconsin, he was an...

• Pilots Killed at Two Air Shows

  Jenny Albano | July 30, 2007 11:30 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  A stunt pilot died after he crashed during a Dayton, Ohio air show on Saturday, July 28. This occurred only a day after another pilot was killed in an accident in an air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.A pilot named Jim LeRoy died on the way to the hospital after his S2S Bulldog biplane crashed on the runway of the Dayton International Airport. The plane had been performing loop-the-loops to...

• Wisconsin Court Allows Clergy Abuse Victims To Sue For Fraud

  David Lowe | July 12, 2007 8:11 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Court decisions by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1995 and 1997 closed the door to the courthouse for childhood victims of sex abuse by priests, holding in John BBB Doe v. Archdiocese of Milwaukee that the statute of limitations had expired three years after the last incident of abuse and, in a case called Pritzlaff v. Archdiocse of Milwaukee, that the Archdiocese of Milwaukee was not liable for...

• Pet Food Recall Raises Issue Of Remedies For Pet Owners' Loss Of Companionship

  David Lowe | March 20, 2007 10:35 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  The recall of contaminated pet food manufactured by Menu Foods, Inc. of Streetsville, Ontario, Canada, will awaken the public to the fact that state laws give rather meager court remedies to owners who lose a pet due to negligence. The recall, announced March 17, 2007, involved 60 million containers of pet food of the "Cuts and Gravy" style. The food was sold in stores between December 3 and...

• Boy Fleeing Rottweiller Suffers Head Injury

  David Lowe | June 03, 2008 2:30 PM | 1 CommentMilwaukee, WI

  The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel website is reporting that a 17-year-old boy fleeing a Rottweiller dog suffered a fractured skull Monday night after he ran into a tree. Policeare reporting that the...

• Contingent Fee Lawyers In Public Interest Cases Face Real Risks

  David Lowe | July 10, 2007 8:15 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Today's New York Times has published a piece by legal affairs columnist Adam Liptik raising questions about state and local governments' use of contingent fee lawfirms to handle major litigation, such as tobacco and environmental pollution cases. Most of the criticism of the fee arrangements comes out of the mouths of lawyers defending the polluters and other corporate interests, who would...

• Cheney Mishap Puts Spotlight on Hunting Safety

  David Lowe | February 15, 2006 11:08 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Vice President Cheney's hunting accident case parallels 1999 shotgun accident involving basketball coach Bobby Knight. Both cases involved the violation of basic rules of hunting safety.Vice President Richard Cheney's hunting accident on a private ranch in Corpus Christi, Texas, once again places needed attention on the topic of hunting safety. Hunting experts seem to agree that Cheney violated...

• Tainted Heparin Deaths: Investigators Are Closing In On The Explanations

  David Lowe | April 25, 2008 4:22 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Update on the tainted heparin investigation. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel website has posted a report that gives an explanation for how the tainted heparin caused injury and deaths, and how it...