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• Garden Grove Motorcycle Accident Death

  IB Contributor | February 13, 2007 12:47 AM | 2 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Motorcyclist killed in Garden Grove traffic collision. A 42-year-old motorcyclist died last week after his motorcycle collided with a car on Gilbert Street and Orangethorpe Avenue, Garden Grove, CA according to a news report in the Orange County Register.The victim, identified as Adolph Amuriles, was traveling west on Orangethorpe approaching Gilbert when he collided with a 1997 Lexus EX 300...

• Auto Defect Secrecy Rules

  IB Contributor | February 12, 2007 11:20 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Consumer Auto Defect Complaints To Be Kept SecretThe American Association for Justice, formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, is urging federal authorities to withdraw a newly proposed set of rules that endangers consumer safety by restricting their rights to learn about the safety of the automobiles they purchase.The National Highway Transportation Safety...

• Feds Try To Clear Confusion About Child Car Seats

  IB Contributor | February 10, 2007 2:54 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration is asking manufacturers, retailers and consumer groups to make child safety seats easier to install.Nicole Nason who heads the NHTSA said Thursday that improving the use and safety is child car seats and the special anchors used to attach them to the vehicles is a combined effort - especially in light of new evidence which shows parents...

• Improved Drug Safety Promised By FDA

  IB Contributor | February 08, 2007 12:30 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  The Food and Drug Administration is now proposing steps to improve the safety of prescription medication after years of criticism of its drug safety standards and the much-publicized Vioxx scandal.The new steps are designed to make sure concerns about potential drug safety are widely circulated within the agency before a drug is given the stamp of approval, according to an article in...

• Brandy Faces $50 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit

  IB Contributor | February 06, 2007 12:47 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Last week, the family of a woman who died after being rear-ended on the freeway by singer-actor Brandy Norwood, filed a $50 million civil lawsuit against the entertainer, according to an article in E Online.The civil complaint accuses Brandy of "driving recklessly when her Land Rover struck the back of a Honda driven by Awatef Aboudihaj" on Dec. 30.The deceased woman, a 38-year-old wife and...

• Massive Food-Born Illness Outbreak Exposure

  IB Contributor | February 03, 2007 11:02 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  The Next Katrina Waiting To HappenThe Government Accountability Office has added food safety to its list of critically flawed federal programs, saying that splintered jurisdiction among 15 agencies has left the United States wide open to outbreaks of food-borne illness or, worse, a terrorist attack, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.The article also quotes a senior administration...

• Feds Shut Mine - 22 Violations Discovered

  IB Contributor | February 01, 2007 9:20 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Mining Company Covered Up Prior ExplosionPennsylvania regulators have stripped a coal mine operator of its permit because they say the operator covered up the cause of an explosion two years before a miner was killed there in a similar blast, according to an Associated Press news report. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection ordered R&D Coal Company to shutter its Buck...

• What Would Happen If You Suffered A Dog Bite?

  Staff Writer | October 05, 2006 6:49 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Fellow InjuryBoard Blogger, New York accident lawyer Jeremy Thurman, has a lighthearted post about his encounter with a neighborhood dog and the thoughts going through his mind as he considered what would happen if he suffered a dog bite. Luckily the dog left Jeremy and his family alone, but Jeremy does cover many things to consider if you are actually bitten by a dog.