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The Bush administration is being pressured by industries, from agriculture to power, to act on an abundance of pending regulations, mostly challenging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). For example, last month, power companies and manufacturers took their objections about an expected EPA proposal to tighten federal smog rules to the White House budget office. There, they urged officials...

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The neighbors of a former IBM plant in two upstate New York towns are suing the company for allegedly discharging chemicals, such as trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene, into the air, water and ground for the past eighty years. The plaintiffs claim the chemicals caused birth defects and cancer and are seeking unspecified damages. The lawsuit is said to be the first of several planned...

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Florida Insurance Commissioner, Kevin McCarty, announced he would be suspending Allstate Insurance companies from issuing any new insurance in his state. This decision comes after Allstate refused to obey subpoenas served to them on October 16, 2007 by the Office of Insurance Regulation. The subpoenas are trying to seek the disclosure of the McKinsey Documents, in which McKinsey & Co. detailed...

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Aetna, one of the leading national private health plan managers, has joined with other insurers, such as WellPoint and Humana, to declare it will not cover a powerful anesthetic, Propofol, used to eliminate discomfort during a colonoscopy. A colonoscopy is a common form of colon cancer screening which allows doctors to explore the small intestine to identify and remove cancerous tumors before...

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The 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...

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Allstate 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...

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Last 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,...

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While 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...

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The District of Columbia has agreed to pay the parents of 2 minor children, Octavia Suydan, 8, and her brother, Christopher Suydan, 7, killed by a driver fleeing the police, $1.2 million for a 2004 automobile accident that resulted in a wrongful death claim by the surviving parents. The Washington Post reported that the accident occurred after a drug sting gone bad, when Eric Palmer, who was in...

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CNN recently reported that the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that about 37,000 people are injured by nailguns every year. The CDC further stated that, since the early 1990's, nailgun injuries have increased by about 200 percent. When the CDC examined who was getting injured, it found that work-related nailgun injuries had remained stable since 1998, but...

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A liquor store that is described by the city as a have for crimes and drugs is now fighting back against government attempts to close it down with a personal injury lawsuit.Last year, ENG Liquor, successfully beat efforts to have it closed is now seeking $200,000 from Oakland for several illegal acts ranging from defamation to intentional infliction of emotional distress.ENGs fued with the city...

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M. Bryan SlaughterBryan is a partner at Michie Hamlett Lowry Rasmussen & Tweel, and concentrates his practice on complex cases involving serious injury and wrongful death. He represents clients injured by defective products, truck and auto accidents, or the carelessness of negligent corporations. Bryan has extensive experience in the courtroom. In 2004, he obtained an $8.3 million jury...

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The lawyers in the Personal Injury Group of Michie Hamlett Lowry Rasmussen & Tweel have dedicated their careers to representing people who have been seriously injured by the negligence of others. Unlike firms that advertise on television and billboards, we do not handle a high volume of cases - our clients are more than a number. Instead, we choose to work on a smaller number of cases...

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