When the pilot of the twin engine Beechcraft Baron, George Maddox from Laurel, Md., went to land his plane about halfway down the runway in Teterboro, N.J., something told him to back out and try again without communicating a distress call to anybody. The plane flew over power lines and traffic lights before crashing into…
My railroad injury attorney-partner, Richard N. Shapiro, posted a library article covering railroad workers developing cancers (lung, brain, colon, blood and others) after prolonged workplace exposures to radioactive/radiation substances (uranium or plutonium contaminated scrap metal and wastes). He relates the curernt results of various subpoenas and Freedom of Information Act requests.This is a real eye…
A federal judge has order a semi driver and his employer to pay St. Louis, Missouri (Mo.), couple a total of $18 million for pain, suffering and past and future medical expenses. The driver, identified by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as Jeffrey D. Knight, was employed by Alabama-based Holmes Transport Inc. when he apparently caused…
Atrazine, one of the most widely used herbicides in the United States, was found in drinking water at unsafe levels in four states: Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Ohio (OH), and Kansas (KS). An analysis performed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found the yearly average levels of atrazine in drinking water violated the federal standard…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it “is reviewing adverse event reports of liver injury in patients taking the weight loss drug orlistat, marketed as the prescription drug Xenical and the over-the-counter medication Alli.” Thus, the poor safety record of weight-loss drugs seems unblemished. Or, more accurately, as filled with blemishes as…