An employee of S.E.M. Terrace, a retirement home in Milford, was retaliated against by the operator of the home after complaining about a bedbug infestation. According to court records, the employee was fired after filing a complaint with the local health department after efforts to…
To the general public Johnson & Johnson Company may bring to mind baby commercials featuring tear free shampoo. However Johnson & Johnson is also a U.S multinational medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturer. Recently Janssen, the companies’ pharmaceutical unit, volu
Three different families came together recently to press lawmakers in North Carolina to push for stricter requirements on truckers. Specifically, the family members advocated for increases in the amount of insurance truckers must carry, limits on truck weight and size and a requirement that tractor-
AAA Carolinas has announced its annual list of most dangerous counties for collisions. The agency bases its annual ranking of the most dangerous counties on the likelihood of certain kinds of crashes based on vehicle miles traveled. These include fatal, injurious, motorcycle and tractor-trailer coll
The Obama administration revealed last month that it would delay important safety rules that would mandate backup cameras come installed in all new vehicles. Despite the importance of the measure, regulators now say they expect to make a decision at some point in the next…
In November 2011, the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tightened restrictions on the prescription drug Avandia. The diabetic medication was pulled from pharmacy shelves. Only certified physicians have been allowed to prescribe it. And for those patients who are prescribed the drug, they ar
The Obama administration officially announced that it would delay by nearly a year a plan to increase safety standards for a common rail car, known as the DOT-111. The announcement this week comes soon after the rail car contributed to the recent deadly train derailment…
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently announced the results of a safety study it conducted on single-unit truck crashes. Single-unit trucks are large trucks that have a gross…
As a legislative bill that proposes raising some North Carolina highway speed limits from 70 to 75 races through the Senate, you may wonder if that's such a good idea. It isn't…
Within the next year the Affordable Care Act will take a step towards health care equality by attempting to prohibit small-group insurers from charging women higher premiums than men for…
A recent article in the Los Angeles Times discussed the problem faced by many people, but especially worried parents: keeping up with seemingly endless recall notices. Every single year thousands…
A recent recall has parents concerned over the potential dangers of toy ingestion. The subject of the recall are toys that absorb water and expand to upwards of 400 times their original size….
