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FAA: 600 Airplanes At Risk of Crash from Mechanical Malfunctioning

The Federal Aviation Administration is calling for inspections of more than 600 Boeing airplanes that are believed to contain a major mechanical flaw. Hundreds of planes around the world are impacted by the flaw.
According to the Seattle Times, the Federal Aviation Administration issued an emergency directive last week, requiring airlines to inspect about 600 of [...]

Orange County Investigators Probing Drunk Driving Accident Involving Sheriff’s Deputy

Investigators in Santa Ana are probing why a sheriff’s deputy who was involved in a drunk driving accident that seriously injured an elderly woman, was released from a prior accident that he had been involved in just 30 minutes earlier.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Orange County sheriff’s deputy Alan James Waters crashed into a [...]

Five year old Boy Seriously Injured in Accident at California Ski Resort

A five-year-old boy had a miraculous escape when he fell off his ski lift at a ski park in Rocklin, and was dragged several feet.
Parker Lennig was visiting the Sierra-at-Tahoe resort with his father, brother and grandfather. The group was on the Easy Rider Express chairlift when Parker fell off the chairlift. He was dragged [...]

CPSC All Set to Issue Warning on Dangers of Suffocation from Baby Slings

Baby slings have become extremely popular in recent years as more and more urban, yuppie couples have chosen to abandon strollers, and carry their babies around or “wear them”. However, these baby slings have been linked to a number of instances of infant suffocation, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission is set to issue a [...]

Man Charged in Fatal Sacramento Drunk Driving Accident Had Just Had License Reinstated

Injury lawyers in California have always spoken out against some of the weaknesses of the state’s license suspension and reinstatement laws. It now appears that a man who has just been charged in a fatal accident in Sacramento, California had just had his license reinstated the previous week.
The accident occurred in the early hours of [...]

Six Killed in Arizona Bus Accident, Los Angeles-based Bus Company Ordered to Cease Operations

Six people have been confirmed dead in a tragic bus accident just outside Phoenix, Arizona, and the California-based company that was operating the bus has been ordered to cease its operations immediately.
The bus was on its way from the Mexican state of Zacatecas, and entered this country at El Paso, Texas. It was on its [...]

Glaxo’s Avandia Tops List of Adverse Events and Injuries for Third Quarter of 2009

In the third quarter of 2009, Glaxo Smith Kline’s anti type II diabetes drug Avandia, was linked to the highest number of adverse events and injuries. That information comes via a report by the Institute for Safe Medicine Practices.
According to the report, there have been a larger number of adverse events and injuries linked to [...]

Food Poisoning Costs US $157 Billion Every Year

It’s no secret to injury lawyers in California that the millions of people who fall ill to food poisoning every year incur heavy expenses in the form of hospital visits, intensive care costs, education costs and other expenses. Past estimates of the total expenses from food borne illnesses were pegged at between $6.9 billion and [...]

San Jose, California Children Rank Number One in Bicycle Safety

The city of San Jose has been named number one in a report that compares young students based on the level of training that they receive in bike safety.
That information comes via a report titled 2010 Benchmark Report by the Alliance for Bicycling and Walking in the US. The report conducted a survey of 50 [...]

Critical Safety Programs in California Affected by Senate Filibuster

California injury lawyers will be particularly concerned about how the cutbacks and furloughs at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will impact critical programs that involve reducing drunk driving crash fatalities and curbing distracted driving.
Up to 2,000 federal transportation employees have been furloughed without pay after a measure extending unemployment benefits to them was blocked [...]