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• Tort Reform and Unintended Consequences

  Bret Hanna | October 15, 2009 8:15 PM | 10 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Medical care providers are people and people make mistakes - that's it, plain and simple, and the facts can't be disputed. An editorial which appeared this week in the Salt Lake Tribune offers the...

• Widow of Man Tasered to Death Has His Baby

  Bret Hanna | September 26, 2009 7:29 PM | 6 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  I've posted on this tragic case before because it seems so senseless. Brian Cardall died on June 9th, after he was tasered twice by a Hurricane police officer along the side of a highway in southern...

• Tasers Can Cause Cardiac Arrest And Sudden Death

  Bret Hanna | June 15, 2009 6:51 PM | 6 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  As a follow-up to my post on Taser issues last week, Tasers Can Kill And Deployment Policies Are Inconsistent Or Non-Existent, I've come across more information on one way that Tasers can kill. In...

• Tragic Accident During Utah Bicycle Event- Was it Avoidable?

  Mark Williams | August 23, 2009 6:15 PM | 5 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Five cyclists were injured during a popular road cycling event this last Saturday, the 1,000 Warriors Bicycle Race. The amateur race gives non-professionals the chance to ride the same course as the...

• Tobacco, Chimney Sweeping, and Tanning Beds

  Mark Williams | July 29, 2009 4:12 PM | 4 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  What do these things have in common, you ask? Cancer. Scientists now have determined unequivocally that the ubiquitous tanning parlors pose a very real danger, particularly to the tanning public of...

• Should Obese Truck Drivers Undergo Mandatory Testing To Determine If They Have Sleep Apnea?

  Bret Hanna | June 08, 2009 5:51 PM | 4 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Truck drivers are people and some are overweight. Some, like the general population, are downright obese. But over-the-road truck drivers make their living driving very large, heavy vehicles that...

• Logan Northern Canal Disaster - Sixth Installment

  Bret Hanna | July 27, 2009 11:53 PM | 3 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Last week, Utah's soon-to-be Governor, Gary Herbert, backed off on a promised probe into the cause of the failure of the Logan Northern Canal on July 11th with spokeswoman Angela Welling calling it...

• House Explosion Injures Two

  Bret Hanna | October 24, 2009 1:09 PM | 2 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Two people were injured Thursday in Cache County after the house they were taking care of was obliterated by an explosion. Mary Sorensen, 23, and her brother Tony, 27, had been staying in the house...

• TASER International Issues Long Overdue Warning

  Bret Hanna | October 21, 2009 9:46 PM | 2 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  It certainly took them long enough but TASER International, manufacturer of the dangerous and sometimes deadly stun guns so popular with police and some private citizens, is now telling police to...

• Finally a Positive Taser Case?

  Bret Hanna | September 03, 2009 8:46 PM | 2 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  A bull escaped from its owner in South Jordan yesterday and, among other things, ran over an 80-year-old man. People attempted to subdue the raucous animal but were unsuccessful so police tased it....