A few weeks ago, we posted the third part in our dangerous job series. It focused on the dangers involved in fishing and farming. In this post, we’re going to take a closer look at three dangerous jobs for workers who work in “the sky”: window washers, helicopter linemen and pilots. American window cleaners of…
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A headline in today’s newspaper asks, “How Could It Happen Here?” The article refers to the recent hpd shooting death of Brian Claunch, a mentally challenged double amputee. One reason it could happen here is that courts have removed accountability from those who have been given power. The shooting occurred last week when Claunch, a…
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The family of Aditi Avhad, the 25-year-old University of Missouri graduate student killed in the Megabus crash in early August, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court. On Aug. 2, a Megabus heading south on Interstate 55 from Chicago crashed into a concrete pillar near Litchfield, south of Springfield. The double-decker bus was…
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Last Wednesday, a jury awarded a Colorado man $7.2 million in damages for developing a chronic condition known as popcorn lung from a chemical used in flavoring microwave popcorn. Wayne Watson, a 59-year-old native from Denver, filed suit in a U.S. District Court. Mr. Watson proved that the downstate Illinois popcorn manufacturer and the supermarket…
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Across the nation, fatal accidents in the workplace are on the decline, but that pattern has not carried over in the state of Texas. A recent article in the Dallas News noted that workplace deaths remain “stubbornly high in Texas.” According to statistics from the Department of Labor in 2010, just over 4,500 people died…
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The Travis County DA’s office has launched a criminal investigation of State Farm, the massive insurer, regarding its handling of thousands of insurance claims following Hurricane Ike. Now, Senator Rodney Ellis is demanding that the Texas Department of Insurance (“TDI”) reopen its investigation of State Farm and its Texas subsidiary, State Farm Lloyds. “Given that…
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Eminent domain has always been an issue for property owners across the country. In Texas, it is not uncommon for the government to use eminent domain to acquire private property for public use, such as railroads, bridges, highways and public utilities. But it is not common for non-government entities, such as commercial enterprises, to be…
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According to a recent nationally-representative United States study, children that had higher levels of the chemical bisphenol A in their urine were more likely to be overweight or obese. While chemical biphenyl A, commonly known as BPA, has been banned from baby bottles, it is still found in aluminum cans and other types of food…
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