It's true a wrongful death jury award can never bring a loved one back. A personal injury law victory also does not fill the void left when a wife and mother is suddenly taken away through the negligence of others. Gordon Gibb of www.lawyersandsettlements.com tells the story of a legal case where simple act cost someone her life and $2...
Did you know California labor laws exist to protect innocent workers from the unfair practices of employers? As a rule, the majority of infractions allegedly occur in a large, organized work environment but not always. Sometimes they allegedly happen in the home of a famous sports icon, with the alleged victim working in a domestic setting...
Investigators of the Montana plane crash are quick to point out that concluding what actually caused the plane to crash would be a long and challenging task. The reason why is that the Pilatus-12 aircraft which was manufactured in Sweden in 2001, contained no black boxes for voice or data. It appears only commercial aircraft are required to carry such equipment...
What a tragedy for the 14 people (and their families) who lost their lives when a single-engine turboprop crashed into a cemetery in Butte, Montana Sunday. Fourteen lives gone in an instant. As of yet, investigators trying to unravel the Montana plane crash have not officially released the identities of those on board...
As the tainted heparin issue continues to reverberate around the globe, lawsuits continue to mount as those harmed by contaminated heparin, or the families of those who have died, seek compensation in the face of a complex and convoluted environment. In a word, whom do you blame? The manufacturer, for sourcing the tainted heparin from China in the first place? Or the government, for not providing the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with the necessary tools to police imports? In Missouri, they're suing the manufacturer -- in this case, for allegedly waiting too long to initiate a recall...
A ruling in April governing the hospitality industry in New York could have a sweeping effect as to just what is a service charge, and what is a tip. And for management sharing tips, the ruling could spell an end to that practice. Here's the scoop, or the tip if you will... Server Arnel Samiento and his colleagues who work for World Yacht, took exception to the fact that their employer did not pass along the entire 20 percent service charge, levied to patrons aboard their dinner cruises in New York harbor, to the waitstaff...
The tainted heparin juggernaut just keeps getting bigger: it was revealed on April 22, 2008 that the US Food and Drug Administration puts the death toll linked to tainted heparin at 81 deaths, and the country count is up to 11. It was revealed, according to a report in the New York Times, that the FDA has now identified a clear link between the heparin contaminant oversulfated chondroitin sulfate--found in various lots of heparin inbound from China--and adverse reactions that have, according to the FDA, led to deaths...
The tainted heparin juggernaut just keeps getting bigger: it was revealed on April 22, 2008 that the US Food and Drug Administration puts the death toll linked to tainted heparin at 81 deaths, and the country count is up to 11. It was revealed, according to a report in the New York Times, that the FDA has now identified a clear link between the heparin contaminant oversulfated chondroitin sulfate--found in various lots of heparin inbound from China--and adverse reactions that have, according to the FDA, led to deaths...
Robbie Bender of North Texas is an active boy and avid sports enthusiast who turned to the Icy Hot patch after the muscles in his legs started cramping up last year following soccer practice. However, as reported by nbc5i.com in Dallas/Fort Worth, Bender applied the patch to his leg just before bed--but soon awoke to painful blisters...
When A.D. Williams Engineering President Reagan Williams taxied along the runway at the City Centre Airport in Edmonton, Alberta the morning of March 28th, he couldn't know that his Piper PA-46 aircraft would become the next plane crash statistic, and never make it back. In fact, he couldn't know that within a half hour he, and his four passengers would be dead...
