For years, the insurance industry has carefully created an image of workers taking advantage of the workers’ compensation system by faking their workplace injuries or making them out to be much worse than they really are. They have blamed injured workers for taking taxpayer money and putting a financial strain on employers who must continue…

Increase the safety of your family and guests and reduce your legal liability The unofficial start of summer – the Memorial Day holiday weekend – isn’t even here yet and already there have been 37 drownings and 38 near-drownings across the U.S. so far this year, according to government statistics. That’s a lot of tragedies…

What you need to know about your legal rights when it comes to commercially-prepared foods and protecting your family from foodborne pathogens Two elderly people in Rhode Island have died since March and dozens of other people have been seriously sickened due to apparent Salmonellosis infections after they ate pastries from a bakery that didn’t…

The killer tornadoes that pummeled the South this week have lessons for everyone More than 340 people died in two days earlier this week – and the death toll is still rising – due to scores of hugely powerful tornadoes that ripped through Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, Kentucky and Virginia. It’s being called the…

In the United States since 1999, one child a month dies from accidental strangulation after becoming entangled in the cords of household window blinds, according to statistics from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). For parents who have had to somehow survive after such a tragedy, that number is entirely too large. In a…

In 2009, New Jersey’s then-governor, Jon Corzine, approved Kyleigh’s Law, requiring teen drivers to display small red decals on their license plates identifying themselves as new, inexperienced drivers. The law was named after a New Jersey teenager who was killed in a fatal motor vehicle accident with a teen driver who was violating the state’s…