Personal Injury Articles
Salon industry workers often exposed to toxic levels of formaldehyde
Formaldehyde, a highly volatile and toxic compound that poses a substantial threat to human health, is commonly found in and released by certain hair-smoothing products used by salons. But despite the known dangers and the federal laws designed to protect
Family of deceased player Derek Boogaard sues NHL over his injuries, early death
The family of professional hockey player Derek Boogaard has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the National Hockey League (NHL), accusing the organization of subjecting Mr. Boogaard to severe trauma and then loading him up on potent, highly addictive prescription painkillers.
Bay Area limo fire kills five women and injures four others
FOSTER CITY, Calif. – A newlywed bride and four other women are dead after the limousine hired to drive them to a hotel in Foster City, Calif., caught on fire as it was crossing the San Mateo Bridge. Investigators are trying
Oregon plant where worker fell into meat grinder has history of safety violations
Federal and Oregon state authorities are investigating the horrific death of a worker who fell into a running blender at a meat processing plant Friday, April 26, near Portland.
Is lack of corporate safety amounting to a ‘terror’ all its own?
If lawmaking proponents of deregulation have their way, Americans won’t have to worry about being harmed by random foreign terrorists so much as they will by the danger and catastrophe presented by many of our own factories, oil rigs, mines,
Pediatricians warn kids not to try the Cinnamon Challenge
It sounds innocent enough – swallowing a tablespoon of cinnamon within 60 seconds without the help of a drink. Yet most of the people who take the Cinnamon Challenge, as it’s been called, end up gagging or coughing up the
Toxic chemical use in chicken plants set to rise, posing serious health risks to workers, public
With U.S. chicken consumption rising steadily, poultry processing plants nationwide are poised to implement changes that will injure and sicken many workers. Instead of meeting rising demand by expanding facilities and hiring additional workers, the poultry processing industry is poised
One dead after two Cessna planes collide in midair over Los Angeles
One person has died after two Cessna 172 planes collided in mid-air Monday afternoon over Southern California. One of the airplanes crash landed on the third hole at Westlakes Golf Course in Westlakes, Calif., while the other craft plummeted into
17-state salmonella outbreak linked to cucumbers
An outbreak of salmonella illnesses in 18 states has been traced to cucumbers from two suppliers in Mexico, federal health authorities say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that there are 73 confirmed illnesses linked to eating
