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Each and every day, people across the United States sustain injuries – sometimes serious ones – as a result of accidents in locations that include stores, other types of businesses, schools, churches, governmental offices and other locations. The most commonplace types of injuries at public locations such as those noted here occur as the result of slip and fall accidents. Unfortunately, hundreds of people suffer injuries each month as a result of injuries sustained in locations like businesses as a…

People are getting on the road in their cars by the millions for vacation travel as summer begins. Over 250,000 people are killed in automobile accidents in the United States annually. Hundreds of thousands of other individuals are injured in car accidents, oftentimes seriously so. If you’re involved in an automobile accident, there are seven important steps that you need to take in the aftermath of a car collision. These are: Ensure immediate medical needs are addressed Contact the police…

After enduring more than a year of highly restrictive living, men, women, and children from across the country have been beyond enthusiastic about returning to more normal living as we enter into the summer of 2021. As a result, sunscreen sales have been brisk and are expected to continue apace throughout coming weeks. Unfortunately, a startling finding from a study reveal that nearly 80 widely used sunscreen as well as post-sun exposure products have been found to be contaminated with…

Asbestos is a naturally occurring, fibrous mineral that has the propensity to become trapped in a person’s a lungs. If asbestos accumulates to even a fairly minimal degree in a person’s lungs, the substance can lead to the development of cancer. There are a number of factors to understand about asbestos-related lung cancer and the legal rights of a person who contracts this disease. Who is at Risk for Asbestos-Related Lung Cancer? The reality is that even at this juncture…

Cases involving abuse and neglect at behavioral health facilities are alarmingly widespread in their rate of occurrence and appalling in their circumstances. While nursing home abuse and neglect does garner media and public attention with some regularity, far less attention is paid to the horrors that do occur behind the doors of behavioral health facilities. A detailed report on behavioral health facility abuse and neglect was presented to the West Virginia Legislature in May 2021. While the report to the…