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In March of this year, an 11 month old died while watching TV with his dad and his 2-year-old sibling. The baby’s brother bumped into the furniture holding the TV and the TV fell onto the baby’s head and abdomen. Unfortunately, this is not a rare incident. Furniture and TV tip-over incidents are one of [...]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – 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. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Name of Product: RedMax brushcutter / [...]
People cannot walk into their local Pharmacy or read their local paper without being bombarded with opportunities to take the Flu Vaccine. “This “Flu Shot time of year” has been led to an increase in the injuries and adverse reactions that can occur as a result of vaccinations, including Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a progressive neurological disease,” [...]
Oxaliplatin, a platinum-based anticancer drug that’s made enormous headway in recent years against colorectal cancer, appears to cause nerve damage that may be permanent and worsens even months after treatment ends. The chemotherapy side effect, described by Johns Hopkins researchers in the September issue of Neurology, was discovered in what is believed to be the [...]
As kids return to classrooms and after-school carpools resume, Northwest insurer PEMCO has released poll results that show a vast majority of Washington drivers know the safest spot to place child passengers is the back seat, but less than half think their fellow drivers do that when driving with children under age 13. While 80 [...]
Many tragic tractor-trailer crashes could be avoided on Virginia’s highways if the U.S. Department of Transportation adopts a proposal to bar commercial drivers from using cell phones while driving, Petersburg personal injury attorney Charles H. Cuthbert, Jr., said today. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently recommended a complete cell phone ban for commercial truck [...]
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Recently released figures from the Texas Department of Public Safety show that more people were arrested during this year’s Labor Day drunk-driving crackdown than last year – a figure that should serve as a reminder that impaired driving remains a serious problem in the state, Houston personal injury lawyer Brad Wyly said today.“It’s disturbing and [...]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Bad Boy Enterprises, LLC of Natchez, Miss., has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $715,000. The penalty settlement agreement (pdf) has been provisionally accepted by the Commission. The settlement resolves CPSC staff allegations that Bad Boy Enterprises failed to immediately report, [...]
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A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy finds that helicopters that service the drilling platforms and vessels in the Gulf of Mexico crash on average more than six times per year resulting in an average of 5 deaths per year. From 1983 to 2009, 178 crashes resulted [...]
KTM North America Recalls Off-Road Motorcycles Due to Fall or Crash Hazard WASHINGTON, D.C. – 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. It is illegal to resell or attempt [...]