Posts tagged investigation

• GM Under Investigation for Faulty Gearshift That Led to Driver Being Hit by Own Car

  David Mittleman | November 15, 2011 8:29 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  GM is now under investigation after at least 7 crashes occurred because of faulty automatic gearshifts in several cars. The probe first began after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...

• Army Investigation Reveals Hundreds of Gravesite Mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery

  David Mittleman | August 02, 2010 12:45 PM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Arlington National Cemetery serves as sacred ground for our country’s fallen wartime heroes. For the friends and family members of these brave men and women, being able to attend to a...

• Feds Sting Child Porn "Social Networking" Site

  David Mittleman | May 29, 2010 10:00 AM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Federal prosecutors announced on Wednesday that they had broken up an international online child pornography website that encompassed more than 50 people in the U.S. alone. The website’s...

• Salami Recall Expanded As FDA Continues Investigation Into Salmonella Contamination

  David Mittleman | February 21, 2010 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Rhode-Island based meat company, Daniele Inc., issued its first recall of its salami products on January 23 over a Salmonella outbreak that spanned 44 states and the District of Columbia which...

• 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,...

• Dangerous Heavy Metal Cadmium Present in Children's Jewelry

  David Mittleman | January 13, 2010 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Before the problem was lead, but now Chinese manufacturers have turned to using cadmium in children's jewelry--an even more dangerous heavy metal. By testing 103 pieces of children's jewelry bought...

• Toyota's Problems Go Beyond Just Pesky Floormats (Part II)

  David Mittleman | December 12, 2009 10:00 AM | 8 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Unsafe floor mats. Sudden acceleration. Now... engine stalls, sometimes during highway travel. Jane Akre of the National News Desk at InjuryBoard first shed light on this breaking story about a...

• Rhode Island Hospital Operates on the Wrong Site for Fifth Time Since 2007

  David Mittleman | October 26, 2009 9:20 AM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A surgeon at a Rhode Island Hospital committed malpractice by mistakenly operating on the wrong part of a patient’s hand. Now, health officials are investigating how this mistake could have...

• Whistleblower Points Out Problems with "Community" Cancer Research Sites

  David Mittleman | October 23, 2009 4:43 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Two years after becoming vice president for research at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois, Dr. Suzanne Stratton decided to put her foot down. After repeatedly clashing with doctors who...

• FDA Issues Warning to Evenflo After Reports of Electrical Shock from Breast Pump Use

  David Mittleman | September 17, 2009 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Several women who used the Evenflo breast pump were shocked while expressing their breast milk—literally. Recently, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning to the Evenflo Company for...