United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May announced yesterday that her nation’s government will conduct an inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal that killed an estimated 2,400 people in the country and left countless others terminally ill. The scandal dates back to the late 1970s and early 1980s when hemophilia patients [...]
A Mississippi KC-130T Hercules crashed has killing 16 people, including 15 Marines and one Navy corpsman. The crash occurred around 4:00 p.m. CST on Monday, July 10, when a U.S. the military refueling tanker crashed into a soybean field in Mississippi. U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina where the [...]
Four years ago, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed on final approach to land at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The Asiana crash and subsequent rescue response killed three teenage girls and left over 180 others with injuries. New video footage of the incident surfaced today on YouTube, showing a zoomed in [...]
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria granted a group of California Plaintiffs’ motion to return their Roundup lawsuit against Monsanto to state court in Alameda County Superior Court. Monsanto had sought to keep the case in federal court. In his ruling on Wednesday, Judge Chhabria granted lead Plaintiff Loretta Pennie’s bid [...]
In the wake of an emissions scandal that cost Volkswagen billions of dollars, states that received a share of the $2.7 Billion Volkswagen environmental settlement are now determining how to spend their money. VW faced sanctions for using "defeat devices" on its diesel cars, so the vehicles would appear to [...]
Prospect Mortgage LLC agreed to pay $4.157 million to settle allegations that the company committed mortgage fraud by underwriting loans that failed to meet Federal Housing Administration (FHA) requirements. The U.S. Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Monday. The allegations stem from Prospect’s participation in the Direct Endorsement Lender [...]
The Flemish government approved a decree to prohibit the individual use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer. The glyphosate ban decree was agreed to at the end of last week and will now be taken up by the Council of State. As of now, it is [...]
A tour bus carrying 46 passengers and two drivers collided with a tractor trailer and burst into flames in southeast Germany early Monday morning. The fatal German bus crash was reported at around 7:00 a.m. local time on the A9 highway near Stammbach. At least 18 people were killed in [...]
A Harlem train derailment at around 9:45 a.m. on Tuesday, June 27, injured at least 30 people and resulted in the evacuation of hundreds of passengers. Shortly after the subway train crashed, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) said the accident was likely caused by human error. At least two MTA [...]
Attorneys representing victims in Missouri talcum powder lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson say they will continue their efforts to keep cases in the state, despite a Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruling that stalled the most recent talc case in St. Louis Circuit Court. Last week, SCOTUS issued [...]
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