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May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month: Please Drive and Ride Safely
Posted in Personal Injury
May is Motorcycle Safety Month, which highlights the need for all drivers to be especially aware of motorcycles as well as all vehicles on the roads. With the recent beautiful weather, I’ve seen and heard more motorcycles in the last week than I have in months. Please be especially vigilant… Continue reading
Uninsurance and Underinsurance for Motorcycle Riders
Posted in Personal Injury
Carrying sufficient Uninsured and Underinsured coverage on your motorcycle and personal vehicles is less obvious, but just as critical, as having health insurance coverage. After ensuring that your health insurance policy, will cover any medical treatment for injuries suffered in a crash, check your own vehicle policies to be sure… Continue reading
Health Insurance for Motorcycle Riders
Posted in Personal Injury
Motorcycle riders: please review your health insurance coverages! Before we ride, we often do a safety check of our bikes. We check brakes, lights, signals, tires, and gas. We make sure the bike is safe before we, and our passengers get on. What is just as important, but less obvious,… Continue reading
Have You Ever Been Given the Wrong Prescription?
Posted in Personal Injury
Have you ever been given the wrong prescription by a doctor or pharmacy? According to a recent publication by Dr. Rayhan A. Tariq and Yevgeniya Scherbak, PharmD, 7000 to 9000 people die each year in the United States as a result of medication errors.
Due to COVID-19, Is Your Car Insurance Company Refunding You Money?
Posted in Personal Injury, Vehicle Accident
Stay-at-home orders issued in Pennsylvania and New Jersey mean most people are not driving at all. At best, individuals are occasionally driving for curbside pickup food. Because of the dramatic decrease in driving, ten of the largest U.S. auto insurance companies say they will take the unusual step of giving… Continue reading
Disposables are Making Vaping Harder to Detect Among Teens
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Although the vaping company Juul has experienced significant fallout – both in terms of market value and public opinion – since information about their marketing tactics came out in 2019, vaping has yet to see a meaningful decline among teens, which rose a staggering 78% between 2018 and 2019 according… Continue reading
Boy Scouts File for Bankruptcy Amidst Wave of Sexual Abuse Charges
Posted in Personal Injury
In the face of approximately 300 sexual abuse lawsuits from former Boy Scouts, the Boy Scouts of America has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. The Boy Scouts of America is the nation’s largest scouting organization and one of the largest youth organizations. Because Chapter… Continue reading
JUUL’s Efforts to Recruit Influencers
Posted in Personal Injury
Miley Cyrus. Bella Hadid. Sophie Turner. These are just a few celebrities who are known for their vaping habits. But these habits aren’t just a personal choice – they fit into a larger picture of vaping companies using celebrities and influencers to appeal to young consumers. Although the Family Smoking… Continue reading
JUUL Faces New Lawsuit Over Marketing Tactics
Posted in Personal Injury
Marketing to youth has long been part of the tobacco industry’s strategy to keep a steady influx of customers. However, since the Joe Camel lawsuit in 1997, tobacco companies have increasingly been under fire for targeting underage consumers. Most disavow these intentions, but from time to time, a company will… Continue reading
Smoke and Mirrors: Juul Litigation Focuses on Misdirection, Misinformation
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Amidst growing lawsuits and a call for a ban of vaping by the American Medical Association, journalists from the LA Times have reviewed over 3,000 internal records from leading vape company Juul and discovered that their proprietary formula was based on 40-year old nicotine research pioneered by R.J. Reynolds, the… Continue reading
