Archive for December, 2009
Food poisoning kills 5,000 Americans; a food poisoning lawyer bites back
Food poisoning scares come and go, but none should be taken lightly. According to the Food and Drug Administration, about 5,000 Americans annually die due to some form of poisoning in the food they eat. Whether it’s from bad beef, tainted tomatoes or putrid peanuts doesn’t matter. Food can be dangerous — and that’s dead [...]
Don’t crash New Year’s Eve parties with a drunk driving car accident
Americans love their holiday traditions, including New Year’s Eve. In Japan, the new year isn’t widely acknowledged until people rise the next morning. But in the USA, millions of revelers party past midnight to ring in another year. The only trouble is, such partying often includes heavy drinking and unleashes drunk drivers on our roads.
It’s [...]
Sweet! Montgomery County tweets drunk drivers’ names in shame game which could work
As we brace for the drunk driving tragedies which inevitably accompany year-end revelries, we applaud Montgomery County officials for a new tactic in the war against drunk drivers. County District Attorney Brett Ligon will start posting tweets on his Twitter account for the world to see whenever a person is arrested for drunk driving, DUI [...]
CT scan radiation can cause cancer in patients
Health care is supposed to help your health, not hurt it. But recent studies show that CT scans (computed tomography) may inflict much more radiation than previously believed and can cause cancer. In fact, up to 29,000 new cancers may erupt in America each year due to CT scan radiation, says the Archives of Internal [...]
Probe shows Houston Fire Department civil rights violations, problems with complaint process
Guest blog courtesy of Dolan Law Offices, Chicago, IL.
On Aug. 12, 2009, Dolan Law Offices published a guest post for Jim S. Adler & Associates about discrimination in the Houston Fire Department. The Dolan firm has closely followed this case and now can provide an update on Houston Fire Department discrimination issues.
Last week, the Houston [...]
Unsafe charter bus lines cause many bus accident deaths, injuries
As a vintage bus line slogan goes, “Leave the driving to us.” Trouble is, when you do that you also leave safety precautions to bus lines, and safety doesn’t always lead their to-do list.
Take the Jan. 2, 2008 Texas bus accident in which one Houston passenger was killed and 17 were injured seriously, with two [...]
Cell phone industry picks profits over car accident deaths caused by distracted drivers
How often do you avoid car wrecks almost caused by drivers on cell phones? Or perhaps you’ve been injured already by such distracted drivers. In either case, the phone industry doesn’t care. Wireless service providers made $148 billion last year, and the thousands of Americans killed and hurt by distracted drivers using their product are [...]
Car accident injuries are a seasonal bah-humbug
When holiday stress spawns rudeness, if not recklessness, the holiday season can be a tough time for innocent drivers and passengers. But in this age of talking, texting and otherwise distracted drivers, it’s gotten worse. In Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and throughout Texas, car accidents will put Christmas coal in many stockings, because drivers — [...]
