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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...

• New Rules For Kidney Donations?

  Bret Hanna | February 23, 2011 10:34 PM | 9 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  According to breaking news from The Washington Post, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), a private, non-profit organization that contracts with the federal government to coordinate organ...

• Tired Retread Of Tort "Reform" Arguments

  Bret Hanna | February 24, 2011 11:50 PM | 6 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  The Oklahoma legislature is considering tort reform legislation like that which has and continues to be pushed around the country. As often is the case, local newspapers will editorialize on various...

• 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...

• Recent Ruling a Blow to Utah Homeowners Facing Foreclosure

  Bret Hanna | July 21, 2011 6:19 PM | 5 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  A recent decision by the Utah Court of Appeals deals a blow to Utah homeowners facing foreclosures pursued through the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, otherwise known as MERS. MERS was...

• Trucking Safety Must be a Top Priority

  Bret Hanna | November 16, 2009 10:54 PM | 5 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Deaths resulting from accidents involving tractor-trailers between 2003 and 2006 exceeded 5,000 per year which is way too high. The Truck Safety Coalition (TSC) is dedicated to reducing these...

• 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...

• Medical Malpractice "Reform" Will Increase Deficit

  Bret Hanna | May 10, 2011 10:49 PM | 4 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  In a recent article which appeared on The Huffington Post, Joanne Doroshow arrives at a conclusion that appears to many to be counter intuitive - medical malpractice reform will increase, not...

• 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...