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By Edward ("Ted") Bills

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Support for ban on texting while driving

Posted on August 20, 2009
Three out of four people say they would support a federal legislative push to ban text messaging while driving and most of the rest said they would support a ban only if texting were exempt in certain situations. Discussions about distracted driving continue as the U...

Nissan Verdict Upheld

Posted on August 20, 2009
Nissan Motor Co., LTD?s request for a new trial in a case where a jury awarded $1.85 million to the plaintiff was denied by U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis. The jurors found that Rebecca Perdue?s injuries were caused by a structural design defect in her Nissan Pathfinder, and not simply by the car wreck or [...

Whistleblower Bill Causes Concern

Posted on August 20, 2009
Critics of the proposed whistleblower-protection bill under development by the Obama administration and Congress contend it will have a chilling effect on those inside the intelligence community who seek to expose wrong-doing. Although new protections are included for other whistleblowers, employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation would no longer be able to bring their [...

Suit Filed in Police Shooting Death

Posted on August 20, 2009
A lawsuit was filed against Prince George?s County and Cpl. Steven Jackson by the family of a man killed by Jackson while he was working off-duty as a security guard. According to the suit, Manuel de Jesus Espina was beaten, shot and killed despite the fact that he was not resisting...

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Shedding Light on Doctors? Conflict of Interest

Posted on August 20, 2009
According to an article in the Washington Post, determining doctors? ties with pharmaceutical companies, and any related conflict of interest, is often a hard task for patients to accomplish. The Physician Payments Sunshine Act, introduced by Senators Chuck Grassley and Herb Kohl, seeks to relieve some of that burden by requiring that all payments of [...

Enterprise Rent-A-Car sold Chevy Impalas without standard side air bags

Posted on August 18, 2009
Enterprise Rent-A-Car, the nation?s largest private buyer of new cars and seller of used ones, chose to ?delete? a standard safety feature from thousands of Chevrolet Impala fleet vehicles, saving millions of dollars. After the company rented out those 2006-08 model vehicles, Enterprise and countless dealers nationwide offered them for sale on the open market ? [...

Toy Workshops and Trucks Recalled

Posted on August 18, 2009
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of five Little Tikes toys sold since March 1994, after an infant choked on a plastic nail included in the sets. The affected toys sets are the Electronic Project Workshop, the Little Handiworker Workhorse, the Home Improvements Two-sided Workshop, the Swirlin’ Sawdust Workshop and the Black [...

City Faces Suit in Swimming Pool Injury

Posted on August 18, 2009
A lawsuit filed by Brandon Flowers alleges Union City?s negligence caused his son to become trapped by a swimming pool grate at the bottom of the city swimming pool, resulting in serious injuries. The boy, who was 13 at the time, had to be rescued by lifeguards and flown to a hospital for treatment of [...

Company Blames State for Bridge Failure

Posted on August 18, 2009
In response to a lawsuit filed by the state of Minnesota over the 2007 collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge, URS Corp. claims the state?s own negligence caused the bridge failure. URS, holder of the state contract to evaluate the bridge?s durability and needed repairs, contends that the state?s failure to act on the information [...

AstroTurf to Reduce Lead in California Products

Posted on August 18, 2009
California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced AstroTurf will remove almost all lead from its artificial grass products sold in the state as part of a settlement. In addition, the company will pay to test existing fields for excessive lead, warn recent customers of the lead exposure risk, and pay $170,000 in penalties and fees...

Suit Filed Over Food Poisoning Death

Posted on August 18, 2009
The family of Courtney Rohn has filed a suit against the El Toro Taco restaurant, alleging negligence led to the food poisoning which caused her death. Rohn died of a bacterial infection one day after eating takeout food from the restaurant. When the restaurant was inspected shortly after Rohn?s death, 53 sanitation and safety violations [...

Settlement Reached in Quran Case

Posted on August 18, 2009
Hakeem Shaheed has settled his lawsuit against the United States Bureau of Prisons over his treatment while serving time from April 1996 to October 2005 in a federal penitentiary in Marion. According to the suit, Shaheed, a practicing Muslim, faced abuse from prison guards after the Sept...

Calif. Reforms Signed into Law

Posted on August 18, 2009
Two personal injury bills were signed into law by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The first, known as the “Good Samaritan” bill, provides liability protection for those who stop and render aid at the scene of an accident, and was passed in response to the California Supreme Court?s earlier ruling that liability only extended to trained [...

Family of Trucker Killed in Dairy Accident Files Suit

Posted on August 18, 2009
The family of a trucker killed in an accident while making a delivery to a dairy has sued 4-Bros Dairy, alleging negligence. Chad Thompson was killed when a 40 foot pile of decomposing livestock feed known as silage fell on his truck as he was parking it next to the pile...

