Former Wal-Mart employees in Hawaii have joined with their mainland counterparts to hold the giant retailer accountable for altering employee time cards and cheating their workers out of millions of dollars over several years. After stone-walling employees’s who first complained in the early 90’s, W
A four-year-old Minnesota child’s death has led to the recall of over 800,000 pieces of children’s jewelry. Reebok Internationl, Ltd. and Dollar Tree Distribution Inc. are part of the recall.The child died of lead poisoning after swallowing one of Reebok’s heart-shaped charm bracelets. The bracelets
Hilton has settled a mold lawsuit with guests who stayed in the Kalai Tower at the Hilton Hawaiian Village at Waikiki. Approximately $2900 people were involved in the lawsuit. Mold overtook the tower and forced its closing about a year after the building opened.According to kuali.com:Experts said th
Higher malpractice premiums for doctors in Texas are not caused by so-called “frivolous lawsuits” that many proponents of tort reform raise their voices about. A medical malpractice study released in early 2005 showed that from 1998-2002, and taking into account inflation and population, many legal
A car accident on the Pali highway closed Kailua-bound lanes for almost eight hours yesterday. Terrence Lee was driving his 2004 Nissan 250z at a high rate of speed when he lost control of the car, skidded into an embankment and tumbled into a 40-foot ravine. Traffic was stopped from around 2:00 AM
Did you realize that most of the improvements in safety in this country are the result of independant judges and citizen juries holding unscrupulous, reckless and often greedy people and corporations responsible for what they do? Ford Motor Company didn’t recall the Ford Pinto even though the corpor
Wayne Parsons grew up in Ypsilanti, Michigan, one of the many downriver communities south of Detroit where southern whites and southern blacks clashed and the auto production lines were made famous in the 40s and 50s and 60s. In World War II, Henry J. Kaiser created the B-24 bomber factory 3 miles f
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