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• Organic Sounds Good After Pet Food Recall

  Rick Patterson | March 30, 2007 6:48 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Pet owners are at their wit's end. First there was the 95 plus brands of recalled pet food, when samples tested positive for rat poison contamination. Then today, the recall list widened yet again. Now dry food that was thought to be safe was added to the list today. Consumers concerned about tainted pet food are helping to increase the sales of organic and natural pet food sales according to...

• Contaminated Pet Food

  Rick Patterson | March 26, 2007 2:35 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Since the announcement of late, regarding pet food contaminated with rat poison, Menu Foods, which produced the food, has listed 16 deaths: 15 cats and one dog. The FDA has listed only 14 confirmed dead. There is no doubt that many are questioning those numbers. "That's such hogwash," says Jeff Burnton, 49, of Phoenix. He says his two dogs became sick on March 12 after eating kibble mixed with...

• Rat Poison Found in Tainted Pet Food

  Rick Patterson | March 23, 2007 1:54 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  With the death and suffering of family pets all across the country, it has finally come to light that Aminopterin, which is used as a rat poison, is present in pet food that was produced by Menu Foods. Although that particular chemical is banned in the United States as an agent to kill rodents, it is used in other countries. The chemical was found at a level of at least 40 parts per million in...

• Time Change Could Result in Medical Malpractice

  Rick Patterson | March 15, 2007 12:08 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Although it has been known since 2005 that daylight saving time (DST) would change from its usual time this year, not everyone has prepared for those changes. It seems that daylight saving time may adversely affect computers, clocks, machinery and the like. This would clearly lead to problems i.e., banking. However, what is a much more serious situation than banking, is the adverse affect the...

• Patient Causes Change in Medical Malpractice Law

  Rick Patterson | March 14, 2007 12:49 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Here is something to think about: Do you carry medical malpractice insurance? Do you receive medical treatment from doctors who do not? Did you know that 98,000 Americans die each year in our hospitals due to misdiagnoses and medical errors? Another noteworthy fact is that medical malpractice is the eighth most common cause of death in America. It is a fact of life; I'm afraid.Janet Mitchell...

• Nursing Home Abuse in Wisconsin

  Rick Patterson | March 13, 2007 10:49 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  At Ridgewood Care Center nursing home in Racine, Wisconsin, an 85-year-old man suffered such terrible damage to his ear that it required 19 stitches to repair his torn ear cartilage. Medical staff said the injuries could have been caused by a fingernail but could not have been self-inflicted. It seems obvious that the perpetrator of the abuse is Amelia J. Clay, 20. She faces charges of abuse and...

• Salmonella Outbreak - Recall Extended

  Rick Patterson | March 12, 2007 10:31 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  By now, the word has gotten around about the Salmonella outbreak in peanut butter and the subsequent recall of Peter Pan brand peanut butter in addition to the Wal-Mart Great Value brand. The initial recall by ConAgra Foods covered peanut butter that was produced at the ConAgra Foods Sylvester, Georgia facility, and went back as far as December 2005.Things have changed. ConAgra Foods is now...

• Another Indonesian Air Disaster

  Rick Patterson | March 09, 2007 11:22 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  After Garuda Indonesia flight GA-200 shot off the runway and exploded on Wednesday into what one passenger described as a "wall of fire", Australians and Indonesians alike are left to sort out the remains and the details. That is because many of the passengers on this particular aircraft were public figures in Australia. It is unknown at this early stage exactly what caused this accident....

• Whirl Pool Products Targeted as Defective

  Rick Patterson | March 08, 2007 11:38 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  The class-action lawsuit against Whirlpool Corporation includes anyone in the United States who purchased a side-by-side refrigerator manufactured by Whirlpool since 2000 and sold under the Whirlpool, Kitchen Aid or Roper brand names. The complaint was filed on Monday with the U.S. District Court in the western District of Arkansas. In Rush et al. v. Whirlpool Corporation, plaintiffs Paula Rush...

• Two Arrested for Staging Automobile Accidents

  Rick Patterson | March 07, 2007 10:14 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  California State Automobile Association (CSAA) Special Investigation Unit was the first to notice fraudulent activity involving Ron Ranasingh (also known as Harsh Rana Singe) 38, of Ontario, Canada; Jennifer Huynh, 52, of San Jose; Neil Forde, 41, of Hollis, New York and another individual who has yet to be named.This little group was staging automobile accidents in California and then filing...