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Americans are eating out more often than ever, spending billions of hard-earned dollars on restaurant meals annually. It therefore comes as no surprise that food poisoning cases, too, are becoming more common. A national chain of Mexican restaurants is now being accused of sickening dozens of people in two states. One of the alleged sufferers…

As we have mentioned before on this website, there are numerous federal agencies that track recall information. For example, the Food and Drug Administration lists recalls of foods, medicines, and cosmetics, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration lists motor vehicles in which particular safety issues have been identified. Under federal law, the manufacturer of…

It’s hardly surprising that disputes between an injured person and the insurance company of a negligent driver who caused an accident can be rather contentious. Many people, however, assume that cases involving one’s own uninsured motorist carrier would have a less adversarial nature. Unfortunately, this is not necessarily true. Facts of the Case In the…

On the surface, it may have seemed like a case about the Second Amendment. After all, stories of disputes between police and the criminally accused are common these days, and with each shooting comes national discussion about the right to keep and bear arms. Certainly, the lawsuit brought by two police officers against a Wisconsin…

Mobile telephones have been around longer than you may realize. Invented in the 1970s, they first reached the consumer market in the early 1980s in the form of a 2 1/2-pound brick that did nothing but make an actual phone call. Over the years, various features have been added until, nowadays, most of us walk…

Business owners are supposed to maintain their premises in a reasonably safe condition. This includes performing necessary maintenance, regularly inspecting the property for dangers, and taking other, related steps to keep patrons from being injured. If a property owner or business operator breaches the duty of care owed to a patron, he or she can…

There’s a well-known expression to the effect, “As goes General Motors, so goes the nation.” That is a rather unsettling thought, given recent developments in the continuing saga over GM’s alleged failure to properly disclose safety violations in some of their automobiles. According to a press release from the Unites States Department of Justice, GM…

Many things can go wrong in a hospital setting. A doctor or nurse can fail to follow the established standard of care, and a patient can suffer the consequences of medical malpractice. A janitor can fail to put up a “wet floor” sign, causing a visitor to slip and fall. A security guard can fail…

Considering that workers’ compensation laws are specifically designed to simplify the process by which an injured worker receives benefits (such as payment of medical expenses or temporary total disability) due to an on-the-job injury, a surprising array of issues can arise. For instance, sometimes there is a dispute as to whether the worker was an…

The idea of holding a person, business, or government accountable for harm that can be felt but not seen is nothing new. For instance, there have been a number of successful lawsuits filed by farmers who claimed that stray voltage harmed their dairy cattle and consequently their bottom lines. Now, a Massachusetts family has reportedly…