Posts tagged war

• Why Are Republicans Trying to Cripple the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

  Mike Ferrara | August 02, 2011 2:31 PM | 3 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  On July 21, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, to serve as the country’s chief consumer financial...

• For Safety’s Sake, Keep Toddlers Rear-facing Until Age 2

  Mike Ferrara | April 04, 2011 5:05 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The American Academy of Pediatrics has a new recommendation that toddlers remain in rear-facing car seats until they reach age two, or until they reach the height and weight limits of their seats....

• Toddler falls from unprotected window in Newark Apartment

  Kate Reilly | September 08, 2009 5:26 PM | 0 CommentsNewark, NJ Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  A Labor Day weekend accident led to the hospitalization of a 3-year-old child from Newark, NJ after he fell from a second-story window at his family apartment located on Columbia Avenue. The family...

• AIG = Abetting Irresponsible Gamblers. $165 Million in Bonuses to Execs Who Caused This Mess.

  Camryn Hansen | March 17, 2009 12:23 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  So how we should be feeling about AIG’s decision to pay out more than $165 million in employee bonuses and perks, some to the very employees who designed the risky credit schemes that...

• Jury Sides with Plaintiff in Defamation, Witness Intimidation Case Yancey v. Weis

  Mike Ferrara | February 14, 2009 9:19 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  An important witness intimidation case involving the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) recently came to a noteworthy close. In Yancey v. Weis, Dr. Charles Yancey, a Minnesota...

• Major US Military Contractor KBR Appears Responsible for Electrocution Deaths of US Soldiers in Iraq – US Government Unwilling to Act

  Mike Ferrara | November 26, 2008 7:08 AM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Iraq contractor Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), a private company and former subsidiary of Dick Cheney’s Halliburton, has been found in “serious noncompliance” of its US...

• KKK Members Pay Steep Price for Racist Violence – Jury Awards $2.5 Million to Battered Teen

  Mike Ferrara | November 16, 2008 1:09 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  On Friday, a jury awarded $2.5 million in to a Kentucky teenage boy for being severely beaten, after being mistaken for an illegal Latino immigrant by members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The boy,...

• Do allergy warning labels signal liability protection or true risk? FDA to hold hearings 9/16/08.

  Mike Ferrara | August 28, 2008 3:25 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Food allergies pose a health threat to over 12 million Americans. Severe reactions to allergenic foods result in 30,000 emergency room visits, and 150 to 200 deaths, per year. Since 2006, the...