By Eli Wolfe on October 15, 2018
Despite mounting casualties from crashes of recreational off-highway vehicles, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has shot down a proposal to track injuries and deaths involving the popular trail machines.
Posted in Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Off-Road Vehicles |
By Eli Wolfe on October 3, 2018
A new survey has found that nearly 50 percent of emergency physicians have been physically assaulted on the job.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Workplace Safety and Health |
By Myron Levin on September 24, 2018
A mistrial was declared today after a California state court jury deadlocked on whether Johnson & Johnson was responsible for the asbestos-related cancer of a woman who blamed her illness on longtime use of contaminated baby powder.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Environmental Safety and Health, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Product Hazards and Recalls, talc |
By Myron Levin on September 13, 2018
Consumer advocates are attacking a bill heading for a vote soon in the U.S. Senate that would clear legal obstacles for the deployment of driverless cars.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Gadgets and Distracted Driving, Government accountability |
By Dan Ross on September 6, 2018
Wild horses have long been an evocative symbol of the American West. When wild horses and burros were threatened with extinction nearly 50 years ago, Congress rode to the rescue with a law providing broad protections. Horse numbers have soared, however, along with government costs to manage the herds. And the animals increasingly compete with…
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Horses, mining, public lands, ranching, Wildlife |
By Stuart Silverstein on August 24, 2018
The Justice Department announced a 22-count criminal indictment against a Nebraska railroad services company and its owners related to an April 2015 explosion that killed two workers.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Environmental Safety and Health, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Eli Wolfe on August 20, 2018
For the second time in recent months, the U.S. Department of Labor has extracted penalties from a California farm business blamed for the deadly crash of a vehicle transporting migrant field workers to their jobs.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Food Supply, Government accountability, labor laws, wage theft, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Noreen Marcus on July 25, 2018
During the 1990s, legal assaults on the tobacco industry spawned the largest and most expensive civil litigation in U.S. history. Explosive revelations from secret internal documents and tobacco whistleblowers became front page news.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories |
By Eli Wolfe on July 18, 2018
For the third time in six years, a branch of one of the world’s largest cargo-handling companies has been accused by workplace safety authorities of a willful violation linked to a worker’s death.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged labor laws, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Myron Levin and Stuart Silverstein on July 12, 2018
The legal assault on Johnson & Johnson and its signature baby powder reached new heights today, when a state court jury in Missouri found the company responsible for the ovarian cancers of 22 women, and ordered the drug and consumer products giant to pay $4.69 billion in compensatory and punitive damages to the cancer victims…
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Asbestos, Environmental Safety and Health, Johnson & Johnson, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Product Hazards and Recalls, talc |
