Environmental Disasters

In our previous blog, we provided you with a quick explainer about the Camp Lejeune Justice Act (“CLJA”) and how it became effective on August 10, 2022. If you have been following  the news, you probably have seen or heard about this horrific toxic water contamination at Camp Lejeune and […]

Camp Lejeune, situated in Jacksonville, NC, was established in 1942 as a Marine Corps Base training facility. Now, Camp Lejeune is listed on the Superfund program’s National Priority List. The United States Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR) declared that exposure to the drinking water at Camp Lejeune […]

Last week, Hurricane Michael devastated the Florida Panhandle. The hurricane was the third strongest to strike the United States and the largest to ever make landfall on the Florida Panhandle.

Hurricane Irma made a mess of Florida as it slammed into the Keys and pushed its way up the west coast, uprooting trees, destroying neighborhoods and costing lives. We all must now go forward and rebuild what is left. Homeowners are fortunate in that their roofs, walls and floors can […]

The death toll mounted again in the Broward County nursing-home disaster following Hurricane Irma. A ninth patient expired after being evacuated from The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills in the midst of a power outage that turned the facility into a sweltering sarcophagus of sorts. It was reported that some […]

We are all tired of hearing about Hurricane Irma, but I am afraid we have only just begun. I worked for the insurance industry, adjusting a variety of claims, for over 16 years and handled thousands of property damage claims. And, then I left the insurance industry because I could […]

As adult-children, sisters, brothers, and friends, chances are you may be asked to be surrogate for a loved one at some point in your life.  If not, someone probably will ask you to weigh in on what to do when medicine can neither comfort nor cure. What if the patient […]

A clean bill of health: The not so difficult questions your doctor may not be asking because well, who really thinks about our exposure to what we put in, around and on our bodies anyway? “Does your child eat Brussel sprouts?  If so, did you know that the residue on […]

Antibiotics have hit the black market, and the hot-commodity counterfeits don’t bode well for the health of those who take them. The pills whose purpose is to fight infection have become so ubiquitous that germs are finding their way around them and becoming increasingly resistant. The result, warns the World […]

Remember the days when you drove your car into a “service station” and you simply expected that, in addition to gas, you would receive, well, service? When I was a boy, I would often go to the gas station with my Dad. Back then, it was not just about gasoline. […]