Archive: April 2010

For years there has been an unhealthy and, in my opinion, unethical “revolving door” between government agencies and the industries they supposedly regulate. The perception is that the regulators go easy on the industries, hoping to land fat contracts with the industries when the bureaucrats leave government service. It’s a great temptation, and surely hard […]

You will think this is either very cool or disturbingly creepy: Koichiro Tsujikawa – “Eyes” from Passion Paris on Vimeo.

It’s probably foolish to hope for any bipartisan legislation from Congress these days, but Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are working on new auto safety legislation that could be a real help to consumers. The proposed […]

Congratulations to attorney Nicole Collier for being chosen to speak to the Mid-Year Meeting of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association. Ms. Collier’s presentation topic is Legal Blogging. The conference is being held this week in Austin, Texas.

Calendar-365.com is a simple site that just has calendars. But the site makes it easy to move backward or forward to other years so you can check what day of the week a particular date fell on. Another handy feature is that you can click on a holiday in 2010 and see when that holiday […]

Insurance companies are gearing up to recoup from Toyota money they paid for claims in crashes involving sudden acceleration, the subject of major safety recalls by the Japanese automaker. It could also mean money back for some drivers who paid deductibles, according to a report by the Associated Press. Here are excerpts from the article: […]

The New York Times reports the Food and Drug Administration plans to “tighten their oversight” of medical devices, including infusion pumps that automatically deliver drugs and food to hospital patients. Last week the FDA issued guidelines requiring manufacturers of the pumps to provide the agency with more test data than previously required for approval. One […]

The consumer organization Public Citizen has issued a report stating that hospitals and medical boards, contrary to the federal law of the past 20 years, are not reporting all the doctors they discipline for medical incompetence, unprofessional conduct, substandard care, etc. These reports are supposed to be made to the National Practitioner Data Bank. Here […]

I’ve always admired men who could grow a full beard, but I’m a bit suspicions of guys who have what I consider “unusual” facial hair. Now I’ve finally found a chart that perfectly explains my feelings. Check out The Trustworthiness of Beards.

There’s a great illustration at the Web site of the American Association for Justice that shows what our automobiles might be like today were it not for the efforts of plaintiff trial lawyers over the years. There is also a lengthy report titled Driven to Safety that details the improvements in safety that have been […]