Airline passengers traveling in the U.S. will no longer be able to pack their e-cigarettes in checked baggage according to a rule now being finalized by government safety officials. The ruling comes as a result of several reports of e-cigarettes catching fire in checked baggage. Passengers are... Read More

Writers at on-line resource E-Cig One have compiled a comprehensive list of recent e-cigarette-related explosions, finding changes in the nature and severity of injuries reported in the past few years.  They note that the most frequently cited document concerning the issue, produced by FEMA in early 2015,... Read More

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released an evaluation of the impact that their 2015 severe injury reporting guideline has had on workplace safety. The newest requirement, that severe injury be reported to the administration within 24 hours, took effect on January 1, 2015, and... Read More

The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) has released its data on pedestrian traffic fatalities from 2015. The Association notes an overall increase in deaths, though a state by state analysis finds increases in some settings and decreases in others. They have also reported on various attempts to mitigate... Read More

A Long Island couple has filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that hospitals made a series of disastrous mistakes leading to the death of their baby and then accused the parents of abuse as a cover-up. The accusations threatened Sara and Padraig Keenan with the loss of... Read More

An East Hartford woman is claiming that the Department of Public Health (DPH) in Connecticut dragged its feet when asked to investigate her claims that nursing home employees were abusing her mother. In 2012, Patricia J. noticed suspicious scratch marks on her 88-year-old mother, who was being... Read More

A daycare center in Southampton, Long Island is closed and two of its employees have been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after parents reported that their toddler was force-fed and abused while under their care. Kathleen Culver and Sarah Dawber were arrested after a... Read More

A small but growing number of plaintiffs have filed Zofran birth defect lawsuits over allegations that they were not fully apprised of the health risks connected to their use of the anti-nausea drug as prescribed to treat morning sickness. As of early July, at least 12 such complaints have alleged that... Read More

It’s no secret that certain kinds of behaviors, like driving while distracted or while under the influence of substances like alcohol, can dramatically increase the risk of car accidents. Long Island car accident attorneys at Edelman, Krasin & Jaye have long been concerned about negligent drivers who... Read More

Employees have a reasonable expectation that the environment in which they work will not pose dangers related to toxic exposure and legal rights regarding workplace safety. So the workers who were exposed to carbon monoxide at Liqui-Mark, a pen and marker manufacturer in Hauppauge, LI, may have... Read More