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• Do Guns Create Unsafe Workplace?

  Linda Chalat | September 07, 2010 11:51 AM | 7 CommentsDenver, CO

  A Nashville server has come up with an interesting strategy to try to reign in the proliferation of guns in public places. The server has filed a complaint with the state alleging that the mixture...

• Limits on Medical Liability Bill Advances

  Linda Chalat | May 16, 2011 6:29 PM | 4 CommentsDenver, CO

  In spite of heavy hitters such as the American Bar Association lobbying against it (see previous blog), the House Energy and Commerce Committee late last Wednesday approved a measure aimed at...

• Brawling at the Ball Park

  Linda Chalat | July 13, 2011 12:19 PM | 3 CommentsDenver, CO

  A little league game in Castle Rock turned the worst kind of ugly last month. A youth baseball tournament was underway at Metzler Park last month, when a brawl among the adults broke out. The...

• Top 10 Deadliest Drugs

  Linda Snyder | April 08, 2008 4:31 PM | 3 CommentsFort Collins, CO

  In 1988, the AIDS activist group ACT UP staged a protest that led to a dramatic change in the US Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) drug approval process. Previously, the drug approval process was...

• Letter Carrier Mauled Despite Dog Bite Prevention Week

  Linda Chalat | May 22, 2012 11:36 AM | 2 CommentsDenver, CO

  A letter carrier suffered a particularly gruesome attack by two dogs yesterday in northwest Denver. Ironically, the attack occurred on the first weekday of the U.S. Postal Service's Dog...

• Colorado Legislature Embraces Wild West Mentality

  Linda Chalat | February 16, 2012 1:42 PM | 2 CommentsDenver, CO

  Our state legislature seems to be in a “shoot ‘em up” frame of mind given the nature two bills under consideration. The first is HB 1088 - Concerning the use of deadly...

• Student Internet Speech – Protected or Not?

  Linda Chalat | August 01, 2011 1:25 PM | 2 CommentsDenver, CO

  A federal appeals court upheld the discipline of a high school student who created a MySpace page targeted at a classmate that described her as a “slut” with herpes. A three-judge...

• Lack of Communication Increasingly Results In Medical Errors

  Linda Chalat | June 20, 2011 1:28 PM | 2 CommentsDenver, CO

  COPIC, a professional liability insurance company based in Denver, has issued a statement concerning the trend of incomplete patient information, missing tests and poor communication among...

• Years of “Tort Reform” and Hospitals No Safer

  Linda Chalat | November 30, 2010 4:02 PM | 2 CommentsDenver, CO

  For the past two decades, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has sponsored tort reform measures limiting medical malpractice claims. The U.S. Chamber supports health courts, caps on punitive damages, and...

• Ski Helmets To Be Required in Colorado?

  Linda Chalat | September 02, 2010 4:16 PM | 2 CommentsDenver, CO

  The California legislation has passed what may become the nation’s fist ski helmet law, if it receives the governor's signature by the end of the month. It would impose a $25 fine on parents...