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More sleep may help teens be better drivers
Over the last few posts we have been talking a lot about teen drivers and the causes of teenage car accidents. Car accidents are the leading cause of death among teenagers, and inexperience and distraction are the main causes of all teenage car accidents. When it...
Possible product liability with pregnancy complication prevention drug
A new study shows forty years after a drug called DES was taken off of the market because of adverse consequences to babies, the effects of the drug are still being felt in the grandchildren of the women who used the drug. The history and effects of the drug over...
National teen driving law introduced in the U.S. House
Over the last couple of weeks we have been talking a lot about teenage drivers and the dangers of teen driving. Recently, a U.S. Senator from New York introduced a bill that would regulate teenage driving across the nation. The Senator introduced the proposed law...
The main causes of teenage car accidents
Last week we spoke about how car accidents are the number one cause of death for teenagers and that drinking and driving is the cause of around 40 percent of fatal teenage car accidents. On a similar note, a recent study that examined the causes of all teenage car...
Driver arrested for car accident that killed three near Louisiana
Louisiana State Police arrested a 33-year-old man who had been involved in a fatal car accident on April 2 in Kinder, Louisiana outside Lake Charles. The state police arrested the man for his role as a driver in the two vehicle accident that occurred two weekends ago....
Teenage car accidents and graduation time
As spring approaches, high school students in the United States will celebrate proms and high school graduations. Some people believe that the season of celebration comes with a rite of passage that includes the use of alcohol even with parental supervision. As a...
Couple files wrongful death suit over son’s death
A couple from Chicago is suing a hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois for the wrongful death of their newborn son. According to the wrongful death lawsuit the hospital staff negligently provided the couple's 6-week-old son an intravenous bag containing about 60 times the...
Additional products liability issues for Tylenol manufacturer
A couple of weeks ago we talked about how the company Johnson & Johnson faced product liability issues over the recall and production of Tylenol. The company failed to follow federal manufacturing guidelines in three of its factories that produce Tylenol and as a...
Caterpillar settles products liability lawsuit
According to anonymous sources familiar with the settlement, Caterpillar Inc. paid more than $9 million to settle a products liability suit. The products liability suit went to court last year and the jury returned one of the largest verdicts in a products liability...