A car crashed into the railing of an overpass on I-26 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, causing a large section of the concrete railing to fall onto the interstate. As the concrete fell, cars were stopping and slowing to avoid the debris. A tractor-trailer truck…
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Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicaid are “means-tested” programs, available only to people who can show that their income and assets are below a specified limit. Millions of people with disabilities rely on these programs for essential goods and services. But when a person with…
By law, Medicare is considered a secondary payer for injury, illness, or disease suffered by those involved in a workers’ compensation or liability lawsuit. As a result, Medicare does not have primary responsibility for covering a victim’s medical expenses until other responsible entities pay first.…
On Memorial Day, Scott was on a ladder putting the cover back on the family camper – something he did all the time. At some point, he fell and hit his head on a concrete slab. His wife found him unconscious. Scott was rushed to…
A Philadelphia jury recently awarded a $5 million verdict to four passengers injured in a Greyhound bus crash with a tractor-trailer. At approximately 1:30 a.m. on October 9, 2013, the bus driver was on an overnight trip from New York to Cleveland when she slammed…
Automation and budget-cutting have led many freight and passenger railroads across the United States to cut crew sizes. As a logical result of such staff reductions, many of the largest trains moving along the nation’s rails have only a single engineer in the locomotive—even those…
“What if it could be easier and safer for everyone to get around?” This is the tagline of Google’s Self-Driving Car Project. With statistics being released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that human error is the cause of 94% of the motor…
Sepsis is a complication of an infection that’s linked to more than 250,000 deaths each year. U.S. health officials report that many cases of life-threatening sepsis could be recognized and treated long before it causes severe illness or death. The Centers for Disease Control and…
