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Almost every day nearly 300 children end up in emergency rooms around the country suffering from serious burns caused by tap water that is simply too hot. It only takes a few seconds for a child or an elderly person in water with temperatures about 130 degrees to be severely burned requiring hospitalization, skin grafts, and lifetime scars.Too often when these events happen, it is the parents...

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On every television channel and in every newspaper it seems at least once a week you hear some story about the medical malpractice crisis. Politicians and tort reformers use this alleged epidemic of frivolous lawsuits against doctors to assert that this epidemic is forcing doctors to leave whatever state the politician is in; and that patients cannot get necessary medical care because doctors...

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into a potential defect in the Daimler-Chrysler Dodge Ram 2500 and 3500 pickup series manufactured from June 2002 through July 2005. The potential problem is that if a driver tries to put his car in park, it may be in fact be a false park. The problem appears to be that even though the gearshift indicator looks like...

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Every year nearly 20,000 are injured badly enough by riding lawnmowers and yard tractors that they require hospital treatment. Approximately 75 people are killed every year and of those, one in five are children. Most adults would never let a child play with or near a working chainsaw yet chainsaws and riding lawnmowers have the approximately the same injury rate, 1 injury a...

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A mother has filed a $5 million wrongful death lawsuit against the man who murdered her pregnant daughter and her seven year old grandson.Also named in the suit are Barbee's accomplice and two ex-wives. The lawsuit seeks to determine if Barbee transferred assets to his ex-wives to shield money and property from future lawsuits. Both women deny the accusation."If we're going to recover any money,...

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Carolina Culinary Foods (CCF), a Kraft Foods external manufacturer, issued a recall on February 18th for Oscar Mayer/Louis Rich Chicken Breast Strips with a "Best if Used By" date of "19 APR 2007" due to the finding of Listeria monocytogenes in one package. Kraft immediately issued a recall.Kraft has not received any reports of listeriosis in conjunction with the February 18th recall and they...

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A high school running back has been arrested on a misdemeanor assault charge after he allegedly kicked a teammate in the groin during practice.He is accused of kicking the 16-year-old intentionally. The boy was taken to the hospital following the incident.A warrant was issued the following week and he surrendered. A $250 bail bond was posted immediately on one count of assault with bodily...

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A 74-year-old Tyler man is dead after his car crashed into a tree on Thursday, February 1st. Investigators say the man was in the 500 Bock of North Border when his vehicle veered off the road and crashed into a tree.Emergency crews transported the driver to Texas Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. The car accident is still under investigation at this time.

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BP is facing a federal investigation into potential criminal environmental and safety violations at their Texas refinery, where a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has joined a federal investigation that was started in October by an U.S. attorney in Houston. The EPA, five Washington-based representatives of the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of...

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Bruce Roberts has spent most of the last 25 years of his legal career representing injured people. He specializes in representing people in automobile accidents, truck collisions, boating accidents, construction, industrial and oil field accidents as well as claims for unsafe products and equipment. He is Board Certified in personal injury trial law. Only 3 percent of all attorneys in Texas...

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