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• Fracking: Is it Safe?

  David Mittleman | July 20, 2011 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  If you haven't heard of fracking before, you aren't alone. The practice--really called hydraulic fracturing--involves pumping large amounts of water combined with sand and other chemicals into wells...

• Hunting Season not that Far Off

  Mike Bryant | July 20, 2011 9:52 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  Hunting season is just around the corner. It's not to early to think about looking into hunter safety classes. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources provides the regular classes that even...

• Courts Finds General Averment In Answer Sufficient To Preserve Limited Tort Defense

  Scott Cooper | July 20, 2011 7:24 AM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA

  On July 1, 2011 the federal District Court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania held in Calestini v. Progressive, 3:09-CV-1679 (Caputo J., M.D. Pa. July 1, 2011) that an insurance company's...

• Can Bad Driving be Diagnosed and Treated Like a Disease?

  Randy Appleton | July 19, 2011 7:43 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  In China where roads can be so dangerous a driver is killed every five minutes, a doctor is pioneering a new approach in which bad driving is treated like a disease. “Jin Huiqing has spent...

• Slip and Falls - Causes and Prevention

  Mike Myers | July 19, 2011 7:17 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  Slip-and-fall cases comprise a significant part of our practice. There are a number of potential causes of slip-and-fall accidents. The top three causes are: (1) spills (such as spilled coffee,...

• Gardasil for Boys: Is It Worth It?

  David Carney | July 19, 2011 4:17 PM | 0 CommentsCentral Pennsylvania, PA

  When Gardasil was originally put on the market by Merck, it was only approved for young women between the ages of 9 and 26. The vaccine was to protect against four strains of sexually transmitted...

• Antidepressant use During Pregnancy Linked to Increased Risk of Autism

  Scott Kappes | July 19, 2011 3:50 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Women taking antidepressant medications during pregnancy have another risk to worry about, autism. A study recently published in the Archives of General Psychology suggests that mothers taking...

• Drug Use a Factor in a Quarter of Road Deaths, Study Finds

  Jim Lewis | July 19, 2011 12:37 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  There is no shortage of information available on crashes caused by drunken drivers. The same cannot be said of drivers who use drugs. Until now. A new study suggests drivers who die in crashes...

• Hospital Fined $50,000 for Negligent Treatment

  Beth Janicek | July 19, 2011 12:37 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas has been fined $50,000 by federal regulators for negligent treatment of a patient. Mike Herrera died after languishing in the waiting room of the hospital for 17...

• The Precedent For Using Frozen Libyan Assets to Pay Terrorism Victim

  Andrew Cochran | July 19, 2011 12:37 PM | 0 CommentsVoices

  On June 28, I posted, Compensate Qaddafi's Terrorism Victims Before Funding Unknown Rebels, in response to the introduction of a bill which would have authorized the use of some portion of the $30...