By Eli Wolfe on July 26, 2018
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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.
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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 |
By Eli Wolfe on June 28, 2018
It’s no secret that the waning power of American unions has contributed to stagnant wages. But a new study suggests that this trend hasn’t affected just worker income. It also may have cost thousands of lives. The portion of the U.S. work force covered by unions has fallen for decades, and the labor movement suffered…
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Labor Department, labor laws, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Paul Feldman on June 14, 2018
As the nation’s fleet of small recreational and commercial drones keeps soaring — the government projects nearly 3 million will be in the skies by 2022 — safety concerns are rising even as federal enforcement stalls.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Aviation Safety |
By Angus Chen on June 7, 2018
Teenagers from local high schools flock to Brooklyn Vape in downtown Brooklyn. The store is small – a single room with vape paraphernalia stacked to the ceiling in glass cabinets. Many of the teens walk awkwardly through the shop and ask the clerk, a man who goes by Ali and wouldn’t give his last…
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Smoking and Tobacco Industry |
By Paul Feldman on June 6, 2018
In a closely watched election contest, San Francisco voters have upheld a first-in-the-nation ban on the sale of menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products, overwhelmingly rejecting an $11.6 million campaign by R.J. Reynolds to scuttle the law.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Smoking and Tobacco Industry |
By Myron Levin on May 24, 2018
Editor's note: See update at bottom of story.
For the second time in less than two months, Johnson & Johnson has suffered a big courtroom loss in a case that blamed a rare asbestos-related cancer on long-term use of contaminated baby powder. A state court jury in Southern California ordered the company to pay $4 million in punitive damages to mesothelioma victim Joanne Anderson and her husband, bringing the total verdict to about $25.7 million.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Environmental Safety and Health, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Product Hazards and Recalls, talc |
By Myron Levin on May 23, 2018
Early on Feb. 2, 2016, a van carrying members of the California Conservation Corps paused at a stop sign on a country road near the Central Valley town of Reedley. Then the van rolled into the intersection, where it was broadsided by a 40-ton gravel truck and trailer, killing three corps members …
Posted in FairWarning Investigates, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Workplace Safety and Health |
