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• Friday Legal & Safety News Round Up: August 24, 2012

  Brett Emison | August 24, 2012 11:09 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Busy week around here, so this is the first (only) post this week - but check out these headlines from around the Internet that caught my attention this week: Gordon Gekko, HCA and...

• Friday Legal & Safety News Round Up: August 17, 2012

  Brett Emison | August 17, 2012 11:08 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Check out these legal, safety, and other news headlines from around the Internet that caught my attention this week: Politics, Intolerance and Fair Courts [Editorial at The New York...

• Luxury Cars Perform Poorly In New Insurance Industry for Highway Safety Crash Test

  Brett Emison | August 16, 2012 1:09 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  NBC's Today show reported that many luxury cars - supposedly synonymous with safety - perform poorly in a new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) crash test. The new IIHS test...

• Faces of Lawsuit Abuse: Matt Fisher

  Brett Emison | August 15, 2012 3:21 PM | 4 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  Because of the US Chamber of Commerce's heavily marketed lobbying arm, the Institute for Legal Reform, many people have heard of so-called faces of lawsuit abuse. Coming from the Chamber or...

• American Medical News Spreads Frivolous Lawsuit Myth

  Brett Emison | August 14, 2012 12:15 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  The folks at American Medical News filed a report yesterday claiming that the Missouri Supreme Court decision, Watts v. Lester E. Cox Medical Centers, holding that non-economic damage caps for...

• The Safety Institute Begins Video Storytelling Project

  Brett Emison | August 13, 2012 11:38 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  The Safety Institute is a non-profit organization emphasizing injury prevention and product safety. TSI provides a number of services including grant making (supporting organizations and...

• Friday Legal & Safety News Round Up: August 10, 2012

  Brett Emison | August 10, 2012 11:01 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Check out these legal, safety, and other news headlines that caught my attention this week: How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking [Mat Honan at Wired Magazine H/T...

• Study Urges Review of Cell Phone Radiation Standards

  Brett Emison | August 09, 2012 10:12 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Remember when a cell phone looked like this? Cell phones have come a long way since the mid-1990s,but the safety standards for cell phone radiation emissions have not. In fact, those...

• The Ongoing Debate On Tort Reform "Policy"

  Brett Emison | August 08, 2012 11:09 AM | 4 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Max Kennerly and Ted Frank have been engaged in an interesting debate on the issue of tort reform policy. Kennerly's Side Here Frank's Side Here I use the term debate loosely...

• Missouri Chamber of Commerce Demeans Constitution In Support Of Damage Caps

  Brett Emison | August 07, 2012 11:12 AM | 2 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  The Missouri Chamber of Commerce issued a telling statement in response to the Missouri Supreme Court decision striking down non-economic damages caps in medical malpractice injury cases. ...

• Blown Tire Leads To Megabus Crash; Fatality

  Brett Emison | August 06, 2012 10:54 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  A number of outlets have reported that a blown tire is to blame for a Megabus crash that killed one and injured nearly 50 others. The blowout and crash occurred on I-55 in Litchfield, Illinois -...

• Friday Legal & Safety News Round Up: August 3, 2012

  Brett Emison | August 03, 2012 10:41 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Check out these legal, safety, and other news headlines that caught my attention this week: Tech Wars: Apple vs. Samsung Heads to Trial [Christopher Danzig at Above the Law] ...

• Near Miss At Reagan Int'l Airport: 3 US Airways Jets Avoid Last-Second Collision

  Brett Emison | August 02, 2012 1:07 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  ABC News reported that 3 US Air commuter jets nearly avoided a mid-air collision at Reagan International Airport in Washington, DC after air traffic controllers modified approach vectors due...

• Statutes of Repose Eliminate Accountability For Older, High Mileage Vehicles

  Brett Emison | August 02, 2012 10:48 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  As Americans drive increasingly older vehicles, statutes of repose inflict Draconian results for drivers of these older cars, trucks, and SUVs. A statute of repose completely cuts off...

• Mo. Supreme Court Upholds Constitution; Overturns Damages Caps

  Brett Emison | August 01, 2012 11:51 AM | 4 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Much may be written about yesterday's decision by the Missouri Supreme Court striking down arbitrary medical liability damages caps in order to ensure that the right of trial by jury as...