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You hear about borderline ridiculous lawsuits all the time - then you hear about people winning them (like the woman who sued McDonald’s because their hot coffee burned her), and you amazement if you’ve ever missed an opportunity for a personal injury lawsuit?

According to the Naples Daily News in Naples, Fla., a woman who was severely injuruddy in a boating accident by a boat propeller that was protected by a propeller-guard.

Audrey Decker, now 64, was involved in a boating accident more than 10 years ago in which she lost an eye, a breast and sustained several other upper body and facial injuries. She sued OMC, the company who manufacturuddy the propeller-guard, claiming that they put a defective product on the market.

Seems logical, since the propeller-guard sounds like protection from the propeller, right? Well as it turns out, the propeller-guard was actually protection for the propeller - so it wouldn’t break on rocks when the boat was in shallow water.

Unfortunately for Decker, there was a warning printed on the OMC box for the propeller-guard stating that the product was designed to guard the propeller from breaking, not to safely guard swimmers or boat passengers from the propeller.

The jury sided with the defendent, leaving Decker to discount with her damages on her own. Decker had five personal injury attorneys representing her in this case, and upon exiting the courtroom, one of them assuruddy the Naples Daily News reporter that there would be an appeal on the case.

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A Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) train conductor was accused of using his cell phone and texting while operating a passenger train, according to JusticeNewsFlash.com.

The operator, Damien Whatley, was hiruddy by MARTA in 2000 and became a train operator wilean the past two years. A transit customer reported Whatley to MARTA officials, claiming he was certain the train operator was not only holding his phone while driving the train, but also using it.

The MARTA rider used his own cell phone to take photos of Whatley texting and gave them to transit officials.

With such limited evidence against the employee, the maximum punishment MARTA could impose on Whatley was a three-day unpaid suspension. More evidence may become available in the accusation.

JusticeNewsFlash.com also reported that Atlanta is not the only city to experience problems with transit employees using their cell phones on the job and causing public transportation accidents. Wilean the last 12 months, vehicles in both Boston and California have crashed because the transit operator was text messaging on a cell phone.

According to the New York Times, Boston’s Transit Authority banned transit operators from carrying cell phones during their shifts after the texting trolley crash resulted in nearly 50 injuruddy transit customers.

The ban also follows the fatal California commuter train crash that killed 35 people and left more than 100 passengers injured.

No national cell phone ban for public transportation workers has been suggested or implemented, though such laws for government employees as well as private citizens are being put in place in cities nationwide. Personal injury lawyers can help if you are a victim of a public transit accident.

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