Since marijuana became legal in July 2017, traffic deaths are down over 10 percent, according to The Nevada Department of Public Safety. Specifically, 277 people died in automobile crashes during the first 11 months of non-criminal recreational marijuana sales as opposed to 310 in the…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued yet another mandatory recall for global pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories, as its HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device faces scrutiny following the deaths of three users due to the possibility of graft occlusion due to a…
In Schlasta v. Mertz, the Nevada Court of Appeals reversed and remanded a judgment involving a motorhome accident. The plaintiff and his daughter were travelling along Interstate-15 when their vehicle was hit by a tire that fell from a motorhome. After the accident, the plaintiff…
Beware, North Carolina college women. Some colleges can be a place where common risks range from overdosing on drugs or alcohol to physical threats such as sexual assault or date rape — especially for those involved in Greek life. Over the past year, shocking numbers of…
In June, Governor Brown appointed 10 new judges to the LA Superior Court. They all appear to be well qualified lawyers to take the bench. I am specifically familiar with Helen Zukin with whom I have worked on complex consumer justice product liability cases. She…
Just moments before crashing on July 7th, 2018 in Chicago, the following radio transmission was recorded from a helicopter Air Ambulance by the Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center: Air Ambulance Pilot: “Mayday. Mayday. Mayday.” Air Traffic Control: “What can I do for you, sir?”…
Safety experts at the are helping parents to keep their child from becoming one of the thousands of children who are injured or killed each year because they are not properly secured in their child seat. According to research provided by the National Highway Traffic…
In the case of City of Boulder Fire Department v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, the Court of Appeals of Colorado Division 1 ruled on a workers’ compensation case involving a firefighter who developed cancer. The procedural history of this case dates back to 2015 after…
Just over a year after signing his “Buy American and Hire American” executive order, President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort (his “Winter White House” as he terms it) has filed a request to hire foreign workers – again. According to the Labor Department, the resort has filed…
Driving the wrong way on an interstate along America’s highways kills hundreds of people each year in what are completely preventable crashes. Now, the Nevada Highway Patrol is taking on these dangerous drivers through enhanced, strategically created signage designed to keep them from ever entering…
Background: On July 1, 2018, a Utah storyline read “Husband runs over wife, kills her in what police call a terrible accident”. Salt Lake City’s CBS affiliate (KUTV-2) went on to report: “Investigators said the woman, in her 90’s, got out of the family car to…
On June 19th, 2017 the United States Supreme Court fundamentally changed the rules governing where corporate defendants can be sued and reshaped the definition of jurisdiction. In Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court, No. 16-466, the Supreme Court found that California courts could hear…
