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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has 22 laws that protect workers from being fired from their jobs if they report violations to OSHA about unsafe practices undertaken by their employers. One of these whistleblower protection programs is the Seaman’s Protection Act (SPA), which protects people who work on maritime… Read More
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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
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
The Most Important Words to Say to the Insurance Company: “Talk to My Lawyer
The Most Important Words to Say to the Insurance Company: “Talk to My Lawyer” Phone conversations with insurance companies are a normal part of the aftermath of a car accident. You call your own insurance company to make a claim shortly after the accident. You might get a letter in the mail a few weeks… Read More
Facts and Statistics About Railway Crossing Safety in Louisiana
Hardly anyone alive today is old enough to remember when silent films were a sought-after form of entertainment, but a few stereotypes about films of that era still loom large in the popular imagination. One of them is of a villain tying a woman to a train track and the hero rescuing her just in… Read More
Does Lidar Technology in Cars Make Driving Safer or More Dangerous?
Given that most of this year’s holiday shopping is taking place online, you are probably doing even more research than usual about which consumer technology product to buy for the gadget enthusiast in your life. For example, if your dad bought a windshield-mounted GPS device back in 2004 and delighted in how the British lady’s… Read More
Does the Collateral Source Rule Affect How Much Money You Get in Injury Lawsuits?
Workers who sustain serious injuries from on-the-job accidents have access to several sources of money to help them cover their medical expenses and lost income. Filing a claim for workers’ compensation is usually the first step, but the amount offered by workers’ compensation is not always enough, especially if the injuries are so serious that… Read More
Plaintiffs Afflicted with Cancer from Exposure to the Weed Killer Roundup Receive Big Settlements
In the last year, two plaintiffs have been awarded damages in highly publicized product liability lawsuits related to Roundup, a weed killer made from glyphosate, a carcinogenic compound. These two lawsuits are just the latest in an ongoing controversy over the safety of commercial weed killers. The cases have had far-reaching results. For example, the… Read More
