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• Dog Attack on Yarmouth Beach

  Rick Patterson | January 12, 2007 4:43 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  In the UK on January 7, 2007, a Norfolk man was walking his dog near Pleasure Beach. While he was walking, another man came towards him walking two bull terriers that were not on leashes. A viscious dog attack took place when one of the terriers attacked the Norfolk man's dog. The scene became increasingly worse when the owner of the dog being attacked tried to save his dog, causing him to be...

• Bosch Receives Much Sought Seal of Approval

  Rick Patterson | January 12, 2007 4:21 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  A California based company, Bosch Home Appliances, announced today that many of their appliances have received the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Since 1909 the magazine's policy had been to refund or replace defective products, which have their seal of approval, within two years of the purchase date. The seal, which is very highly regarded, was given to products such as Bosch Benvenuto...

• Invasion of Privacy

  Rick Patterson | January 12, 2007 12:22 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Celebrities seem to have a love hate relationship with the media. Although they need publicity in the line of business that they are in, they often complain about being hounded relentlessly by photographers, the very people they seem to need. There is little that can be done about the problem here in the United States, given the fact that quite often the press photograph public figures while...

• Clean Air and Auto Emissions

  Rick Patterson | January 11, 2007 2:59 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Senate President Mike Miller told a state conference of county officials meeting in Cambridge that legislation to reduce air pollution from cars "is going to pass. In an interview, several days earlier, House Speaker Mike Busch voiced a similar belief.According to The World Health Organization, currently air pollution leads to 4.6 million deaths a year, which is a larger number than the one...

• Medical Malpractice

  Rick Patterson | January 05, 2007 1:56 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Medical malpractice is an act or omission by a health care provider which deviates from accepted standards of practice in the medical community and which causes injury to the patient. The American Academy of Family Physicians looks to a study entitled "Learning from Malpractice Claims about Negligent, Adverse Events in Primary Care in the United States", in suggesting that the medical community...

• ATV Accidents

  Rick Patterson | January 03, 2007 3:31 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  ATV sales amassed $3 billion last year, fueled by families and young children. ATV accidents and deaths have also been on the rise for over ten years. Many young children are getting behind the wheel of these adult toys. "Just as you would never put a 12-year-old behind a steering wheel, never put a child under 16 on an ATV," says Rachel Weintraub, assistant general counsel for the Consumer...

• Defective Products and Returns

  Rick Patterson | December 26, 2006 2:20 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  We have all received defective products at one time or another. With the holiday season upon us, you may have more reasons than ever to return products. However, there are key things to keep in mind if you are to have any hope of making a return. Not so much if the product is actually defective, but definitely if the product simply must go back. Here is a list of the return policies of some of...

• New Flair Emerges in Personal Injury Settlements

  Rick Patterson | December 26, 2006 1:51 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  A new flair is emerging in personal injury settlements. In some instances, creative settlements are being reached. Although, they are still relatively uncommon more and more attorneys are starting to see them. For example, in October, a plaintiff who was accidently paralyzed, his family and lawyers in Tampa, Fla., pledged all of $100.1 million punitive damages award to the Miami Project to Cure...

• Preventing Dog Bites

  Greg Owen | December 20, 2006 5:24 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  A little education will go along way in the prevention of dog bites. You may have noticed that stories of dog bites have news a lot lately. The good news is that there is much we can do to prevent an attack. Sometimes, unknowingly, people encourage dog bites. Either because people don't know how to properly behave around dogs, or they think they can do things around a strange dog that they do...

• Is That Really a Defective Product?

  Greg Owen | December 15, 2006 11:31 AM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  There are few people in America who have not at least heard of the extremely popular diet known as the Atkins Diet. Dr. Atkins claimed that few cannot flourish using the high fat, high protein, extremely low carbohydrate plan. The weight loss plan is controversial, to say the least. Some may even call the diet "defective." So much so, that one man in New York went as far as filing suit due...