In February, a helicopter crashed north of Phoenix, Ariz., killing five people. On board that helicopter were pilot John “Rick” Morton and Thomas J. Stewart, along with Stewart’s wife, child and brother-in-law. According to an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, the passengers and pilot most likely knew they were going to die moments [...]
In an international tragedy last month, Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and 94 other passengers were killed in a plane crash outside the Russian city of Smolensk. As Poland and the world mourned the loss of the president and many Polish leaders, investigators went to work to find out what caused the flight to [...]
Products marketed as “all-natural” or “good for you,” like our daily vitamins, have been slowly revealing themselves in courtrooms as products that may need to be monitored as closely as prescription medications. Last month, a Texas judge approved a $110 million settlement against the makers of vitamin supplement E-Ferol. The drug is thought to be [...]
Nobody likes to admit it, but at some point, everyone has been suckered by a product that they’ve seen on television that promises to do this or that. Once we get it home, however, we discover that this miracle product is actually a total dud. We toss it in the trash and chalk it up [...]
The horrors of a plane crash seemingly got worse for Jacalyn Brown of New Jersey when she survived and was left wondering if she would ever be rescued. Brown had boarded a small Cessna 337A on May 17, 2008, ordered by her employer Geo-Marine Inc. Aboard the plane were two scientists, Stephen Claussen and Juan [...]
The South Carolina plane crash that killed four people and seriously injured Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein was found to be caused by under-inflated tires by a federal investigation last week. The Learjet crash that happened nearly 18 months ago has been the subject of several class action lawsuits, [...]
The heated debates surround FDA-approved human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines like Gardasil have swirled around the drugs since they hit the market in 2006. HPV is a leading cause of cervical cancer. Still, many have claimed the vaccines are unnecessary, harmful and may cause injury or death. Nevertheless, HPV vaccines were heavily promoted and publicized by [...]
The aromas that get trapped in an airplane flying 20,000 feet in the air are a standard issue frequent fliers have come to expect when traveling. Passenger body odor, excessive perfumes and odd-smelling food souvenirs are the kind of smelly stuff travelers grin and bear when flying. Toxic fumes, however, are another thing all together. [...]
In local newspapers around the country, unfortunate stories of older people with physical impairments who continue to operate a car and subsequently cause fatal accidents periodically wind up on the front page. More often than not, it is later revealed in most of these cases that the driver should not have been driving at all. [...]
Putting a price on something as serious as a lost limb or permanent bodily damage is the kind of task no jury wants to undertake during a trial. On Monday, a federal jury in Austin, Texas, was faced with just such a daunting responsibility, and they ordered boat manufacturer Brunswick Corp. to pay $3.8 million [...]