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What to do During and After Electric Shock Emergencies
Do Not Touch the Victim with Your Bare Hands to Free Them from the Power Source In case you thought it was just an old wives’ tale, yes, you really will get shocked if you touch someone who is stuck to a power source. You won’t be helping, you’ll just be making things worse. The […]
Rental E-Scooters: A Solution to “the Last Mile” Problem or a Public Safety Nightmare?
Many emergency room doctors will remember 2018 as the year of the electric scooter. It started in March, when several tech companies began flooding cities across the U.S. with the cheap, convenient transportation solution. Thousands hit the streets and sidewalks, almost entirely unregulated in most cities. Rental e-scooters were an instant hit, appealing to a […]

Are Our Children Still Drinking Lead-Laden Water at School?
Lead in school drinking water has been a problem for decades, but still, to this day, federal regulations don’t require schools to test their drinking water, and there’s no one health standard for school drinking water that’s consistent across the entire country. Because of this, millions of American children are drinking water at school that […]
3M to Pay Millions in Lawsuit Over Defective Earplugs
It appears 3M has been ordered (again) to pay out a large sum of money, this time for defective earplugs sold to the military many years ago. The 3M Company has agreed to pay $9.1 million to settle allegations it knowingly sold defective combat earplugs to the United States military without disclosing defects that limited […]

Parents of teen killed in Florida Tesla crash sue company
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The parents of a Florida teenager killed when a Telsa sedan crashed and caught fire last year are suing the electric car company alleging that the battery pack on its electric Model S is defective and can erupt into intense fires. Edgar Monserratt and Esperanza Martinez de Monserratt allege in […]
Supreme Court denies appeal in fatal 2011 police raid
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied an appeal brought by the family of a 69-year-old Hampton man who was shot and killed by police in his own home seven years ago. That brings to a close the litigation involving the death of William A. “Bootsie” Cooper, whose family contended Hampton police acted improperly in the […]