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4 years ago+2 2 0Does Tire Rotation Include Tightening Lug Nuts? Michigan Court Thinks About It For Awhile, Concludes 'No'
In what will surely go down in history as one of the most Galaxy Brain court rulings of all time, a Michigan appeals court determined that a tire rotation does not, in fact, include tightening the lug nuts.
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4 years ago+3 3 0TODAY is National Voter Registration Day
National Voter Registration Day is a holiday celebrated on the fourth Tuesday of every September. It's goal is to focus attention on the importance of registering to vote.
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4 years ago+2 2 0Two People A Day Are Killed By Red-Light-Running Drivers
The world at the moment is beset on all sides by assholes. You know, the people who don’t put their carts back at the grocery store, who take up much-needed gas pumps while stuffing their faces, and who run red lights.
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4 years ago+2 2 0Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $572 million for its role in Oklahoma’s opioid crisis
The Oklahoma judge’s landmark ruling is the first to hold a drugmaker responsible for the nationwide epidemic of addiction and overdose deaths.
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4 years ago+4 4 0How the Media Fuels the Perception of Frivolous Lawsuits
From the “hot coffee” lawsuit to the woman who sued her nephew over an aggressive hug, the headlines are designed to make us groan—but what’s really driving this type of news coverage?
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4 years ago+6 6 0Ford knew Focus, Fiesta models had flawed transmission, sold them anyway
The carmaker says that it's not a safety problem if your car slips into neutral on the highway.
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4 years ago+4 4 0Secure Your Loads, People!
This lucky driver (a 35-year-old Florida woman) was somehow mostly unscathed after a large piece of plywood impaled the vehicle’s windshield at highway speeds.
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4 years ago+12 12 0Passenger Fatalities per Billion Passenger Miles
Source: Ian Savage, Comparing the fatality risks in United States transportation across modes and over time, Nortwestern University (Data is for US, 2000-2009).
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4 years ago+11 11 0Medical Devices: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
This weekend, Jon Oliver discussed the medical device industry; a huge business with a hugely troubling lack of regulation.
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4 years ago+4 4 0A young girl is hit by a foul ball and a new debate over fan safety
In the wake of a girl being hit by a foul ball at Minute Maid Park, some players would like to see more netting to protect fans
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4 years ago+24 24 0Atmos settles lawsuit with family of 12-year-old Dallas girl killed in 2018 gas explosion
Atmos Energy has settled a lawsuit with the family of a 12-year-old girl who was killed last year in a natural-gas explosion at a northwest Dallas...
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5 years ago+12 12 0Insurance Companies Are Monitoring Your Phone to See How Much You Use It While Driving
A disturbing amount of us use our phones to talk, text, or send our awful tweets while behind the wheel, but you might want to think twice before sending that next tweet, and not just for self-preservation purposes. More and more insurance companies ...
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5 years ago+2 2 0Proposed New Laws for Texas in 2019
There have been 8,942 bills filed during the 86th Texas Legislature in 2019. Since the deadline for new bills has passed, we wanted to provide a small sample of some of the bills which may soon become law when the legislative session concludes on May ...
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5 years ago+18 18 0Car crash ER visits fell in states that ban texting while driving, study says
States with bans on texting while driving saw an average 4% reduction in emergency department visits after motor vehicle crashes, an equivalent of 1,632 traffic-related emergency department visits per year, according to a new analysis.
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5 years ago+1 2 1Law 101: How a Lawsuit Works
It all starts with the complaint. Then you can either answer or move to dismiss. Next comes discovery the longest and most resource intensive part of the lawsuit. After that...
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5 years ago+4 4 0When Does a Car Accident Become a Crime?
Driving through a dangerous curve in Tyler, James Fulton crossed into oncoming traffic and killed a young woman. He wasn’t drunk, and the cops said the crash was an accident. But the Smith County DA saw it differently. Driving through a dangerous cur ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0J&J knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder
Johnson & Johnson says its Baby Powder is safe. But Reuters found its talc was sometimes tainted with asbestos, a fact it kept from regulators and the public.
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5 years ago+3 3 0Judge upholds Monsanto verdict but cuts award to $78 million
The jury found that Monsanto purposefully ignored warnings and evidence that Roundup causes cancer.
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5 years ago+1 2 1Firm That Owned Limo in Deadly Crash Repeatedly Failed Inspections
The driver of the vehicle also did not have a proper license, according to state officials and federal transportation records.
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5 years ago+12 12 0ATV accident took a radiologist's left arm. Then came a $56,603 ambulance bill
It was the first — and only — time Dr. Naveed Khan, a 35-year-old Southlake radiologist, ever rode in an all-terrain vehicle.