Seven-year-old Bruce Mansy suffered a devastating spinal cord injury six months ago in a horrible car accident. According to a KFSN news report, Bruce was paralyzed from the waist-down. Bruce father, Samuel Mansy, was driving his kids home. He pulled into an intersection when another driver drove into his path. He says he attempted to […]
California is preparing for driverless cars to go solo, or operate without a driver. According to a report in Technology Review, California’s Department of Motor Vehicles has announced that it plans to allow companies to test driverless cars on its roads without on-board backup drivers before the end of the year. The vehicles would still […]
Losing a loved one is the probably the most difficult experience we go through as human beings. However, when a loved one dies as a result of someone else’s negligence or wrongdoing, the pain and grief is even greater because of the knowledge that this was a death that could be prevented. Wrongful death cases […]
Not too long ago, hoverboards were on a lot of Christmas wish lists. Last week, the first ever fatal blaze involving a hoverboard claimed three people including two girls, 3 and 10 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. According to a news report in The Philadelphia Inquirer, a firefighter who was on the way to fight the March […]
When a dangerous or defective product has injured you or a loved one, you may be able to file a product liability lawsuit against the manufacturer. However, in order to do this successfully, you must prove that the product was defective, that you suffered injuries as a result of using the product as it was […]
South Korean automaker Hyundai is recalling 977,778 Sonatas and Sonata Hybrid vehicles for defective seatbelts that could leave vehicle occupants vulnerable to serious injury in the event of a crash. According to Autoblog.com, the seatbelts in these vehicles could detach from their anchor pretensioners, which could lead to an injury. This recall affects 2010 cars […]
Sears’ popular Craftsman table saws have been recalled for potential injury hazards. According to a USA TODAY news report, the 10-inch portable saw comes with a metal foldable stand, which could unexpectedly collapse posing laceration and impact injury hazards to the operator. Taiwan-based Rexon Industrial Corp., which manufactured these saws, is recalling about 46,000 units […]
We know that driverless cars are not a question of if but when. We know they are coming, whether we like them or not; whether we are comfortable with them or not. Recent research on autonomous vehicles has shown that while they could help fix some of the problems we have with transportation today, they […]
A Sacramento startup company has created an app that is geared toward enabling the public to get paid for reporting distracted drivers to law enforcement. The startup has been accepted into the 500 Startups business accelerator program according to Bizjournals.com. Text to Ticket has created an app that allows users to submit footage of people who […]
The manufacturer of the popular Keurig coffee brewers has agreed to pay a $5.8 million penalty after allegedly failing to report a defect, which caused more than 100 burn injuries. According to an NBC news report, Vermont-based Keurig Green Mountain recalled 6.6 million if its Keurig MINI Plus brewers in December 2014 after getting about […]
