Advocates for NJ and PA
Workers & Their Families
I'm a proud member of the American Association for Justice, an organization begun in 1946 when a group of 11 lawyers met in Oregon to form a new organization called the "National Association of Claimants' Compensation Attorneys." That organization became, in time, The...
Wearing a seat belt is one of the best things you can do to improve your chances of surviving a car accident. Seat belts save lives. That has been proven time and again in studies going back decades. So why is it that children riding school buses are often exempt from...
More than twice as many people were hospitalized due to bicycling injuries in 2013 than in 1998, according to a report in the journal of the American Medical Association. The report showed an increase in the proportion of head and torso injuries, as well as a marked...
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...
Or . . . Everybody saw this coming.No matter how you voted in the recent election, unless you're a complete fool, you knew what was at stake. The fact that the congress has gone dominantly red means that the republican right - and the corporate monsters that fuel the...
Or... The Hypocrisy of the RightTort Reform - or, as lawyers who represent people like to call it - "tort de-form" - is a popular harping point for the right. It's one of their "go to" moves. Like being anti-abortion, anti-evolution, anti-environment, anti-business...
Every year, the National Transportation Safety Board releases a list of the top 10 safety issues it wants to emphasize in the coming year. The list for 2015 was released this week and contains several issues that impact drivers on a regular basis. The "Most Wanted"...
"Or . . . What Would Toys Be Like Without Trial Lawyers?"This is another in my "what would life be like without trial lawyers?" (and jury trials) series. Glad everyone is enjoying it.Choking hazards were the leading cause of Consumer Product Safety Commission Toy...
