New traffic safety laws went into effect last year that had lawmakers turning their focus to those proposals. Many of those proposed regulations were discussed at a meeting of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety, which outlined the general direction that the legislature sought to take. While we previously reported on several of these,…
We’ve often discussed the difficulties that arise when filing suit against a nursing home stemming from the complex nature of how the “behind the scenes players” structure the corporate entities behind these facilities. As a recent article out of California suggests one recent lawsuit is looking at this issue from a different and unique vantage…
In a very bizarre and tragic story out of California 2 nursing home residents have died and 4 others have been hospitalized from alleged food poisoning after a caregiver placed what turned out to be poisonous wild mushrooms into a soup that was then served to residents. As the article suggests, an initial investigation into…
As we’ve recently discussed, there seems to be a growing dissent amongst the ranks of nursing home employees about the conditions in many local nursing homes, and many groups of nurses, caretakers, and other employees have begun to vent their frustrations with the very facilities they work for (and the ownership groups behind them) in…
Yesterday, we discussed early reports of the landmark proposed settlement of a class action brought against Toyota stemming from the widely-reported 2010 alleged defect that caused vehicles to unexpectedly accelerate. The problem with the early reports, however, is that some of them painted the story with too broad of strokes, and now, as subsequent articles suggest, many…
As multiple news outlets are reporting, Toyota has agreed, in principal, to settle a class action lawsuit in California stemming from the highly-publicized dispute that arose in early 2010 after a number of complaints were logged that the auto giant’s vehicles were accelerating unintendedly. It should be noted that there have been several different “groups” of litigation that…
We’ve spent a good deal of time discussing the persistent problem of nursing home under-staffing and the wide range of effects it has on all aspects of a nursing home. Decreased attentiveness, and under-qualified (and over-worked) staffing has a pretty straightforward effect on the health and safety of residents. Now even the nursing home employees…
As we’ve discussed several times recently, the problem with training nursing home caregivers and keeping up with proper staffing requirements has been one of the most prominent topics in the ongoing debate about the care and services your loved ones receive in nursing homes. These topics come to mind when reading a recentpress release from a…
As a recent article in Science Now details a new study that is almost certain to stoke a good deal of controversy has put forth a new factor that researchers believe contributes to an increased likelihood of trucking accidents — obesity. The study followed 744 newly-licensed truck drivers and categorized them by height and weight. The results suggested…
As we’ve previously discussed, fraud is one of the most contentious causes of action that arises in business litigation. What many aggrieved parties don’t understand when they first seek out an attorney is that it is so difficult to even plead a proper complaint for fraud that a good deal of cases never even make…