Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was fired by the University Board of Trustees tonight for failing to report the rape of a 10 year old boy in the showers at the Penn State locker room over ten…
More lawsuits are being filed every week against DePuy and Johnson & Johnson for hip implant failures relating to the DePuy ASR and the DePuy Pinnacle Ultamet metal on metal hip implants. In…
Pharmaceutical drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline will pay $3 Billion to settle for civil and criminal illegal marketing schemes that were the subject of a U.S. Government investigation. The…
Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, sued BP PLC following a 2005 explosion at the oil company’s Gulf Coast refinery. The lawsuit alleged that BP violated Texas’ state clean air act. Mr. Abbott just…
Today, it was confirmed that several new birth control drugs including Yaz, the Ortho Evra patch and the contraceptive Nuvaring, appear to increase the risk of dangerous blood clots more than older…
DID YOU KNOW? Distracted driving is the number one cause of accidents. What is distracted driving? Well, there are three types according to the U.S. Department of Transportation: 1. Visual -…
On November 7, 2007, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Spin Master, of Toronto, Canada, announced a voluntary recall of Aqua Dots. The toys, manufactured in China,…
I’ve been saying it for years. There is no difference between holding a cell phone and driving while talking or using hands free. Either way, you are concentrating on the conversation and not the…
Transvaginal Mesh is a surgical device that recently has come under much scrutiny due to FDA reports linking it to thousands of injuries as well as deaths. The device is surgically implanted within…
Here in Richmond, Virginia, a local lawyer is challenging the Virginia State Bar’s authority to regulate his blog, claiming that such regulation violates his First Amendment free-speech rights. Like…
Much has been made recently about the dangers of distracted driving and particularly texting when driving. Now a new study from the Texas Transportation Institute reveals how the texting…
I recently wrote about the dangers of deer on the highway. Last year, my friend Carson Leach wrote about being hit by a deer while he was bicycling. So when I came across a video of a mountain…
