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A fire at a Las Vegas “residential hotel” has left 6 people dead and at least a dozen injured. Initial reports are suggestive that the owner’s negligence may have played a significant role in this tragedy.

No matter the time of year, different parts of the nation are hit with major storms. Be they monster snowstorms in the winter, hurricanes in the summer and fall, tornadoes starting the spring, and flooding the year around, catastrophic storms take out power and wreak havoc wherever they strike. Understandably, people facing the aftermath of these storms, and a lack of power, turn to portable generators to maintain some semblance of life until utility companies restore services. While portable generators…

Five Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity Members Charged in Pledge’s Death Noah Domingo died in January 2019 of acute alcohol poisoning at UC-Irvine fraternity house In January of this year, we reported on yet another fraternity hazing-related death of a new member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Yesterday, Orange County (CA) District Attorney Todd Spitzer announced that five former fraternity “brothers” of 19-year-old Noah Domingo have been indicted on misdemeanor charges related to furnishing alcohol to an underage consumer. Those…

California Wildfire Lawsuits Last year, California’s Camp Fire killed 85 people and destroyed an estimated $16.5 billion in private and business property. According to most estimates, as much as $4 billion of those property losses were uninsured. It was later determined that the fire was caused when sparks from a downed power line belonging to Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) ignited dry underbrush. With high winds being forecast to last at least until Monday evening, the state is bracing for…

Follow-up: 2 Confirmed Dead, 1 Missing After Hard Rock Hotel Collapse Two workers have been confirmed dead and a third is missing but presumed dead three days after the partial collapse of a hotel that was under construction near New Orleans’ historic French Quarter. The cause of the accident, which occurred at the site of a Hard Rock Hotel that was being erected along Canal Street, is under investigation by state and federal workplace safety agencies, including the Occupational Safety…