It started with the brouhaha over pet food, but now the safety of a whole range of food products imported from China are coming under the microscope, according to a news article posted on the consumer watchdog website. According to this article, a new study published in Environmental Toxicology and…
In a move yet again to restrain large verdicts that punish companies, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set aside a San Diego jury’s $55 Million award against Ford Motor Co. for a rollover accident involving its popular Explorer sport utility vehicle, according to an article in the Los Angeles…
A woman who was selling flowers and teddy bears for Mother’s Day and a Guatemalan immigrant were killed Sunday morning after a driver jumped the curb and plowed into the parking lot where the woman had set up her stand, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. Marilyn…
The California farm that grew the spinach linked to last year’s nationwide E. coli outbreak, and the two companies that processed and marketed it, have settled lawsuits with the families of three women who died, two of whom had not been included in the official death toll, according to a…
A $1.2 million dollar study, approved by Orange County transportation planners will look at how to improve a section of highway from the Santa Ana Freeway, North of El Toro, to San Clemente, which has been a silent witness to many fatal car crashes. This area includes over 14 cities…
Mark Lee Cummings claims he doesn’t remember the crash that took the life of Rudy Mora back in 2005. Cummings, who was driving his maroon van on a suspended license, struck Rudy and then left the scene. A short time later the police found Cummings and arrested him. According to…
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have recalled 450,000 Evenflo Embrace Infant Car Seats and Carriers because the infant in the seat can unexpectedly fall causing serious injury, according to ConsumerAffairs.com. According to this article, Evenflo has received 679 reports of the handle…
In a class action suit against American Honda Motor Corporation, an Illinois man charges that a design defect in certain Honda CR-V and Element models makes them prone to fast-spreading engine fires, according to an article posted on ConsumerAffairs.com. The lawsuit charges that the vehicles’ oil filter is dangerously close…
A woman and five other people, including at least three children, were killed Tuesday after their sport utility vehicle got hit by an Amtrak train when the vehicle got caught on the train tracks in Riverbank, a city 10 miles northeast of Modesto, according to an article published in the…
Medical examiner, Michael Graham, revealed that St. Louis Cardinals pitcher, Josh Hancock, was drunk when he died in a car accident a week ago. Graham indicated in a press conference that Hancock was almost twice the legal blood alcohol limit when he crashed into the back of a tow truck…