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Fatality at Southfield Buffalo Wild Wings draws OSHA probe and same-day General Liability claim with attorney already attached
A worker died at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Southfield, Michigan, and OSHA opened a fatality investigation within the window. Diversified Restaurant Holdings, the operator, now sits at Critical, and the timing matters: a General Liability claim landed the same day, May 29, with an…
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Book Movement: Vargas & Mehta is the second ringer to surface — same blueprint, different verticals
Vargas & Mehta Trial Lawyers has appeared on four unrelated Travelers files in 60 days — Pankow Builders, Westcorp Management (The Edge), Big O Tires High Desert, and a Caspers Co BK Tampa.
Pankow's downtown LA story: an OSHA fatality file, a class action, and a plaintiff firm circling a single claimant address
OSHA opened a fatality investigation under 1926.501 — employee fell 18 feet from a scaffold; inspector marked a preliminary willful classification.