Posts tagged bus

• Parents of Autistic Children Lose Second Round of Test Cases in Autism-Vaccination Debate

  David Mittleman | March 15, 2010 9:56 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Three federal judges delivered a fatal blow last Friday to parents involved in the anti-vaccine movement. Specifically, the three judges ruled in three separate cases that thimerosal, an...

• Blind Pedestrian Sues Des Moines Transit Authority After Being Hit By Bus

  David Mittleman | March 11, 2010 10:25 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Des Moines, Iowa—a blind pedestrian that was struck and injured in a 2008 bus crash alleges in his lawsuit that the bus driver that hit him worked an “unsafe number of hours” in...

• Tour Bus Company Settles With Former Triathlete Left Paraplegic After Accident

  David Mittleman | March 06, 2010 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Hawaii—a tour bus company has agreed to resolve a lawsuit stemming from a bicycle accident that left a former tri-athlete a paraplegic. John Henderson, 35, participated in several Ironman...

• Texas Department of Aging Vows to Step Up Efforts in Investigating Nursing Home Complaints

  David Mittleman | February 18, 2010 10:02 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  At least one state is taking steps to create teams that would be responsible for scrutinizing nursing home complaints. Faced with alarming delays in investigating current nursing home complaints,...

• NY Governor Patterson Proposes Legislation Restricting Pharmaceutical Company Gift-Giving to Docs

  David Mittleman | February 02, 2010 10:21 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  New York’s Governor Patterson recently proposed tougher laws that would prevent pharmaceutical companies from giving gifts to doctors to entice them to promote the use of specific prescription...

• Tragic Accident Kills 5-Year-Old Exiting School Bus, Parents Seek Better School Bus Safety Laws

  David Mittleman | January 27, 2010 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Lori Key woke up on December 11, 2009 and made sure each of her children got on the bus and off to school--it was like any other day. As the afternoon grew to a close, Lori walked to the bus stop to...

• Role Model Johnson & Johnson Fails Brand Crisis Management, Business Scholars Argue

  David Mittleman | January 21, 2010 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The Harvard Business School has long used a template to teach its business students how to handle a brand crisis, such as a recall. The template is based on Johnson & Johnson's conduct in 1982,...

• Justice Department Survey Finds 1 in 3 Youths in Juvenile Detention Centers is Sexually Victimized

  David Mittleman | January 09, 2010 10:30 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A Justice Department investigation found that nearly 1 in 3 youths in 13 juvenile detention centers reported some type of sexual victimization. Victimization included forced sexual activity with...

• Former Illinois Gym Coach Accused of Molesting Underage Students Settles With Families

  David Mittleman | January 06, 2010 9:29 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to a Dupage County, Illinois judge, a $1.5 million settlement has been reached with the families of 13 minor girls who allege that they were molested at an Aurora, Illinois gym by their...

• Ventura County, CA Stroke Victim Wins Elder-Abuse Lawsuit for $7.75 Million

  David Mittleman | December 17, 2009 10:00 AM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Ventura County, California—a jury Friday awarded the family of a 71-year-old stroke victim $7.75 million after concluding that the woman had suffered elder abuse at a nursing facility. The...