Once considered a “wonder building material” because of its durability, low cost, and effectiveness at resisting fire, asbestos has been banned in new construction since 1989. The risk of developing mesothelioma, a type of cancer, after inhaling asbestos dust is so great that it outweighs the advantages of building with asbestos. Still, many asbestos-containing structures… Read More
Three Louisiana Asbestos Exposure Lawsuits End in Awards for Plaintiffs
It has been decades since asbestos has been banned in building materials, but renovation workers and their families are still feeling the effects of the damage caused by occupational exposure to asbestos. Inhaling asbestos dust can cause irreversible damage to the lungs and increases the risk of mesothelioma, although it sometimes takes many years for… Read More
Teen’s Invention Makes it Possible to See in Your Car’s Blindspot
Before you drive, you should adjust your car’s rear view and side view mirrors to make sure that you can see the relevant parts of the road through them. Even if you do this with such regularity and precision as to make the road test examiners at the Office of Motor Vehicles proud, you still… Read More
Safety Standards for Workplace Stairways
Staircases are a source of worry for the parents of toddlers and adventurous children, but once you enter middle school, you tend to stop thinking of them as a safety hazard. A surprising number of fall accidents in workplaces involve a worker falling down the stairs. Accidents involving staircases are especially common in warehouses, where… Read More
Most Newsworthy Houma Car Accidents of 2019
Driving is such a big part of our lives that it is easy to forget that operating a motor vehicle is more dangerous than traveling by plane or pirouguing in the swamp. There are some measures you can take to avoid getting in a car accident and to avoid suffering serious injuries if another driver… Read More
How The COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Pedestrian Accidents
Going for a walk is healthy, right? During the worst surge phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was one of the few pleasures we had left. Activities like dining in restaurants or gathering with extended family at home, which are fun everywhere but even sweeter in Louisiana, were forbidden for a while. Yes, some news… Read More
The Safest and Most Dangerous Cars From Recent Years
If you have ever heard your parents and grandparents talk about what cars were like when they were first learning to drive, you will appreciate how safe all the cars on the road are today, even the models that do not emphasize safety as a selling point. The car accidents that claimed the lives of… Read More
The Discontinuation of Snapchat’s “Speed Filter” Cannot Happen Soon Enough
Old people love to fret about the dangers lurking behind all the colorful icons on the touch screens of smartphones, but young people generally do a fine job of using smartphones in ways that prevent danger instead of enhancing it. The generation of drivers who have grown up with GPS navigation have learned to search… Read More
The Effect of Autonomous Features on Dangerous Driving Behaviors
Unless you are getting all your news from niche websites about autonomous vehicle technology, where everyone raves that driverless vehicles are the wave of the future, you have probably figured out that we are several decades away from a road system in which all or most of the cars have no one driving them except… Read More
Wrong-Way Crash on I-10 in Acadia Parish Leads to Three Fatalities
When you took driver’s ed before getting a driver’s license, you probably learned some scary statistics about the speeds at which motor vehicle collisions are and are not survivable. In reality, though, it is not quite that simple. The speed that the vehicles were traveling at the time of impact is only one of the… Read More