Following the lead of several other states including California and Iowa, the state legislatures of North Carolina and Hawaii are now considering bills that would ban the use of thimerosal in vaccines.
In the first study of its kind, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that more than 3,000 Americans seek emergency medical treatment for problems caused by attention deficit disorder drugs.
Man pleads guilty to DUI manslaughter for killing one individual and injuring two others during a boating accident in 2002.
A lawsuit regarding a 1996 gas explosion that leveled a brand-new Illinois home, killing a woman and her son, was settled in May 2006 when the four defendant companies offered the family $5 million.
A 42-year-old Lakewood, New Jersey man’s drug conviction has been overturned by an appellate panel because a police officer did not have a warrant to search the man’s car.
After being badly injured in a car accident and later developing Multiple Sclerosis, Richard Paey began taking pain killers before he was convicted of having more than the law allowed.
Upon returning from Columbia where witnesses in the drug case against accused drug cartel leader Joaquin Mario Valencia-Trujillo were interviewed by an associate of his defense attorney, a customs agent seized defense paperwork at the airport.
A 51-year-old man was arrested on drug charges after police from two towns outside Houston Texas, Richmond and Rosenberg, descended on his house to serve a search warrant.
Earlier this month an appeals court upheld the verdict in an Ohio medical malpractice lawsuit, but ordered the amount of damages allotted to be reduced.
In the latest of an ongoing battle, California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi on May 25 said that homeowner and auto insurance companies have gouged consumers with unconscionably low payouts on claims.