A Minnesota woman suffering from mesothelioma recently filed a lawsuit for more than $300,000 against 72 corporations in Madison County Circuit Court. Her suit claims she was exposed to asbestos from her husband’s clothing.
A group of commercial transportation and environmental interest groups have filed a lawsuit in federal court aiming to block a controversial cross-border trucking program that would allow Mexican-based trucking companies to send their vehicles throughout the U.S.
A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that treating depressive episodes in bipolar patients with a combination of mood stabilizers and anti-depressants may not be as effective as psychiatrists previously thought.
A Massachusetts Superior Court judge ruled that a couple's lawsuit filed nearly six years after their daughter died in a hit-and-run accident cannot be time-barred because they had been instructed by police to wait before filing.
On April 27, New York City's Department of Health warned area residents that some eye makeup products that had been illegally imported should be avoided completely due to their high lead content. Lead is poisonous and can cause severe health problems, particularly in children and pregnant women.