Disability insurers have been sued for clogging the Social Security Disability system with unnecessary claims, according to a story in the New York Times. Disability insurance companies include provisions requiring people on their disability insurance to exhaust all other methods of income, including applying for Social Security disability, or risk getting their payments cut by [...]
According to a story on Newsday.com, the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has decided the workers’ cases alleging dust disease from the WTC cleanup can proceed against the Port Authority and New York City. The defendants argued that they were immune from suit. Contract workers and emergency workers were brought in to clean up the aftermath of [...]
The CPSC has announced a recall of MagnaMan Magnetic Toy Figures, a product manufactured by MEGA Brands of America. The toys contain small magnets which can detach, then can be swallowed or aspirated by young children. If multiple magnets are swallowed, the magnets can attach to each other in the body and cause intestinal perforations [...]
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a jury in San Francisco awarded a mesothelioma victim $20 million dollars. The jury assessed one third of the fault to Georgia Pacific, a manufacturer of asbestos containing joint compound. So GP is responsible for $7 million dollars out of the total award.
Mesothelioma is a deadly cancer, whose only known [...]
A wooden ice cream sundae playset manufactured by Battat Inc., and sold exclusively at Target Stores between 12/06 and 12/07, has been recalled due to choking hazard. The set contained six wooden scoops of ice cream, three wooden cherries, wooden banana slices, a spoon and a bowl; and the pieces attached to each other with [...]
That is the premise of a story by Kia Franklin at Tort Deform. She argues that while the debate is framed by the tort reformers as business versus trial attorneys (or should I say “evil” trial attorneys), the real struggle is between big business and the average Joe. Makes sense, the people who suffer when [...]
ACL and BorgWarner were found liable in the mesothelioma death of a New Jersey man, according to Newsday.com. Mesothelioma is a deadly form of cancer, caused only by exposure to asbestos. The jury took 4 hours to return the $30.3 million verdict. The victim in this case was Mark Buttitta, a 50 year old resident [...]
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Objectives To examine the associations between inflammatory proteins and muscle strength and to determine whether this association varies between overweight and nonoverweight adolescents.
Design Cross-sectional study.
Participants A total of 416 Spanish adolescents (230 boys and 186 girls) aged 13 to 181/2 years.
Main Exposures Muscle strength score was computed as the mean of the handgrip and standing [...]
