For the last few years, there’s been a lot of talk about the problems of gender biases in medicine – as women are speaking up and speaking out about their experiences. Overall, the news isn’t good. Women are far more likely to have their medical concerns dismissed...
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Sterigenics settles hundreds of lawsuits accusing it of cancerous emissions
A medical sterilization company that used to have a facility in suburban Chicago has agreed to settle nearly 1,000 lawsuits accusing it of putting carcinogens into the air and sickening plaintiffs. Sterigenics' parent company has reached settlement agreements that...
How common is fatal medical negligence?
Medical negligence and malpractice can certainly have fatal ramifications. Every year, people pass away due to medical mistakes. These happen in doctor’s offices, nursing homes, hospitals, emergency rooms and elsewhere. How often fatal medical malpractice occurs is a...
When do circumstances justify a wrongful death lawsuit?
For the people left behind, every death typically feels wrongful. Losing a loved one, especially a member of one's immediate family, can lead to a sense of grief that lasts for the rest of someone's life. There may also be financial hardship ahead as the family...
Fatal accidents are more likely on rural roads
Fatal car accidents happen every day. There are roughly 40,000 lives lost in the United States every year as a result of these wrecks. These accidents can happen in cities and in rural areas alike. There is nowhere that a person can drive where they can be assured...
3 factors that contribute to many semi-truck collisions
The speed and size of the vehicles involved in a crash tend to have a direct relationship to the severity of the resulting collision. The higher the speed of the vehicles involved and the bigger the difference in their size or weight, the greater the potential for...
3 steps injured railroad workers need to take for a FELA claim
Railroad workers can get hurt on the job for many different reasons. Most commonly, an unsafe work condition can lead to an injury or a piece of equipment could malfunction or fail, leading to a worker getting seriously hurt. There are innumerable job risks for those...
What is behind recent aviation safety scares?
Air travel is exceptionally safe when compared to ground travel, in part because there are numerous layers of protection in place to prevent issues from causing crashes. For example, pilots and their flight crews perform a series of redundant checks prior to take-off...
Train derailments lead to renewed calls for railway safety
Railroads are no longer part of the cultural mainstream in the United States in the ways they were a few decades ago. Much travel and cargo transportation now involves planes or commercial trucks on surface roads rather than railway travel. However, thousands of...
What’s behind the increase in auto accidents across the U.S.?
Those who have felt like driving seems more dangerous recently aren't just imagining things. According to data provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) concerning collisions in 2021 and 2022, motor vehicle accident fatalities have been on...