Several years ago, Sandra Bullock starred in a movie Hope Floats, which was a quaint, feel-good movie about recovering from an unexpected life-altering blow and finding hope for the future in an unlikely place. If Hope Floats can be used as a phrase for life in the Gulf of Mexico […]
Men dressed in black cloaks secreting through the night from one house to another. Their mission: to buy off residents. To purchase rights away from widows and orphans. This sounds more like a movie and less like real life. When I first heard stories that BP officials were traveling around […]
As citizens, homeowners, and fisherman scramble to protect their property and livelihoods from the impending arrival of hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil, the National Guard has been mobilized as the oil slick miles in length approaches the coast. Current estimates on the amount of oil escaping from the […]
It is not bad enough that gas prices have risen to the point that families are regularly trying to decide not whether to buy a loaf of bread, but can we afford to drive down to the store to buy it. Now, we have a broken oil rig sitting in […]
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (April 29, 2010) – South Florida law firms Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley PA and Smith, Ivey & Fronrath today filed a wrongful death suit against John Goodman, founder and owner of International Polo Club Palm Beach, on behalf of the family of Scott Patrick Wilson, […]
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued another recall today involving more baby cribs. The cribs, linked to dozens of reports from parents and caregivers, have been recalled after suffocation and strangulation concerns were raised. This current recall follows several others over the last few months, involving multiple manufacturers, and […]
Apparently I came from the times when eating mud pies, eating the cookie that dropped on the floor and washing my hands only when they were dirty was the norm. Studies from the Allergy Research Laboratory at the University of Montreal have found that excessive cleanliness is to blame for […]
The FDA announced that it is planning to help American’s reduce their sodium intake by regulating the salt in processed foods. The effort culminates after a long term campaign by health organizations such as the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM), one […]
AstraZeneca has agreed to pay fines totaling $520 million in settlement of charges made by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) that AstraZeneca illegally marketed Seroquel; a prescription drug used for the treatment of schizophrenia. Although Seroquel had not been approved by the FDA, AstraZeneca marketed and continued to market […]
Let me start with a disclosure to be fair: I am always suspect of the insurance industry. I worked in the insurance industry for many years and, although there are very good people there, the companies often stand for something I do not like. I am in favor of every […]
