After a spring and summer marked by salmonella outbreaks from ground
turkey, consumers throughout the country are now dealing with what is
being called one of the worst eruptions of food-borne disease since
1998.
On
Wednesday July 8, police were called to a New Jersey chocolate processing
plant. A temporary factory worker, Vincent Smith II, fell into a large vat of
melting chocolate...
The nuclear fuel processing company, Babcock and Wilcox recently paid out $52.5
million for plaintiffs who claimed that the radioactive emissions from the
plant resulted in personal injuries, wrongful death and property damage.
The state of Minnesota recently paid out a total of $36.6
million for the wrongful death and personal injury suits brought by the
victims of the bridge collapse in 2007. Each individual settlement
ranged in price- from $4,500 to over $2.2 million.
In 2003,
a California woman was severely burned when a hula skirt that she was wearing
burst into flames and could not be extinguished. Her case was recently heard in
a Beverly Hills courtroom. Her lawyer...
