August 20, 2019 Safest Place in the Car Researchers at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia recently conducted a study on front seat safety in crashes involving serious injuries or deaths of passengers aged six to 92 years old. The researchers found that improvements in design and technology for front seat passengers have tremendously improved the odds for … Read More »
August 19, 2019 It’s That Time Again: Back to School Safety With the upcoming school season approaching, now is the time to go over the most useful tips that help kids and teens stay safe during the school year. We have compiled some of the National Safety Council’s (NSC) key school safety tips for our readers and their loved ones below. School Safety Topics According to … Read More »
August 16, 2019 Liability and Self-Driving Cars Determining who to blame for an accident involving a self-driving car can be a challenge. It remains unclear in many states who should be held responsible when an autonomous car malfunctions or crashes. Should it be the vehicle’s owner or operator? Or should the manufacturer of the technology making self-driving cars possibly share the blame? … Read More »
August 15, 2019 FDA Worried About What Is In Sunscreen Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that only two of 16 active ingredients most commonly used in sunscreens are “generally recognized as safe and effective.” The agency is raising concerns over the chemicals, saying they can enter the bloodstream at levels far higher than the FDA’s safety threshold. With such little data available … Read More »
August 14, 2019 Most Common Factory Worker Injuries America depends on factory workers to keep the economy strong. Working in a manufacturing plant requires strength and speed, and employees often labor under hard conditions. In fact, manufacturers often expose industrial workers to hazards every day. Occasionally, these hazards can lead to injuries that require trips to the doctor, surgeries, physical therapy, time off … Read More »
August 13, 2019 Death Toll of Children in Hot Cars is the Highest it’s Been in 20 Years Last year, 52 children died in cars from heatstroke, which is the highest the number has been in over twenty years. According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), there have already been 29 deaths this year. Since 1990, our nation has lost nearly 1,000 kids to vehicular heatstroke. Over half the cases resulted … Read More »
August 6, 2019 New Rule Could Hurt Injured Nursing Home Residents The current administration is proposing a new rule for how injured nursing home residents are able to pursue damages against negligent long-term care facilities. Existing law allows injured individuals to go to trial by jury when filing a claim. If passed, the new rule would force them and their families exclusively into the arbitration process. … Read More »
August 1, 2019 Scaffolding Puts Lives on the Line More than half of the construction jobs in the United States require the use of scaffolding. Scaffolding offers a stable platform to build, paint, remodel, and repair buildings and structures of all types. Yet scaffolding also causes thousands of serious and fatal work accidents and injuries every year. Annually, scaffolding causes around 4,500 injuries across … Read More »
July 30, 2019 Nursing Home Residents Stranded When Care Facilities Go Out of Business During its prime, Skyline Healthcare managed or owned more than 100 nursing facilities in 11 states. But when the company started to fail two years ago, more than one dozen of its facilities were shut down and nearly 1,000 residents were forced to relocate – and many were given barely any warning. This is not … Read More »
