By David Macaulay, Veritas Legal Media
America is once again gripped by the enormity of another shooting tragedy : this time the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Over the next few days and weeks, the shooter’s motive will be carefully examined. So too will the question of whether school authorities could have done more to avert this tragedy.
In the wake of mass shootings lawyers often step in, although the enormity of the tragedy ...
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Wrongful Death
Cruise Industry Safety Questions a Century After the Titanic Sinking
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The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 2012, with the loss of about 1,500 people, marked one of the gravest disasters in peacetime maritime history.
But while some key lessons have been learned questions still linger over the safety of cruise liners a century later.
In today’s more litigious society a disaster such as the loss of the Titanic would have led to multiple lawsuits against the owners White Star Line an...
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All the Danger of the Fun Fair
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In 2008 the fun of a fair in South Florida turned into a nightmare when a mother fractured her ribs and clavicle when the kiddie ride she was on with her son turned over and landed on top of her.
She is not the only victim of a fun fair or an amusement park.
The website rideaccidents.com, that describes itself as the world’s most comprehensive database on these accidents, contains details of numerous horrendous mishaps at fair...
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A Federal Act that Protects Railroad Workers
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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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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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