We're seeing more and more wage abuse and wage theft. One of the latest trends concerns illegal tip pooling.If you're employed as a tipped employee who relies upon tips for income, such as a waiter, waitress or bartender, the fact that you earn income through tips...
Month: June 2015
Understanding The Impact Of Cyberbullying
Movies and media reports tend to favor dramatic events over real problems. Everything must be depicted at the extreme ends of possibility (usually far beyond) to keep the audience's attention. It's not enough for the movies that global warming will cause draughts and...
New Jersey Medical Malpractice, Product Liability and Pharmaceutical Drug Lawyer Discusses How Big Pharmaceuticals Prey on Your Fears
In some recent Blogs, I've ranted and railed against the collusion between Big Pharma and the FDA, about how Big Pharm preys on peoples' fears, and how aggressively they market their products.I thought I'd talk about some of the most common ways in which they prey on...
The Cause Of Accidents And Self-Driving Cars
The potential and promise of vehicles that drive themselves is hard to dispute. Autonomous cars and trucks are being tested and perfected as we speak. The investment made in this technology makes it likely that at least some form of it will be available to consumers...
New Jersey Drug Liability and Product Liability Consumer Protection Attorney Discusses the FDA Hiding Information about the Safety of Drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is supposed to protect the American public. It's supposed to stand between the public and purveyors of cures, medical devices, techniques, procedures and drugs, making sure that these techniques have been properly vetted and are...
New Jersey Medical Malpractice Attorney Discusses Medical Malpractice Caps and Vulnerable Victims
I've always said that damages caps don't work. In every State in which medical malpractice "damages caps" have been tried, they've failed to resolve the fictional "medical malpractice insurance crisis." Obviously, you can't fix something that doesn't exist. The crisis...
Tougher Restrictions Could Reduce Teen Driving Accidents
Graduated Driver License laws have definitely had an impact on the number of teen fatalities caused by traffic accidents. That impact is not enough, according to the chief strategist for the National Safety Council. In a recent speech, he called for new restrictions...
Bullying And Its Consequences
Kids will be kids. That idea has been the extent of the response to reports of bullying for many years. Recent efforts to address bullying on a broader scale have been frustrated by an entrenched idea that bullying is an acceptable or even necessary component of...
Why I Fight
Or...Why I'm still committed to Garden State Equality now that we've won the Equal Marriage Rights Battle "Equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air; we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it." - Maya AngelouWhy would a straight person...