IKEA RECALLS MILLIONS OF CHESTS AND DRESSERS BECAUSE OF TIP OVER HAZARD
Ikea has announced a voluntary recall of 29,000,000 chest and drawers, after three children died in the past two years after dresser tip-over accidents. The dressers and chests in question can be pulled over by a child if they aren’t securely attached to a wall. ...
TORT REFORM – CAPPING DAMAGES
Consumers lose and insurance corporations win with legal damages caps. Tort reform involves limiting damages awarded for pain and suffering, the inability to enjoy life, and mental suffering. Tort reform is an anti-consumer movement benefiting insurance companies...
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (FDA) IMPROPRIETIES ALLEGED
A recent federal lawsuit was filed against the former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamberg, her husband, Peter Brown, and Johnson & Johnson alleging conspiracy, racketeering and colluding to conceal the dangers of the antibiotic...
DROWSY DRIVING CAUSES 100,000 ACCIDENTS EACH YEAR
Fatigue is impairment just as real and just as dangerous as intoxication according to a recent ABC news report. Drowsy driving accounts for 100,000 accidents each year. Driver fatigue in the trucking industry is a well-known and highly-publicized issue. In a study...
UNDERINSURED MOTORIST COVERAGE – TEXAS BUS CRASH
Recently in Texas, an OGA charter bus was involved in a rollover crash that killed 8 people and injured 44 others. The South Texas bus company, OGA, had twice been ordered by Louisiana state inspectors in 2015 to take one of its buses off of the road to fix brake and...
HEART DRUG WARFARIN LINKED TO DEMENTIA RISK
People with the heart rhythm disorder Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) may have a heightened risk of developing dementia and the quality of their drug treatment may play a role a new study suggests. Specifically, researchers found, patients on the clot-preventing drug...
FACEBOOK TO FACE PRIVACY LAWSUIT OVER PHOTO TAGGING
A federal judge in San Francisco rejected Facebook’s request to toss a lawsuit alleging its photo-tagging feature that uses facial recognition technology invades user’s privacy. Facebook’s face recognition technology involves a scan of face geometry called...
LAWSUIT BLAMES SNAPCHAT SPEED FILTER FOR CRASH
A man from Georgia claims the car accident that left him with permanent brain damage was caused by a teen too busy taking selfies to pay attention to the road. The teen was using Snapchat’s speed filter at the time of the crash last September. The Snapchat app has a...
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