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Archive for August, 2015
Aug 26, 2015

By Staff Writer The Italian-American automaker, Fiat Chrysler, is being forced to buy back hundreds of thousands of Ram trucks, as well as other vehicle models.  This is the largest of this type of settlement in U.S history.  Auto Safety regulators are cracking down on companies that fail to disclose safety issues or neglect to […]

Aug 19, 2015

By Staff Writer This past July, a traffic safety activist group called Families for Safe Streets met in Manhattan’s Union Square to honor the thousands of victims killed in car collisions in New York City streets.  Their goal was to draw attention to the word “accident” and how it relates to car collisions, arguing that […]

Aug 12, 2015

By Staff Writer A new study from the University of Minnesota uncovered information showing that drug makers have been neglecting their duties when it comes to reporting about adverse reactions to their products. The numbers suggest that drug makers fail to report truthfully in around 10 percent of cases—some of which have resulted in wrongful […]

Aug 5, 2015

By Staff Writer After five long years in the appeals process, the Tennessee Supreme Court recently ordered a new damages trial against CSX Railroad in the wrongful death of 41-year employee Winston Payne. Payne diagnosed and eventually killed by lung cancer after being exposed to toxic chemicals for his virtually entire career at one of […]