When asked which ridesharing service provides the safest form of transportation, most people don’t know the answer — and beyond tapping the app to find a ride home, never give it a second thought. Recent studies and reports on this topic, however, have concluded there is no evidence to support a key difference in...
Recently, Jeff Rossen of NBC News aired a story of a vehicle’s computer system being hacked where the hacker was able to actually stop and steer the vehicle without regard to the driver’s steering and braking inputs. Now, aside from vehicles, we have concerns about hacking in other products – heart devices. Heart devices...
Monsanto Co., creators of the genetically-modified “Roundup Ready” seeds, found a solution for crops to withstand the adverse effects of Roundup. Consumers supposedly now have the capability to kill weeds without harming essential crops due to Roundup’s active ingredient chemical glyphosate, one of the world’s most widely-used crop chemicals. However, consistent use of the...
Every day, countless Americans across the nation are involved in catastrophic accidents resulting from the negligent or intentional behavior of another. Unfortunately, a multitude of those daily accidents result in the death of a loved one. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute reported that in 2017 there were...
The elderly, vulnerable residents of Texas nursing homes continue to suffer abuse and neglect at the hands of their caretakers. Recent reports raise heavy concerns throughout the entire state about nursing home standards and regulations. According to research from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Texas nursing home patient abuse rate...
Earlier this year, a California jury ordered Monsanto to pay $293,000,000 to Dwayne Johnson, a groundskeeper for a local school district in Solano County, California who is dying from cancer. For years, Johnson drove a truck with a 50-gallon tank of Monsanto’s weed killer mounted on board. He would go through hundreds of gallons...
