Archive: January 2019

Although you hope never to be injured at work, it happens to millions of people every year. In nearly all cases, you are entitled to compensation from your employer and their insurance company. You should never feel guilty for getting help after a workplace injury and here is why. What Is Workers’ Compensation? First, you […]

A spa can be fraught with unexpected problems due to the nature of the business. Keeping your customers and employees safe and protected is important. Here are a few of the steps that you need to take in order to protect your day spa. Complete Hiring Background Checks The caliber of your employees sets the […]

Another funny sign from the Indian Hills Community Center.

An Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study found that rear passengers often lack sufficient protections in frontal crashes. In some crashes, poorly engineered seat belts are killing or badly injuring back-seat passengers while front-seat passengers in the same vehicle survive or avoid serious injury. Read Article: USA Today From the Texas Trial Lawyers Association news […]

At least 75 companies receive anonymous, precise location data from apps whose users enable location services to get local news and weather or other information, The Times found. Several of those businesses claim to track up to 200 million mobile devices in the United States — about half those in use last year. The database […]

A growing number of people are filing injury lawsuits against electric scooter companies Bird and Lime, but user agreements may keep them from receiving damages. A class-action lawsuit was recently filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and seeks damages on behalf of nine plaintiffs, including pedestrians struck by scooters. According to the complaint, the scooters […]

Brad Upton is always good for a laugh. This time he’s ranting about millenials.

Ride-share companies like Uber and Lyft have revolutionized the public transportation industry. Anyone with a smartphone can use an app to get a ride from one destination to another quickly and easily. You can’t beat the convenience factor, but what many people don’t consider is the quality of their drivers and what happens when you […]

The Detroit Free Press reports, “The U.S. Transportation Department’s updated self-driving vehicle development guidelines” have the agency continuing “to rely on industry to police itself,” an approach that some safety advocates consider “borderline negligent.” Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to Ann Arbor “said that voluntary compliance and self-reporting are what boost safety, not fear of punishment, and […]

Carscoops reports automakers that are developing self-driving and connected vehicles are “having to tackle a very old problem concerning electronics, specifically the interference caused by other wireless devices.” During a test of a Mobileye vehicle in Jerusalem in May, the vehicle ran a red light during the demonstration. CEO Amnon Shashua “blamed wireless signals from a […]