A new report unveils staggering statistics regarding preventable medical errors that lead to thousands of deaths in the United States each year. One of the most shocking facts is that 100,000 people die due to hospital-acquired infections every year. These are infections people obtain after visiting a hospital. Here’s a video discussing hospital-acquired infections… Most…
An employee of the Union Pacific Railroad Co is seeking damages over $1 million under the Federal Employee Liability Act (FELA) after falling over a broken telephone wire on the ground causing injury. According to the plaintiff, Phillip Roberts, the Union Pacific Railroad Co failed to provide him a safe work environment, as well as…
Any trucking company that handles goods that are involved in interstate commerce must comply with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations. Carriers from Canada and Mexico are included in these regulations. Some of these regulations require the trucking company to save documents that may prove liability in a collision. This would make most tractor-trailer cases all…
A DC Metro track maintenance workers died Sunday night after being struck by a gravel spreader. The worker, identified by the Washington Post as 60-year-old Michael Nash, was clearing excess gravel from electronic switches and sensors embedded in the rails between the Dunn Loring and Vienna stations at the time of the fatal accident. Nash’s…
The driver of the vehicle that caused the fatal car accident, claiming the life of a young North Carolina child, has been charged with a DUI. Late last week a family from North Carolina (NC) was driving back from Sea World in Florida (FL) when their car was struck by another vehicle. The driver of…