You’ve seen the commercials, and can probably recite the jingle in your sleep — “like a good neighbor, State Farm is there!” This may seem like an innocent bit of advertising, but the truth is far darker. If you are involved in a collision and State Farm represents the other driver, you will soon learn….
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U.S. is steering blindly due to dearth of desperately needed Covid-19 tests
Public health experts and many politicians agree that the pursuit of any next steps in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic will rely on testing, testing, testing. The nation will need significantly more tests, with faster and better results, that show who is infected now. Further, many, many more people will need to take blood antibody….
Continue ReadingHow are Pain and Suffering Determined in a Personal Injury Claim?
If you have ever been injured, you probably know that both the injury itself and recovering from it can be incredibly painful, both physically and emotionally. What you may not know is that if you were hurt because of something that someone else did, you may be able to recover for your pain and suffering….
Continue ReadingCorporations love forced arbitration. Innovators hope to make them fear it.
Although big businesses in recent years have developed their legal equivalent of a great white shark — a big system churning along to savage disputes involving potentially many small claimants — innovators may have found a new way to start to tame beastly aspects of the process known as forced arbitration: Scoop up lots of….
Continue ReadingPandemic and joblessness expose big problems in one health basic: food supplies
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed millions of Americans to huge problems in one of the most basic elements of their health and well-being — their food supply. It’s past time for all of us to demand changes, and we may want to ask why, in the midst of a global economic calamity, that politicians persist….
Continue ReadingWhat we know about Covid-19’s harms may help point out our next steps
With President Trump, members of his administration, and other politicians shoving back against public health officials’ recommendations on when to get Americans out of their homes and returning to work, the ultimate decision may be up to individuals: Do we give up the existing physical-distancing guidance? Or not? The data on Covid-19 infections and deaths….
Continue ReadingNews gets worse on Covid-19’s grim toll in facilities caring for the elderly
The news about the institutional care of vulnerable seniors during the Covid-19 pandemic just keeps getting worse in too many unacceptable ways. Just consider: The coronavirus has hit more than 2,100 nursing homes, killing more than 2,300 people, the Wall Street Journal and NBC News both have reported, based on the news organizations’ separate outreach….
Continue ReadingCan a Car Accident Cause Sciatica?
At some point in your life, you will likely experience back problems, whether from getting older, poor posture, or some other reason. In some cases, your back issues may cause other problems — such as sciatica, a type of nerve pain. If your back was injured in a car accident and triggered sciatica as a….
Continue ReadingTypes of Negligence in D.C. and When Do They Apply?
Most people have some knowledge of the legal system, whether from personal involvement in a court case, or even just from legal dramas on TV, in books, or at the movies. There are still many legal concepts that are confusing. One key example is negligence — a term often used in personal injury cases. Negligence….
Continue ReadingGlobal vaping snub suggests other nations are learning from United States’ bad example
Here’s a glimmer of good health news: It seems that nations around the world may be avoiding what, just a blink ago, was one of the United States’ significant public health concerns — vaping and e-cigarettes. Juul, the San Francisco-based company at the heart of this controversy, has seen doors shut in its face as….
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