Case on Fund Fees Headed to Supreme Court

Posted on August 18, 2009
The Supreme Court will hear the case of Jones v. Harris Associates, which alleges that funds paid excessive fees to their investment advisers. According to many economists, even in light of poor performance, mutual funds tend not to fire advisers and continue to pay excessive fees...

Users Sue Facebook over Privacy Concerns

Posted on August 18, 2009
A lawsuit filed in Orange County Superior Court claims that social media Web site Facebook is in violation of state and online privacy laws. According to the suit, Facebook illegally provides users? personal data to third parties and does not inform users that it is mining their data...

Diabetes Treatment Standards Questioned

Posted on August 18, 2009
The National Committee for Quality Assurance rescinded its national guidelines for treating diabetes patients in light of a federal study indicating that older patients with heart disease would be harmed if they followed those guidelines. Critics of the guidelines contend they were skewed in favor of providing glucose-lowering drugs because the group receives a portion [...

Chicago Settles Suit Over Fall at O?Hare Airport

Posted on August 17, 2009
The city of Chicago has agreed to pay $800,000 to settle a lawsuit a lawsuit by a woman who fell at O?Hare Airport while traveling to medical conference. According to the lawsuit, Diana Sarkar fractured her kneecap and tore cartilage after slipping on an oily floor...

Class Action Filed Over Alleged Hepatitis Exposure

Posted on August 17, 2009
Patients at a South Dakota urology clinic have filed a class-action lawsuit claiming the facility exposed them to the hepatitis. The Siouxland Urology Center began warning patients about possible infections earlier this year after it was discovered that some equipment was being reused...

Fosomax Trial Begins This Week

Posted on August 17, 2009
The first of what are expected to be three bellwether cases involving the osteoporosis drug Fosamax began this week in New York. Plaintiffs in about 900 cases claim that Merck & Co. failed to warn that the drug may cause the death of jawbone tissue...

Family Files Lawsuit Over Hazing Death

Posted on August 17, 2009
The family of a Utah State University freshman who died following an alcohol-related hazing incident has filed a lawsuit against the school. Attorneys for the family contend that university officials turned a blind eye to a pattern drug and alcohol abuse at the Sigma Nu fraternity chapter that ultimately led to the teenager?s death...

Boeing Settles Whistleblower Suits

Posted on August 12, 2009
Boeing Co. has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that accused the company of overcharging the U.S. government. In the lawsuit, Edward Quintana alleged that the company manipulated billing statements for a U.S. Air Force contract to reflect airplane maintenance that was never performed...

Judge OKs Testimony by Whistleblowers

Posted on August 12, 2009
Two sisters who claim that State Farm defrauded the government in the wake of Hurricane Katrina will be allowed to testify in their lawsuit against the insurer, a federal judge has ruled. In an order issued Monday, U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr. ruled that Cori and Kerri Rigsby?s work as insurance adjusters gave them [...

Survey Shows Divergence in Medical Fees

Posted on August 12, 2009
Irrational pricing of medical procedures illustrates one of the serious problems facing the American health care reforms, according to a report published in the New York Times. Results of a survey sponsored by an insurance industry group noted that respondents reported wild deviations in costs paid by some patients and those paid by Medicare...

Medical Field in Need of Transparency

Posted on August 12, 2009
The Houston Chronicle and Hearst Newspapers have published a new series detailing the toll preventable medical errors take on families each year. According to the report, an estimated 98,000 die each year from preventable medical errors and nearly 100,000 more contract serious infections during a hospital stay...

Recalls Show Complexity of Reforming Food Safety

Posted on August 11, 2009
Dozens of food recalls during the last month illustrate how difficult it will be for officials to reform the nation’s food safety system, according to the Los Angeles Times. Last month, House lawmakers passed a measure that seeks to bolster the Food and Drug Administration’s authority and recall powers...

Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Cycling Lawsuit

Posted on August 11, 2009
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit stemming from a fatal bicycling accident. In the decision, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the mountain bike riders knew that their participation in a 2004 race was inherently dangerous and the event’s organizers took sufficient precautions to protect [...

Hospital Destroyed Records, Lawsuit Says

Posted on August 11, 2009
The family of a woman who died following complications from elective surgery has filed a lawsuit against Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto. In the lawsuit, the family members claim that staff at the hospital failed to examine Diane Stewart as her condition grew worse and then deleted medical records in an attempt to [...

Jury Awards Damages to Toddler Injured at Day Care

Posted on August 11, 2009
A Florida jury has awarded $3 million to a boy whose leg was broken by a KinderCare day care employee. Media reports note that child protection authorities had repeatedly cited KinderCare for violations at five of its Pinellas County locations. The employee involved in the incident has since pleaded no contest to felony child abuse...

Settlement Reached in Death of Visiting Chinese Scholars

Posted on August 11, 2009
Three men who survived a rollover accident and the families of seven others killed in the same accident have settled with the University of Utah, ending a two-week trial. The plaintiffs, who were all visiting from China, will split almost $500,000 which is just below the amount that would require approval by the legislature...

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