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The National Transportation Safety Board is now interviewing members of the road construction team that were working on the 35W Bridge just before it collapsed. The Minneapolis bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River during rush hour traffic on Wednesday, injuring over 100 people. The National Transportation Safety Board interviewed construction workers and gathered information on the...

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Rescue crews at the scene of the Minneapolis bridge collapse have pulled a car from the water today. They have not been able to locate the passengers that should have been in the car. It wasn't immediately certain whether the vehicle, which was pulled out for closer inspection, contained any bodies.Families of the missing continued to wait for word that any bodies had been found in the...

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Investigators looking into the 35W Bridge collapse in Minneapolis have discovered that one end of the bridge fell sideways while the rest of the bridge fell straight down. They are not sure if that was the cause of the bridge collapse or because of the bridge collapsing. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.``What we have is a step forward,'' Rosenker said of the...

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The death toll from the 35W Bridge collapse in Minneapolis has now been raised to five. Rescue workers are slowly going through the wreckage to find victims. There are eight people missing and feared dead in the collapse. More bodies had been spotted in the fast-moving currents, which were "even more treacherous" today than a day earlier, Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek said.Fourteen...

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The Federal Highway Administration is urging each state to inspect their bridges that are like the one that collapsed in Minneapolis. The 35W Bridge is a steel-deck truss bridge and over 750 such bridges exist around the United States. Mary Peters, the Transportation Secretary, sent out letters after the bridge collapse yesterday."Even though we don't know what caused this collapse, we want...

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Yesterday during the evening rush hour the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River. The official death tolls stands at 4 and 20 people are reported as missing. The bridge was full of cars, trucks and a school bus. All of the children on the school bus have been accounted for and several are being treated at local hospitals for their injuries. Today's focus by rescue crews...

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The 35W Bridge in Minneapolis has collapsed into the Mississippi River during rush hour this afternoon. There are reports of fatalities and injuries but no numbers at this time. The accident occurred about 6:05 PM, and according to witnesses, the bridge was packed with bumper-to-bumper traffic at the time of collapse. At this hour there are still motorists trapped on the bridge. Every ambulance...

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Guidant's own expert panel, that was assembled last summer to assess the handling of heart device flaws, stated that the company failed to fully realize the affect on patient safety when publicizing product failures.When a panel of doctors and experts investigated the method of handling the disclosures of flaws in heart devices to doctors, they discovered that Guidant used a statistical...

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Michael K. Johnson is a partner with Goldenberg and Johnson, PLLC. He is a cum laude graduate of the William Mitchell College of Law. Michael is a trial attorney, handling automobile and truck collisions, product liability, workers' compensation, medical malpractice and nursing home negligence, premises liability, dog bites, construction site injuries and wrong death cases since 1995. His...

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Goldenberg & Johnson, PLLC is a nationwide personal injury law firm located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. We have been in business since 1986. Both of our principal attorneys, Michael K. Johnson and Stuart L. Goldenberg, have been named as Minnesota Super Lawyers. Our experienced trial lawyers are known for their ability to handle complex personal injury cases involving all types of...

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