- David Lowe | March 29, 2007 6:06 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsA survey of truck drivers conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reveals that In any given month, at least one out of eight long-distance truck drivers dozes at the wheel.A story about the survey published in today's Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel summarizes the causes of accidents involving truck drivers in this way:A 2006 government study of large-truck crashes involving death or...
- David Lowe | March 27, 2007 7:57 PM |
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Nursing Home & Elder AbuseA San Francisco skilled nursing facility has been cited and fined $100,000, the largest ever imposed in California, after the California Department of Health Services determined that the poor care of an 82-year-old resident with dementia led to her death. The nursing home resident who had a history of falling and wandering, was found unresponsive on the ground outside the nursing home facility....
- David Lowe | March 23, 2007 5:01 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsIt was revealed today that the recalled pet food is contaminated with rat poison. the specific substance is known as aminopterin, a drug once used to fight cancer and to induce abortions. No explanation has been provided for how the substance got into the pet food manufactured by Menu Foods of Ontario, Canada. Whatever its source, the contamination has resulted in the deaths of at least 18...
- David Lowe | March 23, 2007 5:01 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsIt was revealed today that the recalled pet food is contaminated with rat poison. the specific substance is known as aminopterin, a drug once used to fight cancer and to induce abortions. No explanation has been provided for how the substance got into the pet food manufactured by Menu Foods of Ontario, Canada. Whatever its source, the contamination has resulted in the deaths of at least 18...
- David Lowe | March 20, 2007 10:35 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe recall of contaminated pet food manufactured by Menu Foods, Inc. of Streetsville, Ontario, Canada, will awaken the public to the fact that state laws give rather meager court remedies to owners who lose a pet due to negligence. The recall, announced March 17, 2007, involved 60 million containers of pet food of the "Cuts and Gravy" style. The food was sold in stores between December 3 and...
- David Lowe | March 18, 2007 9:01 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsHow safe would you feel driving down the highway beside a 97 foot long assembly of four trucks linked together, with the trailing three mounted on each other and only their rear wheels in contact with the pavement? Can you imagine any good reason why our government would permit this dangerous combination on our streets and highways?Smells like trucking industry money at work.Saddlemount vehicle...
- David Lowe | March 13, 2007 5:06 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsThis week, families of truck crash victims are lobbying Congress and the Bush administration to establish stricter rules that would reduce truck drivers' hours on the road without rest and increase the number of safety inspections, among other recommendations. I have commented previously on highway safety advocacy efforts, and the challenges these efforts face in view of the improper trucking...
- David Lowe | March 12, 2007 10:52 PM |
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Nursing Home & Elder AbuseThe daughter of a 77-year-old nursing home resident has filed a lawsuit alleging nursing home negligence in the care of her mother. The lawsuit alleges that the nursing home employees failed to report an infected ankle wound, which later required the resident to undergo amputation of the leg. The wound went unnoticed by the daughter because the resident, who suffers from dementia, was unable...
- David Lowe | March 08, 2007 8:03 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA Los Angeles, California jury has awarded $55 million to the wife of a man killed in an accident involving a park to reverse defect in a 1992 Dodge Dakota. The owner, Richard Mraz, placed the vehicle in what appeared to be "park position", began to walk away, and the vehicle started moving in reverse. Mraz tried to jump back in the vehicle to stop it while it was moving, but was run over and...
- David Lowe | March 07, 2007 8:15 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsNational Transportation Safety Board investigators are focusing on dangerous highway design in their search for the cause of the tragic Georgia bus accident that took the lives of four students, the bus driver and the driver's wife on March 2, 2007 when the driver apparently mistook an exit ramp in Atlanta as a regular traffic lane. The bus drove up the exit ramp and slammed into a barrier at an...
- David Lowe | March 02, 2007 4:56 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe recall of salmonella contaminated peanut butter has been expanded to products manufactured since December 2005. Also, ConAgra has disclosed that it sent bulk peanut butter to another plant where it was mixed into other products.The FDA has issued the following notice warning about contaminated peanut butter ingredients in the following products:Consumers who have any of the products listed...