Legal and safety news that caught my interest this week:
Legalese After-Math: When Jurors Forget To Carry The One [Matt McCusker at Deliberations by American Society of Trial Consultants]
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When you are in a car collision, there is a lot that needs to be done. You need to make sure you hire the right person to represent you. In most cases, the first contact you have is going to be with...
A new high-tech device could soon end the problem of drunk driving for good--at least for those drivers who opt to have the system installed in their new cars. A Japanese company has received a...
It is unfortunate that I have to report a bicycle and car crash fatality.
This past Sunday a cyclist 57-year-old Robert Eugene White of Ryde in Sacramento County was killed on state Highway 113...
The New York City Health Department reports nine cases of West Nile virus this year so far. Five of those cases were in Queens and included one fatality.
While the agency cannot release details,...
Virginia (VA) recently saw its plans for tolls on the I-95 approved. And we are likely to be seeing more of tolls as the crumbling road system around Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach, VA, is...
One of the Pentagon's largest contractors has acknowledged it discovered a data breach affecting as many as 4.9 million patients who have received care from military facilities in San Antonio...
For the first time, the mainstream cosmetics industry has declared formaldehyde unsafe at any level in hair straighteners.
As a result of a meeting this week, the Cosmetic Ingredient Review...
This past week, the United States Department of Agriculture and Tyson Fresh Meats recalled over 130,000 pounds of ground beef due to possible contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The recall is due to...
We all know health care is not as safe as it should be. Studies show that an alarming number of patients are harmed by medical mistakes, and far too many die prematurely as a result; drug errors...