Miscellaneous

Margaret Jane Radin, author of Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, and the Rule of Law, is of the point of view that the American court system is “allowing contract to gobble up tort.” In other words, the 37-year law professor believes forced arbitration is evil. Forced arbitration lurks in […]

A cadre of corporations whose profit margins outweigh product safety have found a loophole in the litigation process: sealed settlement agreements. Such agreements are legal, as there is no law prohibiting them, and often left up to the discretion of the courts. Consumer advocates have a problem with that. The […]

Florida is sunny and a great place to live or work; but we can be a little slow to except new things. Florida Rules of Civil Procedure were amended a couple of years ago to include at least the mention of electronic discovery. Sadly, the changes did not treat ESI […]

Internet trolling best can be described as an adult version of cyberbullying. The practice employs posting curt comments, rude remarks and sarcastic snippets on others’ professional blog, social-media and Web sites. In many cases, Internet trolls don’t bother to hide their identities and publish their statements along with their names. […]

Proper Equipment Essential for Protecting Athletes at Play Bam! Kapow! Smack! The onomatopoeic words made famous as cartoonish subtitles that appeared during villain fights on the old television series Batman have new meaning as youth-sports season gets underway. Baseball, soccer and softball leagues return to the field in February for […]

New research provides yet another reason to quit smoking. A scientific analysis of 6,000 men showed a propensity for those who smoked to lose their Y chromosome. That’s bad news, according to the Swedish team that conducted the trial. “If cancer, heart disease, and emphysema weren’t bad enough, male smokers […]

Generic-drug costs are soaring. In 2014, so much inflation took place it prompted members of the Senate to push for the legalization of drug imports from Canada, as patients south of the border struggle to pay for their pills. According to reports, half of all generic drugs have experienced cost […]

Handing down the old family clunker to the teen driver in your household should be a tradition of years past, according to a new study. Older vehicles driven by freshly licensed 15, 16 and 17 year old drivers were involved in nearly half of all fatal teen automobile accidents, said […]

Candles, Clothes Dryers, Cooking — All Accidents Waiting To Happen Without Care, Caution Fire is one of earth’s four basic elements, but when it damages your home, it loses some of its beauty as a thing of nature. House fires are more common than they should be and often result […]

Baking soda, sodium bicarbonate or NaHCO3 can do a lot more than freshen the refrigerator, neutralize pet odors, quiet sunburn pain and raise bread. The boxed white powder that has been marketed as a household product for decades also can kill cancer. Safer than chemotherapy and radiation, which kills all […]