Have you ever stop to think about the safety of the rides you and your family are enjoying? Do you know what is done to ensure your safety? Do you know who, if anyone, is making sure that your safety remains a priority? Repeated attempts to…
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If your child is one of nearly 13 million under the age of six who spend some of their day in childcare, do you know everything you should about the facility’s safety standards? According to a report by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC),…
“When people were held accountable for drunk driving, that’s when positive change occurred,” said Ben Lieberman, founder of Distracted Operators Risk Casualties (DORC). “It’s time to recognize that distracted driving is a similar impairment, and should be dealt with in a similar fashion.” Back in…
An Orange County jury has awarded more than $10 million in a wrongful-death lawsuit that held Michigan-based Domino’s Pizza liable for the crash. The crash occurred along a dark stretch of highway on Jan. 13, 2011, when a Domino’s delivery driver attempted to merge into…
Most of my readers have heard of the “Hot Coffee” case, in which Stella Liebeck was awarded nearly $3 million after suffering severe third-degree burns from a cup of McDonald’s coffee; the trial judge drastically reduced the damages award and the case later settled for…
In November 2015, Mike Hull who successfully influenced Texas lawmakers to pass some of the strictest tort reform laws in the nation, resigned as outside counsel for Texans for Lawsuit Reform. Two months later, we learned that Hull has joined forces with mass tort litigator,…
I have written numerous articles about a host of driver distractions, but today I read an article that goes far beyond any distracted driving incident that I have ever blogged about. The Michigan State Police Department said that a 58-year-old man died after rolling his…
Dangerous YouTube dares have been sweeping the nation over the last few years. Teens are videotaping themselves attempting outrageous activities and then uploading them to the site to gain popularity. While some like the “Ice Bucket Challenge” last summer to raise ALS awareness was seemingly…
Have Ride the Ducks gone from simply being inexpensive fun for tourists to a deadly example of what happens when maintenance and safety practices are neglected for profit? Let’s look at some history of these military-styled vehicles. Thirteen people died in 1999 when an amphibious…
We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Today we honor one of the most influential and iconic leaders of the civil rights movement – Martin Luther King, Jr. This year not only…
