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• Trucking Industry Poses Serious Hazards for Motoring Public

  Halli Brownfield | April 04, 2008 1:18 PM | 2 CommentsCleveland, OH

  United States Department of Transportation Statistics show that tractor-trailers are involved in over 300,000 accidents per year resulting in the death of approximately 5,000 individuals. Given...

• Judge Dismisses Case Due to Chantix Induced Psychotic Episode

  Scott Kappes | March 27, 2008 11:35 PM | 2 CommentsGalveston Bay, TX

  A federal judge has dismissed the case of a 25 year-old California man who charged the cockpit of a plane on Thanksgiving forcing an emergency landing in Fargo, North Dakota. Prosecutors asked for the interfering with an airplane flight crew charge to be dropped against Andrew Smith after psychiatric exam revealed that Smith was suffering from psychotic disorder caused by Pfizer's smoking...

• Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox Protects Drug Manufacturers, Not Michigan Residents, From Dangerous Drugs

  David Mittleman | March 20, 2008 8:15 AM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI

  According to Michigan law, Attorney General Mike Cox can only provide legal assistance to the State, the Governor, and the Legislature. In addition to this general rule, the Attorney General of Michigan can also investigate and prosecute claims of fraud against individual or groups of Michigan consumers. However, if you have a claim against a drug company, don't look to Mike Cox for help.If...

• Feingold - Johnson 2007 Eliminates Binding Arbitration Clauses

  Courtney Mills | 2007-08-14T14:18:46 | 2 Comments

  Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) introduced legislation in July 2007 that will preclude big companies from including binding arbitration clauses in contracts with ordinary citizens. As the law now stands, consumer credit lenders use private arbitrators to litigate debt disputes with cardholders. Most consumers do not even realize that they have signed away...

• The idiots running Little League baseball

  Ben Glass | 2007-07-30T14:12:44 | 2 Comments

  There is an interesting article in Sunday's Washington Post. It seems that the father of an eight-year-old Little League or was umpiring game, most probably as a volunteer, when a situation occurred that caused him to want to go look up the official rules in the Little League rulebook. He checked the Little League website first with no success. To make a long story very short what he found...

• New Rules on Trucking Hours Struck Down by Appeals Court

  Jenny Albano | 2007-07-26T19:22:43 | 2 Comments

  A federal appeals court voided a new rule that increased limits on the amount of hours truck drivers could drive in a week. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration increased the maximum driving hours for truck drivers to 77 hours from 60 over 7 days, and 88 hours from 70 over 8 days, in 2005.The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said that there was not...

• Protecting Consumers from Binding Arbitration Clauses

  Ken Margolin | 2007-07-26T18:20:00 | 2 Comments

  Big corporations love binding arbitration clauses. They are hidden in many contracts, requiring the individual to give up his or her right to a jury trial in the case of a dispute with the company. Some clauses attempt to block class actions. When large corporations are safe from class actions, they can cheat large numbers of people in small increments, knowing that paying off the few...

• Insurance coverage when an injury caused by family member

  Ben Glass | 2007-07-13T10:19:50 | 2 Comments

  The tragic death of a 14-year-old Fairfax County girl on Wednesday in a car accident in which her sister was the driver raises a question that is often asked by families: can a recovery be made in the case for the family's loss even though it was a family member who apparently was at fault in the accident?The Washington Post reported that Olivia Aull was killed on Jermantown Road after the car...

• Doctor sued for medical malpractice in boy's death

  Gary Shipman | 2007-07-10T16:58:19 | 2 Comments

  The parents of a boy sued a Pennsylvania doctor for medical malpractice arising from the death of their 4 year old son. The autistic boy died of cardiac arrest at the doctor's office after undergoing a procedure known as chelation therapy, a procedure designed to treat heavy metal poisining. The presence of Mercury has long been believed to be a cause of autism in children, and the procedure...

• Auto Accident Question And Answer

  John Bisnar | 2007-07-07T14:55:52 | 2 Comments

  The following is an email I received regarding an automobile accident claim and my reply:Question submitted:While waiting at the red light, a young woman in a Toyota 4 runner hit my car in the rear. (Ford Mustang). Farmers Insurance authorized repairs on the same day. The total cost of repairs was $967.93, which included replacement of the rear absorber and bumper cover. At the time of the...