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Personal Injury & Torts

Mar. 25, 2003

Jury Awards $5 Million for Wrongful Death of Worker

John Craig Escobar was waiting for his turn to pick up a load of asphalt for the El Dorado Irrigation District on a balmy November morning in 2000. The American River Asphalt Inc. yard in Rancho Cordova near Sacramento was busy.

By Joan Osterwalder
        John Craig Escobar was waiting for his turn to pick up a load of asphalt for the El Dorado Irrigation District on a balmy November morning in 2000. The American River Asphalt Inc. yard in Rancho Cordova near Sacramento was busy.
        Escobar stood between two belly dump trailers to be out of...

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