Keeping children safe is a parents’ number one concern. So I can only imagine the distress and agony of the parents whose children were injured and suffered fingertip amputations from a defective stroller. Graco Children’s Products has recalled about 4.7 million strollers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico after reports of six fingertip amputations, four partial-fingertip amputations…
We all know that in life, “poop happens”, and it does so quite literally at some PetSmart stores where customers are allowed to bring their pets inside. Unfortunately at a Newport News Virginia (VA) store a customer slipped and injured himself on dog waste. Holloway and his daughter were customers at the Jefferson Avenue store on Jan….
Back in December 2015, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced that it was implementing a new rule that would require truck operators to use electronic logging devices to log their driving hours. The FMCSA gave truck companies and drivers two years to comply with the new regulation. The date the rule goes into…
An Oregon mother has filed a lawsuit against a nurse and the facility where the nurse works, Portland Adventist Medical Center, alleging negligence for the death of the woman’s newborn son. The infant died on August 12, 2012, when he was just 10 days old. According to the lawsuit, the nurse brought the infant to…
There are numerous negative health effects associated with prolonged exposure to diesel exhaust fumes including breathing impairments (often called occupational asthma or “diesel asthma”) and lung cancer. Now, studies show a correlation between exposure to diesel exhaust fumes and bladder cancer. The Clean Air Task Force released a study in 2008 showing a 13 percent increase in…