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• Public Radio Covering Silicosis Claims

  Robert Blanchard | March 08, 2006 3:51 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  Our firm decided not to handle silicosis claims. However, some other good firms got involved and are now being scrutinized. See the coverage at NPR.Silicosis is a deadly lung disease that industrial workers get from inhaling crystalline silica in foundries, mines, quarries and shipyards. Over the last few years, plaintiff lawyers aggressively advertised for silicosis victims, inviting them to...

• Bristol Myers Stock Down on Tequin News

  Robert Blanchard | March 03, 2006 9:34 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Warnings that this antibiotic could cause serious swings in blood pressure were actually added in 2002, so we have to wonder how closely doctors were monitoring the patients involved in the more recent deaths from Tequin.Bristol-Myers Squibb is warning against the use of the antibiotic drug Tequin in diabetic patients after reports of several fatalities, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

• How Long Can Truckers Stay Awake?

  Robert Blanchard | March 01, 2006 9:27 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  As a form of regulatory chicken, Bush appointees in Washington want to let employers see just how hard they can drive their truck drivers. No mention of any concern for the safety of other people on the roadways, at least not from the Bush administration. To see the Petition filed in the Federal District Court by five groups who are concerned, click here.

• OSHA Slow to Act

  Robert Blanchard | March 01, 2006 9:20 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  The new stardard for worker exposure to harmful chromium are not only inadequate, they took way too long to be inacted. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) new standard to reduce worker exposure to hexavalent chromium is seriously inadequate and will not protect the safety of hundreds of thousands of workers who are exposed to the metal in the workplace. OSHA will publish...