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• Countrywide Employees Sue Company

  James Sabatini | September 12, 2007 10:37 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Some Countrywide Financial Corp. employees have sued their employer. The employees are claiming they suffered heavy losses in their 401k retirement accounts after the company failed to warn them about the depth of its financial troubles.The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, seeks class-action status and names as defendants Countrywide Chairman and Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo...

• Safety Agency Fines Boyd Gaming $185,000 After 2 Workers Die

  James Sabatini | August 21, 2007 4:56 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Nevada's OSHA fined Boyd Gaming $185,000 for nine safety violations stemming from the tragic deaths of two of its employees at the Orleans hotel-casino in Las Vegas. The two men died when they entered a manhole inside the casino to clear blocked grease. Their deaths were caused by toxic gas exposure. To read more about the workplace fines click here.For more information on this subject...

• Medicare To Stop Covering Hospital Errors

  James Sabatini | August 19, 2007 1:03 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  The Bush Administration announced that Medicare will no longer pay the extra costs of treating preventable errors, injuries and infections that occur in hospitals. Until this policy change, Medicare covered expenses stemming from hospital errors. Privare insurers are now also making a similar policy change in an attempt to save money. The new policy does poses some interesting questions...

• N.C. Jet Ski Accident Kills CT Man

  James Sabatini | August 09, 2007 10:52 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  An 18-year-old Connecticut resident was killed this week after he was hit with a personal watercraft on Lake Gaston in North Carolina. The man and his friend were operating Jet skis on a lake when his friends jet ski struck the man the head. Officials are withholding the man's identity until his relatives are notified. The 18-year-old and a friend were vacationing with family at Lake Gaston,...

• Chinese Car Crumples In Russian Test

  James Sabatini | August 08, 2007 8:38 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Add another Chinse product to the ever growing list of defective and unsafe products being made in China. A Russian car magazine recently sponsored a crash test of a Chinese made vehicle - Chery Amulet. The car folded like an accordian in the test calling into serious question the basic safety of the car. Click here for car crash video.For more information on this subject matter, please refer...

• Teen Drunk Driver Charged In Fatal Car Crash

  James Sabatini | August 08, 2007 7:47 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Police have charged 19-year-old Clinton resident Dennis Knapp with the death of a young Madison woman who was killed in a violent car crash early Saturday morning. Knapp, 19, of North High St., is charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of alcohol. He faces up to 10 years in prison on the manslaughter charge. The police have not disclosed, and it is unknown if the...

• Mattel Identifies Chinese Co. That Made Lead Tainted Toys

  James Sabatini | August 07, 2007 10:50 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Mattel Inc. on Tuesday identified the Chinese vendor that made nearly 1 million Fisher-Price toys that were recalled last week because they may contain lead. Mattel said Lee Der Industrial Company Ltd., located in Guang Dong province, made the 967,000 toys sold under the Fisher-Price brand in the United States between May and August.For more information on this subject, please refer to our...

• CT Priest Charged With Sexually Assaulting a Minor

  James Sabatini | August 02, 2007 1:41 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  A Naugatuck priest is facing charges of sexually assaulting a minor. Father Robert J. Grant, of St. Mary's Church on North Main Street, was arrested on Thursday after an investigation by Naugatuck police.

• Fisher-Price Recalls Defective Toys - Chinese Lead Paint

  James Sabatini | August 01, 2007 8:10 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys -- including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters -- because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead. The worldwide recall being announced Thursday involves 967,000 plastic preschool toys made by a Chinese vendor and sold in the United States between May and August. It is the latest in a wave of recalls that has...

• Pilots Did Not Receive Warnings Before Deadly Crash

  James Sabatini | July 23, 2007 11:39 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  The pilots in a jet crash last summer that killed 49 people left the terminal without receiving four important airport advisories, including one that said the normal taxiway to the main runway was closed. Comair Flight 5191 crashed on August 27, 2006, shortly after mistakenly taking off from the general aviation runway, killing all people aboard but one. The plane taxied to the wrong runway in...