An exhaustive analysis of data from more than 40,000 cases of brain trauma in children – published by the authoritative New England Journal of Medicine – provides convincing evidence that protecting children in advance from head injuries is the key …
Is being robbed at gunpoint in a Pennsylvania state liquor store an “abnormal working condition” or not? Since 2008, Gregory Kochanowicz has claimed it is, and now that the Commonwealth Court agrees, he’s due to receive $727 in weekly workers’ …
Oil giant Shell has agreed to pay a Nigerian fishing community 55 million pounds (about $83.5 million) for the worst oil spill in Nigeria, an unprecedented settlement that experts say could open a floodgate of litigation there and abroad. Wednesday’s …
A Billings, Mont., woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city and a police officer who authorities said fatally shot her husband after he slipped out of restraints at a crime scene and knocked down the officer while …
The drones are coming. Not as flying deliverymen that bring diapers, books or soup cans to your home, a vision put forth by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to much fanfare a little more than a year ago. Instead, drones will …
A municipal judge has postponed deciding whether a former janitor will have to pay restitution for smoking inside a central New Jersey school that was destroyed by fire. The Home News Tribune reports Judge Gary Price on Tuesday said he …
The Eugene/Springfield Fire Department responded to a fire Tuesday night involving a laser plasma cutter at the Farwest Steel manufacturing plant. The department says the company evacuated employees and isolated the fuel. The fire in the metal cutting machine was …
An Omaha city councilman says a boardinghouse fire that killed two people has exposed flaws in the Nebraska city’s codes. City building inspection and fire officials have been meeting to discuss possible changes in light of the Dec. 23 blaze. …
Back in 1965, when Noel Cassanova was hired to work at New Orleans Traffic Court, the court had only two judges but, he says, “10 times as much work” as it does now. Even then, said Cassanova, 69, he was …
Recently, the South Carolina Court of Appeals in Precision Walls, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Fire Ins. Co., 410 S.C. 175, 763 S.E.2d 598 (Ct. App. 2014), reh’g denied (Oct. 23, 2014), held that the cost to tear down and re-build …