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• Nursing Home Direct Care Givers are Essential to Good Care

  Billy Cunningham | September 05, 2009 11:44 AM | 1 CommentMobile, AL

  The SCAN Foundation, a California philanthropic organization which was established to advance the development of a sustainable continuum of quality care for seniors released a paper which confirmed...

• Your Dryer - Is There A Fire Inside?

  Pete Mackey | August 29, 2009 6:10 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL

  I ran into a friend in court a few weeks ago who looked distressed. As we spoke, the cause of that distress spilled out - a fire had just about destroyed a weekend getaway he owns nearby. The cause...

• Nursing Home Caregivers Strike

  Billy Cunningham | August 08, 2009 12:45 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL

  Over 300 union members at the four OMNI nursing homes in New Jersey have been without a contract since 2007. Two years ago, the owner of these homes, Avery Eisenreich, walked away from the...

• Sexual Harassment suit allowed to go forward against Home Depot...

  Troy Schwant | July 19, 2009 11:49 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  The 11th Circuit Court of appeals reversed a granting of a summary Judgment by a Federal District Court Judge in favor of Home Depot. Congratulations to the attorneys on behalf of the Plaintiffs,...

• FDA warns against using certain nasal cold remedy products...

  Troy Schwant | June 17, 2009 1:09 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  According to this report, the FDA warns that using certain Zicam nasal cold remedies can reduce and in some cases completely eliminate the sense of smell in some users. Please check your medicine...

• Health Care Insurance - ERISA Is Not Your Friend (unless you are an insurance company)

  Pete Mackey | January 17, 2009 6:52 PM | 3 CommentsMobile, AL

  When you sue an insurance company for failing to pay your medical bills, chances are that your lawsuit will be governed by the Employees Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. That Act was...

• Placebo Prescribing: a surprisingly common lie and its risk

  Trevor Reid | October 24, 2008 2:54 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  National Public Radio reported today that prescription of placebos by American doctors may be a common practice. Placebos are a form of off label use where the medicine is not shown to treat a...

• Mobile Woman Killed in Car Accident

  Chrissie Cole | February 13, 2008 10:44 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  A Mobile woman, 27, died from injuries she suffered in a car accident, on Friday, when the car she was driving overturned.The woman was ejected from her automobile, although authorities have confirmed she was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, reported a spokesman for Saraland Police Department.She was traveling alone in her Honda Accord when it flipped several times on her way home...

• Deadly accident on Alabama Highway 35

  Staff Writer | January 09, 2007 12:50 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  A two-car accident on Alabama Highway 35 Monday morning left a man dead, according to a report from The Daily Sentinel of Jackson County. The accident involved two pick-up trucks, one of them a landscape/lawn maintenance truck driven by the a Huntsville man who owned the business. The victim was apparently a passenger in the lawn/landscape truck, which was pulling an extended cab. Both vehicles...

• American Honda Motor Co. Recall ATVs Due to Loss of Speed Control

  Jenny Albano | January 10, 2008 6:20 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  American Honda Motor Co., in conjunction with the CPSC, is recalling about 40,000 Model Year 2007 Honda TRX 500 ATVs due to loss of speed control.It is possible for water to get into the throttle position sensor and freeze it, which causes permanent damage if the rider tries to force the throttle lever. Doing this could cause the throttle to stick open and the rider would lose control of the...