- Greg Webb | December 31, 2007 11:15 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rushed to make cutbacks on the requirements for companies to disclose their release of toxins annually. The EPA expedited these cutbacks after being pressured by the White House Office of Monetary Budget to meet their commitment to reduce the amount of paperwork to industries by 2006. With these changes, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has...
- Greg Webb | December 28, 2007 12:20 PM |
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MiscellaneousAllstate Insurance Company has made it clear that although it is being fined $25,000 daily, it will not produce key records in a case pending in Missouri (thereby becoming public documents) unless the documents are sealed. The documents in question, also known as the McKinsey documents, have been called the "holy grail" for lawyers representing injured people (plaintiff's lawyers). The McKinsey...
- Greg Webb | December 20, 2007 2:41 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe Atlanta Constitution Journal reported on December 13, 2007, that a Cobb County, Georgia jury handed down a $3,000,000 compensatory damage verdict against Ford Motor Company because of defective seats in a 1994 Ford Tempo that resulted in the death of a 76 year-old lady. Mary Reese's Ford Tempo was rear-ended by a gravel truck, driving her car down a steep embankment. She was hospitalized...
- Greg Webb | December 19, 2007 9:30 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsIn a Madera County, California case, Brundage-Bone Concrete Pumping, a nationwide concrete pumping company, has agreed to pay nine million dollars in a wrongful death lawsuit to the parents of two children killed in an automobile accident involving one of the company's trucks. The two sisters, Korren Radke, seven years old, and Chloe Baker, two years old, were killed last June when the company's...
- Greg Webb | December 17, 2007 8:55 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsIn the last six months, more than 1,200 toys have been taken of the shelves of Wal-Mart, Toys-R-Us, and Babies-R-Us to be tested for excessive amounts of lead and other harmful substances in toys. These tests, led by a Michigan-based Ecology Center along with help from eight other states and the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, have shown thirty five percent of the toys tested...
- Greg Webb | December 16, 2007 3:44 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsIn April 2004, Thomas Steven, a Wichita businessman and father of eight, was killed in an automobile accident due to the negligence of Steven Jones, a Swift tractor trailer driver. Swift is one of the largest trucking companies in the United States, hauling goods and cargo for such companies as Wal-Mart, Target, and Rite-Aid. Jones failed to slow down on a sweeping flat curve leading to an...
- Greg Webb | December 16, 2007 3:26 PM |
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MiscellaneousLast year the total number of workers who died in mining accidents more than doubled to an astonishing 47. This sharp increase in casualties could be, at least in part, due to the fact that over one in seven of the United State's 731 mines were not inspected at all by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), although they were required to under the Federal Mine and Health Act of 1977,...
- Greg Webb | December 11, 2007 10:20 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsFord Motor Company is recalling 1.1 million more vehicles. This time, Ford is recalling more than 1.1 million heavy-duty trucks with diesel engines because of a problem that could lead to engine stalling. When an engine stalls, particularly when the vehicle is moving, this may present a safety problem for the driver and occupants because the driver may lose control of the vehicle. Ford's...
- Greg Webb | December 06, 2007 2:16 PM |
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MiscellaneousWhile amusement park thrill rides are only supposed to seem dangerous, many people are injured each year due to negligence in the operation of these rides. On average, four people are killed each year while riding amusement park rides, while injury reports average in the thousands. A man was killed in 1999 riding the Shockwave at Paramount's King's Dominion in Doswell, Virginia.The Consumer...
- Greg Webb | December 06, 2007 2:12 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsOver 264,000 luxury vehicles, made by Toyota, have been recalled due to faulty exhaust pipes. Forty thousand of these recalled vehicles are from the Lexus branch of the company. These flawed exhaust pipes on the recalled models could lead to fuel leaks, cracks, and corrosion. Although most of the recalls are being made in Japan, the Toyota company, along with the National Highway Traffic Safety...
- Bryan Slaughter | December 03, 2007 11:27 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeA new study of medical malpractice cases shows what ethical trial attorneys have always known -- medical malpractice settlements are closely tied to merit and quality of care. Although tort reformers have claimed settlements in malpractice suits are a "lottery", where fault and settlement are not related, a new analysis of eleven studies of medical malpractice settlements and claims have shown...
- Greg Webb | December 03, 2007 9:56 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe Ford Motor Company has settled a class-action lawsuit in California, Illinois, Connecticut and Texas regarding its 1991-2001 models of the Explorer sports utility vehicle (SUV), which has come under fire for being prone to rollovers. The claimants have said the Ford Motor Company used false advertising to sell the SUV. They knew the automobile was prone to rollovers, but marketed it as a...