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Granddaughter & Great-Grandson of Harley-Davidson Co-Founder to Present at Roar to the Shore & DelMarVa
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Stark & Stark will be heading to the beach to meet everyone at the 2018 Roar to the Shore and DelMarVa Bike Week this September. While at both events, we will have with us the granddaughter and great-grandson of Harley-Davidson co-founder Walter Davidson as our guest speakers, Jean Davidson and… Continue reading
Workers Compensation and Fraud Update – the Statute Applies to the Employee and the Employer Alike
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The New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Fraud Statute, N.J.S.A. 34:15-57.4, is alive and well in the Division of Workers’ Compensation as it applies to injured workers. Attorneys for workers’ compensation carriers are making fraud arguments often, and in some cases being successful in terminating workers’ benefits. Yet injured workers do not… Continue reading
Vaping Teen Goes into Respiratory Failure
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An 18-year-old developed wet lung and went into respiratory arrest three weeks after starting to vape. The young women entered the ER with stabbing chest pains and difficulty breathing, which got progressively worse until she went into respiratory failure and wound up on a ventilator. Doctors diagnosed the young women… Continue reading
First U.S. Death from Exploding E-Cigarette
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Tragic news was released from Florida this week that a man who died on May 5, 2018, suffered a fatal injury from an e-cigarette explosion. The man died from a “projectile wound to the head,” and also suffered thermal burns on 80% of his body. Tallmadge D’Elia, who reportedly worked… Continue reading
FDA Clamps Down on E-cigarette Companies Selling to Minors
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In response to growing concern about e-cigarette use by children and teens, the FDA has intensified its enforcement of illegal sales and advertising of new electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) such as Juul, myblu and KandyPens. The FDA has stated it is committed to decreasing smoking and nicotine addiction in… Continue reading
Wrongful Death Legislative Expansion Proposed in New Jersey Senate
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On April 5th, the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee pushed forward Senate Bill S-1766, legislation which would expand the state’s wrongful death statute to allow for recovery of damages from “mental anguish, emotional pain and suffering, loss of society and loss of companionship.” Currently, the survivors who lost a loved… Continue reading
E-Cigarette Campaigns are Disturbingly Similar to Banned Tobacco Ads
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The Tobacco Advertising Collection at the Smithsonian Institution contains more than 30,000 examples of cigarette advertising by tobacco companies. Entitled “Not a Cough in a Carload: Images from the Tobacco Industry Campaign to Hide the Hazards of Smoking,” the twelve-part archive series, created by Dr. Robert Jacklar, emphasizes the deceptive… Continue reading
Public Health Groups Sue FDA for Delaying E-cigarette Legislation
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In late March, several public health organizations and medical groups filed suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its decision to delay FDA review of e-cigarette products. The controversial decision pushed the deadline for e-cigarette product approval applications to August of 2022 relieving the vaping industry of… Continue reading
The Juul of Teen Nicotine Addiction
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The Juul looks like a computer flash drive but it is a vaping device. It’s sleek, it’s discrete, and it’s becoming very popular with underage nicotine users. Juul, the company that manufactures the device, states it targets only adults; however, the nicotine liquid flavors include “virginia tobacco, cool mint, fruit… Continue reading
Vaping May Increase Risk of Pneumonia
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A study from the U.K. shows that vaping increases exposure to bacteria that causes pneumonia which may increase the risk of contracting the potentially lethal lung disease. The study by Queen Mary University of London showed that vaping increases production of a receptor that captures pneumonia bacteria in the nose,… Continue reading
