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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...

• Tam Airlines Pilot Tried to Abort Landing

  James Sabatini | July 18, 2007 2:12 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  An initial probe of a Brazilian plane crash that killed at least 200 people suggests the airliner's pilot tried to abort a crash landing, an official said Wednesday. For more information on this subject matter, please refer to the section on Airline, Cruise, Bus, and other Mass Transit Accidents.

• Fatally Defective Chinese Tires

  James Sabatini | June 26, 2007 10:41 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  A fatal auto accident in Pennsylvania has stirred concerns about another potentially hazardous Chinese product in wide use in the U.S.: tires. About 450,000 Chinese-made tires sold in the U.S. -- and possibly many more -- may lack an important safety feature, according to federal regulators and the U.S. distributor that helped design them. The tires are defective because an unknown portion of...

• Are Fireworks Legal In CT?

  James Sabatini | June 25, 2007 2:27 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  As we approach July 4, many of us start thinking about fireworks. Under Connecticut law, only a limited type of fireworks are legal. Specifically, only sparklers are legal. All other fireworks are illegal. Sparklers, as determined by the state, include sparkling devices of not more than one hundred grams of pyrotechnic mixture per item, which are non-explosive and non-aerial. These include...

• Hospital Ignores Dying Woman's Pleas For Help

  James Sabatini | June 13, 2007 3:12 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  A woman lies on the ground dying from a perforated bowel. She is in pain, vomitting up blood and asking for help. Incredibly, this was happening in an emergency room. At the King-Harbor hospital in Los Angeles, this woman, her boyfriend and an unidentified person pleaded with the hospital for help. Their pleas for help were ignored. Calls were made to 911 requesting that an ambulance take...

• OSHA INVESTIGATES WORKPLACE DEATH - TRUCK ACCIDENT

  James Sabatini | June 12, 2007 1:10 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the death of a Milford truck driver hit by another truck in a recycling-materials yard Monday afternoon. Barry Pybus, of Milford, an employee of D'Amato Brothers Trucking Co., also of Milford, was struck and killed at Waste Conversion Technologies Inc., 221 Old Gate Lane.

• What To Do After a Car Accident

  James Sabatini | May 08, 2007 2:17 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Each year, thousands of people are involved in car accidents during the Memorial Day Weekend. If you are one of these unfortunate people, here are some tips on what to do after the car accident: 1. Safety first - When no serious injuries are involved, move your vehicle out of the roadway to help prevent a secondary collision. If potential serious injuries are involved, do not move until...

• J&J'S Damage Control Over Birth Control Patch

  James Sabatini | May 06, 2007 10:34 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  The maker of the widely used Ortho Evra birth control patch, Johnson & Johnson, is trying to prevent negative attention over its dangerous contraceptive by purchasing the rights to domain names like Orthoevrakills.com and Deathbypatch.com. In late 2005 when the Food and Drug Administration urged that a heightened warning alerting users to the risk of potentially fatal blood clot and stroke be...

• Bus Crashes, Rolls Over, Injuries Reported

  James Sabatini | April 30, 2007 10:55 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  A bus carrying a high school lacrosse team rolled over Monday afternoon on its way to a game.The bus rolled over in the Middletown area between exits 9 and 10 on Route 9 around 2:50 p.m., officials said. Injuries have been reported. The injured have been taken to local hospitals. The cause of crash is under investigation

• Diagnosis Momentum

  James Sabatini | March 20, 2007 9:15 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  I am always looking for a catchy phrase that describes how and why a doctor has committed malpractice. The latest phrase I have discovered is diagnosis momentum. This phrase describes the tendency of each doctor brought into a case to accept blindly the initial doctor's diagnosis. It is like a rock rolling down a mountain, where the farther it rolls down the more force it gains, crushing...