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Archive for December, 2009Food poisoning kills 5,000 Americans; a food poisoning lawyer bites back
So are we, when it comes to defending your rights in a food poisoning lawsuit. If you or a loved one are harmed by food poisoning, see a physician promptly, and then alert a food poisoning lawyer or attorney with Jim S. Adler & Associates. |
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 serious.
| Dec 29 |
Archive for December, 2009Don’t crash New Year’s Eve parties with a drunk driving car accident
It’s always the same story, so you’d think Americans would wake up and learn a vital lesson: Don’t drink and drive. Yet such deaths spike during year-end holidays, and thousands of Americans (nearly 14,000 in 2008) become yearly statistics in drunk driving fatalities. |
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.| Dec 23 |
Archive for December, 2009Sweet! Montgomery County tweets drunk drivers’ names in shame game which could work
As Chief Prosecutor Warren Diepraam told KPRC News, “We’ve kind of simplified it by using Twitter, putting that information that’s already out there as a public record . . . on Twitter so that people could follow who’s been arrested.” The idea is to discourage persons from drunk driving via the threat of public humiliation — on top of arrest and possible prosecution. Ligon believes such a tactic could “embarrass the right offender” with the threat of “collateral damages” (public shame) beyond the legal case itself. |
As we brace for the | Dec 17 |
Archive for December, 2009CT scan radiation can cause cancer in patients
One study in that journal indicates persons in CT scans may be subjected to as much as four times the amount of radiation than previously estimated. Former studies had depended on inanimate dummies to be subjected to scans, but this study examined 1,119 patients at several San Francisco hospitals. |
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 Medicine.| Dec 15 |
Archive for December, 2009Probe shows Houston Fire Department civil rights violations, problems with complaint processGuest 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 Chronicle reported the results of an independent investigation into alleged racism and sexism in the Houston Fire Department (HFD). The investigators interviewed 112 firefighters, including 22 female members of the HFD. While some of the female firefighters have not experienced sexism, others have been the victims of disturbing civil rights violations.
The interviews reveal disparate treatment for women in certain important working conditions. Specifically, women report having their time off requests denied, being denied the right to get off of work at the end of a shift, and being denied the right to get the same training, experience and equipment as men. Both women and men report that there are certain fire stations where women and African American men are not welcome. Other stations became “dumping grounds” for women and minorities. Women also have experienced continued harassment at work. One woman described her tires being slashed, her locker broken into and her food being contaminated by her male colleagues. In July, two female firefighters found racist and sexist graffiti on the walls of their dorm. The graffiti followed months of harassment by male officers that had been reported to their superiors and that had gone unresolved. The independent investigation served two purposes. First, the public now has a report from an independent source indicating that discrimination and harassment are occurring in the Houston Fire Department. The second and perhaps more important purpose is to force the department to stop the pattern of discrimination and harassment. Specifically, the investigation revealed that complaint resolution procedures were lax within the department and individual firefighters were unaware of how to resolve discrimination and harassment complaints. The Houston Fire Chief has said that he welcomed the review and found the recommendations useful. Only time will tell if the recommendations will be implemented. The Chicago civil rights lawyers of Dolan Law Offices represent plaintiffs who have been the victims of civil rights violations. We fight for justice and we stand with those who have been fighting for justice within the Houston Fire Department. |
| Dec 09 |
Archive for December, 2009Unsafe charter bus lines cause many bus accident deaths, injuries
Take the Jan. 2, 2008 Texas bus accident in which one Houston passenger was killed and 17 were injured seriously, with two of them losing arms in the crash. The driver fell asleep at the wheel, ran off U.S. 59, over-corrected and flipped the bus on its side, where it was hit by a pickup truck. Again, a complex and catastrophic traffic accident happened very quickly. |
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.| Dec 07 |
Archive for December, 2009Cell phone industry picks profits over car accident deaths caused by distracted drivers
Indeed, a recent study by the New York Times shows that cell providers have known for decades about the obvious risks of distracted drivers, but were reluctant to do anything about it other than giving token warnings about their product — while paying heavily in ads to pitch them to drivers. In experimental stages as early as the 1940s, through costly status-symbol models of the 1980s, through the cell phone explosion of the 1990s, cell phones were pointedly marketed as portable, use-them-anywhere “car phones” — and that hasn’t changed. The cell industry has been determined to reap huge profits by turning drivers into callers, even if that meant many people would die or be injured in cell phone car accidents. |
How often do you avoid car wrecks almost caused by drivers on cell phones? Or perhaps you’ve been injured already by such | Dec 02 |
Archive for December, 2009Car accident injuries are a seasonal bah-humbug
Sometimes that can come from an overly fierce focus. How else do you explain the fact that a woman was run down by an SUV in a southwest Houston parking lot recently? The reason? Another driver thought the parking place she’d claimed was rightly his — and took it out on her by running her down. Apparently, holiday shopping stress can do that to people. |
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 — who are already preoccupied — will magnify their disengagement with even more heedlessness.