The owner of Coppertone suntan products, pharmaceutical giant Merck, agreed to pay between $3 Million and $10 Million to settle a decade old class action. The lawsuit claimed that the company made false statements about the benefits of using its products. Many people...
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Florida Supreme Court Upholds Cigarette Verdict
The Florida Supreme Court has just declined to review a lower court's decision upholding a $3.3 million compensatory damages verdict and a $25 million punitive damages verdict for the widow of a smoker. The case name was Martin v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. The effect...
Asheville Christmas Riding Toys Present Known Injury Hazard
With the last of the snow from the blizzard of 2009 slowly melting away, children will soon be wanting to get outside with some of their Christmas bounty. If your household is like mine, at least one of your kids got something from someone that they can ride. Riding...
TVs & Furniture In Asheville Create Tip-Over Hazard For Children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6oHH9GTzsg Each year, more than 10 children, most under 5, are killed when a piece of heavy furniture tips over onto them. Several thousand more young children are seriously injured each year in the same way. Most of these...
Take Action & Protect Your Family’s Health In North Carolina
If you are like us, you're sick and tired, sometimes literally, of dangerous chemicals creeping into your home while filling the pesticide industry's deep pockets in the process. The EPA allows the pesticide industry to keep secret thousands of harmful chemicals that...
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