New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com/cdklawyers.com// 10/08/2011 The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently determined that a plaintiff’s age-based hostile work environment claim could be advanced. Dediol v. Best Chevrolet, Inc. No. 10-30767 (5th Cir. Sept. 12, 2011), available at http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/10/10-30767-CV0.wpd.pdf.   Over a two-month period, the plaintiff’s supervisor made daily age-based and religion-based comments to the plaintiff. […]

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com10/07/2011 // WPB, FL, USA // Injury Lawyers News // Nicole Howley Bainbridge, OH — A school bus and vehicle collision on U.S. 50 killed a Bainbridge man and injured at least 12 students Wednesday afternoon, October 5, 2011. The school bus crash occurred on U.S. 50, just east of Paint Valle High […]

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com10/07/2011 // WPB, FL, USA // Injury Lawyers News // Nicole Howley Plano, TX — Drop-side cribs by sold Yu Wei Co., which were exclusively at JCPenney are being voluntarily recalled for entrapment and suffocation hazards the defective cribs pose to consumers. Yu Wei Co. and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) […]

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com10/07/2011 // WPB, FL, USA // Injury Lawyers News // Nicole Howley Gibbon, NE — Over 30 people were injured Thursday morning, October 6, 2011, when a Denver-bound bus slammed into an overturn semi-truck on Interstate 80. The bus accident occurred around 2 a.m. in south-central Nebraska, about two miles east of the […]

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com10/07/2011 // WPB, FL, USA // Injury Lawyers News // Nicole Howley Scriba, NY — An industrial accident left a Hannibal man dead on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at an aluminum rolling plant. The fatal workplace accident occurred at Novelis Inc., located at 448 County Route 1A at 6 p.m., reported Syracuse.com. According […]

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com/cdklawyers.com// 10/07/2011 The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency charged with enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against employees, recently issued a press release regarding the effect of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on employment discrimination.  In the initial months after 9/11, the EEOC saw a 250% […]

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com10/06/2011 // WPB, FL, USA // Injury Lawyers News // Nicole Howley Atlanta, GA — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Ballard Designs, Inc. have announced a voluntary recall of Ballard Designs “Stafford” step stools for hazards the defective product poses to consumers. The CPSC announced the nationwide recall on October […]

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com10/06/2011 // WPB, FL, USA // Injury Lawyers News // Nicole Howley Houston, TX — Fifteen people were hospitalized after a METRORail train derailed in downtown Houston when the train was hit by a dump truck, Tuesday morning, October 4, 2011. The train accident took place at Main and Capitol around 9 a.m., […]

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com10/06/2011 // WPB, FL, USA // Injury Lawyers News // Nicole Howley Lewes, DE — A work-related accident left a DelDOT worker dead Wednesday morning, October 5, 2011, when his lawnmower hit a utility pole guy cable. The fatal workplace accident occurred at around 10:20 a.m. at Hudson and Log Cabin Hill roads […]

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com10/06/2011 // WPB, FL, USA // Injury Lawyers News // Nicole Howley Jacksonville, NC — A chemical present in Camp Lejeune’s drinking water for decades has now been classified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPS) as a human carcinogen, reported the News-Record. The hazardous chemical—trichloroethylene (TCE)—was discovered in the military training base’s […]