According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), a strain of E. coli bacteria linked to 33 illnesses in five states has been found in samples of Bravo Farms Gouda cheese, which is sold at Costco stores. The outbreak involves a rare strain of E. coli that the Centers for…
Monday of this week, a Carnival Splendor cruise ship with nearly 4500 passengers, 52 of whom were senior citizens, became stranded off Mexico’s Pacific Coast. A fire in the engine room caused the ship to lose power Monday morning, only one day after it left port in Long Beach for…
According to unitehere.org, housekeepers at Hyatt hotels in eight cities filed complaints with a federal agency today alleging a variety of injuries suffered as a result of the company’s policies. The workers are almost all female and are represented by the union Unite Here. They filed the complaints with the…
Last week, according to SFGate, an Amtrak train struck and killed a man who was walking with a friend on railroad tracks in Albany. The accident interrupted train traffic between San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento. Investigators interviewed the dead man’s friend to determine what happened. Amtrak said that none…
According to the Los Angeles Times, AT&T Mobility vs. Concepcion, a case involving AT&T that goes before the U.S. Supreme Court next week, will have serious ramifications for potentially millions of consumers if AT&T gets their way. If a majority of the nine justices vote on the side of AT&T,…
Transportation for America writes: America’s transportation system is half a century behind-causing unnecessary pollution, expense, and congestion. We need our leaders to invest in public transportation, high-speed passenger rail, streets safe for biking and walking, maintaining our roads and transit systems, and green innovation. Here at the Brod Law Firm…
This past week-end two women were killed and the driver was seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash on U. S. Highway 101 near Blossom Hill Road in San Jose. According to the San Jose Mercury News, the two women were riding in an Infinity sedan early Saturday when the vehicle…
Soon the FDA may seek criminal charges against drug company executives whose firms have illegally promoted drugs for unapproved uses. Prescribing a drug for an unapproved use-an act known as off-label use-is legal, but promoting it-an act known as off-label marketing-is not. Normally the FDA seeks monetary penalties against drug…
Accordign to SFGate,The family of Tahir Sheikh Fakhar, 56, who died on November 9th, 2009, after his truck flipped over a Bay Bridge wall and plunged onto Yerba Buena Island, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the state and civil engineers who designed and warned about the dangerous S-curve that…
According to newsiferno.com, a lawsuit has been filed against Johnson and Johnson, claiming that it’s pain reliever Motrin caused Sabrina Brenton, a six year old girl, to lose her eyesight, one of handful of serious complications of the syndrome, after developing Stevens Johnson Syndrome. Apparently the girl was treated with…