A week long wrongful death trial ended Friday with jurors awarding $30 million to the estate of Martha Darlene Roberts, who was brutally slain in April 2006 near the Alabama-Georgia line. Vernon Roberts, as the representative of his late wife’s estate, sued Barbara Roberts, his ex-wife, and Dr. Robert John Schiess in U.S. District Court [...]
Many different factors — from being obese to using vibrating hand tools to having little authority to make decisions in the workplace — seem to influence a person’s risk of developing certain work-related injuries, French researchers report. Aging, along with on-the-job constraints, “drastically” increased workers’ risk of such injuries, Dr. Yves Roquelaure of the Universite [...]
A Sacramento Superior Court jury today awarded the survivors of Jennifer Lea Strange $16,577,118 as a result of her death nearly three years ago in a water-drinking contest conducted by a local radio station. In making the award, the seven-man, five-woman panel voted unanimously to find that Entercom Sacramento LLC, the local subsidiary of Entercom [...]
Arctic Cat Recalls Snowmobiles Due to Fire Hazard The following product safety recall was voluntarily conducted by the firm in cooperation with the CPSC. Consumers should stop using the product immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: Units: About 3,000 Manufacturer: Arctic Cat Inc., of Thief River Falls, Minn. Hazard: Oil can leak into the [...]
The need for federal rulemaking on ROVs is the consequence of not having a voluntary standard that effectively safeguards consumers. I have reviewed numerous death and injury reports tied to ROVs and I believe CPSC can play a vital role in making them safer. While we work on new safety rules for ROVs, I urge [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Furthering its commitment to improve the safety of Recreational Off-Highway Vehicles ROVs and reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries nationwide, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voted to publish an advance notice of proposed rulemaking ANPR to address safety hazards associated with vehicle ROVs. CPSC staff’s preliminary evaluations indicated that [...]
Each day, U.S. workers suffer injury, disability, and death from workplace incidents. On average, 15 workers die each day from traumatic injuries. Overall, 5,400 workers died in 2007 from an occupational injury and more than 4 million workers had a nonfatal injury or illness. In the private-sector alone every day, we see 11,500 nonfatal work-related [...]
Wincraft Inc. Recalls Sports Themed Lamps Due to Fire, Burn and Shock Hazards The following product safety recall was voluntarily conducted by the firm in cooperation with the CPSC. Consumers should stop using the product immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: Rotating Sports Table Lamps Units: About 145 Importer: Wincraft Inc., of Winona, Minn. [...]
Raynor Marketing Recalls Quantum Office Chairs Due to Fall Hazard; Sold Exclusively at Office Depot Stores. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: Quantum Realspace PRO™ [...]
A federal judge has decided that Las Vegas personal injury lawyer Noel Gage and medical consultant Howard Awand should be tried together. Gage and Awand are accused of conspiring to cheat personal injury clients by inflating medical costs, protecting doctors from malpractice claims and sharing kickbacks from settlements. Read full story via San Jose Mercury [...]