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For more than a century railroad workers have been protected by the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA), an act brought in after a terrible catalogue of deaths and injuries on America’s railroads.
The legislation followed a massive upsurge in railway building at the end of the 19th Century. While this boom fuelled America's economy, it was bought at a high price in terms of the number of railroad workers being injured...
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Month: February 2012
Google, the Infidelity App and the Right to Privacy
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Every day citizens willingly share their personal information with internet companies such as Google and Facebook.
But what happens if those companies turn around and use the information against them?
It’s a question that’s being asked by thousands of concerned Google users, not to mention privacy lawyers, as the internet giant gears up for unified privacy settings.
On Thursday Google will begin creating “more comprehensive...
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Ex-Railroad Worker is Awarded $4.5 Million over Painful Slip
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BODY – Tripping on the railroad may not seem like obvious grounds for a lawsuit against your employer.
But when the employer is a railroad company that has allowed weeds to grow so high that the dangers are not readily apparent, it’s the grounds for a multi-million dollar verdict, a jury in Roanoke, Virginia decided.
See this video of a Norfolk Southern derailment.
The jury awarded $4.5 million to former Norfolk Southern Corp...
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Claiming for a Slip and Fall Injury
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A case that was settled last year against PetSmart in Newport News, Virginia was a high profile example of a slip and fall lawsuit.
In Feb. 2011, PetSmart settled a federal lawsuit over allegations that employees at its Newport News store failed to clean up dog feces, leading a customer to slip and injure himself. The pet supply store and Robert W. Holloway of Poquoson, VA reached an agreement to avoid trial. It's not known h...
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Ford Recalls 129,000 Vehicles over Faulty Wheel Studs
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There can be few more alarming scenarios than a wheel falling off your car when you are driving at 60 mph on the Interstate.
But that’s the life threatening concern raised by the recall of 129,000 Ford Fusions and Mercury Milans, according to the New York Times.
Ford has recalled almost 129,000 of its 2010-11 Ford Fusions and Mercury Milans. The automotive giant says the wheel studs on vehicles equipped with 17...
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Distracted Driving Report calls for Ban on All Cellphone Use Behind the Wheel
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a report that pulled few punches, federal safety inspectors looking into the dangers of distracted driving have concluded all cellphone use behind the wheel is unacceptably dangerous and have urged all states to impose total bans.
The report by the five-member National Transportation Safety Board follows a recent series of fatal crashes — including one in which a teenager sent or received 11 text messages in the...
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A Guide to Domestic Torts
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In May 2011 a lurid story broke on the entertainment website TMZ about an “A-list” celebrity who is being sued for more than $20 million for intentionally transmitting the venereal disease herpes.
“An unnamed plaintiff has sued "an A-list celebrity of substantial fame internationally," claiming the celeb came on to the plaintiff in Las Vegas and swore he was STD free, the TMZ report stated.
Few details were available of the c...
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Trans Vaginal Mesh Lawsuits Mount
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Have you ever had an operation or a surgical procedure that caused more problems than the condition it was meant to rectify? If so, you can probably sympathize with hundreds of women who are taking out lawsuits over vaginal mesh implants.
Litigation on this issue moved forward on Jan. 26, 2012, at a hearing in Miami, FL, when lawyers sought to coordinate the many transvaginal surgical ...
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Compressed Gas Poses a Fatal Hazard
The dangers of compressed gas have been outlined in a report into three accidents at a chemical manufacturing plant in West Virginia (WV) in 2010.
Failures at the DuPont Corporation's Belle chemical manufacturing plant which included the fatal release of phosgene gas, were outlined in the report by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, Fire Engineering reported.
The three accidents that occurred on January 22 and 23, 2010, at the West Virginia (WV) plant – including a fatal release of dead...
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Outbreak of Listeria in Melons is Linked to 25 Deaths
2011
The outbreak of listeria linked to cantaloupes that killed 25 people will go down as the deadliest food poisoning episode in the United States in a quarter of a century and could spark lawsuits. This tragic food poisoning episode is being looked into the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Bloomberg Business week reports.
Members of the committee have asked for a briefing from officials at the Colorado (CO) cantaloupe farm linked to the listeria outbreak, and asked that documents are p...
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