We tend to think of dangerous children’s toys as something from the past. But check out this list of banned children’s toys — which includes 2007’s best seller, “Aqua Beads.”
https://bostonpersonalinjurylawyerblog.com/2012/12/banned-childrens-toys/
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. You couldn’t make a place like Action Park up. Action Park was a New Jersey amusement park open from 1978 until 1996. Somehow I stumbled across its Wik...
https://bostonpersonalinjurylawyerblog.com/2012/08/action-park-a-k-a-accident-park/
We’ve blogged a lot about SawStop technology, the revolutionary flesh-detection technology that renders power saw accidents obsolete (see here, here and here). Now comedian Stephen Colbert tell...
https://bostonpersonalinjurylawyerblog.com/2012/04/stephen-colbert-examines-sawstop/
This month marks the twentieth anniversary of the premiere of the film My Cousin Vinny and, to commemorate the occasion, our friends over at Abnormal Use have invited legal bloggers to post their...
The picture to the left depicts what’s been called “Soylent Pink,” an ammonia-treated food substance that, until recently, was processed and sold by many fast food restaurants as a meat pro...
https://bostonpersonalinjurylawyerblog.com/2012/03/are-you-eating-soylent-pink/
Ezra Klein may have the answer over at his Washington Post blog. The disparity in cost for an MRI between here and Europe is one indication of how American doctors are responsible for the high co...
California’s Silicon Valley, generally considered the world capital of technological innovation, is emerging from the recession quite well, with new companies and IPO’s all over the news. For...
https://bostonpersonalinjurylawyerblog.com/2012/02/older-tech-workers-deal-with-age-discrimination/
Most New Englanders can recite half the names on the roster of the Super Bowl-bound Patriots. But most New Englanders, myself included, would be hard-pressed to identify Dr. Mary Ellen Avery. A...
https://bostonpersonalinjurylawyerblog.com/2012/01/mary-ellen-avery-a-true-american-hero/
As featured in USA Today, Dr. Otis Browley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, has recently penned a book entitled “How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick In ...
https://bostonpersonalinjurylawyerblog.com/2012/01/rich-and-poor-alike-receive-terrible-health-care/
In an unusual but welcome move, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Ash v. Tyson Foods has reversed its own decision in a race discrimination case. The court had overturned a ju...