Legal and safety news of interest from around the internet:
- Are you tired of "election season" yet? (Times Square’s "Naked Cowboy" announces presidential bid) [at Lowering the Bar]
- Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife heads a PAC that has received donations of at least $500,000 from an anonymous donor raising serious ethical issues for the Supreme Court justice [NYT editorial via Howard Bashman at How Appealing]
- US Supreme Court will decision whether injured patients sue vaccine manufacturers for side effect injuries (Roundup of news coverage) [Howard Bashman at How Appealing]
- State Attorneys General are using the civil justice system to help regular people when federal regulators will not [Joe Consumer at The Pop Tort]
- Many household products continue to be contaminated with lead [Susan Murphy Casey at The Kansas City Star]
- The largest for-profit health insurance companies denied coverage to 1-in-7 applicants based on prior medical history / pre-existing conditions (insurance companies can’t do that as of 2014) [Janet Adamy at WSJ]
- Pfizer appeal on Hormone Replacement defects rejected by US Supreme Court — women permitted to sue [Greg Stohr at Bloomberg News]
- Investigation continues in sudden acceleration probe as government panel hears from unintended acceleration victims [AP via NPR] [my posts on the Toyota shareholder lawsuit and Allstate’s lawsuit against Toyota]
- More Toyota sudden acceleration coverage [David Shepardson at The Detroit News]
- Is NHTSA ignoring the facts on Toyota sudden acceleration? [Sean Kane at The Safety Record]
- Should a lawyer blog or tweet about his/her case? [Eric Turkewitz at New York Personal Injury Law Blog]
- Should clients Facebook, blog or tweet about their case? [Spencer Farris at St. Louis Injury Lawyers Blog]
- Google moves forward with driverless cars [Paul Napoli at Injury Board]
- State Attorneys General will launch joint investigation into mortgage industry on foreclosure-document mess [Alan Zibel at AP via MSNBC]
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Brett Emison is currently a partner at Langdon & Emison, a firm dedicated to helping injured victims across the country from their primary office near Kansas City. Mainly focusing on catastrophic injury and death cases as well as complex mass tort and dangerous drug cases, Mr. Emison often deals with automotive defects, automobile crashes, railroad crossing accidents (train accidents), trucking accidents, dangerous and defective drugs, defective medical devices.
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