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Well before the COVID-19 pandemic, infections of different types have been major issues at nursing homes in the United States. With alarming regularity, residents of nursing homes die from preventable infections that arise as a result of negligent care. Indeed, the number of people who dies each year as the result of nursing home abuse and neglect persistently is alarming. Shocking news reports have been coming out of metro-Atlanta during the past week about the Westbury Nursing Home in Conyers,…

Four truck accidents within a month at the same location on a Pennyslvania roadway regarded as “problematic.”

January 24 marks the one-year anniversary of a deadly, devastating Houston explosion accident that forever altered the lives of workers at the Watson Grinding and Manufacturing plant on Gessner Road as well as for those living around the machining company facility. A great many questions remain as to the underlying cause of the Watson explosion accident. What is clear is that 365 after the blast that caused a considerable degree of devastation in and around the machining and manufacturing plant…

All of the nearly 3,000 residents of Warden, Washington were forced from their homes on Thursday night, January 21, 2021, as the result of a massive fire and ammonia tank explosion accident risk at the Washington Potato Company plant that anchors that community. Warden is located approximately 90 miles southwest of Spokane. The order for all residents to evacuate came at about 8:30 p.m. The Grant County Sheriff’s Office issued what is known as a Level 3 Evacuation Order to…

At the end of 2020, the California Public Utilities Commission, CPUC, fined Uber Technologies, Inc. $59 million. The fine is the result of the refusal of Uber to provide the rideshare regulatory agency with the full names and contact information of consumers who used the Uber app as riders and reported being sexually assaulted of sexually harassed drivers. The CPUC takes the position that the regulatory agency needs this information in order to undertake appropriate investigations of allegations sexual assault…