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• Healthcare Staffing Industry Employees Illegally Denied Overtime Pay

  Jeremi Young | January 24, 2006 9:42 AM | 2 CommentsDallas, TX

  Due to a shortage of health care workers in the U.S., healthcare staffing companies have experienced tremendous opportunities and growth in recent years. Companies like MHA Group, the parent company of Merritt Hawkins & Associates as wells as Staff Care, Inc., and Martin Fletcher & Associates, employ hundreds of workers who attempt to entice physicians, nurses and other health care workers to...

• Message To Employers - Don't Allow Drunks To Drive Company Trucks

  Bob Carroll | January 16, 2006 8:35 AM | 2 CommentsPinellas, FL

  One case at a time jurors are telling employers that permitting drunk employees to drive company vehicles is wrong, wrong, wrong. The Las Vegas Review-Journal posts the story of the latest verdict/message:TERRIBLE HERBST: Family awarded $14.1 million - Woman, 58, died when hit by drunken driver in 2001Rosa Delegado was trying to get into her car on the side of a public street when Darwin Ray...

• Walgreens Own Numbers Show Workloads Exceed Patient Safety Threshold

  Bob Carroll | October 09, 2005 9:44 PM | 2 CommentsPinellas, FL

  Tthe National Pharmacists Association released a report that may explain why so many prescription errors are occurring. The title of the report: Pharmacists routinely pushed beyond what they consider safe for patients. The risk of error rises along with the number of prescriptions filled per hour. This summer the National Pharmacists Association released a report that may explain why so many...

• National Television Ads To Highlight Costs Of Frivolous Lawsuits - A Frivolous Ad Campaign?

  Bob Carroll | October 05, 2005 8:34 AM | 2 CommentsPinellas, FL

  A National Television Advertising Campaign to Highlight the Costs of Frivolous Lawsuits on Our Healthcare System. What are frivolous lawsuits and outrageous jury awards? They do not exist. The only thing that can properly called outrageous would be the unfair and unfounded criticism of a jury verdict. The press release from SickofLawsuits.org trumpets it is launching a National Television...

• Childers, Schlueter & Smith L.L.C.

  Staff Writer | October 01, 2005 11:05 AM | 2 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  is a preeminent law firm with personal injury and wrongful death lawyers devoted to helping victims in Atlanta - and throughout Georgia - receive compensation for their losses. Our attorneys...

• Riptide Drownings At City Beach

  Bob Carroll | September 21, 2005 3:50 AM | 2 CommentsPinellas, FL

  The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that a city’s public swimming area creates a duty to warn the public of certain dangerous conditions.The Court determined that a jury, under these circumstances, should be permitted to decide whether the city knew or should have known of the riptide at the city beach and whether it breached its duty of care by not warning of the danger it created.The...

• House GOP Bill Would Enable Anti-Abortion Civil Suits

  Andrew Cochran | February 09, 2012 3:34 PM | 1 CommentVoices

  This week, the House Judiciary Committee approved H.R. 3541, the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, which prohibits an abortion based on the sex, gender, color or race of the child, or the...

• Keeping Hearts In Mind This Valentine's Day

  Jackie Fedeli | February 08, 2012 10:25 AM | 1 CommentCentral Pennsylvania, PA

  Eight Days spanning from February 7th through February 14th is National Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week. How appropriate that the last day of the week ends on Valentine’s Day, a...

• Metal-on-Metal Hip Replacements Cancer Risk

  Shezad Malik MD JD | February 08, 2012 9:51 AM | 1 CommentFort Worth, TX

  A medical study underway is expected to reveal that side effects of metal-on-metal hip replacements can cause genetic damage, which could lead to an increased risk of cancer. According to the...

• No Choice, No Remedy – The Truth Behind Generic Medications

  Amber Racine | February 07, 2012 1:34 PM | 1 CommentCentral Pennsylvania, PA

  Generic drugs are often defined as medications that are comparable to or copies of brand name medications. They are released after a brand name drug’s patent (or exclusive right to the...