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• Liability Insurance Hard to Find After Dog Attack

  David Lowe | September 26, 2007 6:55 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A column in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by Jim Stingl describes a dog owner's problem obtaining liability insurance following an incident in which her dog ran out of the yard and bit a neighbor. Because Wisconsin has a statute (174.02, Wis.Stats) that awards double damages to a victim of a dog that has bitten before, most liability insurers will refuse to insure a homeowner who does...

• Baby Crib Recall Announced After Three Infant Deaths

  David Lowe | September 21, 2007 1:36 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  The Consumer Products Safety Commission has announced a voluntary recall of Simplicity and Graco cribs after three infant deaths. According to the CPSC news bulletin announcing the recall, "The drop-side can detach from the crib, which can create a dangerous gap and lead to the entrapment and suffocation of infants... The drop-side failures result from both the hardware and crib design, which...

• Study Shows Nursing Home Quality of Care Varies By Race

  David Lowe | September 12, 2007 8:49 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  A study published in the journal Health Affairs reveals a huge disparity in the quality of nursing home care provided to whites and blacks, with Milwaukee's nursing home disparity ranked the greatest.The abstract of the study, appearing on the health policy journal's website, states:We describe the racial segregation in U.S. nursing homes and its relationship to racial disparities in the quality...

• Kenosha Bus Accident Injures 22 Students

  Paul Jacquart | September 07, 2007 2:17 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  WTMJ4 reports that 22 Bradford High School students were injured in a bus crash in Kenosha on Wednesday, September 5, 2007. According to the article, the bus crashed into a car driven by another Bradford High School student who reportedly pulled in front of the bus cutting it off on 39th Avenue, south of Bradford High School. Another news report from WSAW indicates that the car subsequently...

• Can Eating Microwave Popcorn Lead to Lung Disease?

  David Lowe | September 04, 2007 11:22 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  I have previously blogged about the lung disease danger to workers in the microwave popcorn manufacturing industry exposed to diacetyl, a food flavoring. Now there is a story reporting that eating microwave popcorn may potentially cause obstructive lung disease. Because Wisconsin is one of a handful of states where microwave popcorn is manufactured, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Raquel...