When parents think of the crib that will be their precious bundle of joy’s safe haven, images of powder blue crib bumpers, soothing musical lambs, and soft butter yellow jammies are more often than not their mental picture. But two million cribs made by seven companies have been recalled because they are not the safe […]
Sears and Swanson: Your Home Team
Lance Sears and Victoria Swanson joined as partners in 1991, forming an unusually long-standing dynamic duo, now having over 30 years experience. Lance Sears was raised in Boulder, Colorado and moved to Colorado Springs after his graduation from University of Colorado Law School in 1975 and began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney. […]
Drugs and Supplements From China and India Largely Unregulated
Of the nearly 80% of pharmaceutical ingredients and 40% of the finished product of prescription drugs sold in America, half are supplied by China and India. Yet the majority of those drugs and drug ingredients that are coming from these coundtries are not regulated and their safety, quality, and proper labeling are not ensured. In a recent article, The Kansas City […]
Janitors Try to Clean Up Wal-Mart
In June 2010, a federal judge declined to grant final class certification to a suit brought against Wal-Mart by former janitorial staff, charging the retail giant over their labor practices. “On June 25th, Chief US District Judge Garrett Brown…found that because the plaintiffs worked for a variety of Wal-Mart contractors around the county, not for […]
Are You In Good Hands?
Allstate Agrees to $10 Million Settlement A news release has confirmed that automobile insurance giant Allstate has agreed to pay a $10 million in a regulatory settlement following an investigation by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) that lasted for a year and a half. The settlement involves forty-five states, but New York is […]
Nursing Home Residents Have Civil Rights
New category of lawsuits for civil rights violations at nursing homes. The Legal Intelligencer (7/1/09, Duffy) reports, “In a landmark opinion that recognizes a new category of lawsuits, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Federal Nursing Home Reform Amendments give residents of county-run nursing homes the right to bring civil rights claims […]
Insurance Investment Losses = Lower Claims Settlements
The insurance industry has seen a double ‘whammy’ in 2008: a huge decline in sales of insurance products (due to the decline in sales of autos and houses) along with double digit declines in the value of their investment portfolios. For property/casualty insurers (like auto and homeowners insurance companies) these events will no doubt lead not […]
Jurors in the Electronic Age
Even though the judge gives the standard instruction to ‘not talk about the trial until it is over’, connected people who are selected to serve on juries can’t seem to refrain from texting or tweeting during their jury service. Recent experiences reported from around the country show that many jurors can’t stop doing what they […]
Warning: The car that hits you is probably not insured
The Insurance Research Council has estimated that by next year nearly one in six motorists in this country may be driving without insurance. As the recession leaves millions of workers unemployed and pressures family budgets, many families are cutting the “luxury” of car insurance. Big Mistake. Not only is car insurance mandatory by law in 48 states, including […]
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
On January 30, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Democrats’ quick response to a (Bush) Supreme Court decision which had taken away almost all avenues for workers to recover for pay discrimination. In 2007 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (in a 5-4 decision) that Lilly Ledbetter “had failed to file a discrimination suit against the Goodyear […]
