The Coast Guard and good Samaritans medevaced four people after their 20-foot pleasure craft reportedly allided with a platform near Deep Point Marina in Southport, N.C., Saturday. The operator of the vessel contacted Coast Guard Sector North Carolina watchstanders via VHF-FM channel 16 at approximately 9 p.m., reporting that they…
You buy insurance to protect yourself against lawsuits and other claims in the event that you negligently injure another person on the road or at home. But what happens if you injure someone in your own family, even your own child, by accident? Is that same liability insurance available to…
A helicopter crew from U.S. Coast Guard Sector San Diego medically evacuated a burn victim from aboard a container ship 30 miles west of San Diego Saturday afternoon. The aircrew hoisted the 55-year-old man to the helicopter and transported him to Sector San Diego, where he was turned over to…
Yesterday morning, a runner was rushed to Harborview Medical Center with a head injury and multiple broken bones after she was hit by a car at a Burke-Gilman Trail intersection in North Seattle. Medics were dispatched at 9:14 a.m. to the 5800 block of Northeast 65th Street. Police said the…
The Coast Guard is investigating the sinking of the fishing vessel Evening Star northwest of Sitka Thursday. Coast Guard Sector Juneau received report at 7:44 a.m. that the 50-foot Evening Star sank in Slocum Arm 40 miles northwest of Sitka in 300 feet of water with about 1,000 gallons of…
The Coast Guard responded Monday to a vessel that ran aground near the entrance to the Skipanon River in Warrenton, Oregon. Coast Guard Sector Columbia River received a report at approximately 11:30 p.m., Sunday, stating the 45-foot fishing vessel Michelle D had allided with pilings on the east side of…
An Edmonds-based fishing boat sank Thursday night off the coast of southeastern Alaska, and all four crew members were rescued, the U.S. Coast Guard reported. Officials said the 84-foot Mary Kay sank in about 600 feet of water, with a potential fuel load of 2,500 gallons of diesel aboard. It…
A seventeen-year-old boy and his mother recently filed suit against Sky High Sports’ Bellevue location arising out of injuries the boy received in the trampoline park at his sister’s 16th birthday party. The boy’s mother describes a “free for all” of children and adults bouncing all over when she and…
When a chunk of I-5 pavement flew up and smashed through the windshield of a car carrying a family of four, the dangers of Washington’s crumbling roadways became all too real. The family was headed down I-5 near Northgate on Saturday when a brick-sized concrete panel came off the road,…
Over the last few months, injuries and deaths at Western State Hospital in Lakewood have been in the news. In April, there was both a murder and a suicide perpetrated by patients civilly committed in the hospital. One patient was murdered after he allegedly urinated on another sleeping patient. A…